Magda Blasinska

Predominantly a painter, Magda Blasinska’s (b. 1983, Poland) work is guided by sensory experiences, memory and intuition. Raised in post-communist rural Poland, a period marked by shortages, restrictions and surveillance, her pieces reflect her humble upbringing. Through the use of a limited earthly colour palette and marginal materials, her work draws on agriculture and folk heritage.
Blasinska’s paintings are immersive and elusive, they dwell in the space between knowing and guessing, offering viewers something that feels intimately familiar yet difficult to fully grasp and describe with words. Each brushstroke is a record of repeated gestures, of pressure and resistance. Her work becomes a translation of experience not into words, but into touch - insistent, physical, and enduring. Language and its limitations are one of the recurring themes in Blasinska’s practice. Raised by parents who knew Russian but refused to speak it to her, the artist engages with the Cyrillic alphabet as both an intimate memory and an abstract form. Like in Gathered Signs, her invented words, formed from fragmented Cyrillic elements, are intentionally unreadable, offering visual echoes of a language without meaning, hovering between the familiar and the foreign.

Exhibitions at the gallery:

Lost for Words, 2025 (group show)