Magdalena Skupinska

Magdalena Skupinska (b. 1991, Warsaw, PL) is a London-based artist whose practice explores the material and conceptual entanglements between organic matter, landscape, and human intervention. Rooted in a process of research and experimentation, her work engages with the complex, often uneasy, relationship between natural and constructed environments. Working with plant-based pigments, minerals, and raw materials, Skupinska extends the lineage of Arte Povera and Minimalism, but with a focus on material agency and ecological consciousness. Her paintings resist containment, evolving through layering, absorption, and the slow transformation of organic elements over time. Through abstraction, she translates the rhythms of growth, erosion, and decay - inviting a sensory and tactile engagement with surface, colour, and texture. At the core of her practice is an inquiry into how materials carry memory - of place, of process, of interaction. By allowing natural pigments to settle, bleed, and alter, her works embrace impermanence, reflecting both the fragility and resilience of the environments from which they emerge.

Skupinska completed her BA in Fine Art at Central St Martins, London and her MA in Painting at The Royal College of Arts, London. She has participated in residencies at Selebe Yoon, Dakar, Senegal; Fundación Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, Mexico; La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Atlantic Center For The Arts. Her solo exhibitions include Fertile Plate, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA (2023), Blending Elements (2022) and Layú, Maximillian William, London (2019); DAMA, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin, Italy (2016) and Elements of Silence, Maximillian William, London (2015). Recent group shows include Borrowed Landscapes (2023), The Haptic Eye: Part III – Pathways of Dexterity, ArtCircle, curated by Mark Gisbourne (2021); The Haptic Eye: Part II – Tactile Visions, ArtCircle, curated by Mark Gisbourne (2020); Tender Touches, Open Space Contemporary, London curated by Huma Kabakcı and Anna Skladmann (2019); Adventitious Encounters, Open Space Contemporary, London curated by Huma Kabakci and Anna Skladmann (2018).

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