Ewa Ciepielewska

Born 1960, is a Polish painter, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. She was a co-founder of the Wroclaw-based LUXUS Group. In 1994-95 she collaborated on the publication of the Cracow's magazine Friday Evening and participated in the artistic events happening around it. Since 1984, she has been exhibiting individually and undertaking independent artistic ventures and pro-ecological activities. In 1995-1996, she co-founded the Volatile Festival beyond the Wall in the two-person group Blue Panthers (Panterras Azzurras). Since 1997, she has been implementing the art project VOLANS. Contemporary Art in 1000 Pieces, which she co-authored. She participates in group exhibitions at home and abroad and is the author of solo exhibitions, outdoor actions, murals, and socially engaged happenings. Since the 1980s, she has also co-organized exhibitions and events related to the Lunar New Year (Nowy Rok Księżycowy). 

Since 2008, she has been making voyages by wooden boat from Cracow to Gdansk in May as a part of the Royal Flis on the Vistula River. Since 2015, she has been organizing an international artist residency on the Salt Galar floating on the Vistula, which took the name FLOW/Float after she joined Agnieszka Brzeżanska's project. She is interested in social and communal situations and the search for non-institutional forms of being together in the face of social and ecological crises. 
In the 1980s she was a participant in movements related to new age, esotericism and anthroposophy. 

In the 1990s, she was fascinated by rave culture, which resulted in a series of outdoor performance activities. She was a pioneer of culinary performance and environmental movements in art. She enjoys cooking cuisine inspired by the principle of the five transformations, is a declared advocate of legalizing marijuana and lubricates herself everyday with rosehip oil. If she could, she would spend all year on the water. She believes she is one of many witches - her method of work is sometimes madness. (Text: Anna Batko, Kola Sliwinska)