Olga Mokrzycka

Painter and theatre scenographer. She graduated from the Faculties of Painting (with a specialization in animated film) and Stage Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the field of visual arts she creates paintings on canvas, wood, and concrete, as well as site-specific installations. As a theatre scenographer she has designed stage sets for productions at the Nowy Teatr and Teatr Studio in Warsaw. 

She creates figurative painting series on black grounds. The paintings are produced using a distinctive, self-developed technique—each work is painted with only a few synthetic, precisely executed brushstrokes. This process requires intense focus and concentration. There is no room for error: an unsuccessful line must be painted over and the painting started again from the beginning. 

The resulting visual record resembles an X-ray image or a graphic drawing. The themes of her works revolve around the lives and everyday experiences of women and mothers—multitasking, emotional states, and eroticism. In a similar stylistic approach she created an earlier series titled “Mermaids”—depictions of the Warsaw mermaids referencing the aesthetics of concrete, monuments, and modernism. Three of these works are in the collection of the Museum of Warsaw.