Zofia Pałucha
Zofia Palucha, photo: Krystian Truth Czaplicki
Dr. Zofia Pałucha (b. 1993, Częstochowa, Poland) lives and works in Wrocław, Poland.
Her painting practice combines personal experience with political commentary, viewed through the lens of contemporary digital media. Pałucha begins by creating sketches on her smartphone, transforming amateur photographs, accidental snapshots, and fragments of videos. Using digital applications, she reconfigures these fleeting and often overlooked images, generating new meanings from everyday visual material.
Her work explores how intimacy—embodiment, sexuality, and the experience of motherhood—operates within a reality shaped by media, technology, and politics. The shifting, heterogeneous imagery she employs reflects the complexity of contemporary life, where the personal is inseparable from the social and political. Her paintings are layered and open-ended, offering a nuanced reflection on the fragility of human agency in a world marked by constant tension and change.
In recent years, her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Miłość Gallery, London (2025), PACT, Paris (2023–2024), BWA Studio Gallery, Wrocław (2024), Berlinskej Model Gallery, Prague (2021), and Piktogram Gallery, Warsaw (2020). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Wrocław Contemporary Museum (2021) and Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2022). In 2025, she participated in the NADA Art Fair in New York.
Pałucha was awarded the Jerzy Grotowski Scholarship (2023) and the Moskity K MAG Award in the Art category (2024).
