For several years, Kinga Nowak has been engaging with the tradition of modernism, and her practice is entirely dominated by abstraction. The artist enlivens a geometric version of non-representational art, yet here you will not find the cold of numeric canons, the rigor of calculated proportions, or the ruthless precision of composition. In creating her paintings, she conjures the vigour and energy of geometry. Generously, she draws not only from the Interwar period but also from later waves of interest in abstract art. Yet the fundamental reference point remains for her the early uses of this artistic language.

Magdalena Ujma, fragment from “Cudzy, własny świat”

References to nature are key to the artist: although she employs the language of abstraction, it is her fascination with the landscape, its colors, and light, that becomes the starting point for her works. Equally important are motifs drawn from African art – particularly the decorative motifs of everyday objects, which she had the opportunity to see while exploring museum collections. Kinga Nowak’s abstract work is therefore, paradoxically, immersed in the world of recognizable objects and phenomena, yet transformed and presented synthetically, based on geometric arrangements of forms and figures.

Agnieszka Jankowska-Marzec, excerpt from the text for the exhibition “Equinox,” BWA Tarnów, 2024