BIO

Patrycja Pi Pa Piwosz works with what has been discarded. Her sculptures — built from second-hand textiles, biomaterials, and organic adhesives — grow like organisms: dense, entangled, alive. Her practice, developed over two decades, is grounded in the concept of autopoiesis: the capacity of systems to continuously regenerate themselves from within.

She holds a PhD in Art from the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań and her works are in the collection of the National Museum in Poznań. Her practice has been supported by grants from the Stiftung Berliner Leben, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and the City of Poznań. Most recently, she completed Sculpture for the Future: Biomaterials and Textile Recycling in Ecological Art— a research project co-funded by the National Recovery Plan for Culture. Her work has reached audiences across Poland, Ukraine, Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and China. At the 28th International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk (2024), the collective performance Ophelia: A Subject Study — in which she was a co-creator — received the Book of Prospero Prize.

Her work has been presented at international festivals including Gogolfest (Kyiv), the International Sculpture Triennial (Poznań), Malta Festival (Poznań), UNPOLISHED / DOCK 11 (Berlin),  and the Textile Art Biennial (Poznań).

In 2026, she begins a residency at Fresh A.I.R. in Berlin — continuing a long-term investigation into material memory, ecological entanglement, and the performative body.