Magdalena Skupinska
Born in Warsaw, Poland, 1991
Lives and works in London, England
Magdalena’s practice explores the relationship between organic matter, landscape, and human intervention. Working with plant-based pigments, minerals, and raw materials, she creates paintings that evolve through layering, absorption, and slow transformation. Her unique process-based approach draws on Arte Povera and Minimalism, with a focus on ecological awareness and material agency. Through abstraction, she creates a painterly language of plants, where colours, textures, and often scents come together to form an intuitive, vegetal vocabulary.
education
2015 - 2017
Royal College of Art, MA Painting, London, UK
2012 - 2015
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, BA Fine Art, London, UK
selected solo exhibitions
2025
soft crossing, Maximillian William, London, UK
2023
Aftertime, Vacant/Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Fertile Plate, Blum, Los Angeles, USA
2022
Blending Elements, Maximillian William, London UK
2020
LAYÚ, Maximillian William, London UK
2016
DAMA, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin, Italy
2016
Elements of Silence, Maximillian William, London, UK
selected group exhibitions
2024
5 year, Maximillian William, London, UK
2023
Borrowed Landscapes, Blum and Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Tender Touches, Open Space Contemporary, London, UK
2018
Adventitious Encounters, Open Space Contemporary, London, UK
2017
White Memory – 1989/2018 Art in Malta and Poland, St James Cavalier, Valletta, Malta
Surface Issues, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Art Out of the Bloodlands: A Century of Polish Painting in Britain, Ben Uri, London, UK
Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016
Future Narratives, La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015
Show One, Central Saint Martins Degree Show, London, UK
2014
Module Units, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
residencies
2023 Althe Art Residency, Tokyo, Japan High House Artist Residency, Norfolk, UK 2021
Selebe Yoon, Dakar, Senegal
2018
Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico
2017
Atlantic Center For the Arts, Residency with Joan Snyder 2016 La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires, Argentina
talks
2025
Craig Burnett and Magdalena Skupinska in conversation, Knotenpunkt, London, UK
2019
Lucia Pietroiusti and Magdalena Skupinska in conversation, Maximillian William, London, UK
press and publications
2025
Winterwashing, text by Rebecca May Johnson
2024
Placeology, Vacant/Edition #1, Published by Vacant
2022
Blending Elements, A Conversation between Gina Buenfeld-Murley and Magdalena Skupinska
Allie Biswas, Magdalena Skupinska keeps close ties to nature when creating her biomorphic compositions, Glass Magazine Spring/Summer Issue
2020
From Adler to Żuławski - A Century of Polish Artists in Britain Published by Ben Uri Research Unit
Tender Touches Published by Open Space, with co-authors Huma Kabakcı & Inês Neto dos Santos
Magda Skupiska’s LAYÚ at Maximillian William is a Crucial Reminder of Our Connection to Land and Nature’, Art of Choice
2015
Catching up with the Scented Paintings of Magda Skupinska, 1 Granary
Elements of Silence, Polish Cultural Institute