Alicja Biała

Alicja Biała is an Amsterdam-based artist and a graduate of the Royal Drawing School and the Royal College of Art. Raised in a Polish household spanning four generations, she has witnessed a generational dialogue across eight decades—marked by wars, displacements, shifting borders, communism, and collective memory.

Her series Beneath the Soft Ground, Hard Ground presents a collection of zinc and copper plate etchings that resurface fragments of ancestry and cultural tradition. Manipulating these references, often with humor, Biała brings the scars of the past into the present while celebrating its resilience. Folk traditions, paganism, migration, and politics act as recurring themes, forming a dynamic conversation between history and contemporary identity.

Classical in feel yet playful in tone, Biała’s work serves as an exercise in reimagining both history and futurity, posing the question: where might we have been, and where will we go?

Recent exhibitions include Acid Pond at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (2024–2025), Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs at Hastings Contemporary (2024–2025), and Let’s Make Miłość at miłość gallery, London (2024). In 2024, she created the public sculpture Wiedźmy z Chwaliszewa for the Malta Festival Poznań, curated by Ewa Łowżył. Biała was also an artist-in-residence at Fondation Claude Monet in Giverny, France (2024).