Born in 1985 in Poznań, Joanna Janowicz is a Warsaw-based painter working primarily with oil painting. Her practice investigates gesture, memory, and the body as sites of inscription. Rather than aiming at representation, her work considers how presence may be suggested through absence, fragmentation, and restraint.
Her paintings frequently operate at the threshold between figuration and abstraction. Figures appear partial or suspended, reduced to bodily traces, gestures, or chromatic rhythms. Memory functions not as narrative but as residue—embedded in the surface, tempo, and materiality of the work. Gesture becomes both method and subject, articulating what remains unsaid.
She holds a multidisciplinary educational background, with degrees in economics and postgraduate studies in painting from the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań. This dual formation informs a practice situated between intuition and structure, where deliberate compositional decisions coexist with openness to chance and improvisation.
Influenced by literature, cinema, photography, and theatrical experience, her work carries a sense of staging and temporal suspension, as if each painting marked a pause within an unfolding sequence. Travel and attentive observation of place further inform her visual language, where landscape and interior states intersect.
She lives and works in Warsaw.
