About the Artist
Michalina Malolepsza lives and works in Schiedam, The Netherlands. In 2011 she graduated at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam. During her studies she decided to focus on printmaking especially on linocut technique. At this moment Michalina is busy with taking part of exhibitions and art projects, mainly in Rotterdam, Schiedam and surroundings. She works together with a group of other graphic designers at Grafisch Atelier Minnigh in Rotterdam, she is also is a member of an artists' collective Stichting KunstWerkt in Schiedam.
The artist likes to play with topics, but her work is characterised by an interest in man, his inner life, self-expression, feelings, choices and development. A particularly intuitive search for transcendence, but she looks for it without looking far away, but precisely within herself, in close relationships, in everyday events. What may seem ordinary to us in everyday life brings with it trials in which we grow.
She assumes that there is more to our existence than what can be described in words. In all this, she is helped by her childhood experiences in Poland and her entire adult life spent in the Netherlands, far from her roots, but close to the kind people she meets on her way every day.
Artist Statement
My work often serves as a psychological exploration of individuals and society. I am particularly drawn to sociological themes and portraiture.
From the very beginning, my work has been grounded in three fundamental relations: the human to the self, the human to the other, and the human to the world. My work’s reliance on these three pillars arises from a curiosity about the determinism of human fate, the movement of cause and effect, and the tension between choice and destiny.
At its core, I believe all creativity is a form of communication. Unlike words, an image speaks through presence, through seeing and feeling. Yet we often miss this. We analyze, label, and theorize too quickly, drowning out the original impulse from which the work was born.
To me, this is a kind of tragedy: a closing off from the subtlety of experience. And yet it is precisely in that subtlety that meaning waits. It calls for a pause, a quiet moment, a breath of reflection. In that space between perception and understanding, between action and contemplation, the human experience unfolds—and the work truly resonates.
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Michalina has been a member of Grafisch Atelier Minnigh since its founding in 2012 and Stichting KunstWerkt in Schiedam since 2024. Before she was a member of Regio Art Rijnmond in Spijkenisse from 2013 to 2018. Michalina regularly participates in cyclical art events in Rotterdam and Schiedam such as Kunstroute Kralingen Crooswijk, Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend, Landelijk Atelier Weekend, GoWest in Rotterdam
To date, her works have been featured in four individual exhibitions and many collective exhibitions and art projects in the Netherlands, but also in Poland and US.
The individual exhibitions:
2024
Polish Library, Amsterdam
2019
Het Gele Huis, Breda
2018
Polish Library, Amsterdam
2016
De Steek, Rotterdam
Selection of the group exhibitions and projects:
2026
Kunstroute Kroalingen Crooswijk - De Finale, Nivon, Rotterdam
Salon MA-AS, WTC Gallery, Rotterdam
2025
Nieuwe Impuls, Stichting KunstWerkt, Schiedam
Poolse Passie/Polska Pasja, Art Flower Museum, Aaslmeer
Wedergeboorte, Stichting KunstWerkt, Schiedam
IDDF Around Town, Molens & Art, Hart van Schiedam De Kameel Windmil, Schiedam
Ambacht in Beeld Festival, NDSM Loods, Amsterdam
25 jaar KunstKerst, Stichting KunstWerkt, Schiedam
2024
Blauwdruk, Westerkade Kunst, Rotterdam
Crazy KunstKerst, Stichting KunstWerkt, Schiedam
2023
Grafische Werkplaats, Stichting KunstWerkt, Schiedam
2021
Polish Artists in the Netherlands Meeting IV, De Lebuinuskerk, Deventer
2020
Graphic Atelier Minnigh, Maaskoe, Rotterdam
2019
Graphic Atelier Minnigh, Psynapse Gallery, Rotterdam
RAMSJ expo, Gallery RAR, Spijkenisse
2018
Open Expo Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Polish Artists in the Netherlands Ontmoeting III, Rhoon Castle
2017
Group exhibition Regio Art Rijnmond, Galerie Doet, Leeuwarden
Midsummer Festival Kralingen, Garden of Earthly Delights, Rotterdam
2016
Ontmoeting II Polish artists in The Netherlands,Gallery RAR, Spijkenisse
2015
The VKK receives Region Art Rijnmond, Voorschoten
2013
Exhibition Groot Defile der Beeldenaars, WTC Art Gallery, Rotterdam
RAR New Members Exhibition, Gallery RAR, Noordeinde 7, Spijkenisse
Exhibition Opening Grafisch Atelier Minnigh, Grafisch Atelier Minnigh, Rotterdam
International Juried Print Exhibition, New Grouds Gallery, Albuquerque, USA
Face to Face, PopUp Gallery, Nieuwe Binnenweg 235, Rotterdam
2012
International Exhibition INCIDENT II – ACCIDENT Museum Czestochowa, Poland
Exhibition Polish Artists in the Netherlands, Van Cappellenhuis, Capelle a/d Ijssel
2011
Gallery De Compagnie, Dordrecht
2010
Lino animation during North Sea Jazz Round Town, De Unie, Rotterdam
Lino animation during De Stad Grafisch Symposium, WTC, Rotterdam
Publications:
Grafiekmagazine RAAM - publication, article Geworteld in de grafiek by Hans Andringa
Polish Artists in the Netherlands - promotional project and book about Polish artists and performers, project of PNKV