“For me, painting is a tool for understanding the world. Imperfect, yet mindful of the whole; referring to fragments but containing the promise of coherence. Individual emanations strive toward completeness – perhaps not metaphysical, but that defined by the limits of our lives. In my work, I try to capture issues that cannot be reduced to the surface of the canvas: intimacy, mystery, ambiguity, and the dichotomy of nature. All my life I have been painting one painting. This is, of course, a metaphor. My work resembles a transparent palimpsest: successive layers complement each other and add new meanings without obscuring the previous ones. All colors and shapes form dynamic images that simultaneously open onto the invisible.”

Born in 1979 in Bydgoszcz. In 2005 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Faculty of Painting, in the studio of Professor Maciej Świeszewski, with an annex in mural painting and stained glass under the supervision of Professor Andrzej Dyakowski. Anna Waligórska specializes in painting and also works in mural painting, stained glass, and illustration. She obtained her PhD in 2013 and her habilitation in 2022. She is the co-author (with Miłosz Waligórski) of the books Małe prozy (2016) and Ziele i zoo (2019), and authored Monografia Pracowni Malarstwa Ściennego i Witrażu ASP w Gdańsku (2017). As an illustrator, she collaborates with publishers of literary fiction, including Książkowe Klimaty and Znak. She won the International Competition of the Gdańsk City External Gallery, which involved creating the visual identity (graphics for bus shelters) of the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway (2012). Anna Waligórska has participated in dozens of solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Her works are held in the National Museum in Gdańsk, the State Art Gallery in Sopot, the Nahim Isaias Museum in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and in private collections in Poland and internationally. More information can be found at www.annawaligorska.com. She currently resides in the Żuławy region of Poland.