Magdalena Skupinska

Magdalena Skupinska is an artist whose practice explores the material and conceptual entanglements between organic matter, landscape, and human intervention. Rooted in a process of research and experimentation, her work engages with the complex, often uneasy, relationship between natural and constructed environments.

Working with plant-based pigments, minerals, and raw materials, Skupinska extends the lineage of Arte Povera and Minimalism, but with a focus on material agency and ecological consciousness. Her paintings resist containment, evolving through layering, absorption, and the slow transformation of organic elements over time. Through abstraction, she translates the rhythms of growth, erosion, and decay - inviting a sensory and tactile engagement with surface, colour, and texture.

At the core of her practice is an inquiry into how materials carry memory - of place, of process, of interaction. By allowing natural pigments to settle, bleed, and alter, her works embrace impermanence, reflecting both the fragility and resilience of the environments from which they emerge.

Skupinska completed her BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, and her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. She has participated in international residencies including Althea Art Residency in Tokyo, Japan; Selebe Yoon in Dakar, Senegal; Fundación Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, Mexico; La Ira de Dios in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, USA. Selected solo exhibitions include soft crossing at Maximillian William, London (2025); Fertile Plate at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2023); Blending Elements (2022); Layú (2019) at Maximillian William, London; DAMA at Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin (2016). Selected group exhibitions include Borrowed Landscapes at Blum and Poe, Tokyo, Japan (2023); Tender Touches at Open Space Contemporary, London (2019); and White Memory – 1989/2018 Art in Malta and Poland, St James Cavalier, Valletta, Malta (2017).