MONIKA DĄBROWSKA-PICEWICZ
Monika Dabrowska-Picewicz was born in 1976 in Oswiecim, Poland. In 2001, she received her Master’s degree in Ceramic Design from the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, where she studied under Professor Przemyslaw Lasak. In 2006, she was awarded the Young Poland scholarship by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Her work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions and symposia in England, France, Spain, and Italy. In 2020, she joined the Homo Faber Guide - a project by the Michelangelo Foundation showcasing Europe’s finest master artisans. Since 2021, she has been a member of Nów. New Craft Association, which brings together leading craft studios from across Poland. In 2023, she received the Honorary Title of Master of Artistic Crafts awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. As of 2025, she is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Monika lives and works in Kety, in the Malopolska region of southern Poland, where she runs her own ceramic studio.
In my work, I seek a meeting point between nature and the inner world of emotions. I capture fleeting moments, observing the structures and rhythms of nature and giving them form. Each sculpture becomes a record of a state - tension, stillness, or wonder. My work is an attempt to grasp the moment in which matter becomes breath, and form a trace of inner movement. It is a dialogue between the visible and the felt.
I develop several parallel series that interact with one another: Moments, Stillness, Gusts, and the most recent - States of Matter, in which each piece functions as a record of a different state, just as moments, thoughts, and images of everyday life constantly shift.
I experiment with ceramic material, allowing process and chance to co-create form. I create organic shapes that emerge from observation but mature through emotion.
