About

Anna Izabela Kowal is a sculptor and installation artist whose creative evolution mirrors the emotional and intellectual complexities that shape the human condition. Her early work emerged from deeply personal investigations into body image, self-consciousness, and self-deprecation—intimate explorations of the vulnerabilities we carry within ourselves. Over time, her artistic inquiry expanded to embrace a broader philosophical and psychological terrain, focusing on the fluidity of human experience and its intimate entanglement with our emotional states and the inner workings of the mind.
 

Fascinated by science and psychology, Anna’s practice is guided by a persistent questioning of what defines human existence. Her work probes timeless and existential queries: What makes us human? What constitutes aliveness? Where does consciousness originate? What makes each of us unique? And how, amidst all this complexity, do we connect with the universe around us? These questions are not abstract contemplations but active forces in her creative process—infused into each work and inviting viewers to engage in the same inner dialogue.
In her installations and sculptures, Anna often attempts the impossible: to give tangible form to intangible states of being. One piece visualizes the architecture of her own mind; another attempts to capture and give shape to the fleeting sensation of happiness; a third freezes the cathartic moment of emerging from depression. Each work is both a personal record and a universal mirror—encouraging empathy, introspection, and resonance.
 

Central to Anna’s practice is a commitment to materiality. Inspired by the great artists like Magdalena Abakanowicz and Barbara Hepworth she champions the physicality of art-making, emphasizing manual processes that ground her ideas in tactile reality. For Anna, materials are not passive conduits but active collaborators—imbued with meaning, memory, and contradiction. Whether through the unyielding solidity of metal or the brittle impermanence of plaster, the materials she selects shape the conceptual language of her pieces. In many works, she incorporates light, not merely as a visual element but as a metaphor for duality—exploring the tension between presence and absence, form and image, substance and perception.
 

This duality reflects Anna’s fascination with contrast: the cerebral and the visceral, the scientific and the poetic, the seen and the felt. Her installations do not dictate conclusions; rather, they act as spaces for encounter—offering viewers a moment to reflect on the physical and psychological forces that shape identity, perception, and existence.
 

Ultimately, Anna’s work is an invitation to feel, to question, to confront, and to wonder—about who we are, what we feel, and how we locate ourselves within the vast, shifting web of life.