In her artistic practice, Ania Bąk uses various means of expression, from painting, sculpture to moving images and sounds. Through her works Bąk attempts to reflect on how we have been trained to perceive and universalise only one objective dimension of reality. The artist proposes to cross beyond this threshold and speculates upon the perception of aesthetics as a multisensory action. 

One of the most relevant aspects for the artist is the creative process itself by which she unveils the active agent of matter. Indeed, her process is reminiscent of alchemical transmutation: from analysing and understanding matter by decomposing it to creating other matter. Bąk’s intimate canvases are generated through reconstruction and gestural painting. Her process resembles the modern painterly experiments of Joan Mitchell (with masses of pulsing and dynamic colour) and the sensory collages of the neo-avant-garde artist Teresa Tyszkiewicz (who stitches »canvas« fragments). She likes to highlight the qualities of nontraditional materials such as glass pellets, natural fibres, foil, silicone or glue. The stratification of patterns and layers contributes instead to the creation of porous and rough texture of canvas, projecting at the same time the pure experience of each single component of the painting. As a result, our attention is absorbed by the matter itself which begins to vibrate, revealing its vitality and dynamics. 

Bąk is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include: Tu i wtedy at Turnus Gallery in Warsaw (2024), Belly-talker at eastcontemporary gallery in Milan (2023) and Things, that come in waves at Galeria Skala in Poznań (2021). Bąk has also shown in group exhibitions at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2024), Christine König Galerie in Vienna (2023), 17th International Triennal of Tapestry, Museum of Textiles in Łódź (2022), Museum of Art in Łódź (2022), and Labirynt Gallery in Lublin (2015). Her works are in the collection of Museum of Art in Łódź as well as private ones.