Katarzyna Baldyga

Katarzyna Baldyga (b. 1988, Poland) is a contemporary painter based between Amsterdam and Dresden. Growing up in the rural-industrial region of Silesia, she developed an interest in the relationship between environment, memory, and transformation. After graduating in law from Wrocław in 2012 and working in the Prosecution Service, Baldyga moved to the Netherlands in 2018, where she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She further expanded her practice through engagement with the New Leipzig School during her time in Leipzig.

Baldyga’s painting practice explores the possibilities of paint as an unstable and transformative medium. Working through layered paintings and provisional maquettes, she creates imagined and half-remembered worlds that exist between internal landscapes and external uncertainties. Her compositions emerge through an intuitive process, allowing material, gesture, and chance to shape fragile realities where forms continuously appear, dissolve, and transform. For Baldyga, painting functions as a space of contradiction—simultaneously revealing and concealing, physical and illusionary, controlled and unpredictable. Through shifting perspectives and complex material surfaces, her works challenge fixed interpretations and invite viewers into uncertain yet emotionally charged environments.

Her exhibitions include the Movement with OFFO collective (Amsterdam, 2026), Bedrock at Young Collectors Circle (Amsterdam, 2025), Art Rotterdam with Galerie Ron Mandos (Rotterdam, 2025), Amsterdam Art Week, Open Studio, (Amsterdam, 2025), State of Art at Stichting Tiny V (Arnhem, 2024), Best of Graduates 2024 at Galerie Ron Mandos (Amsterdam, 2024), and the Graduation Show at Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, 2024), among others. Her work is held in the collections of Museum Voorlinden, Collectie Rijksoverheid, and Stichting Tiny V, among others.