Image-weavers & visual interpreters:
- Olga Ottenhejim-Selyshcheva, independent artist, Leiden, NE (acrylic on canvas)
- Aleksandra Waliszewska, independent artist, Warsaw, PL (gouache, oil on canvas)
- Małgorzata Drohomirecka, independent artist, London, UK (oil on canvas)
- Oliwia Dawidowska, independent artist, Linia, PL (digital art)
- Wiktoria Szamotulska, independent artist, Gdynia, PL (mixed media)
- Zuzanna Szmyt-Nowakowska, independent artist, Gdańsk, PL (ink on paper, watercolor)
- Marianna Cendrowska, independent artist, Gdańsk, PL (oil pastels)
- Bartek Dzięgiel, independent artist, Warsaw, PL (ink on paper)
Featured Artists:
Olga Ottenhejim-Selyshcheva. Leiden-based Ukrainian artist and curator Olga Selyshcheva combines Romanticism with Ukrainian Baroque. With over 100 exhibitions to her credit, she has collaborated with prominent names including Vogue, SmileyWorld, and Dua Lipa.
Aleksandra Waliszewska, painter. In place of a conventional biography, we highlight her presence through selected resources: her fanpage; to her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, her collection at MSN, the review at culture.pl, and our review at SZUM Magazine of her artwork.
Malgorzata Drohomirecka, visual artist. Studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. After completing her master’s degree in 2006 she moved to London, where she lives and works since. Her practice intertwines painting, printmaking, and film.
Custodians of imaginary:
Oliwia Dawidowska, American Studies student at the University of Gdańsk. For over ten years, she has been developing her passion for drawing and illustration, combining her artistic interests with academic work. At Polish Gothic magazine, she serves as a Graphic Assistant and Marketing Assistant, where she is involved, inter alia, in creating covers and illustrations.
Wiktoria Szamotulska, independent artist. Graduate of High School of Fine Arts, named after Magdalena Abakanowicz, Szamotulska studied graphic design, but her main focus lies in illustrations and cartoons. Between seeking victims for bloodletting she finds the time to paint an icon here and there.
Bartek Dzięgiel, independent visual artist and designer. Studied Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He works mostly on paper.
Marianna Cendrowska, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, in Painting, the class of 1997. Few individual and group exhibitions. Returning from the afterlife of family life.
Zuzanna Szmyt-Nowakowska, artist. Graduated in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and Architecture and Urban Planning at the Gdańsk University of Technology. Currently, she designs the interiors of cruise ships, in which she combines artistic and technical education. Sculpture, drawing, and painting remain her passion.
Our visual contributors offer accompanying visions in dialogue with written pieces, each credited by their chosen discipline.
FRONT PAGE ART: Małgorzata Drohomirecka, Midnight Mass (oil on canvas), 2019.