Waliszewska runs a small, menacing world where a cat can smoke a pipe and it still reads as a warning. She works close to folklore, dream and dread, in a register that is funny and frightening in the same breath. Her cult following reaches far past Poland, from the art world into music and fashion.
The painter
Aleksandra Waliszewska (born 1976) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Her dark, folkloric, dreamlike paintings have built a cult following that reaches far past the art world into music and fashion. Recent solo shows include Lévy Gorvy Dayan in London and Dawid Radziszewski in Warsaw.