Agata di Masternak

Lives and works in London, UK; Warsaw, Poland

Artist statement

Agata di Masternak is a London‑based interdisciplinary artist whose work transforms memory, embodiment, and the unseen into powerful visual and spatial experiences. Working across painting, sculpture, textiles, writing, and video, she creates immersive environments that invite viewers not just to look, but to enter the emotional and psychological terrain of her practice. Her work pushes painting beyond the surface, expanding it into sculptural, architectural, and sensory dimensions. Each installation becomes a living environment — a place where colour, texture, and form operate as thresholds between the visible and the invisible, the personal and the collective, the material and the immaterial. At the heart of di Masternak’s practice is a deep investigation into how memory is held in the body. Rather than treating memory as fixed recollection, she approaches it as a dynamic, inhabitable structure shaped by emotion, absence, and time. Through layered surfaces, fragmented forms, and recurring abstract motifs, she constructs spaces that function as portals into interior states and shared, often unspoken histories. Rooted in her lived experience yet resonating far beyond it, her work offers viewers moments of heightened awareness — intimate encounters that feel both deeply personal and universally human. This emotional accessibility, combined with her conceptual clarity, makes her practice compelling to collectors, curators, and institutions seeking work that bridges...

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