Natalia Dominika Drabik

NATALIA DOMINIKA DRABIK

selected works

MADE THEM PURE – states of containment

Made Them Pure is about vulnerability. It treats the body as a structure shaped by containment. Its anatomy carries inner tensions. It fundamentally asks how much the body can hold before it breaks and what exactly happens inside that rupture. The materials look solid, but are fragile and brittle and need constant repair. The moment of breach is also the point of relief. The forms occupy the space between healing and collapse.

ICON CYCLE – the abscent female

The Icon Cycle relates to the subject of containment from the perspective of womanhood. It works with the figure of the absent woman. Breasts often recur as forms of longing. They appear as sites onto which ideals are placed and fixed. The series reflects on archetypes and the legacy of religious icon paintings, in which the woman’s image has been historically narrowed.

CV

Natalia Dominika Drabik

born in Poland
lives and works in Paris

EDUCATION

2021 — Master Class degree, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Studies with Tomma Abts, Gregor Schneider

SOLO

2024 — Outside The House, Kobo Chika Gallery, curator Naoki Nakatani (Tokyo – JP)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 — Le petit Mort, APT Gallery (London – UK)
2024 — Im Bann, Duo with Thomas Musehold (Düsseldorf – DE)
2022 — Handle with Care, Moltkerei Werkstatt (Cologne – DE)

TEXTS | PUBLICATIONS

2021 — Robert Fleck, ART. Kunst im 21. Jahrhundert, includes a text on Drabik’s work
2022 — Hartmut Böhme, lecture on Drabik’s work, Psychoanalytisches Seminar PSZ (Zurich – CH)

RESIDENCIES | AWARDS | GRANTS

2024 — DAAD Postgraduate Research Stipend (Tokyo – JP)
2023 — Kunststiftung NRW Research Stipend (Kyoto – JP)
2022 — Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris – FR)
2019 — Missing Link Award, PSZ – Psychoanalytisches Seminar (Zurich –CH)

CONTACT

contact@nataliadrabik.com