O mnie/ About
Julia Krupa (ur. 1997)
ona/jej
Zielarka, artystka i badaczka, łącząca zielarstwo z praktyką artystyczną. Doktorantka w Szkole Doktorskiej Nauk Humanistycznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, prowadząca projekt „Zielarska droga do feministycznej bioegalitarności. Praktyki fitoterapeutyczne w Polsce wobec kryzysu klimatycznego” od 2022 roku, który obejmuje etnograficzne badania terenowe, wywiady z zielarkami oraz badania artystyczne. Tworzy Archiwum Herstorii Zielarskiej, łączące wywiady i obiekty artystyczne. Absolwentka Gender Studies w Polskiej Akademii Nauk (2024/2025). Absolwentka Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie na Wydziale Malarstwa (2021), z dyplomem magisterskim zatytułowanym „Zbieraczka, zielarka, wiedźma”, wystawianym w galerii Lokal_30. Studiowała kulturoznawstwo na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim (2021/2022). Laureatka nagrody głównej w konkursie Inicjatywy Entry (2022). Opublikowała artykuł „Fitomisteria. Spekulatywna praktyka zielarska” wraz z J. Soćko w Czasie Kultury (1/2023). Twórczyni pracowni zielarskiej Chwaściarnia, pierwotnie założonej w Autonomicznej Przestrzeni Edukacyjnej na Jazdowie (od 2020), a obecnie kolektywu działającego z roślinami poprzez artystyczną praktykę zielarską.
(she/her)
Herbalist, artist, and researcher combining herbalism with artistic practice. A doctoral candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Warsaw, where since 2022 she has been developing the project “The Herbal Path to Feminist Bioegalitarianism: Phytotherapeutic Practices in Poland in the Face of the Climate Crisis”, encompassing ethnographic fieldwork, interviews with herbalists, and artistic research. She is creating the Herbal Herstory Archive, which brings together interviews and artistic objects. Graduate of Gender Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences (2024/2025). Graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2021), where she completed her MA diploma project “The Gatherer, the Herbalist, the Witch”, exhibited at Lokal_30 gallery. She studied Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw (2021/2022). Winner of the main prize in the Inicjatywy Entry competition (2022). Together with J. Soćko, she published the article “Phytomysteries: A Speculative Herbal Practice” in Czas Kultury(1/2023). Founder of the herbal studio Chwaściarnia, originally established in the Autonomous Education Space at Jazdów in 2020 and now operating as a collective working with plants through artistic herbal practice.
Artystka/Artist
Workshop, Chwaściarnia Collective, “Plant as Other. Narratives on unwanted plants”, Turnus, SDK, Ulubiona Księgarnia, 2025
Exhibition, Chwaściarnia Collective, “Pod wilgotną skórą ziemi”, RDK na Jazdowie, 2025
Artist in Residence, with A. Czyczel, “Weave, Weed, We” PLAST Centre, Bratislava, 2025
Artist in Residence, “Herbalism as an Art Practice,” Ferment, Warsaw, 2024/2025
Exhibition, „5 na 5”, B383 ArtSpace, Warsaw, 202
Performative Walk, Zakole Wawerskie, with Marianna Łupina, 2024
Participant, “Kem School 2024” (Performance Art Summer School), Warsaw, 2024
Solo Exhibition, “Creating Invisible Community,” Galeria Promocyjna, Warsaw, 2024
Artistic Research Residency, 4-month programme, Warsaw’s Observatory of Culture,, Warsaw, 2023
Performance & workshop, part of collective event run by an artist P. Althamer, curator S. Maliborski, Sculpture Park Bródno, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2023
Published Art Zine, “Home – For Whom?” with Chwaściarnia, 2023
Exhibition, “From Abstraction to Abstraction,” Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw (Collective), 2022
Solo Exhibition, “Gatherer, Herbalist, Witch,” Lokal_30 Gallery, Warsaw, 2021
Exhibition, “Mothers Sabbath,” Myymala2 Gallery, Helsinki, 2021
Performance, “Splinters,” Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2020
Publication, Open Call Magazine, London, 2020
Art Action, “Paradise Student Sleeps with a Man in the Grave,” Collective Art Action, Contemporary Art Museum, Ujazdowski Castle Laboratory, Warsaw, 2020
Badaczka/Researcher
Conference “International Congress on New Materialisms”, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid – paper: “Plant-Human Agencies in Herbalist and Artistic Practices: Feminist New Materialisms in Knowledge-Making”, Madrid, 2025
Conference “Antro/Poza. Method, Ethics, and Ethnography Open to Interdisciplinarity”, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences – paper: “Plant Narratives. Herbalism, Ethnography, and Art in More-than-Human Relations”, Warsaw, 2025
Symposium “Kontaminácie: International Performative Symposium”, PLAST Platform – panel participation “Utopian Imaginarium” and co-authored presentation with A. Czyczel “on plant/water bodies”, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2025
Public presentation of the research project “Herbalist Herstories Archive” during the residency at Ferment Gallery, February 2025
Herbal walks, for the Museum of Pharmacy, February and July 2025
Herbal walks, for the Museum of Pharmacy, February and July 2025
Research Team Member, “Współmyślenia” [Thinking-with], aimed at developing artistic research spaces in Poland. Led by Anna Majewska & Warsaw’s Observatory of Culture, 2024
Research Team Member, „Garden in an Answer”, Warsaw’s Observatory of Culture, & Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw, Bratislava, 2024-2025
Graduate, Rosi Braidotti’s “Posthuman” Summer School, Utrecht, 2024
Speaker, Panel discussion on “Gender and Queer Studies as PhD in Current University”, University of Warsaw, 2024
Panel Moderator, „Stany splątane: naturokulturowe praktyki opisu świata”, Enviromental Humanities Center, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 2024
Discussion facilitator, conversation on translation of „Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence” by T. Morton, with translator A. Barcz and the author of preface for the polish translation A. Marzec, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2024
Speaker, “Chwaściarnia and Ecological Activism in Modern Cities,” Communities for Action & Adaptation to Climate Change, Co-Adapt Programme, Warsaw, 2024
Speaker – Lecture Performance, “Phytomisteria. Creating Visual Archive of Plant-Human Encounters,” Narrating Multispecies Worlds international conference, University of Wurzburg, 2023
Article, “Phytomysteria. Herbalist Speculative Practice,” with J. Soćko, Czas Kultury, 2023
Graduate, Summer School Transdisciplinarity – Escape to the Freedom of Research, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Niezależna Inicjatywa Akademicka, prof. Ewa Domańska, Kołobrzeg, 2023
Co-cooridnator in Research Project: Phytographs. Relationships Between People and Plants in Post-Industrial Areas, collaboration between the University of Silesia and the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, 2022-2023
Graduate, InterGender Course „Researching Differently: Transdisciplinary challenges and postconventional methodologies in feminist inquiry”, Linkoping University, Sweden, 2022
Participant, Speculative Workshop Strange Realism, conducted by eco-philosopher Andrzej Marzec, planned publication in Czas Kultury, Pavilion, Poznań, March-July 2022
Speaker, “The Agency of a Slavic Herbalist and Her Emancipatory Ecofeminist Potential in the Context of the Climate Crisis,” Rethinking Agency. Non-Anthropocentric Approaches, online international conference, University of Warsaw, University of California, 2022