Natalia Januła (PL)
Natalia Januła is a Polish-born artist and researcher based in St Leonards, UK, working across installation, performance, sculpture, kinetics, and sound. She often works collaboratively, aiming to build a reciprocal ecosystem with individuals from various disciplines.
Rooted in an interest in speculative narratives and archival research, her interdisciplinary practice examines the natural environment, the concept of functionality, and the exploration of the body’s positioning within synthetic surroundings—often with an element of levity. Her works emerge from research into phenomenology, material thinking, fauna and flora, mythological symbolism, hydrofeminism, anatomy, medicine, and rituals surrounding gender-fluid and hybrid protagonists.
Currently, Januła is exploring the potential and paradoxes of a hyper-capitalist, globally connected reality. Bodies, creatures, nature, gender, and labour are employed in an industry where even invisible, abstract, and magical forces—such as love—can materialise into a definitive economy of objects, units, and value.
She has exhibited in the UK, USA, Canada, and Europe, including two solo exhibitions at New Art Projects (London) and Union Gallery. Her group shows include presentations at the Horse Hospital, The Krupa Gallery, Fringe Warsaw, Final Hot Desert, Filet Space, The Residence Gallery, Collective Ending, Iklectik, TBA Academy, Gossamer Fog, Embassy, Subsidiary Projects, Xxjira Hii, the Factory Project, and Conditions, among others. Her research residencies include Camden Art Centre, Arts Territory, Jupiter Woods, and The Internet Archive.
Januła’s work has also been featured in the publication Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition, which investigates depictions of animals and their connections to cultures of knowledge and new technologies.
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