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Natalia Kalicki

I am an anthropologist and visual artist. I hold a BFA in Painting from Concordia University in Montreal (2016) and a Master's degree in Anthropology from the University of Leipzig (2022). Since 2024 I have been a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Anthropology in Halle. As a researcher I examine grassroots art worlds, particularly at the intersections of experimental economies and political engagement, and through the mores and materialities that constitute emergent modes of being and belonging. My doctoral thesis is based on a collaborative analysis of artist-run spaces in Warsaw.

As an artist I go about displacing objects or situations out of an initial meaning- making-context, aiming for collaborative confrontation, recalibration, or a kind of bonding. I am interested in unfolding what artistic production has to do with producing/unsettling knowledge regimes. To this end my practice includes the production of uncanny objects (such as unusual wallpaper patterns, loud paintings, knitted frame-scarves, and vividly colored cakes,) and the design of cozy spaces in gallery confines, as a form of intuitive feminist practice. These scenographies are meant to open silly-secure ontologies, through accessing a playful knowledge located in the gut. I have previously participated in artist residencies in Iceland (2015), Germany (2016 and 2023), China (2019 and 2025), Jersey (2022) and now Poland. I have maintained a studio practice in Leipzig for nine years and I am a member of the collective studio Kombinat e.V. located at Halle 14 in Spinnerei. My paintings are currently represented by 丄丅乀 [God. Land. Person] Art Gallery in Beijing. 

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