Aleksandra Młynarczyk-Gemza (born 1988) – multimedia artist, photographer, performer, writer. She comes from the Żywiec region, since 2008 she has been living and working in Cracow. Doctor of Fine Arts (Faculty of Art, Pedagogical University of Cracow), graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. She completed numerous internships in contemporary art galleries (including the National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace). After graduation, she was associated with the creative community of the Razem Pamoja Foundation and Cracow Art House.
In her intermedia projects, she willingly adopts an art therapy perspective. Winner of the Picture of the Year Award at the 2nd Krakow Art Salon 2019, scholarship holder of the ZAIKS Creativity Support Fund and the Creative Scholarship of the City of Krakow 2022, and Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for 2024. Author of the books: “Towards integration of the shadow. Women’s photo-ritual” (Universitas Publishing House, 2021), “Notes of a Madwoman” (Znak Publishing House, 2022), “Crop rotation” (Pamoja Press Publishing House, 2023). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
She is also the author of several individual exhibitions, including “How to take power away from the old eye that knows” as part of Cracow Art Week KRAKERS 2021, and at the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art (where she presented illustrations for her literary debut), and recently “The Unbearable melancholy of detail, or the feeling of not being at home” in Shefter Gallery (as part of Cracow Art Week KRAKERS 2024).