(EN)
Exploring the unconscious as a symbolic landscape through painting and participatory practice.
(DE)
Exploring the unconscious as a symbolic landscape through painting and participatory practice.
“Cinnamon Island”, natural pigment on canvas, 160×200cm, 2026
Practice
(EN) In a world rich in information but often lacking meaning, my work investigates how we can reconnect to deeper layers of human experience. I approach this process as a cartographer of the psyche, mapping inner landscapes through painting.
My works are not illustrations of ideas, but spaces where the unconscious meets material. They hold tensions between opposing forces and draw on archetypal forms and recurring symbols, operating across personal and shared experience.
Alongside my studio practice, I develop workshops that support others in engaging with their own symbolic language. I see this as a process of rebuilding symbolic literacy—learning to read oneself intuitively in order to access clarity, integration, and meaning.
(DE) In a world rich in information but often lacking meaning, my work investigates how we can reconnect to deeper layers of human experience. I approach this process as a cartographer of the psyche, mapping inner landscapes through painting.
My works are not illustrations of ideas, but spaces where the unconscious meets material. They hold tensions between opposing forces and draw on archetypal forms and recurring symbols, operating across personal and shared experience.
Alongside my studio practice, I develop workshops that support others in engaging with their own symbolic language. I see this as a process of rebuilding symbolic literacy—learning to read oneself intuitively in order to access clarity, integration, and meaning.
Process
(EN) In a world rich in information but often lacking meaning, my work investigates how we can reconnect to deeper layers of human experience. I approach this process as a cartographer of the psyche, mapping inner landscapes through painting.
My works are not illustrations of ideas, but spaces where the unconscious meets material. They hold tensions between opposing forces and draw on archetypal forms and recurring symbols, operating across personal and shared experience.
I use natural pigments and binders, and work on unprimed canvas. It gives my works unique pastel-drawing like character. When possible I use locally found minerals, and pigment plants and include them in my work.
Alongside my studio practice, I develop workshops that support others in engaging with their own symbolic language. I see this as a process of rebuilding symbolic literacy—learning to read oneself intuitively in order to access clarity, integration, and meaning.
(DE) In a world rich in information but often lacking meaning, my work investigates how we can reconnect to deeper layers of human experience. I approach this process as a cartographer of the psyche, mapping inner landscapes through painting.
My works are not illustrations of ideas, but spaces where the unconscious meets material. They hold tensions between opposing forces and draw on archetypal forms and recurring symbols, operating across personal and shared experience.
Alongside my studio practice, I develop workshops that support others in engaging with their own symbolic language. I see this as a process of rebuilding symbolic literacy—learning to read oneself intuitively in order to access clarity, integration, and meaning.
Workshops
(EN) Alongside my studio practice, I develop workshops that support participants in accessing their own symbolic language through use of natural pigments, image-making and active visioning methods.
(DE) In a world rich in information but often lacking meaning, my work investigates how we can reconnect to deeper layers of human experience. I approach this process as a cartographer of the psyche, mapping inner landscapes through painting.
BIO
(EN) Based in Switzerland, with a background in philosophy and an earlier career in corporate communication, I shifted fully into artistic practice in 2018 following a personal and professional rupture that initiated a deep exploration of the unconscious.
Education
2009 — BA in Philosophy, University of Wrocław, Poland
2011 — MA in Philosophy and Communication, University of Wrocław, Poland
Further education
2024 — Anthroposophic Art Therapy (plant-based colour therapy focus)
on-going — Additional studies in symbolic systems, meditation, deep psychology and consciousness-based practices
Solo Exhibitions
2024 — Kulturforum Laufen, Switzerland
2023 — Mother, Ten Eleven Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
(EN) Based in Switzerland, with a background in philosophy and an earlier career in corporate communication, I shifted fully into artistic practice in 2018 following a personal and professional rupture that initiated a deep exploration of the unconscious.
Education
2009 — BA in Philosophy, University of Wrocław, Poland
2011 — MA in Philosophy and Communication, University of Wrocław, Poland
Further education
2024 — Anthroposophic Art Therapy (plant-based colour therapy focus)
on-going — Additional studies in symbolic systems, meditation, deep psychology and consciousness-based practices
Solo Exhibitions
2024 — Kulturforum Laufen, Switzerland
2023 — Mother, Ten Eleven Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Contact
For inquiries regarding artworks, exhibitions, or collaborations, please get in touch:
Email
agnieszka@kuntzmann.studio
Instagram
@agnieszka_kuntzmann
Basel, Switzerland