PEPERSKI
PEPERSKI is a Polish visual artist based in Vienna. Her work explores the boundaries between abstraction and reality, often through a distinctive visual language grounded in line, reduction, and the tension between spontaneity and control.
The line. Single-threaded. Moving in one dimension, in one direction. The opposite of complexity. Reduction – yet also creation, because do lines even exist in nature?
For PEPERSKI, the line is not only a formal element – it is a way of thinking, perceiving, and navigating the world. Whether in drawing, screen printing, or gouache, her work embraces flatness and abstraction to explore concepts like transience, transformation, and the elusive nature of clarity.
Playing the violin is also drawing a line. The line flows from the shoulder, vibrates, changes frequency, intensity. A line allows you to define something quickly, to sketch. It can be filled with color, but it’s not the surfaces that matter – it’s their edges. Borders, precisely defined, holding everything in place.
Themes of boundaries – sensing them, crossing them, dissolving them – recur throughout her practice. While her aesthetic remains minimal, even stark, the emotional and conceptual layers are complex. Her search is not for illusion or representation, but for presence.
This is a desperate attempt to find something concrete, something that is definitely here. Searching for a sign, a symbol, a form – but not through light and shadow, not through colors or shades. If I use color, it is flat, two-dimensional. Reduction. A way to simplify reality, to focus on a specific dimension of it, not on everything at once.
My language is the line. Strong, black.
Education:
Diploma in Printmaking, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2014
2014 00:59 | Universität für angewandte Kunst Vienna | Austria
2013 L.A. Core Shadow | Bochenska Gallery | Warsaw | Poland [see]
2013 L.A. Core Shadow | Raum für Kunst Pederson & Partners Executive Search Vienna | Austria
2011 KECK | Galerie Apteka Sztuki, Warschau | Poland
2010 Chopin2010byPeperski [in Wien] | Chopin Museum, Warsaw | Poland [see]
2010 Chopin2010byPeperski [in Wien] | Polish Cultural Institute Vienna | Austria [see]
Group Shows:
2020 The Power of a Symbol | Nerima Art Museum | Tokyo | Japan
2013 Gemischter Satz. Zwischen Gestern und Morgen | Eine Ausstellung der Abteilung für Aktzeichnen | Universität für angewandte Kunst Vienna | Stadtmuseum St. Pölten | Vienna
2012 Drinnen Draussen | Karlsturm des Grossmünsters in Zürich | Switzerland
2012 FOR SALE | Museum Bellerive | Zürich | Switzerland
2012 La Isla bonita | Kunststation Kolmitzberg | Austria
2012 Am Anfang | Die Edition | Galerie kunstraumarcade | Mödling | Austria [see]
2011 XVI. DEUTSCHE INTERNATIONALE GRAFIK-TRIENNALE | FRECHEN2011 | Kunstverein zu Frechen e.v., Freche | Germany [link]
2011 In Kontrast | Cult – Art Salon Educult | MQ | Wien | Austria
2009 Umsteigen II | Ueno Town Art Museum | Tokio | Japan
2009 Umsteigen II | Heiligenkreuzerhof – Salla Terrena | Wien | Austria
2008 Umsteigen | Künstlerhaus Wien | Austria
2008 Umsteigen, Österreichische Botschaft in Tokyo | Japan
Auctions:
2013 26. Joung Art Auction / Auction House DESA Unicum | Warsaw | Poland [see]
2012 XXIV Charity Auction for Synapsis Foundation | Warsaw | Poland
2011 11. Joung Art Auction / Auction House DESA Unicum | Warsaw | Poland
2011 10. Joung Artist Auction / Auction House DESA Unicum | Warsaw | Poland
2011 9. Joung Artist Auction / Auction House DESA Unicum | Warsaw | Poland
Awards:
2010 Ö1 TALENTESTIPENDIUM 2010 | Finale | Austria
2010 Warschauer Grafik 2010 | 3. Prize | Austria
2009 Mozart Gestern/Heute | 1. Prize | Austria [link]
2008 Vivatis Award’08 “Schlaraffenland” | Reward Prize | Austria [see]
TV:
2013 Świat się kręci | Agata Młynarska | Poland [link to video]
2009 Dzień Dobry TVN | Kinga Rusin and Bartosz Węglarczyk | Poland