Agnieszka Owsiany

Agnieszka Owsiany founded her studio in 2018 with an architectural background that continues to shape her approach to form, space, and light. Textile soon became her focus. Early experiments in hand-tufted wool grew into a wider investigation of surface and structure, always tied to place. Since 2020 she has worked with small-scale producers in the Beskidy mountains, where locally sourced wool connects her practice to its origins.

Her first significant body of work, Woolscapes, presented monochrome reliefs in unprocessed sheep wool. The pieces pared colour to beige and black, emphasising texture, tactility, and the visible trace of making. These principles — material as colour, process as surface — continue to define her language.

Residency at the Albers Foundation in 2024 expanded her approach. There she studied wet-felting techniques, producing experimental domestic objects such as lights, seating, and curtains. Textile entered a functional register while retaining sculptural presence.

Owsiany also engages cultural history. Growing up in Poland, she describes a complicated relationship to heritage and identity. For From the Same Earth she revisited the interwar period, drawing on archival photographs and architectural settings to explore how design carries history. Her more recent collection, New Regionalism, shown during Milan Design Week 2025, involved collaboration with artisans who sustain endangered traditions such as blacksmithing and straw weaving.

For aarticles, she developed a series of Candle Holders in forged metal with Andreas Billert. These works bring together textile and tool, gesture and ritual. Surfaces are marked by force and hand alike, extending her practice between sculpture, domestic object, and cultural archive.