Matylda Burszta

Matylda Burszta – Wrocław-based painter who weaves embroidery into painting, creating relief and tactile depth. Finalist of STRABAG Kunstforum (2022) and PROMOCJE (2021); winner of the W. Fangor Student Painting Competition (2020).

Matylda Burszta – painting + embroidery, relief and touch

Matylda Burszta-Rypel is a Wrocław-based artist who integrates embroidery into painting, threading the canvas to achieve three-dimensional texture and a tactile presence.

Language & concept

Painting meets textile craft: the thread becomes drawing, and relief carries meaning. Open-ended compositions spark associations—from map-like structures (Mappa Mundi) to ties and relationships, memory traces and “unknown friends”.

Motifs & techniques

• Embroidery within the canvas – threads as contour and inner grids; painting + textile.
• Relief/texture – depth built through stitching and layered paint.
• Colour focus – single-hue dominants and nuanced tonal ranges.
• Mapping meshes – cartographic lattices, topographies of relations.
• Sources – nature and dreams; deliberate ambiguity that invites personal reading.

Biography & education

MFA (2021) in Painting at the E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, studio of Prof. Marian Waldemar Kuczma.

Awards & distinctions (selected)

• 2022 – Finalist, international painting competition STRABAG KUNSTFORUM, Vienna.
• 2021 – Finalist, 30th PROMOCJE Young Painting Review, Gallery of Art in Legnica; 2nd Prize, Postawy VII for Mappa Mundi, mia ART GALLERY, Wrocław.
• 2020 – Winner, W. Fangor National Student Painting Competition (works: Mappa Mundi, Unknown Friend I–II), Gdańsk.
• 2019 – 2nd Prize, 5th Painting Festival for the diptych Więzi, Wrocław.

Direction

Young art, contemporary art; material/ textile-informed painting.