About

Klaudia Zabek is a contemporary abstract artist exploring the emotional and elemental landscapes that shape human experience.

Working with acrylics, oils, ink, wax, fire, and crystal, she paints both with tools and directly with her hands, letting instinct, texture, and place guide each gesture. Wheels, mops, and found implements often replace brushes, translating movement into raw, physical form. The places she paints — from rice fields and volcanic slopes to abandoned buildings — are never neutral backdrops, but quiet mirrors of her inner landscape, shaping the mood and motion of each piece. Her process rests on the understanding that the same natural laws shaping rivers, roots, and weather patterns move through the human body and psyche alike — that what unfolds within and around us belongs to one continuous field of nature, witnessed by the stillness behind it.
 

Klaudia’s paintings unfold through cycles that mirror nature and the psyche alike — emergence, disappearance, transformation. Just as the moon waxes and wanes or the tides rise and fall, her process moves through contraction and release, destruction and renewal. The gestures echo organic rhythms: fire and bloom, erosion and growth, decay and rebirth.
 

"My work explores the meeting point between shadow and light — the tension through which life itself sustains. Atoms bind through polarity, the heart beats by alternation, and creation unfolds only through destruction. Without duality, there is no movement, no life."
 

Each collection marks a stage in this ongoing journey: the dissolution of egoic boundaries, the confrontation with the shadow, and the gradual re-emergence into wholeness. When we deny these hidden parts, they turn destructive; but when we give them place, they become transformative. 
 

Klaudia’s work unfolds in cycles that mirror inner transformation. 2022 carried the language of light and openness. 2023–24 descended into shadow and disintegration. 2025–26 moves through Saturn’s ground — where weight becomes structure and chaos refines into order. Each body of work marks a phase in the same unfolding journey: the dissolving of egoic boundaries, the meeting of the shadow, and the slow return to wholeness.
 

 

Chapters of Work
 

I. Light Years (2020–2022)

Before the descent — the language of light and space.
Created during a time of balance between a corporate career and an emerging artistic path, these works carry air, openness, and visibility. They reflect the outward phase of identity — structure, aspiration, and lightness.
 

II. The Shadow Works (2023–2025)

(Barcelona Studies, Ink Testament, Shadow Archives)
After the rupture — the confrontation with intensity.
These works emerged from the collapse of external forms — home, relationship, self-definition — and the encounter with what lay beneath.
Shadow Archives marks the threshold between dissolution and becoming: the psyche reorganising itself from the inside out. Fire, smoke, and crystal leave traces of transformation, revealing the shadow not as absence of light, but as its mirror and catalyst.
 

III. Saturn’s Weight (2025–2026, ongoing)

Alchemy of shadow into form — the burned ground as foundation.
Created during Sade Sati, this series embodies Saturn’s patience and paradox. The canvases carry both gravity and clarity — the stage where what once dissolved finds new structure, and darkness turns to depth.​

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