Diana Lelonek

Diana Lelonek is a Polish contemporary artist born in 1988 in Poznań. She graduated from the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the Poznań University of Arts, where she studied photography, and later earned her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from the same university. She currently works at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Lelonek is dedicated to exploring the relationships between humans and other species. Her projects are critical responses to the processes of overproduction, unlimited growth, and our approach to the environment. She uses photography, living matter, and found objects to create works that are interdisciplinary and often appear at the interface between art and science. Lelonek’s work has been exhibited at several international biennials, festivals, and group exhibitions, including the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg, the Kunstraum Niederösterreich in Vienna, the Temporary Gallery in Cologne, the Tallinn Art Hall, the Culturescapes Festival in Basel, the Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne, the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, and the Tinguely Museum in Basel. Through her work, Lelonek invites the public to question their relationship with the natural world and to consider new forms of coexistence. In her work, she addresses themes such as biodiversity, deforestation, urbanization, and climate change, exploring how these phenomena affect ecosystems and the communities that depend on them.