Iwo Soczewka
Artist and maker working across earth, objects, image and performance.
My practice explores materiality, transformation, fragility and the relationship between human and more-than-human worlds.
My current research focuses on earth as both material and agent, and on the figure of the dung beetle as a humble, absurd and persistent companion to human existence.
Selected Works:
OUT OF KHTHŌN, 2026
Earth / relief / painting
TERRAIUTA, 2024
Earth / installation / design
along Vide Terra in collaboration with Grond Studio
WONDER, 2020
Object / eyewear / body
EXPOSER, 2012
Site-specific performance / video installation
The practice
My practice developed through performance design, scenography and collaborative work, gradually moving towards a sustained investigation of matter, objects and the spaces they inhabit.
I work across different disciplines, often allowing the material itself to determine the direction of the work.
With VIDE TERRA
Alongside my independent artistic practice, I collaborate with Vide Terra, an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to earth architecture, natural materials and experimental forms of building.
This collaboration provides a material and spatial laboratory for my ongoing research into earth.
Upcoming
ETNIA HOUSE OF ARTS RESIDENCY
Oct 6th – 18th, 2026
Ex Chiesa dell’Abbazia della Misericordia
Venice, Italy
Developing a new series of eyewear objects using earth and vegetable fibers.
IWO SOCZEWKA
iwona.soczewka@gmail.com