Ula Gogol, born 1971, Białystok, Poland, is a sculptor and visual artist.
She studied Art History at the Institute of Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1991 - 1997) and Sculpture at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1998 - 2003).
Her artistic practice explores the human body as a space of memory, transformation, and emotional experience. Through sculpture, she investigates the relationship between presence and absence, fragility and permanence, biological matter and contemporary technology. Working primarily with epoxy resin, fiberglass, plaster, and traditional sculptural techniques, she creates forms situated between figuration and abstraction.
After several years of artistic practice following her studies, Gogol took a break from professional artistic activity. In 2022, she returned to sculpture, driven by an inner need to reconnect with material, form, and her own artistic language. This return marked a new stage of conscious exploration, focused on the body as a medium of transformation and personal as well as universal experience.
Her major sculptural cycles include Incompatibilia and Transition - Transformation, in which the body becomes a symbol of change, memory, and internal processes. Her work Stages of Life from the Incompatibilia series received an honourable mention at the 2nd Biennale of Art at the Mościce Art Centre in Tarnów (2024).
Her latest project, Transition TORSO.SHELLS from the Transformation cycle, develops the idea of the body as a trace and a process. A place where experiences, loss, and renewal are recorded. The sculptures explore the moment of transition: between what is visible and hidden, material and emotional, human and constructed.
Gogol’s works have been presented in exhibitions including An odd woman (2025) at the Centre for Culture and Civic Initiatives in Podkowa Leśna and the Juan Soriano Sculpture Garden in Owczarnia; Transformations (2025) at Gallery (-1), Warsaw; the 2nd Biennale of Art (2024) at the Mościce Art Centre in Tarnów; the Warsaw Sculpture Festival (2024) at DAP Gallery, Warsaw; and the Sculpture Garden (2024) at the Olympic Centre in Warsaw.
Her artistic practice has also been featured in media, including the television programme Sztuka w Kadrze, TVP3 Warsaw, and the interview A Tender Story About the Human Being. Interview with Ula Gogol published by Rynek i Sztuka.
I create because I am interested in the human being: in memory written into the body, in traces of transformation, and in the moment when matter begins to tell a story that goes beyond form itself.
