“My work exists between surface and structure - sewn shapes, layered transparencies of color that hold emotional depth beneath apparent simplicity.
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What appears minimal is, in truth, made of quiet weight and depth.”
Aga Bal
ABOUT
Aga Bal (Agnieszka Balcerzak)
Born in SÅ‚upsk, Poland, 1986
Lives and works in Teià, Spain
Aga Bal is a Polish-born artist whose work bridges painting, textile, and sculptural practices. Her creative journey began in early childhood, immersed in an environment of sewing machines, fabrics, and paint.
She studied Fine Arts with a specialization in Artistic Textiles at the School of Art in Koszalin, Poland, continuing her education in the United Kingdom, where she earned a degree in Fashion Design in Cambridge.
Aga Bal’s fashion background is rooted in experimental, three-dimensional textile design, with a focus on modular structures and innovative material construction. Over the
years, she worked within the international fashion industry, designing for major global brands such as Adidas and Reebok. Her career took her to creative cities including London, Munich, and Barcelona — experiences that continue to inform her visual language.
Now based in Teià, Spain, Aga has returned to a slower, meditative studio practice that fuses her fine art and sewing and painting roots. Her current work explores the intersection of minimalism and materiality, through sewn compositions and translucent layers of alkyd paint on sewed linen . Each piece is built through a process of assembling, stitching, and layering — evoking a quiet architecture of feeling and presence.Her visual language is guided by restraint, repetition, and the tactile depth of surface. Positioned between painting and object, her work proposes a subtle tension between softness and structure, precision and imperfection — echoing the traditions of both minimalist painting and textile craft.
Muse, Alella 2025
,,My work explores the tension between surface and structure, stillness and emotion. I sew linen into assembled compositions, then layer translucent washes of alkyd paint to build visual depth. The process is meditative.”
- Aga Bal​​
WORK
From a distance, Aga Bal’s works appear minimal, calm, almost monochrome. But up close, the surfaces reveal seams, subtle tonal shifts, and a quiet complexity that unfolds over time. Through a careful interplay of color blocking and layered transparency, her compositions create the illusion of spatial depth — a kind of emotional architecture. What might seem simple at first glance is, in fact, the result of repetition, restraint, and the accumulated weight of many decisions.Rooted in both textile and painting traditions,
Aga’s practice reflects her background in fine arts and fashion. Her years designing for global fashion houses shaped her sensitivity to structure, materiality, and movement. Yet it is in returning to the studio — to sewn canvas and pigment — that she has reconnected with a more introspective and personal language. Aga draws inspiration from the emotional depth of Mark Rothko, the tactile elegance of Lucie Rie, and the material honesty found in minimalist painting. Her approach balances control and intuition, embracing the tension between precision and imperfection as a vital part of the work.Each painting becomes a quiet container of feeling — holding space for contemplation, subtle transitions, and the emotional resonance of color. Through sewn surfaces and layered hues, Bal evokes a sense of presence: something not directly stated, but quietly sensed.
