YCP 2025 Fellow
Dominika Kolenda
From the landscapes of Poland
Current Practice
MA student in Biology and Philosophy, exploring the limits of communication. BFA in Fine Art from Oxford University.
Bio
I am a visual storyteller working across bioart, education, and science communication. My practice explores empathy, collectiveness, and the porous boundaries between human and nonhuman life.
Rooted in new materialism and post-humanist thought, I’m drawn to flat ontologies and to the slow, attentive work of translating scientific knowledge into sensory and relational forms.
I believe in learning as co-being, and in art as a space where care, inquiry, and complexity can coexist. My work often begins in the body, and moves outward.
Focus Areas for Exploration
I’m curious to explore how knowledge can be collectively generated and reshaped through dialogue, friction, and shared vulnerability. I’m particularly drawn to the idea of intellectual fermentation—how thoughts evolve when exposed to diverse perspectives, contexts, and forms.
I hope to reflect on the politics and poetics of translation: how concepts shift as they move between languages, disciplines, and mediums.
The program’s collaborative, experimental environment feels like fertile ground to challenge my assumptions, refine my voice, and explore criticism as a relational and transformative act rather than a fixed judgment. I’m excited by thinking with others, not just about them.