ABOUT ME
NeSpoon is a visual artist working at the intersection of urban art, ceramics, painting, and site-specific installation. She says she was born in 2009 — the year she placed her first work in public space. Since then, her projects have appeared in more than 100 cities across over 40 countries on five continents, both in public space and in galleries and museum collections.
She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and her works can be found on the streets as well as in private and institutional collections, including the Louvre-Lens Museum, the Lace Museum in Calais, and the Museum of Fine Arts and Lace in Alençon. Her works have also been presented at the Polish Pavilion during Expo 2020 Dubai and at the European Parliament in Brussels, European Capital of Culture 2016 Wrocław, (Poland) or the UK City of Culture Bradford 2025
From the very beginning of her practice, NeSpoon has combined urban art with elements of artivism. In other projects, she addresses social and environmental issues such as deforestation, industrial animal farming, the coming global water crisis, advertising overload, disinformation and post-truth, as well as the trauma of war. Rather than focusing on confrontation, however, she looks for what connects people instead of what divides them. As she often says, she prefers to say “yes” rather than “no.”
The Beginning
The origins of NeSpoon’s artistic language are rooted in ceramics. As she explains, one of the simplest and most common ways of decorating functional ceramics is by pressing lace into fresh clay.
“For two years I created hundreds of ceramic objects like this. One day, I suddenly imagined a lace pattern appearing on a concrete pole I passed on my way home. In that moment, I felt that lace had chosen me. I realized these patterns didn’t need a functional object — a plate or a cup — in order to delight the eye.”
She began creating ceramic objects stripped of practical function and attaching them to walls across the city, calling them “Urban Jewelry.” It was 2009.
A year later, NeSpoon started creating stencil graffiti based mainly on historical lace patterns. She carries out these works illegally in urban spaces, layering lace stencils multiple times. Around the same time, she also began creating installations using real lace purchased from lacemakers and/or donated by local residents in the places where she worked. In 2012, she created her first mural based on local lace patterns — initiating the direction that would eventually become her internationally recognized artistic practice.
Harmony — Lace as an Urban Language
At the core of NeSpoon’s practice is the long-term project Harmony — a series of urban art interventions inspired by traditional lacemaking. Working with a limited color palette, often dominated by white, she creates murals, stencil graffiti, ceramic objects known as “Urban Jewellery,” and site-specific installations that bring delicate lace patterns into the contemporary urban environment.
For NeSpoon, lace is more than ornamentation. Works inspired by lacemaking become a search for the most fundamental codes of beauty, rhythm, and harmony. Lace patterns are based on what is often called sacred geometry—the mathematical principles that organize the universe. The hypnotic symmetry of lace resembles structures found in nature — flower blossoms, marine skeletons, snowflakes, or frost patterns on windows. Because of this, these forms feel universal and intuitively recognizable across cultures.
Lace also carries strong emotional associations. For many people, it evokes memories of family homes, childhood, safety, and continuity with the past. NeSpoon believes that works based on lace motifs carry a certain kind of positive energy — people simply enjoy them and often smile when encountering them in the urban landscape.
Ornament in Public Space
Historically, lace served a decorative function not only in clothing but also in domestic interiors, adorning tables, furniture, and everyday objects, transforming ordinary spaces into something more ceremonial and aesthetically refined. By introducing lace patterns into public space, NeSpoon continues this tradition of decoration on an urban scale.
Her works function simultaneously as ornament, cultural research, and a quiet gesture of harmony inserted into the shared space of the city. As she says:
“I’m doing exactly the same thing, just on a larger scale. I like to say that I simply give lace a second life by retelling it through the language of urban art.”
Research, Tradition, and Cultural Memory
Research into the five-hundred-year history of lacemaking is an essential part of her creative process. During her travels, NeSpoon studies historical sources, visits museums, and meets contemporary lacemakers. By transferring traditional lace patterns into murals and installations in cities around the world, she builds a bridge between centuries-old craftsmanship and contemporary artistic expression.
The feminine dimension of lacemaking remains an important aspect of her work. For centuries, it was practiced almost exclusively by women, often within social networks that provided both economic and emotional support. This collective and intergenerational character continues to resonate throughout NeSpoon’s practice.
The Global History of Lace
The documented history of lacemaking began in Venice in the mid-16th century. In 1557, the first lacemaking pattern book, Le Pompe, was published there. At the time, Venice was a major center of trade between East and West, and the patterns developed there were most likely inspired by Islamic ornamentation, itself influenced by earlier Hindu traditions.
NeSpoon often points to the existence of a shared visual and mathematical logic connecting cultures across centuries. As she explains:
“I usually paint in white, but whenever I introduce color into the patterns, people often say they remind them of Tibetan mandalas or Moroccan ceramics. It shows that there is a common mathematical principle embedded in these patterns, traveling through time and across cultures.”
During the colonial era, lace spread across all continents, although until the 19th century it remained affordable only to the wealthiest classes. It became a symbol of status, power, and wealth, worn by both men and women. There are stories of aristocratic women selling palaces in order to buy lace dresses.
Everything changed with the Industrial Revolution and the invention of the Jacquard loom — the first digitally controlled machines and the technological peak of their time. Lace patterns were programmed using punch cards, much like the earliest computers. Thanks to this automation, the price of lace dropped dramatically at the beginning of the 19th century, suddenly making it accessible to everyone. For this reason, the 19th century can be considered the great age of lace. Its social role changed once again after World War I, when women freed themselves from corsets and floor-length dresses.
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10 most important events
Museum of Louvre – Lens. Lens, France. Installation + live painting. (2019)
“HUMAN’ RIGHTS”. European Parlament, Brussels, Belgium. Group exhibition (2022)
EXPO 2027 BELGRAD, Belgrad, Serbia. Site specific installations.
UK City of Culture Bradford 2025, Bradford, UK. Mural.
#ceramicstreetart. O.D.Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (2022)
“Recrafted”. Form Gallery, Perth, Australia. Duplex exhibition with Nandita Kumar (2015)
“Art & Science”. Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE. Group exhibition. (2015)
“Harmony. Walls of Bologna”. Solo exhibition. Porta Nova Gallery, Bologna, Italy. (2016)
Urban Nation Biennale. Berlin, Germany. Group exhibition. (2019)
Urban Art Biennale, Moscow, Russia. Group exhibition. (2016)
“Scars”. Solo exhibition. BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland. (2015)
International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2018. Yerevan, Armenia. Group exhibition. (2018)
“Monumenta”. Leipzig, Germany. Group exhibition. (2018)
SELECTED MENTIONS
Exhibitions and Events
2026
”URBAN ART BIENNALE”, group exhibition, Völklinger Hütte, German
“ARTE URBANO. De los orígenes a Banksy”, group exhibition, Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain.
“Urban Equinox”, group exhibition at Graffiti Street Gallery, Chchester, UK
DOMOTEKA, interior design + mural
Lamborgini Showroom opening, installation. Katowice, Poland.
2025
17th International Triennial of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland
HONG KONG WALLS festival, mural. HK, China.
EXPO 2027 BELGRAD, Urban Jewelery. Belgrade, Serbia
Europe Day in Serbia, mural. Belgrade, Serbia
TERRAFORMA, group exhibition. Ćmielów, Poland.
“HE ART” festival, mural + installation. Laon, France.
URBAN ART AREA 5, group exhibition. Warsaw, Poland.
“Na wzgórzu nad rzeką” festival. Nowogród, Poland.
Artown NOW festival, mural. Ploiești, Romania.
SUNRISE Festival, mural + group exhibition. Sicily, Italy.
2024
„Harmony”, solo exhibition. The Art Factory, Łódź, Poland.
„Sotto Sopra”, Group exhibition. Siena, Italy.
„Urban Art Area”, Warsaw, Poland. Group exhibition.
„Layers Loops, Lines – Borås Art Biennale”. Borås, Sweden. Installation + Mural.
JIDAR Street Art Festival, Rabat, Morocco. Mural.
Opera del Tombolo, Mirabella Imbaccari, Sicily/Italy. Mural.
International Lace Festival, Vamberk, Czech Republic. Mural.
Museum Murals, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherland. Mural.
UK City of Culture Bradford 2025, Bradford, UK. Mural.
Praga, Czech Republic. Mural.
Ratike Art Festival, Bisenti, Italy. Mural.
EXPO 2027 BELGRAD, Belgrad, Serbia. Site specific installations.
Tirana Mural Fest, Tirana, Albania. Mural.
SHINE Festival, St. Petersburg, Floryda, USA. Mural
Urban Forms, Łódź, Poland. Mural.
2023
Danielle De rue, Blagnac, France. Solo Show.
Street Art Festival Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Installation.
Yasha Young Project. La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. Murals.
Festival Łódź Czterech Kultur, Łódź, Poland. Mural.
United Arts Festival, Domanice. Installation.
Festival w Wielkim Formacie, Nowogród, Poland. Mural.
PasteUp Warsaw. Poland. Group exhibition.
Urban Art Area, Leonarda Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Group Exhibition.
Under the Bridge Gallery, Leszno, Poland. Group Exhibition.
Inspire Festival, France. Mural.
NUART, Aberdeen, Scotland. Mural.
City Hall, Blagniac, France. Mural.
CRIDO, Warsaw, Poland. Mural.
Bracka 20, Warsaw, Poland. Mural.
2022
EXPO Dubai 2020, Dubai, UAE. Instalation in Polish Pavilion.
STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Installation.
BLINK Festival, Cincinnati / Ohio, USA. Mural.
The Jersey City Mural Arts Program (JCMAP), Jersey City / New Jersey, USA. Mural.
#CeramicStreetArt, O.D. Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Duo show with SC Szyman.
Artists 4 human rights, European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. Group exhibition.
Zacni Przyjaciele, Poznań, Poland. Group Exhibition
CHMURA, Miejska galeria sztuki, Czestochowa, Poland. Group Exhibition.
Urban Art Area, Leonarda Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Group Exhibition.
LeMur Oberkampf, Paris, France. Mural.
Appartengo Festival, Stigliano, Italy. Mural.
Halmstad, Sweden. Mural.
Street Art en Baie, Yffiniac, France. Mural.
Ylberi Festival, Santa Sofia D’Epiro, Italy. Mural.
MUSA Festival, Mendicino, Italy. Mural.
Esporo Cultura Festival, Portugal. Installation.
LINK Urban Art Festival, Brescia, Italy. Mural.
Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg, Germany. Installation.
Popularte Festival, Corsica, France. Mural.
LineUp / Noisy Project, Paris, France. Ceramics & Murals.
GarGar Festival, Les Penelles, Spain. Mural.
Thoughts & Art embraces politics, European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. Performance & discussion.
2021
La Fourmie Festival, Callac, France, Mural.
Art Walk Festival, Patras, Greece. Mural. Urban Art Area. Group Exhibition.
Koneser Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Group Exhibition.
ArtScape Festival, Malmö, Sweden. Mural.
Nowe Warprno, Poland. Mural.
Street Art Festival Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mural.
Craponne-sur-Arzon, France. Mural.
LayUp Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland. Installation.
Triennale di Maroggia – Tra Strada e Street Art. Installation.
Liebesbier Hotel, Bayreuth, Germany. Indoor mural.
Silk Residency, Monpellier, France. 3 Murals (indor & outdoor).
2020
Propaganda Gallery, NYX Hotel Warsaw, Poland. Mural
Festival Popularte, Corsica, France. Mural
Emergence Festival, Sicily, Italy. Mural
JAM etend’ART Festival, Calais, France. Mural + Installation
Pandemic Art. Group exhibition. Elektrownia Gallery. Warsaw, Poland.
CVTA’ StreetFest. Civitacampomarano, Italy. Installation
2019
Museum of Louvre – Lens. Lens, France. Installation + live painting.
Musée des Beaux-arts. Alençon, France. Lighting object.
F(r)iction, group show. Lhodi Art District, New Delhi, India. Installation.
St+Art Festival, New Delhi, India. Mural.
Bobowa, Poland. A mural on the building of the City Hall.
Countless Cities Biennial. Favara, Sicily/Italy. Mural + installation.
[Re]Think Sisak Festival. Sisak, Croatia. Mural.
Madrid Street Art Project. Madrid, Spain. Mural.
Luxor Factory Art Residency. Le Locle, Switzerland. Mural.
StARTer Proyectos Culturales. Belorado, Spain. Mural.
Urban Nation Biennial. Berlin, Germany. Installation.
Le Mur. Rennes, France. Mural.
2018
International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2018 (ICAE2018).
HayArt Cultural Center, Yerevan, Armenia. Installation.
Monumenta. Leipzig, Germany. Group exhibition.
Urban Nation Art Residency, Berlin, Germany. Installation.
Milion Możliwosci. Łaźnia Gallery, Radom, Poland. Group exhibition.
Ziomki & Przyjaciele. O29 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Group exhibition.
Emergence Festival, Valverde, Italy. Mural.
Culture center in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland. Installation.
Forum kolektyw, Gdańsk, Poland. Mural.
Musée des Beaux-arts, Alençone, France. Mural.
Kristiansand, Norway. Mural.
Facebook office, Warsaw, Poland. Mural.
Instytut Festival, Modlin, Poland. Installation.
Helsinki Urban Art Festival, Helsinki, Finland. Installation.
Warsztaty Kultury, Poland, Lublin. Mural.
Muzeum Częstochowskie, Częstochowa, Poland. Installation.
2017
There’s no limit. Group exhibition curated by Thinkspace Gallery (LA). Borås, Sweden
Style Madness. Group exhibition. Lublin, Poland.
Lacemakers from Póvoa da Atalaia, a mural. Póvoa da Atalaia, Portugal.
Civita Strret Fest, Civitacampomarano, Italy. Mural.
Cathedral, instalation. Vila do Conde, Portugal.
No Limit Festival, Borås, Sweden. Mural.
Up North Festival, Røst, Lofoten, Norway. Mural.
One Wall by Urban Nation, Berlin, Germany. Mural.
Poliniza Dos Festival, Valencia, Spain. Mural.
Forum Kolektyw, Gdańsk, Poland. Installation.
Fukushima, installation. Chernobyling Festival, Prypyat, Ukraine.
IBUG, Chemnitz, Germany. Stencil graffiti.
Bombarral, Portugal. Mural
Epitaph for the forest, installation. Warsaw, Poland.
Festiwal czterech kultur, Łódź, Poland. Installation.
2016
Harmony. Walls of Bologna. Solo exhibition, Porta Nova Gallery, Bologna, Italy.
Precariat. Bronze statue, II Street Art Biennale, Moscow, Russia.
The big picture. Lace installation. Point of viev – group exhibition, Sinta, Portugal.
Remuera Festival, Auckland, New Zealand. Mural.
Dunedin Street Art, Dunedin, New Zealand. Mural.
Zielony Plac Defilad, Warsaw, Poland. Horizontal mural.
Pont-l’Abbé, France. Mural and lace installation.
Koniaków, Poland. Mural.
Estau Arte Urbana, Estarreja, Portugal. Mural.
Limerick, Ireland. Lace installation.
Emergence Festival, Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy. Mural.
2015
Blizny / Scars. Solo exhibition, BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland.
Tableware for Pigoens. Solo exhibition,
Taito Gallery, Helsinki, Finland. Recrafted.
Form Gallery, Perth, Australia. Exhibition with Nandita Kumar
Bez Różu, Arsenał Gallery, Poznań, Poland. Group exhibition.
Guanxi. Mural.
Form Festival, Perth, Australia. Happy hour. Mural.
Guanxi. Installation.
QRE Festival, Hong Kong. Ladybirds.
A mural for children, Tbilisi, Georgia. Mural.
A gate to everything. Light & painting installation, commisioned by ESK2016 Wrocław, Poland
A mural commisioned for Starak Foundation, Warsaw, Poland.
Urban Art Esch, Luxemburg. Mural.
Street Art Festival, Bielsko Biała, Poland, Mural.
Forty-Forty Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Mural.
Fate Festival, San Potito Sannitico, Italy. Mural.
Festiwal Koronki Klockowej, Bobowa, Poland. Mural.
Biennale Bolsena Ricama, Bolsena, Italy. Mural.
Ex-Voo Festival , Dree, Francja. Lace installation
WRSW / BRLN. An installation with Aida Gomez. Warsaw, Poland
Szpargaty, Poznań, Poland. Mural.
Festival Halasi Csipke, Kiskunhalas, Hungary. Mural.
2014
Merlettis. Solo exhibition. Elastico Gallery, Bologna, Italy.
Beef. Video installation. Pies czy Suka Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
Tableware for Pigeons. Video installation. 19×19 Gallery, Group exhibition, Warsaw, Poland.
Big Draw Festival, Nijmegen, Holand. Stencil graffiti.
HX Festival, Helsingborg, Sweden. Insatllation.
Djerbahood, Djerba/Tunisia. Mural, ceramic. Fundao, Portugal.
Installation, mural, cramic Installation for 40th anniversary of Polish Institute, Vienna, Austria.
2013
Szelest myśli. Solo exhibition.BWA Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland.
Cash, Cans & Candy. Group exhibition. Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
Punkt bez ja. Group exhibition. Galeria Arsenał/Elektrownia, Białystok, Poland.
19×19 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Group exibition. Installation.
Boombastic Urban Art Festival, Vodnjan, Croatia. Mural, ceramic.
Walk&Talk. Public Art Festival, Azores, Portugal. Mural.
The smallest pope in the world. Sculpture.
ART.eria Festival. Częstochowa, Poland.
Turnpike Grup, London. Mural.
Bolsena Biennale l’Arte nel Ricamo e nel Merletto, Bolsena, Italy. Mural, installations.
2012
Koronkowa robota. Group exhibition. Zamek Cieszyn Gallery, Cieszyn, Poland.
Bunker Festival, Turin, Italy. Mural, Installation.
Traffic Design Festival, Gdynia, Poland.
Mural Skrzyżowanie Kultur Festival, Białystok, Poland. Mural, installation.
Artaq End Show, Paris, France. Group exhibition.
Rempex Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Group exhibition.
Cały ten street art. Galeria Nova, Kraków. Group exhibition.
Intralci. Milano, Italy. Group exhibition.
2011
No Women No Art Festival, Poznań, Poland. Insatllation.
Fame Festival, Grottaglie, Italy, Murals, ceramic.
Gallery for Tibet, Warszawa. Poland. Group exhibition.
Graffiti vs Street Art. Zachęta Gallery, Lublin, Poland. Group exhibition.
Etnoinspiracje. National Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland. Group exhibition.
Scrabble. Art Boom Festival, Kraków, Poland.
Ogrody Tymczasowe Festival, Kraków, Poland. Installation.
Artaq End Show, Angers, Paris, Berlin, France/Germany.
Street Art Festival, Katowice, Poland.
Miasto dziergane. Spot Gallery, Poznań, Poland. Group exhibition.
Polski Street Art, Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland. Group exhibition.
Pless Art Festival, Pszczyna,Poland. Ceramics.
2010
Street Art w Królikarni. National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Group exhibition.
Festival of Visual Arts, Brzeszcze, Poland. Mural.