Maja Tybel moves between image, space, and matter. For years she has been working as an art director and photographer, creating visual narratives for brands, magazines, and cultural institutions, including Samsung, Vogue Polska, Zalando, and Diptyque. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, but from the beginning, her work eluded a single discipline — leading from graphic design through photography to working with objects, light, and the physicality of the material. Today, in addition to campaigns, she creates modular ceramic forms.

 For Maja Tybel, the path to sculpture led through the careful observation of light and scenographic practice. Her work is a knot of fascinations: from the freedom of color in the spirit of Joan Miró, to the rawness of Polish modernism of the 1920s, which was the first to so boldly marry folklore with cubist forms. The artist reaches back to the tradition of paper cutting, pagan symbols, and modernist reinterpretations of folk art, finding within them a space for contemporary abstraction. She is interested in the moment when a personal experience of culture becomes a universal sign. She is also close to the idea of the totem: an object that carries within itself a story of time, place, and human experience.

Tybel Forms debuted in December 2025 at CONCEPT 11, becoming one of the most distinctive new voices at the intersection of contemporary sculpture and collectible design. Shortly afterward, they could already be seen at the prestigious MILANO DESIGN WEEK fair at the exhibition of Polish applied art organized by the Twór Association.

What makes them unique? Tybel Forms is a "live project", subjected to the idea of eternal metamorphosis. Thanks to the proprietary system of connecting electrical elements and steel modules, the object ceases to be a static monolith. It becomes an open-ended sentence that everyone can complete in their own way. Totemic towers can climb upwards from intimate forms to two-meter installations. In this movement, in symmetry, and in the tension between individual elements lies the essence of Maja's work - an invitation to create one's own interpretation of cultural heritage.

Collaboration with local craftsmen — woodturners and glassblowers from Pomerania — also occupies an important place in the project. Thanks to this, Tybel Forms exists somewhere between sculpture and a functional object, combining the functionality of design with the authenticity of sculptural form. This is a story about a form that does not want to be closed — and about objects that, more than things, resemble living structures of memory.

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The artists' works presented during the Dreams of Gdynia festival are available for purchase.

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