Taba Kiera

ARTWORKS & OBJECTS
for MODERN MYTHOLOGIES

I create works that seem alive, permanently suspended
between organic matter & constructed surfaces.

They exist in tension: between nature & artificiality,
vitality & control, body & object,
and echo the human condition in an artificial world.

Across painting, ceramics, and wearable sculpture,
my practice explores thresholds:
how matter, form, and ritual reveal what society
seeks to control and what remains truly free.

For collectors drawn to deep time, mysticism,
and ritualized encounters with materiality.

Across paintings, ceramics, and wearable sculpture, I explore the reminiscence of the organic within the artificial or engineered,
revealing the tension between freedom and societal control, and inviting a renewed encounter with the body, nature, and ritual.

Series:
Cosmos of Living Skins
2026

Technique:
Bio-Tempera Encapsulation

I mix tempera with organic matter that was once alive—bacterial cellulose, fungi, skin-like materials—and suspend it within a synthetic coating. These works explore the tension between life and its containment:
preservation as a form of control, and beauty concealing violence. What appears organic is often immobilized, contained, subdued, and distanced from its origin, mirroring the contemporary body in a world shaped by artificial systems.

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Series:
Ritual: Dining with the Gods

2026

Material:
Ceramic

Organic shapes and textures inspired by skin,
fur, scales, feathers, and wrinkles.

My ceramics extend the investigation of organic form into the objects that surround us, blending ritualistic textures with everyday utility, and echoing the same tension explored in my paintings.

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"Szlachta"
A handcrafted collection of wearable objects
2024

Created during an art residency run by a Berlin
collective in the Gorzanow Palace in Lower Silesia
—a renaissance mansion, offering incredible history
and charm that inspired my artistic research into
Polish nobility (Szlachta), the past garment customs
of the region, and the ways to defy religious
influences found in the Polish royalty attire.

These pieces highlight the naked body as a threshold of vulnerability and authenticity, a physical counterpart to the suspended matter in my other works.

Kind Words
About My Work

"I remember my first visit in your studio—every corner revealed a new pearl among the chaos of materials and experiments."

Sara Wallgren

1st year Mentor
Fine Art School, Sweden

"The unusal way you mixed & merged clay into patterns and created strikingly organic shapes during your first ever ceramic class told me all I needed to know."

Davide Ronco

Artist & Ceramic Teacher
Copenhagen, Denmark

"I'm amazed at how many types of art you can do, and not just do, but do well. Thrilled to be the owner of your first bio-tempera painting ever made."