Julia Krupa

Herbalist, artist and researcher combining herbalism with art practice. A PhD Candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Warsaw; leading the project “Herbal Path to Feminist Bio-Egalitarianism. Phytotherapeutic practices in Poland in the face of the climate crisis,” including ethnographic multispecies field research, interviews with herbalists and artistic research (since 2022). Student of postgraduate Gender Studies at Polish Academy of Science (2024/2025). Part of the doctoral project is the creation of the open access Herbal Herstory Archive. Graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Painting, diploma “Gatherer, Herbalist, Witch” presented at Lokal_30 gallery (2021). Winner of the grand prize in the art competition Initiatives Entry (2022). Published article “Fitomisteria. A Speculative Herbal Practice” with J. Soćko in Czas Kultury, 1/2023. Graduate of Rosi Braidotti’s “Posthuman” Utrecht Summer School (2024). Creator of the author's studio called Chwaściarnia (originally within the Autonomous Educational Space in Jazdów, since 2020), currently a member of the collective of the same name, practicing methods of interspecies communication with plants through collective artistic herbal practice.