Emilia Durka is a Warsaw-based visual artist and landscape architect. Combining memory and careful observation, she captures fleeting impressions of ephemeral landscapes in a distinctive painterly style. Exploring place and memory, her artwork becomes a metaphor for human nature, reflecting her lived existence rather than a fixed location. Her background in landscape architecture influences how she reads a place, understanding both its beauty and fractures.

Informed by studies in Poland, Spain, and America, her nomadic lifestyle drives her to immerse herself in nature. Her training spans Landscape Architecture, Historical Gardens, Urban Space Studies, and Fashion. In 2024, an Art Students League of New York scholarship under Bruce Dorfman led to her collection Landscapes of Solastalgia, featured in two New York solo exhibitions. In 2025, she also opened her solo exhibition, Gloria Victis, at the Polish History Museum in Warsaw.

"These landscapes function as self-portraits—carrying nostalgia, curiosity, and the quiet tension of being in-between," Durka notes. "Delicate yet resilient, intimate yet vast, they hold a sense of wonder for life's small miracles: a glance, a breath, a memory of the earth."