ABOUT

Mila Belino is a visual artist and sculptor whose work combines an architectural background with a deep exploration of the body and space. Born in Poland and educated as an architect at the Gdańsk University of Technology and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, her understanding of form evolved as a relationship between body, space, and function – in the spirit of the Bauhaus, which conceived architecture as an autonomous art form.

Her practice explores embodiment, memory, and the transformation of the body as a site of knowledge and resistance. Through sculpture, installation, performance, and photography, she investigates the body’s intelligence – its capacity to carry emotional and cultural histories, and its negotiation of visibility, vulnerability, and presence. Raised in Catholic Poland, her work reflects on how social, religious, and gendered norms shape bodily experience, while seeking to reclaim vitality, sensuality, and agency in subversive and tactile ways.

Belino often creates objects that are worn, carried, or inhabited – prosthetic wounds, mythic armor, vessels of memory – giving form to internal states, unconscious impulses, and embodied narratives. Her work is informed by the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty, Jung, and Nietzsche, whose ideas on the lived body, shadow, archetypes, and corporeal authority underpin her exploration of presence and selfhood.

Mila Belino has lived and worked in Berlin since 2009. She is a member of BBK Berlin, the Professional Association of Visual Artists. Her work has been presented in international exhibitions in Germany, Hungary, South Korea, Lithuania, the United States, and Italy.