Yolik Naal (b. 1987, Tarnów) is an artist working in painting and ceramics, living and working in Tarnów, Poland. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 2014 with a degree from the Department of Graphic Arts, earning her diploma in the copperplate studio of Professor Krzysztof Tomalski.

While her practice encompasses a range of media and she constantly experiments with techniques, ceramics occupy a central place in her work—as a medium of abstract form deeply rooted in memory and the echo of figuration. Her ceramic pieces, devoid of direct representation, resonate with corporeality and organic shapes, evoking on the threshold of recognition lost forms—fragments of bodies, gestures, or emotions.

In parallel, she creates large-scale paintings where realistic depictions—especially of the human figure—are interwoven with dense, abstract spaces. This dialogue between the tangible and the elusive, also reflected in her ceramic practice, lies at the heart of her artistic language. Themes of contrast, tension, and duality—between good and evil, the corporeal and the material, form and formlessness—recur throughout Naal’s work, shaping a cohesive yet multilayered vision of the world.