ABOUT:

Oliwia Sylwia Angrik, was born on February 10, 1996, in Olsztyn, Poland, and spent her first six years there, raised mostly by her grandparents. Music filled the living room, and movement became her first language. She danced instinctively, guided by sound and feeling. Wanting to play the violin, she received a plastic one — which she transformed into a guitar. Creation, even then, meant reshaping what was given.

When she moved with six years to Germany, she joined her mother and stepfather and soon became an older sister to twins. Growing up within a newly formed family, change, responsibility, and inner reflection became part of her early landscape. Over the years, this inner work deepened through extensive personal processes, including Gestalt therapy and systemic constellations — shaping both her way of being and her artistic sensitivity.

At twelve, she discovered photography and visual storytelling, capturing fragments of life through a camera and a blog. In her mid-teens, tattoo culture entered her world — not as trend, but as ritual. She left high school at sixteen and trained in retail within a skate shop environment where subcultures, art, and tattoos were ever-present. At eighteen, she ordered her first tattoo equipment and began tattooing — a practice that has accompanied her ever since.

Movement remained essential. She trained professionally as a dance and movement educator, grounding her work in embodiment, presence, and somatic awareness. Yoga, which has been part of her life since her teenage years, slowly unfolded into her deepest devotion. She completed a 300-hour yoga teacher training, allowing art, movement, and mindfulness to merge into one lived practice.

In 2020, she became self-employed, sharing her work through tattooing and fine art prints. Under the name LALOBÁ she creates tattoo rituals — Her work is rooted in slowness, tenderness, and awareness.

Environmental awareness is not a concept in her work, but a way of living. She strives to live and create as plastic-free, low-waste, and resource-conscious as possible — avoiding unnecessary new materials, minimizing waste, and making mindful choices in her tattoo practice and artistic production. Her printed works often live on secondhand garments, turning existing textiles into unique, wearable artworks — each piece one of a kind, carrying a second life.

Permaculture plays an essential role in her philosophy. Growing vegetables, working with soil, and cultivating food are for her among the most beautiful and respectful ways to be in relationship with the Earth — acts of patience, care, and co-creation that deeply influence her artistic rhythm.

Today, her work exists at the intersection of ritual, movement, ecology, and inner remembrance. Through tattoos, music, yoga, art, and embodied experiences, she seeks to remind the world of tenderness, gentleness, and the quiet strength of femininity. Her work invites reconnection — to the body, to the Earth, and to a softer way of being.

She is currently moving through a period of transition, preparing to relocate to Portugal. This threshold shapes her work, as she continues to explore art not merely as something to be seen, but as something to be lived — gently, consciously, and with care.