Malgorzata Jablonska, known on the Internet as Margaretka, is a part of the last generation of graphic artists who “think in icons.” Her graphics and her cartoon-like series are based on the most basic standard
computer graphics capabilities. Her raw materials are typical clipart and simple geometrical shapes. Margaretka’s vivid stories are a kind of private journal; their themes are, generally speaking, daily life and what goes on in nearby apartments, houses, and neighborhoods. Simultaneously, the artist explains what graphic design is all about. Along with the people and their household appliances, the heroes of these graphics are typical icons,
pictograms, arrows, and dotted lines. She uses her own language — a
mixture of Polish, English, onomatopoeia and computer commands.
The poetics of Margaretka’s work, at times close to the applied graphics of the ’50s and ’60s, also speak to the most contemporary movements
in Internet art. She says of her works: “I try to geometrically express my support for important aspects of everyday life: general harmony with the visible and invisible realm, a sense of humor, family life, having pets, and using household equipment.”

Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Arsenal, Bialystok; 2001: Raster, Warsaw.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Anatomy of Moments. Young Polish Print Art in the Expanded Field, Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, Sweden; 2002: Rowelucja, Raster, Warsaw; Look At Me/ novart.pl, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow; Display, Prague; 2001: Good, Raster, Warsaw.