 Małgorzata Chodakowska was born and grew up in the heart of Poland, at Łódź, where between 1980 and 1985 she attended the Liceum Sztuk Plastycznyc ("Fine Arts Secondary School").In 1985 she enrolled at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw where she studied sculpture with .Three years later, in 1988, she moved on again, this time to the Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna, to progress her studies further.