She studied painting and graphic art under prof. Jerzy Krechowicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where she received a diploma in 1983. Since 1992 she has been co-creating the Teatr Cinema - the avant-garde organization combining visual arts and the movement theatre. Rotkiewicz-Szumska has been co-organizing the Theatrical Music Festival in Jelenia Góra. She won the award of Jerzy Boniecki Pocul Foundation. She was twice granted the scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. She lives and works in Michałowice, in Karkonosze, in the house which is also the Teatr Cinema headquarters, where numerous other artistic projects are carried out.