(b. 1977)
He is a painter and scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture, the Bavarian Government and non-governmental organizations. He is a laureate of the “Bielska Jesień” Painting Festival, the Painting Festival in Szczecin and other competitions and member of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (Lower Silesia branch) and the Academy of Young Scholars and Artists. He runs a painting studio and manages the PhD program at the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. He is a curator and author of texts on art (QuArt, Layers, Format, Aspirations). He has edited several exhibition catalogues and other publications (e.g. Excess and Lack).
ARTIST STATEMENT
My interests include vanitas iconography, relations of modernism with hermeticism, relations of painting processes with physical and chemical phenomena. Using unconventional painting methods, I combine figurative and abstract elements. I am interested in the incompletion and fragmentation of the processes of perception and imaging. Referring to the idea of “an image accessible at a glance”, I use the aesthetics of destruct and non finito. Most of the exhibition projects I carried out related to corporeality and mortality (“Late Symptoms of Death”), relations between modernism and the Renaissance and antiquity (“Details/Spaces” in the State Gallery of Art in Sopot), witch trials (“Incantations” and “Nietota” at Wrocław Contemporary Museum) and changes in the natural environment (“Heliotropie”, “Science/Fiction” and “La force des plantes” at the Musee des Arts et Metiers in Paris).