BIOGRAPHY




Born in 1960 in Świerklaniec.
Graduated from Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Diploma with distinction.
PhD at the University of Arts in Poznan - 2011.
Scholarships: Transfer 1998 and the Minister of Culture and Art in 1990, 2000, 2007,
Residence: Ostrawa 2007, Český Krumlov 2009.
Artist and curator, animator of cultural life in the field of alternative art in Bytom, Katowice and Jaworzno.
He ran an Art gallery Kronika (Bytom) in 1992-1998.
In the Upper Silesian Cultural Center - he established an art gallery Sektor 1 open to phenomena arising at the interface between visual arts and new technologies and open to multimedia installations.
Besides that he started the Sektor Foundation acting for the benefit of the gallery, author of Biennale of Contemporary Art concept - Art Sector.
In the years 2005/2008, he was a member of the Silesian Contemporary Art Collection Committee - promotion activities for dissemination of modern art, educational projects in the public space of the city: "From the art of buying to the art of cognition", "Art City" and others.
Since 2007, he has been the Vice President of the Sektor Foundation in Katowice - among others organizing and conducting a cyclic educational and cultural program Silesian Art School including workshops, lectures on the theory and history of art, aesthetics, arrangements and author's meetings addressed to recipients of modern art.
Between 2012 - 2017 he was an intermedia lecturer at the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.

works in public collections:

Regional Museum in Bydgoszcz, Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, Szczecin Contemporary Art Collection, Silesian Contemporary Art Collection, Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, BWA Lublin, Wyspa Art Institute in Gdańsk, National Museum in Krakow, Art Center in Cesky Krumlov, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, implementation of the "Fountain, fountain" installation on the MOCAK area.

individual exhibitions:

1989 - Pro Arte Pax Gallery, Elbląg
1990 - Inny Śląsk Gallery, Tarnowskie Góry
1991 - Pracownia Gallery - BWA, Bytom
1992 - Fra Angelico Gallery of Contemporary Art, Katowice; Kronika Gallery, Bytom
1995 - Centrum Gallery - Upper Silesian Cultural Center, Katowice
1996 - Arsenal Gallery - BWA, Białystok; Grodzka Gallery - BWA, Lublin
1997 - AT Gallery, Poznań; East Gallery, Łódź.
1999 - Starmach Gallery, Kraków; Wiktoria 12 Gallery, Białystok; Labirynt II Gallery - BWA, Lublin; Gallery 9 KK 30 - Municipal Museum in Zabrze
2001 - "Movable paintings" R Gallery, Poznań; Inny Śląsk Gallery, Tarnowskie Góry
2002 - "Peace of Confession" Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków; "Imaginoscopes" Arsenał Gallery, Białystok
2003 - "Cabinet of renovation" Kameralna Gallery , Słupsk; "Psychedelic Workshop" Manhattan Gallery, Łódź; "Renewal Cabinet" Labirynt II Gallery, Lublin; "Mobile and optical objects" Zderzak Gallery, Kraków; "Movable pictures" R Gallery, Poznań.
2004 - Sokolska 22 Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic; "Institute of imagination" BWA, Zielona Góra; "Cabinet of renovation" ON Gallery, Poznań
2005 - Szara Gallery, Cieszyn; Anya Tish Galery, Neo Geo, Houston, USA
2007 - The End Galeria Jama, the Czech Republic
2011 - Gallery of the University of Arts in Poznań - defense of doctoral thesis.
2012 - "Psychedelic Cabinet" Sculpture Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
2013 - "The Illusion of Space or the Discreet Charm of Postmodernism" Arsenał Gallery in Bialystok
2014 - "Imaginoscopy" Sektor 1 Gallery, Jaworzno; "Moving Pictures" R Gallery Poznań
2015 - "Two threads or parallel action" BWA Bielsko Biała; "Parallel space" Wyspa Sztuki Gdańsk Institute of Art; "Illusion of space" Synagoga Fordon Gallery Bydgoszcz.
2016 - "Paint your city" Art transit 3 - artistic action, Jaworzno.

group exhibitions:

1988 - BWA Gallery, Katowice (exhibition of honors diplomas)
1989 - XI Polish National Open Competition for Graphics, BWA Gallery, Łodź (distinction); VI R. Pomorski Polish Painting Competition, Galeria BWA, Katowice (distinction); "Young Polish painting" Berlin, Germany
1990 - "Black Hole" - Young Fine Arts in Katowice, BWA Gallery, Katowice; Young artists from Poland, Villecroze, France; Interart - International Art Fair, Poznań; Gallery No. 4, Kraków; Young Kraków Graphic Grtists, Leipzig; XXVII National Exhibition of Painting - Bielska Jesień, BWA, Bielsko-Biała
1991 - "Young Polish Painting" Ars Polonia Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany; Amay-Jehay Belgium; International Print Triennial, Krakow, Nürnberg, Germany
1992 - "Contemporary Polish Painting" Rossens, France; Essen, Germany; Posk Gallery, London, UK
1993 - "Group 4", BWA, Katowice; Kronika Gallery, Bytom; Gallery at the Town Hall, Gliwice
1994 - "Desert storm", BWA, Katowice; A show of the Chronicle Gallery Collection, Bytom
1995 - Modern Art Museum, Hünfeld, Germany; Museum of the Sign of the Time, Pomeranian Dukes' Castle, Szczecin; BWA, Wroclaw
1997 - "Upper Silesia" Wyspa Gallery, Gdańsk; "Image energy" Arsenał Gallery, BWA, Poznań; Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow; Hourglass; Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany; 1st International Art Meetings, BWA, Katowice
1998 - Galleries of young U goodho pastyre, Brno. Municipal Hospital, Ostrava, Czech Republic; project Kolrno k osę, Galerie E. Films, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic; Per Video, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
1999 - "Transfer" Scholarship and exhibition, Germany - Królikarnia, National Museum, Warszawa; Łaźnia Art Center, Gdańsk; Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Kraków; Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany; Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany; Collection Starmach Gallery, Krakow"; "In the Circle of the Chronicle" Galeria Sektor I, GCK, Katowice; Grosse Kunstausstellung, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000 - "In the Circle of the Chronicle" Galeria Arsenał, Białystok; "Arsenał Gallery Collection" Białystok; Gallery of S.G., Strassbourg, France; Grosse Kunstausstellung, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001 - "Intercity" Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow; "Private spaces" Sektor I Gallery, GCK, Katowice
2002 - "Collection of Galeria Arsenał from Białystok", Sektor I Gallery, GCK, Katowice; "Artifacts, the X anniversary of the Kronika Gallery" Bytom; "Berliners" Kronika Gallery, Bytom.
2003 - "Collection of Galeria Zderzak - Wróblewski, Gierowski, Ziemski, Modzelewski, Lewandowski, Maciejowski, Makowski, Sztwiertnia" Galeria Zderzak, Kraków. "Collection of Galeria Arsenał in Białystok" National Museum in Szczecin.
2004 - "Południk 18" Kuscherhaus, Recklinghausen, Germany; "Art Poznań" Stary Browar, Poznań; Fort Sztuki, Documenta do dokumemtu, Open Workshop gallery, Kraków. Palimpsest, Biennale Łódź. Galeria Zderzak, Art Paris, France. "I carry a mirror in front of me", Galeria Szara, Cieszyn.
2005 - "Art Poznań" R Gallery, Poznań; "TOY STORY" Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA; "Afterimages of visibility" Szara Gallery, Cieszyn; Sector I Gallery, Katowice.
2006 - "Traces of memory" Fabryka Trzciny, Klima Bocheńska's Gallery. "Ordinary Terror" Sector I Gallery, arranging Art City Katowice, GCK Katowice, "Arsenal gallery collection" BWA Bielsko - Biała gallery. Agora SCC Katowice
2007 - "Against the Times" Cologne, Germany, "Neighbors" Hamburg, Germany; "Black Hole" Kronika Gallery, Bytom; "Reconnaissance of painting" Sector I Gallery, Katowice; "Clockwork Orange Project" Sector I Gallery, Katowice; "Profile I" Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA
2008 - "Cross over Kloster" Bentlage, Germany; "War and Peace" Sektor I Gallery, Katowice; Gallery artists - recent works Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA; Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia; "Antipodes of the mind" Manhattan Gallery, Łódź.
2009 - "Poland-Germany 4: 6" BWA Katowice; "Open City" - Biennale Art Lublin Sektor I Gallery GCK Katowice; "Forgotten Rooms" Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Ustka, V4 Symposium Czech Krumlov, Art Center, Krumlov, Czech Republic
2010 - "Light Switch" Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA; "Neighbors" CSW Łaźnia, Gdańsk; "Fragment" Sektor 1 Gallery, Katowice; "Avant-garde turns" Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
2011 - "Idea, material, space" Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec; "Good neighborhood" Kunstraum-Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; Simulations of the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko.
2012 - "Premeditations / Simulation" Galeria Nowa Przestrzeń, Łódź; Art transit Art Sector of Jaworzno.
2013 - "Art total or art in Gryf" Bydgoszcz; "Memory. Registers and territories" Krakow's ICC.
2014 - "Faces of freedom" MCSG, Krakow.
2015 - "Map and Territory" Institute of Art Wyspa, Gdańsk; "Common Collections" Arsenał Gallery, Białystok
2016 - Art transit 3 "Balance state" Sektor 1 Gallery, Jaworzno; "L'arte differente: Mocak al. MAXXI, Exhibition of works from the MOCAK Collection" in Rome, Italy
2017 - "(Not) Funfair" ASP Gallery in Krakow; "Whole Poland" exhibition at the PKO BP Bank in Warsaw; "Art in art" MOCAK Krakow