Piotr Kolanko (1987)
Education
Master of Graphic Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków
Master of Art University of Rzeszow
Artist Statement
Peter was born in Jasło, a city with an immense historical charge—97% destroyed during the war. Bombed and depopulated, the city was rebuilt by the hands of its inhabitants after the war’s end. This history, its emotional charge, and symbolic meaning remain very much alive within the city. The motif of return, reconstruction, and the search for identity is highly significant in the artist’s work.
As a teenager, he became interested in symbols and depth psychology—a natural consequence of seeking the foundations of consciousness and a desire to construct a new identity. His art is full of intuition, premonition, mysticism, archetypes, and symbols, deeply rooted in the aesthetics of decay, reconstruction, and destruction. The creative process itself is a continuous cycle of building, destruction, and rebuilding upon the ruins.
In his artistic practice, he engages various media, constantly experimenting and expanding the spectrum of his abilities and interests. He states that his art finds its source in the unremitting force of libido, concentrated in the compulsive creative process.
A vital part of his endeavors is the environment and the relationships associated with space, object, and void—elements characteristic of socio-architectural forms.
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Selected exhibitions
– Szaszweek, Localize, Potczdam, Germany, 2025
– Szaszweek, Dworek Białoprądnicki, Kraków, Poland , 2025
– Light Move, Gisela Gallery, Berlin, 2025– Inferno, Alteos Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2025
– Light Move, Gisela Gallery, Berlin, 2025
– Unrequested, Notagallery, Berlin, 2025
– Talizman, Olympia Gallery, Krakow, 2025
– Trash Deco, Art Spring, Pop Up Rathaus Pankow, Berlin, 2024
– T4 Gallery, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, 2024
– LS43, SCOPE Gallery, Berlin, 2024
– Futura, CX Gallery, Berlin, 2024
– Przesilenie, Post Office Gallery, Krakow, 2024
– Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Olympia Gallery, Krakow, 2024
– All My Hairy Thoughts, Podbrzezie Gallery, Krakow, 2024
– As Far As, BWA Rzeszow, 2023
– Salon Zimowy, CSW Elektrownia, Radom, 2023
– Pride, DOGA: Design og Arkitektur Norge, Oslo, 2022
– 7th Marian Michalik National Competition for Young Artists (Triennale of Painting), Czestochowa, 2022
– Illusion Fields, UFO Art Gallery, Krakow, 2022
– Who Is the Dreamer, Flowers of Fern, Berlin, 2021
– Enlightenment, UFO Art Gallery, Krakow, 2021
– Falling Wall, Hotel Cracovia, Krakow, 2021
– Hydepark, Notional Museum of Krakow, 2020
– From Trace to Symbol, Solvay Gallery, Krakow, 2020
– Unknown ? ? ?, UFO Art Gallery, Krakow, 2020
– Zen, UFO Art Gallery, Krakow, 2020
– ?, Art Zona, Krakow, 2019
– Physion Codes, Szyb Willson Gallery, Katowice, 2016
– Open 27, New Walk Museum, Leicester, 2016
– Flesh, Especial Gallery, London, 2015
– 13 Friday, Art Zona, Krakow, 2015
– Hunch, Solvay Gallery, Krakow, 2014
– Worries, Culture Center, Krosno, 2017
– 19th International Biennial of Small Graphic Forms, Tetovo, North Macedonia, 2016
Awards
– Finalist, Art Spring Berlin 2024, Pop Up Rathaus Pankow
– Prize Winner, Open 27, New Walk Museum, Leicester, 2016
– “PANKA” Award for Best MA Diploma, Rzeszow
Residencies
– SCOPE, Berlin, 2024
Kuba Maciejczyk (1994)
Education
PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Rzeszów.
Artist Statement
Kuba Maciejczyk (born 1994) works at the intersection of literature and visual arts. Through text-based and performative gestures, he explores themes such as transience, the search for meaning, and critical reflection on socio-political and artistic phenomena. His interdisciplinary practice merges the written word with image and action to generate speculative narratives and poetic interventions. He is the initiator of long-term projects including:
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@merelystating
@attheendofthedayproject
Selected exhibitions
– Rzadka okazja do udzielenia korekty/A rare opportunity to give a critique, ARTzona OKN, Krakow, 2025
– To, czego szukasz/The thing you’re looking for, Pastula Contemporary Art Gallery, Kupno, 2024
– Podróż w głąb słowa/A Journey Into the Depth of the Word – Between Liberature and Cyberpoetry, Jan Błoński Festival, Foundation K34, Krakow, 2024
– Przesilenie/Solstice, Main Post Office, Cracow Art Week KRAKERS, Krakow, 2024
– Co to ma być/What is this supposed to be, ARTzona OKN, Krakow, 2024
– 14th Painting and Mixed Media Competition, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2023/2024
– Generator Losowych Obrazków po Końcu Świata/Random Image Generator After the End of the World, Cracow Art Week KRAKERS, Krakow, 2023
– Speculations II, Palace and Park Museum Complex in Przeworsk, 2023
– Co teraz? Co dalej?/What Now? What’s Next?, Warsaw Observatory of Culture, Warsaw, 2023
– Confrontations, Apteka Sztuki Gallery, Warsaw, 2022
– Drawing 2022, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń, 2022 — Honorable Mention
– Polska Polskość Polactwo/Poland, Polishness, Polackness, ARTzona OKN, Krakow, 2022
– Promocje 2021. 30th National Review of Young Painting, Art Gallery in Legnica, 2021/2022
– I’m not judging You, I’m just merely stating the facts, RCKP, Krosno, 2021
– Sztuka Teraz/Art Now, National Museum in Krakow, 2018
Adrianna Gajdziszewska (1991)
Education
Graduated in Fine Arts with a specialization in sculpture, and in Contemporary Art and Art History.
Artist Statement
She works with sculpture, installation, and ceramics. Her art is an attempt to reach the core of human experience, often addressing themes related to psychology, pseudoscience, the cosmos, ecology, and transhumanism. Her recent works explore the condition of modern humanity. In her practice, she uses art as a tool to explore the complexity of our universe and to better understand the world.
She does not assume she will find clear answers — instead, she strives to create a „formula for a shared world” that embraces diversity and incorporates multiple perspectives, methods, and forms of expression. Seeking cultural, social, political, religious, sociological, biological, and media-related connections, she merges her artistic practice with methodologies of both natural and human sciences.
Out of fairness toward nature, she increasingly revisits earlier works — some are dismantled, others transformed, revealing new meanings. She treats material as living tissue: bearing the traces of previous ideas, gestures, and decisions that now require reconsideration. She is also increasingly inspired by biomimicry strategies, translating nature’s mechanisms of adaptation, coexistence, and regeneration into an artistic language that not only comments but also empathizes.
Selected exhibitions
– Xenex, Mosaic, Cracow Art Week Krakers, Krakow, 2025
– Disappointed but Not Surprised, Subteria, Krakow, 2024
– T4 Gallery, 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival, Berlin, 2024
– III Spring Salon, Operis Artis, Antonin, 2024
– 2138, Main Post Office, Krakers, Krakow, 2024
– Our Garden in Memory of D. Jarman, Cracow Art Week, Krakow, 2024
– LOOSTRO, BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, 2024
– Post-Truth. Countering Disinformation Narratives, Kunstleben Kreuzberg, Berlin, 2023
– III Youth Triennale, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, 2023
– U_BAN, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2023
– Wrong Answers Only, Subteria Gallery, 2023
– I Think I Am Mad Sometimes, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2022–2023
– Urban Neon, Zwierzyniecka 4, Cracow Art Week, 2022
– Falling Wall, Hotel Cracovia, Cracow Art Week, 2021
– Test 2020, J. Tarasin Art Gallery, Kalisz, 2020–2021
– Hyde Park of Art, National Museum in Krakow, 2019
– Art Now, National Museum in Krakow, 2018
– What Is, Is What It Is, Messier42 Gallery, Krakow, 2017
Awards
– KPO Scholarship, Poland, 2025
– 22nd place in the “Compass of Young Art” ranking, Poland, 2023
– 21st place in the “Compass of Young Art” ranking, Poland, 2022
– Scholarship from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, 2020
Residencies
– Seeds in the Snow, Niguellas, Spain, curated by Seila Fernandez Arconada, 2024
– Post-Truth. Countering Disinformation Narratives, LernLabor, Poznan–Berlin, 2023
– Art Lives Here, curated by Jacek Sosnowski, NYX Hotel, Warsaw, 2022
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