Radek Szlęzak (1989 r.) Poland
2010-2015 – Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland – studio of prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk
2015-2020 – PhD Studies at the same Academy
I paint, draw, create objects, videos and installations. In my work I reinterpret themes borrowed from various phenomena of contemporary culture, in which anthropological, social and political aspects of the functioning of images are revealed. My works are inspired by motifs and images taken from the media space, science textbooks as well as popular culture, e.g. the science-fiction iconosphere. Despite the fact that I often juxtapose my artistic practice with theory, my work is not free from conscious understatement. I do not shy away from bodily and organic metaphors.
solo exhibitions:
The Living Dead Gallery Re:Medium (department of Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź) 2020
The Uncanny Valley, Gallery Grey House, Cracow 2017
eye-brain-hand, ARTzona, Cracow 2017
Anomalies, MOS, Cracow 2016
group exhibitions:
Disassembly, Gallery City of Gardens, Katowice 2021
Time and foam, ASP Gallery, Cracow 2020
Back then somehow, but now whatsoever, ASP Gallery, Kraków 2020
And only these islands are not, , Museum of Zawkrzanska Land, Mława 2020
Weltschmerz, Drawing Triennal Wrocław 2019, BWA Wrocław
Shadow of freedom, BWA in Bydgoszcz 2019
Our little garden, Czysta 15, Kraków 2018
Business, Gallery Potencja under WGW 2018, Warsaw
Shadow of Freedom, BWA in Katowice 2018
24 h NBG/KRK/BLN/WRO, Krakauer Haus, Nuremberg, Germany 2018
Utopia. Non-place, High 5 (Skanska), Cracow 2018
Communication with all that exist, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw 2018
GGuest Appearances, Otwarta pracownia, Cracow 2018
43th Bielska’s Autumn Painting Biennale 2017, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielska- Biała 2017
Triangle: Kurzfilme aus Krakau, Galeria Punktkommarstich, Dusseldorf, Germany 2017
No problem, Gallery Potencja, Cracow 2017
„XY” New Generation Polish-Hungarian Painting, The MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary 2017
JHis white feathers, illuminated by the sun, shone like the sun itself, Henryk Gallery, Cracow 2017
12. Geppert Competition, gallery Awangarda, BWA Wrocław 2016
Boredom,, allery of Painting Deprtments of ASP Cracow Kraków 2016
Minus one, Gallery of Painting Deprtments of ASP Cracow 2015
New image/New View, Gallery UAP Poznań 2015
Wild at heart, Browar Lubicz, Cracow 2014
Naked walls are beautiful, Browar Lubicz, Cracow 2014
Inspirations: Array and Accident, Museum MANGGHA, Cracow & Art Propaganda Centeramp; Łódź 2013
Imaginary Landscape II, Musem of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei, Taiwan 2013
spEEd, the greenroom, Cracow 2013
Second Dishes, Bar Wiarus, Kraków 2013
Prod.Kon.Rod. – Experimental Section of Photo Month, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow 2012