Radek Szlęzak (1989 r.) Poland
2010-2015 – Studying at the Painting Department in Andrzej Bednarczyk’s studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland.
2015-2020 – Ph.D. Studies at the same Academy
I paint, draw, and create objects, videos, and installations. In my work, I reinterpret themes borrowed from various phenomena of contemporary culture, revealing anthropological, social, and political aspects of image functioning. My works are inspired by motifs and images drawn from the media, science, and pop culture. Despite frequently juxtaposing artistic practice with theory, my work incorporates deliberate understatement. I often utilize bodily and organic metaphors
solo exhibitions:
Nothing interesting, Potencja Gallery, Cracow 2022
The Living Dead Gallery Re:Medium (department of Municipal Art Gallery), Łódź 2020
The Uncanny Valley, Gallery Grey House, Cracow 2017
eye-brain-hand, ARTzona, Cracow 2017
Anomalies, MOS, Cracow 2016
selected group exhibitions:
Gypsum Flesh Story, ASP Gallery, Cracow 2023
Transition states, Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała 2023
The scale of strangeness, Władysław Hasior Gallery, Zakopane 2022
44th Bielska’s Autumn Painting Biennale 2021, Bielska BWA, Bielska- Biała 2021
Disassembly, Gallery City of Gardens, Katowice 2021
Time and foam, ASP Gallery, Cracow 2020
Back then somehow, but now whatsoever, ASP Gallery, Cracow 2020
And only these islands are not, Museum of Zawkrzanska Land, Mława 2020
Weltschmerz, Drawing Triennal Wrocław 2019, BWA Wrocław 2019
Shadow of freedom, BWA in Bydgoszcz 2019
Our little garden, Czysta 15, Cracow 2018
Scattered Rhymes, XY Gallery, Olomuniec, Czech Republic 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 exsist, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw 2018
Guest 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
His white feathers, illuminated by the sun, shone like the sun itself, Henryk Gallery, Cracow 2017
12. Geppert Competition, gallery Awangarda, BWA Wrocław 2016
Boredom, Skład Długa, Cracow 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 Center, Łódź 2013
Imaginary Landscape II, Musem of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei, Taiwan 2013
spEEd, the greenroom, Cracow 2013
Second Dishes, Bar Wiarus (Potencja), Cracow 2013
Prod.Kon.Rod. – Experimental Section of Photo Month, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow 2012