curriculum vitae

1985 Tadeusz Kościuszko Primary School No. 1 in Ostrów Mazowiecka

Holiday time spent in the countryside, surrounded by nature, in natural surroundings, exerted a colossal influence on the perception of reality in my artistic life.

1986 – 1988 Nicolaus Copernicus Secondary School in Ostrów Mazowiecka.

1988 – 1990 – Stefan Żeromski Secondary School in Warsaw.

My abilities to create – or rather recreate the world – have already emerged in primary school. At that time, during art classes, I took paints with ease and pleasure and I was eager to work on a topic assigned by the teachers. My works drew the attention of the teacher and my classmates. It was not until the second grade of high school that I decided to participate in art class, which eventually turned out to be a felicitous choice.

1990 – 1992 – A two-year Post-secondary Marketing and Advertising School No. 12 in Warsaw.

At that time, I got to know the ins and outs of photography and personal computer, which was just entering our lives, together with its role in image creation. During the second year of my studies I took a month internship at the design department of the ”Smyk” store. In the meantime, I also worked in an advertising agecy (where I learned thoroughly the use of graphics software and photographic reproduction) and in one of the agency’s partner studios where I took in the screen printing technique. This experience helped me in my artistic life. The subject of my diploma work was “Photomontage as form of advertising expression”.

1995 – 2000 – Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Graphic Arts.

1997 – assistant trainee at the Sculpture Studio at the Faculty of Graphic Arts under Professor Bohdan Chmielewski.

It was the first time I came across the technology of plaster casting, used to structure the sculpture for work in clay. I became very interested in the process and later on it resulted in the sculpture annex of my choice.

1998 – Work as an assistant trainee at the Graphic Design Studio at the Faculty of Graphic Arts under Professor Jan Jaromir Aleksiuk.

1998 – Work as an assistant trainee at the Sculpture Studio at the Faculty of Graphic Art led by Professor Adam Myjak.

At the same time, I was involved in didactic activities for the academy. I organized annual plein-air painting sessions, I prepared the end-of-the-academic year exhibitions.

I was also responsible for the organization and the conduct of (practical) entrance exams in the years 2003-2007. I actively participated in the work of the Portfolio Admission Committee. (photo from the plein-air painting session in Dłużew)

I worked with second year ERASMUS student exchange programme students and with candidates for studies during the weekly consultations.

2001 – A several-month internship at Schule für Gestaltung in St. Gallen in Switzerland.

From 2007 onward – Co-founding and adaptation of the Sculpture Studio for the Faculty of Graphics together with the move to the newly adapted facilities at 15 Spokojna Street.

2009 – PhD in the field of Fine Arts in the artistic discipline – Fine Arts (doctoral dissertation and the series of serigraphy and bas-reliefs titled Waves). Reviewers: Prof Zbigniew Purczyński and senior lecturer Paweł Nowak. Although Waves had no original title, it began to exist in my mind while I was working on my previous artwork for the “WINDOWS” series. During my work on one of the castings I could see how rich the language of sculptural expression is. With the recently learned graphic techniques fresh in my mind, in the euphoria of fascination with the process of simultaneous creating and exploring, I thought that it would be worth creating something that will be the only and consistent object, a new artistic value containing components of sculpture and graphics. I have always been fascinated by something that is in-between. Why Waves?

Originally, the idea was conceived at a time when I had the opportunity to reflect on life, on what had gone forever, but also on what lies ahead of me. It was a summer holiday at the seaside. In this context, Waves are not only something substantially connected with water, but they also exist on their own.

Looking at the frayed water surface, interweaved across and along with the dancing arrangements of corrugations, one has the impression as if nature has spoken. The metaphysical context of these outlines brings to mind the course of life. There is a storm in it, a squall, sometimes a total windstill. The vastness of marine magnitude gives reason to think that you are insignificant and often lonely in this world. Entangled in a network of various events, waves – foams of water – and thrown from side to side with that more or less direct impact on our lives.

This enormous wavy space would seem like a large desert of silence, but contrary to its appearances, it is, just like in everyday life, the chaos of civilization, the noise, a piercing information overload – even when we do not want it.

2014 – Open Sculpture Studio led by professor Jakub Łęcki at the Sculpture Departme.