Grzegorz KLIMEK, Masuria

30x90, own technique on canvas, 2022-2023

B. 1987, Klobuck

Klimek's paintings reflect a constant search for the basic structures of the most diverse things that surround us. In his paintings, he uses a variety of media, which, when mixed, torn and repainted anew, produce original structural effects. The painted images often consist of several layers enclosed in a coherent composition. An interesting fact is that the artist himself makes the paints with which he paints. When asked about his most interesting memory, Klimek answers that he associates it with receiving an award for the best diploma in Warsaw, when he saw large billboards with his name on the Palace of Culture and Science.



In painting, I am interested in inquiring about the structures that are the building blocks of each of the objects around us. It is their relationship in micro, and macro space that determines the "reality" we see. Attempts at mapping, multiplication or synthesis are painstaking inquiries aimed at discovering and understanding reality in a multithreaded dialogue between the artist and the work.



The main feature of his painting is his fascination with space, geometric forms, their structure and the very texture of his canvases - often very rich, achieved with the help of mixed painting techniques. Visible here are the influences of the important in Polish contemporary painting Wroclaw structuralism, developed (along with colorism) at the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts, from which Grzegorz Klimek graduated. This makes his work all the more interesting for the dissemination of such a distinctive yet hermetic artistic tendency and its further "export" beyond the Wroclaw milieu - to the Warsaw, national or European market.

Magdalena Napiórkowska, Katarzyna Napiórkowska's art gallery



EDUCATION 2008-2013 :

Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw Diploma defended in 2013 in the studio of Prof. Stanislaw Kortyka
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Honorable mention in the Edyta Einbisch competition, Warsaw 2017
ArtNoble award at the intermedia festival M{i}aSTO Gwiazd for the best diplomas 2013, Zyrardow 2013
Honorable mention in the Kreatywny Wroclaw painting competition, Wroclaw 2011
Distinction in the painting competition Nowodkryta, Wroclaw 2013
Nomination for an award in the Triennale of Drawing in Lubaczow, Lubaczow 2014
EXHIBITS

- Interferences, SoA Gallery, solo painting exhibition, Warsaw 2021

- Seven Young Painters. Katarzyna Napiórkowska Gallery, Warsaw, 2017

- "Kunst&Konzert" collective painting exhibition, Euroimum Gallery, Lübeck, 2016

- "D_construction" Sofitel, Wroclaw, 2015

- Collective painting exhibition, Women's DNA POSK Gallery, London, 2014

- Positions, Berlin, 2014, Collective painting exhibition as part of Berlin Art. Week.

- Studio Gallery PKIN Warsaw, 2014

- Exhibition of the winners of the Art. Noble prize

- Drawing Triennale in Lubaczow, 2014

- Collective competition exhibition (award nomination)5 Marian Michalik Competition, BWA Czestochowa, 2014

- Collective competition exhibition Artgeschoss, Wolfenbuttel, 2014

- Collective painting exhibition DNA Art Gallery, Wroclaw, 2014

- Individual painting exhibition, Attitudes and confrontations, University of Zielona Gora , 2014

- Collective painting exhibition, Promotions, Legnica Art Gallery, 2013

- Collective post-competition exhibition, Autumn Confrontations, BWA Rzeszow, 2013.

- Collective competition exhibition Prewiew Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, 2013

- Collective painting exhibition Intermedia Art Festival M{i}aSTO Stars, Zyrardow, 2013.

- Collective competition exhibition DNA contemporary art gallery, Wroclaw, 2012

- Individual painting exhibition World Gallery of Drawing (Drawing Osten), Skopie;Macedonia, 2012.

- Collective competition exhibition Gallery _MD_S "Elements of a greater whole", Wroclaw, 2012

- Individual painting exhibition, ASP Gdansk "Blissfully", Gdansk, 2012.

- Collective exhibition of painting, Gallery (-1) PKOI (sport and art competition), Warsaw, 2012.

- Collective competition exhibition, _MD_S Gallery (multimedia exhibition), Wroclaw, 2011.

- Collective multimedia exhibition, Aquarelle Gallery, Radisson Hotel, Wroclaw, 2011.

- Collective painting exhibition, Drawing Triennial in Lubaczow, 2011

- Collective competition exhibition, Dominican Gallery, Wroclaw, 2011

- Individual painting exhibition, Creative Wroclaw, Melin Cafe, Wroclaw, 2011.

- Wozownia Art Gallery Triennale of small painting form, Toruń, 2010.

- Individual painting exhibition,Municipal Cultural Center, Klobuck, 2010.

- Collective competition exhibition, 4th International Drawing Competition, Wroclaw, 2009.