Mixed technique on canvas (acrylic, canvas, oil pastel, acrylic pen, flake gilding, glitter, plaster-glue textures)
dimensions: 30 x 40 cm, signed lower center K. SKARBEK 2013
Inscribed and signed on the back
Krzysztof Skarbek
Obtained a diploma in painting in the studio of Prof. Zbigniew Karpinski at the Academy of Fine Arts, now the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw in 1985.
He has been a full professor since 2012.
He runs a graduate painting studio at the Faculty of Painting.
Deputy dean of the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture from 2008 to 2012, he works in easel painting, video art, actions and installations. He has participated in 400 group exhibitions and presented his works in 60 solo exhibitions. His paintings and films are in many private and museum collections at home and abroad .His works include about 40 author's films, 45 art and music actions, including those within the framework of the art groups Swallowers of Pearls from Odra and Cabinet of Plastic Operations, which he founded.
http://youtube.com/krzysztofskarbek
SELECTED EXHIBITS
Individual Exhibitions
1987III- Painting, The Ordinariness of Today is Sunny Further, collages, photographs, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, catalog-folder, placard;
1990 X- Painting, The Disenchanted World of Everyday Life, WAAG City Gallery, Leiden, Netherlands, catalog, poster;
1993X-Cabinet of Plastic Operations and Renewal of Feelings, pair of sculptures from military parts, Zachęta Gallery (Small Salon), Warsaw, poster, postcard;
1995 I- Painting and Video Show, Branch of the National Museum, Królikarnia Palace, Warsaw, catalog, folder;
2008 IV - Monographic Exhibition of Painting, Town Hall - City Museum, Wrocław, catalog, poster, banners;
2009 IV - Krzysztofas Skarbekas - Taryba ir Video Darbai, Meno parksas Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania, folder, placard;
2015 VII - Painting, Love Wins, Wrocław Congress Center, exhibition accompanying the opening of the exhibition of photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Wrocław, catalog, poster;
2016 X - Painting, Strangers Want to Be Good and Musical Performance by the author's group, Swallowers of Pearls from theOdra, City Gallery, Wroclaw, catalog, poster, banner;
2018 VIII - Painting, Strangers Want to Be Good 2, Festivall del Arte, Palace in Wojanow, catalog;
2020 VIII - Exhibition of mural painting and art and music performance, Primary Antinomies of ourEra, Bunkers, Międzyrzecki Rejon Umocnień, Międzyrzecze;
2022 X - Unveiling of a new statue of the Berlin Buddy Bear, symbolically depicting the ties between Wroclaw and Berlin, developed in painting by Krzysztof Skarbek at the General Consulate of Germany in Wroclaw;
Group exhibitions
1985 V - Film Beyond Cinema, III International Non-Commercial Film Festival, Wroclaw (film "Change"), Award, catalog, poster;
1986 VI-VII - "Expression of the 80's", painting, films, BWA Sopot Gallery, catalog-folder, poster;
1990 III - Exhibition of five artists from Wroclaw, painting, Gallery Camden Art Centre, London, catalog, poster;
1992 IV-V - Image Forum Festival, videos, Tokyo and Osaka, catalog, poster;
1991 I-II - Polish chic, painting, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, catalog, poster;
XI-XII - Confrontations of European art of the 1980s., painting, Town Hall, Tumult Foundation, Toruń, album, poster;
2001 IX - X - International painting exhibition Spontaneous Synthesis, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York;
2005 V - Polen kommt. 12 Maler aus Polen, Galerie Am Kino, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, catalog, poster; as part of the Year of Poland in Germany and the Year of Germany in Poland;
XII 2006 - II 2007 - Polish Painting of the 21st Century, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, album, poster;
2015 VI - Art Exhibition, Wild Fields. History of Avant-Garde Wrocław, exhibition prepared by the Contemporary Museum Wrocław within the framework of the European Capital of Culture, Wrocław 2016, Zachęta - National Art Gallery, Warsaw, catalog, poster,
2017 III - Exhibition of Painting, Wrocław Now, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Moca, Romania, catalog, poster;
VIII- Exhibition of Painting from Wrocław, City Gallery, Beijing, China, catalog, poster;
X - Three decades of expressive painting in Wrocław, URANIA Foundation, AN der Urania, Berlin, catalog, poster;
2018 IV - Exhibition from Witkacy to Recent Art, And Why We Need Freedom, Center for Contemporary Art, Toruń, poster, catalog;
2021 V - Festival of Painting, ASP in Wrocław, Exhibitions in galleries in Wrocław;
Awards and decorations
1985 V- Award for the film "Change Yourself" at the 3rd International Non-Commercial Film Festival - Film Beyond Cinema, Wroclaw;
1987- Annual Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and Art;
1989 XI- Honorable Mention for the video Our Concrete-Aront at the l International Festival of Visual Realizations About Music - WRO '89., Wrocław;
1990 VII- Award for collective painting by Franciszek Starowieyski, Jerzy Gumieli, Zdzisław Nitka and Krzysztof Skarbek at the 15th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, Szczecin;
1993 X- Second Degree Award of the Rector of the State Higher School of Fine Arts, Wrocław;
1998 II- Order with a star given for charity by the Knights and
Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem;
2002 X- Award of the l degree of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław;
2005 IX- Award of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, for 20 years of work;
2008 XI- Nomination for the award of the year of the ZPAP Wrocław, for Monographic Painting Exhibition, Town Hall, Wrocław;
2012 V- Bronze Medal - Meritorious for Culture Gloria Artis;
2014 X - Award - Meritorious for Polish Culture;
2015 X- Award of the Rector of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Eugeniusz Geppert in Wroclaw for lifetime artistic, scientific and didactic achievements;
2017 I- Distinction to the Award of the Year 2016 of the Association of Polish Artists of Wroclaw District;
2022 X : Golden Cross of Merit ,President of the Republic of Poland;
Descriptions of Activities in Selected Books
Collection of Contemporary Art of the Second Half of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Barbara Ilkosz, Museum of the Four Domes, Museum of Contemporary Art Branch of the National Museum in Wroclaw, Wroclaw 2016;
Wild Fields, History of the Wrocław Avant-Garde, edited by Dorota Monkiewicz,
Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Wrocław 2015;
2011 - The Great Encyclopedia of Polish Painting edited by Aleksandra Górska, Kluszczyński Publishing House, Kraków;
"Poland. History of civilization and the nation - Poland of the 20th century", edited by Marek Derwich, Lower Silesian Publishing House, Wroclaw - Warsaw 2004,
"Słownik malarzy polskich. Od dwudziestolecia międzywojennego do końca XX wieku", vol. 2, entry: Krzysztof Skarbek, author: Maryla Sitkowska, Arkady Publishing House, Warsaw 2001,
"Encyklopedia Kultury Polskiej XX wieku. From avant-garde to postmodernism," ed. Grzegorz Dziamski, chapter "Nowa Ekspresja, czyli polska transawangarda", by Krzysztof Stanisławski, Institute of Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 1996,
Paintings and video arts in collections
Paintings in museum collections:
National Museum in Warsaw;
National Museum in Szczecin;
Museum of Contemporary Art in Wroclaw, in the permanent exhibition of the secretariat of the mayor of the city of Wroclaw;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Pavilion of the Four Domes, Branch of the National Museum in Wroclaw, Paintings in the permanent exhibition of the Collection of 20th Century Polish Art;
Ossolineum Museum in Wroclaw;
Paintings in the permanent exhibition of the department of contemporary art, Museum of the City of Wroclaw;
Museum of Archaeology and History in Głogów, Głogów;
Museum of the Kujawska I Dobrzyska Land in Włocławek;
Bank Zachodni now Santander in Wrocław;
BWA in Legnica;
Centre for Contemporary Art in Toruń;
Private collections in Poland, France, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Canada
and USA;
Video Art in the collection of the International Center for Video Creation - Montbeliard, France;
Video Art in the collection of the WRO Art Center - Polish Video Art, Wroclaw, Project, Hidden Decade 1985 - 1995;
