Maciej SZUPICA (b. 1975), Untitled, 2022

oil, canvas, 122 cm dia, signed on the back

- Artistic director of the Transvizualia festival.
- Co-founder and member of such musical groups as:
Dick4Dick, Gypsy Pill, The Saintbox, Cavalleris and Uniform.
- Juror at the 2011 Podlasie Film Festival
- Juror at the Zubrofka Film Festival 2012
- Juror at the Yach festival in 2015
- Co-founder, author of various music and multimedia projects.
( The Saintbox, Skand 21, Uniform, Dick4Dick, Cavalleris, C.A.T. TV, Huston
- We've Got the Problem, Gypsy Pill ) realizing works in the field of graphics, poster,
painting, film, video, perfor- mance, photography, interactive installations,
performance, stage design. He treats photographs primarily as a matter of
cognitive hence his fascination with, among other things, camera obscura techniques. He is interested in
combining genre forms (music + painting, photography + sculpture). In his
achievements he has more than 80 music videos and commercials.
- He has collaborated with many music groups including Pink Freud, Parallax,
People, Trismegistos, Uniform, Sławek Jaskółke 3yo, Dick4Dick, Mod Funk,
Women, Paweł Kukiz i Piersi, Lipali, Glensky, Marzena Komsta, Dj.Vadim, Loco
Star, Cavalleris, Gaba Kulka, Gypsy Pill, Olo Walicki, Gaslamp Killer, Robert
Wilson, Cibelle, The Saintbox, Emika,
Natalia Przybysz, Organek, Agim, Miuosh and Jimek, Skubas, Hania Rani
and Dobrawa Czocher, Leszek Możdżer, Zebra Katz, Marcin Masecki,
Paweł Janas, Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet, Czeremszyna, Radical Polish Ansambl,
Mitch&Mitch, Wojtek Mazolewski Trio, Mery Spolsky.
- He has collaborated with such institutions as the National Cultural Center, the National
Audiovisual Institute, Filmoteka Narodowa, European Solidarity Center
in Gdansk, the Museum of Polish Emigration in Gdynia, the Białystok Cultural Center in
Bialystok, City Hall in Gdansk.
- He performed and prepared visuals for over 10 years at
Poland's largest music festivals (Openair Festival, Tauron Nowa
Muzka, AudioRiver, Up To Date Festival, Astigmatic, etc).
- Prizes and awards:
- 2003 - "Yach" Videoclip Festival - Wooden Yach Award, Gdansk.
- 2004 - Distinction in the field of video art in Ofensiva Festival - Review of
of Independent Films
- 2004 - Honorable mention at the 4th Sopot Film Festival in the category of
experiment
- 2004 - "Yach" Festival of Videoclips - award in the category of Other Energy, Gdansk.
- 2005 - "Yach" Videoclip Festival - award in the Screenplay category, Gdańsk
- 2006 - "Storm of the Year" Gazeta Wyborcza - Nomination in Film and
Multimedia
- 2007 - Grand Prix of the Film Podlasie Attack Festival
- 2007 - Filmowe Podlasie Atakuje - Award in Air Lulek Category
- 2007 - 16th Yach Film Festival - Grand Prix "Dziwny jest ten kraj".
- 2008 - Northernwave Film Festival - Iceland - Grand Prix.
"Strange Is This Country"
- 2008 - Storm of the Year - Gazeta Wyborcza Award - Honorable Mention
for Event of the Year - Transvizualizations Festival 200
- 2008 - Creative Scholarship awarded by the Marshal of the
Marshal of Pomorskie Voivodeship
- 2009 - PULP MAG - Miazga 2009 Best Looking Team.
- 2010 - "Storm of the Year" Gazeta Wyborcza - Award in category
Film and Multimedia
- 2014 - Special Award of the Marshal of the province for outstanding
merits in the field of artistic creativity and the dissemination and
and protection of culture for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Pomeranian Voivodeship
- 2022 - Gold and Silver at the Kyiv InternaQonal AdverQsing FesQval for the campaign
"First Aid to Humanity" social campaign.
- 2022 - two Bronze awards at the London International Awalds for the social campaign
"Humanity's First Aid" social campaign.
- 2022 - two Bronze awards at the International Advertising Festival
Cannes Lions for the social campaign "First Aid to Humanity"
- 2022 - KTR Club of Advertising Creators
- Performance and other professional activities:
- 2001 - "Look! There's a pink goosebump looking out of the hole in your stocking!" - audio-
vizual-trans erotica, action of the group UNIFORM ASP Gdańsk
- 2001 - "Sculpture" - action of the UNIFORM group ASP Warsaw
- 2002 - "To see the light of the stars" - action of UNIFORM group
Irish Pub Gdansk
- 2003 - "Konfitura" - action of UNIFORM group Sphinx Sopot
- 2003 - IV International festival of theatrical and visual arts activities
EVENTS - Tczew-Europe, action of the UNIFORM group - "Cube"
- 2003 - International festival "Kultur Schaffland" group action.
Uniform - Bendorf, Germany
- 2005 - Graduate. Differences-Contexts-Alternatives - group exhibition -.
perfofmance of the Cavalleris group
- 2005 - Femev Plock
- 2005 - Festival of Electronic Music and Vizualization - perfofmance
of Cavalleris group
- 2005 - Versailles in Gdansk Shipyard - performance by Cavalleris group
- 2005 - New Art Festival in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie - performance
of Cavalleris group
- 2005 - Forum Cinema - performance of the Uniform group - Bialystok.
- 2005 - Museum of Curiosities - performance by Cavalleris group -.
St. John Church - Gdansk
- 2005 - Laznia Center for Contemporary Art - Video installation
and performance of Cavalleris group
- 2007 - Transvizualia Festival 2007 - performance by Cavalleris group.
- 2007 - Transvizualia Festival 2007 - Acting as.
Artistic Director
- 2008 - Bremen - Video installation and performance by Cavalleris group
- 2009 - Lodz - performance of Cavalleris group
- 2010 - Gdansk Grass Gallery - performance of Gypsy Pill group
- 2011 - Sopot Film Festival - member of the Festival Jury
- 2013 - Zubrovka Festival - member of the Festival Jury
- 2014 - Sopot Film Festival - member of the Festival Jury
- 2014 - Festival Interference 2014 - creator and Director.
Artistic Director of the Festival
- 2014 - Festival Interference 2014 - Artistic Director of the Festival
and member of the Festival Jury
- 2016 - Festival Interference 2016 - Artistic Director of the Festival
and member of the Jury of the Vj. Battle
- 2016 - Festival Doki - member of the Festival Jury
Exhibitions and Shows:
- 1999 - Uroczysko - a combination of nature and art - group group exhibition
SKAND 21
- 2001 - North-South - drawing exhibition - group exhibition
- 2002 - 10th anniversary of SFINKS Foundation - group exhibition
- 2002/ 03 - Gdansk Poster Salon, Artus Court - group exhibition
- 2003 - MACIEK SZUPICA - individual exhibition of posters -.
Young City, Gdansk
- 2003 - Biennale of Photography - Arsenal City Gallery, Poznan -.
group exhibition
- 2003 - "Effect" - exhibition by M.Szupica and J.Flicinski - Sfinks gallery Sopot
- 2004 - "Autochtons" - photography exhibition, Żak Gdansk
- 2004 - Individual poster exhibition - BWA Gorlice
- 2004 - "FRESHMASTERS" - exhibition of young Polish poster, Gallery
Grafill - Oslo, Norway
- 2004 - Kino LAB - Collective show - Warsaw, Poland
2004 - Film Festival -.
Collective screening, Oława
- 2004 - Kino Cytryna - Collective Screening - Łódź.
- 2004 - Jazz Klub - Collective screening, Czech Republic.
- 2004 - Art Via Baltica - Gdańsk
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2005 - KinoTeatr Cultural Center Project -.
- Collective Show - Lublin
- 2005 - Polish Eastern Border European Union Conference -.
Collective Screening - Merburg / Germany
- 2005 - Film Encounters - Collective Screening - Riga / Latvia
- 2005 - UNDERGROUND.PL Festival - Collective Screening - Bialystok, Poland
- 2005 - "SYNTHETIC PHOTOGRAPHY" - Individual Exhibition -
ŁAŹNIA Centre for Contemporary Art
- 2005 - Elk Cultural Center - Collective Show - Elk
- 2005 - OP-OF Festival - Collective Show - Olecko
- 2006 - Young Poland Festival, Shauburg Cinema - Collective Screening -.
Bremen / Germany
- 2006 - Collective Show - Elk Cultural Center - Elk.
- 2006 - Decodences Festival - Collective Screening - Krotoszyn.
- 2006 - Film Events Festival - Collective Screening - Wroclaw.
- 2006 - Cross-Border Cooperation Conference - Collective Screening -.
Grodno
- 2006 - Festival UNDERGROUND.PL - Collective Screening - Bialystok.
- 2006 - Festival HansensenPol - Collective Show - Hamburg / Germany
- 2006 - KinoTeatr Cultural Center Project - Collective Show - Lublin
- 2006 - PUPA Universal Artistic Review - Collective Show - Warsaw.
- 2006 - FILMTAGE Festival - Collective screening - Selb / Germany
- 2006 - In the World of Young Cinema - Collective Screening - Theodosia / Ukraine.
- 2006 - Modelarnia - NIGHT OF THE MUSEUM - collective exhibition - vernisage
stop " VEGAS"
- 2006 - Cross-Border Cooperation Conference - Collective Show -.
Donetsk / Ukraine
- 2006 - Days of Contemporary Art - Individual Show - Bialystok
- 2006 - Labo Mix - Collective Show - Brussels / Belgium
- 2006 - Labo Mix - Collective Show - Bucharest / Romania
- 2007 - Second Circuit Festival - Collective Show - Lowicz.
- 2007 - Two Shores Festival - Collective Show - Janowiec / Kazimierz
- 2007 - Uncommon Artists Move - Collective Screening - Bialystok.
- 2007 - Crimean Film Sonnets - Collective Screening - Maloriechnoye / Ukraine
- 2007 - FilmPoland Festival - Collective screening - Berlin / Germany
- 2007 - Days of Contemporary Art - Individual Screening - Bialystok.
- 2007 - Dirty Deal - Collective Show - Riga / Germany
- 2007 - Independent Town Hall Organization - Collective Show - Grodno / Belarus
- 2007 - Off jak Gorąco Festival - Collective Show - Lodz.
- 2007 - Ełckie Centrum Kultury - Collective Show - Ełk
- 2007 - Chlodna 25 Club - Collective Show - Warsaw
- 2007 - FILMTAGE Festival - Collective Show - Selb / Germany
- 2007 - Słoneczne Centrum Edukacji Kulturalnej - Collective Show - Warsaw
- 2007 - KinoTeatr Cultural Center Project - Collective Show - Lublin.
- 2007 - PUPA Universal Artistic Review - Collective Show - Warsaw.
- 2007 - Klub Polskich Nieudaczników - Collective Show - Berlin / Germany
- 2007 - Polish House - Collective Show - Dynenburg / Latvia
- 2007 - MenschMeerMedien Medienkunstfestival an der Nordwolle -.
Collective Show - Bremen / Germany
- 2007 - Polonia CaRioca - SFINKS group show - Rio de Janeiro
- 2007 - project (together with Adam Kaminski) interior and exhibition
"Roads to Freedom" - Solidarity Museum - Gdańsk
- 2008 - Wyspa Institute of Art "Faculty of Renovation" - Collective Show -.
Gdansk
- 2008 - Selb - Grenzlande Filmtage festival - Selb - Collective screening
- 2008 - Fest Film Poland - Hackesche Höfe Filmtheater - Berlin -.
Group screening
- 2008 - Club der polnischen Versager - Berlin - Collective screening
- 2008 - Filmclub K18 - Berlin - Collective screening.
- 2008 - Klub Europa - 11222, Greenpoit, Brookly,
New York - Collective Screening
- 2008 - Storm Art - State Art Gallery in Sopot -.
Individual show
- 2008 - Action-Animation-Presentation - Torun - Individual Show.
- 2008 - Kino Teatr Projekt - Lublin - Collective show.
- 2008 - OFF as Hot - Lodz - Collective Show.
- 2008 - Happening / Murales "Out Of Control".
- 2009 - Town Hall in Bielsk Podlaski - collective exhibition
- 2009 - My Moon - individual show - New York USA
- 2009 - Fimbrunch - group exhibition - Dresden, Germany