Mixed technique on canvas (acrylic, canvas, oil pastel, acrylic pen, flake gilding, glitter, plaster-glue textures)
dimensions: 50 x 40 cm
inscribed and signed on the back
BIOGRAPHY
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 can be found in many private and museum collections at home and abroad .His works include about 40 original films, 45 art and music actions, including those within the framework of the art groups Swallowers of Pearls from the Oder 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;
1990X - 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, Wroclaw, 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 the Oder River, 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, Original Antinomies of our Era, Bunkers, Międzyrzecz Fortification District, Międzyrzecz;
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 Consulate General of Germany in Wroclaw;
Group exhibitions
1985 V - Film outside the 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, Torun, 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 Polish Year in Germany and the German Year in Poland;
XII 2006 - II 2007 - Polish Painting XXI w., Zachęta National Art Gallery, 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 Wroclaw, City Gallery, Beijing, China, catalog, poster;
X - Three decades of expressive painting in Wroclaw, 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, Torun, poster, catalog;
2021 V - Festival of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Exhibitions in galleries in Wroclaw;
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 from the Minister of Culture and Art;
1989 XI- Award for the video Our Concrete-Aront at the l International Festival of Visual Realization of About Music - WRO '89., Wroclaw;
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, Wroclaw;
1998 II- Order with a star given for charitable work by the Knights and
Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem;
2002 X- Award of l degree from the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw;
2005 IX- Award of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, for 20 years of work;
2008 XI- Nomination for the ZPAP Wrocław Award of the Year, for Monographic Painting Exhibition, Town Hall, Wrocław;
2012 V- Bronze Medal - Meritorious for Culture Gloria Artis;
2014 X- Distinguished Service to Polish Culture;
2015 X- Award of the Rector of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts 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 Wrocław District;
2022 X: Golden Cross of Merit ,President of the Republic of Poland;
