oil, canvas, 18 x 24 cm signed and dated on the reverse: TOMASZ/KOWALSKI/2006
Tomasz Kowalski (1984, Szczebrzeszyn) Works in painting, installations, video and music. In Jakub Banasiak's book Tired of Reality, published in 2009, Tomasz Kowalski was placed among the artists the author calls the "new surrealists." Kowalski's art is part of the turn to imagination made by the young generation of Polish artists at the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
The artist's works have been presented at Art Basel Miami Beach, carlier I gebauer in Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Galeria Pies in Poznań, BWA in Zielona Góra, among others. Kowalski's works are in the public collections of Centre Pompidou, MUMOK, MOCAK, Frac des Pays de la Loire and important legal collections of Francois Pinault and Boros, among others.
Selected solo exhibitions:
- 2023 - "Doll," Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw.
- 2022 - "Psy-trans," 15 Orient, New York, USA
- 2021 - "Delirious Szczebrzeszyn," Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw; 15 Orient, New York, "US Foam City," Swallow, Vilnius
- 2020 - "Spirit, actor, thing", Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
- 2018 - "Release of Everlasting Somersault," Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles; "New Vehicle," Tobias Naehring Gallery, Leipzig; "Proto Weather," Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp; "Natty Dread" (with Alicja Kowalska), Condo, Arcadia Missa, London
- 2017 - "A Man Moves Out of a Skeleton," Clark House Initiative, Mumbai; "Golden Ladder," Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, "Elixir / Myriad Examples," Bureau Audio, New York.
- 2015 - "Djinn", Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp; "Planck Time", carlier | gebauer, Berlin
- 2014 - "Tomasz Kowalski," CAM, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; "Relativity Express," Gabriele Senn Gallery, Vienna
- 2013 - "Paintings and Assemblages," Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw; "Untitled," carlier | gebauer, Berlin
- 2012 - "The Truant," carlier | gebauer, Berlin; "Routine investigation," Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp
- 2011 - "Chimney Sweep on the Roof of the Church," CCA - Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; "Duet" (with Agnieszka Polska), Goldex Poldex, Krakow
- 2010 - Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna; Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp; "Show", Kronika Gallery, Bytom;
- 2009 - carlier-gebauer, Berlin; "Nest," Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; "Night tour," CCA Torun (with Norman Leto);
- 2008 - "Art Kabinett," Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami; carlier-gebauer, Berlin; "Song," Galeria Pies, Poznań; BWA, Zielona Góra;
- 2007 - Żak-Branicka Gallery, Berlin;
- 2006 Galeria Nova, Krakow.
Selected group exhibitions:
- 2020 - "The Spirit of Nature and Other Fairy Tales. 20th Anniversary of the ING Polish Art Foundation," Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland.
- 2018 - "Wildness of the Heart. Portrait and self-portrait in Poland after 1989", Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
- 2016 - "Things do things", CCA - Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.
- 2015 - "Escape and Return", Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw; "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw;
- 2014 - "Przaja moimu hajmatowi", CCA Kronika, "paint me paint me everywhere", Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow; "Stendhal Syndrome", Zona of Current Art, Szczecin.
- 2013 - "Back home", Angel Wawel, 12 Koletek Street, Cracow; "How does one become who he is", BWA Tarnów
- 2010 - "Curse of Imagination", Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow; "Small Improvisation", Stadtgalerie Kiel;
- 2009 - "Alphabet of Poland," BWA Tarnów; "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," Europe XXI, Gare Saint-Sauver, Lille; "Crotla presents," Lothringer13, Staedtische Kunsthalle Muenchen, Munich; "Hell of a Thing," Galeria Kronika, Bytom;
- 2008 - "Ballads and Romances, " Raster Gallery, Warsaw; "Establishment," Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; "Theatre Sale," Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok;
- 2007 - "The Ship of Fools," Studio Angeletti, Rome; "Small is Beautiful," Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim; "16 Things That Could Go Wrong," Artpol, Krakow.
