Born 1973 in Andrychów, Poland. Lives and works in Krakow, PL

Education
1992-1997 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, PL

1996-1997 DAAD-Scholarship at the University of Design in Offenbach, DE

Residences
2011 Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

2013 Artist in Residence, SoART Millstättersee, AT
 
Selected solo exhibitions
2023 Movement, Persons Projects, Berlin
2021 Plates, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
2018 Parallels, ŻAK I BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin
2017 Silent Utopia, BBK-Galerie, Oldenburg
2014 Figures, ŻAK I BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin
2012 Skulptur-Malerei, Polnisches Institut, Berlin
2010 Poelzig vs. Poelzig, ŻAK I BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin
2009 Silent Utopia, Art Stations Foundation, Stary Browar Gallery, Poznań
2009 Silent Utopia, Art Basel Statement, ŻAK I BRANICKA Gallery
2009 N.N. vs. Artists, Salzburger Kunstverein (Künstlerhaus), Salzburg
2008 Zbiory / Sets, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow
2007 Africanized Honey Bees, ŻAK Gallery, Berlin
2006 KRK, Potocka Gallery, Krakow
2005 1967–1995?, Pies Gallery, Poznań
2005 Speculation, CC Gallery, Graz
2005 The Last Is the Darkest, the Last Is Real, Kunstbüro, Kunsthalle 8, Vienna

Selected group exhibitions
2023 Mondo cane. World User’s Manual, National Museum, Szczecin
2022 Kunst. Leben. Leidenschaft, Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim bei Wels, Austria
2021 Gesture strategies, Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic, Szczecin
2021 XX + XXI. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Krakow
2019 The Krakow Art Salon, Palace of Art, Krakow
2018 Die Angst, MS44 Gallery, Świnoujście
2018 Adolescent, Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic, Szczecin
2017 L’arte differente: MOCAK al MAXXI, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome
2017 Media State of Emergency: SCORES, National Museum, Szczecin
2017 Artists from Krakow: The Generation 1970–1979, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
2017 Kino-Eye. Around Vertov and Constructivism, Arsenal Gallery power station, Białystok
2016 Generationsübergreifend – Polnische Kunst In Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl
2016 Bittersüße Zeiten – Barock und Gegenwart, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm
2016 Vom Allmächtigen zum Leibhaftigen, Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde
2015 Collecting Artist, Joseph Tang Gallery, Paris
2015 Sammlung Dr. Werner Jerke. Eine Auswahl, Atlas Sztuki, Łódź
2015 Bittersüße Zeiten – Barock und Gegenwart in der Sammlung SØR Rusche Berlin/Oelde, Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg, Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Apolda
2013 Meshes of the Afternoon, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
2013 Art is: New Art, Arnold Schönberg Centre, Vienna
2013 Way Back Home, Convent of the Colettine Sisters, Photography Month, Krakow
2012 Flying. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2012 Rodczenko! Yes and No, National Museum, Krakow
2012 Con Amore – Leif Djurhuus Collection, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
2012 The MOCAK Collection III, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
2011 Halleluhwah! Hommage à CAN, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin,
2011 Polish!, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2011 Zwischen Utopie und Atopie, Cream Contemporary, Berlin
2010 (Re)acting Caligari, Brotfabrik Galerie, Berlin
2010 Bacchus, Kunsthalle Krems – Forum Frohner, Krems
2009 Menschenbilder 1620/2009: Zeitgenössische Bildnisse begegnen alten niederländischen Porträts: Werke aus der Sammlung SØR Rusche, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh
2009 Hort Family Collection, New York
2007 Don’t Try This at Home, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2007 Day After, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznań
2007 Re(co)nnaissance of Painting, GCK, Katowice
2006 New Tendencies in Polish Painting, BWA, Bydgoszcz
2006 Team Colors, f.a.i.t, Krakow
2006 Soleil Noir, Depression and Society, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2006 Fauna://hybrid, Charim Gallery, Vienna
2006 Małopolska Collection of Modern Art "Signs of the Times”, Krakow
2005 Longing for Painting, Lubuska Land Museum, Zielona Góra
2005 Beauty or Painterly Effect, BWA, Bielsko-Biała, BWA, Wrocław,
2005 BWA, Zielona Góra
2003 1st Prague Biennale, Prague

Publications
2020 Tablice / Plates, ed. by Przemysław Strożek, Galeria Foksal, Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury, Warszawa, (bilingual English/Polish)
2020 Paweł Książek. Paralele / Parallels, ed. by Przemysław Strożek, Scientific Publishing House of the Academy of Art in Szczecin, (bilingual English/Polish)
2010 N.N. vs. Artists – Paweł Książ ek, Salzburger Kunstverein (bilingual English/German)
2008 Zbiory / Sets, exhibition catalogue, ed. by Wojciech Szymański, Bunkier Sztuki Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, (bilingual English/Polish)


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