TOMASZ KOWALSKI

Tomasz Kowalski’s work oscillates freely between different eras and styles in the history of art, while producing an iconography in which his own, fragmented imagination can evolve. He destroys the hierarchy between sleep, dreaming and wakefulness while celebrating the freedom of the subconscious.

His characters sometimes seem to vanish into depths of colour.

His paintings, sculptures and music capture the diffusion of a centreless world and the ways in which such conditions impact our perceptions of basic categories, such as selfhood, space and time.

Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Fondazione Bonollo, Vicenza (IT), Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR), Gdansk City Gallery (PL) Clearing, New York (NY), 15orient, New York (US), Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (PL), Swallow, Vilnius (LT), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (US), Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leibzig.

Recent group exhibitions include, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (PL), Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków (PL), Dallas Contemporary (US), Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR), Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris (FR), CAC Vilnius (LT), Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes (FR), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL), Kunsthalle Bratislava (SK), Museum Neuer Wiener Kunstverein, Vienna (AT), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT), MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (AT), S.M.A.K. Ghent (BE).

His work is included in institutional collections, such as Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (PL), Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (AT), Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes (FR), MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków (PL), Collection Pinault, Paris (FR), X Museum, Beijing (CN), Olbricht Collection, Berlin (DE) and Boros Collection, Berlin (DE).

Text courtesy Crèvecoeur.