Marcin Kowalik
Born in 1981 in Zamość, where he completed with distinction PLSP (a secondary school of fine arts).
In 2006 he graduated from the Painting Department in the studio of Professor Adam Wsiołkowski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (an MA diploma with distinction).
In 2009 he graduated doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
His works include conceptual painting, objects and artistic actions.
Scholarships and Grants
2001 – Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2002 – Scholarship of the Mayor of Zamość
2007 – Crosskick Academie, Berlin, organizer – AdKV
2008 – Travel grant, Ateliers Höherweg 271, Düsseldorf
2009 – Scholarship 'Grazella'
Solo exhibitions
2003 – painting, Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury, Kraków
2004 – painting, ING Bank Śląski, Kraków
2005 – Dreaming, painting and drawing, Kanzlei Rottermund,Hamburg
– painting, BWA Zamość
– Dreaming, Art Center, Hamburg
– Element, painting, Café Theatre, Hamburg
2006 – Space of Travel, painting, Flower Power, Kraków
– Space of Travel, painting, FOKUSfestival, Görlitz
– Space of Travel, painting, Green Gallery, Warsaw
2007 – Space of Travel, painting, Scarbata Galerie, Leipzig
2008 – Landscape in a Box, painting, Galeria Artemis, Kraków
– Kunstpunkte, exhibition of paintings during studio open house, Düsseldorf
– Space of a Painting, painting, Ateliers Höherweg, Düsseldorf
2009 – Unknown Kingdom, painting, National Museum, Kraków
Group exhibitions
1999 – 4th Drawing and Painting Biennial, Bielsko-Biała (honorable mention)
– Post-open air exhibition of drawing and painting, Skoki (near Poznań) – honorable mention
2001 – Post-open air exhibition (sculpture), Myślęcinek (near Bydgoszcz) – honorable mention
– SOLVAY Modern Art Centre, Kraków
– 5th Drawing and Painting Biennial, Bielsko-Biała (honorable mention)
2002 – Artists for Their City, City House of Culture Gallery, Szczebrzeszyn
– Work of the Year, BWA Gallery, Zamość
– 3M, Roztocze National Park Educational and Museum Center Gallery, Zwierzyniec
2005 – Visual Arts Secondary School alumni exhibition, BWA, Zamość
2006 – Diplomas 2006, TPSP Palace of Art, Kraków
– Available Art, Away, Camelot, Kraków
– Self-Portrait, post-competition exhibition, Regional Museum, Stalowa Wola, Kraków, Lviv
2007 – 16 Things That Could Have Not Been Found, Artpol, Kraków
–
100th
Salon
of Orléans Artists (guest of honor), Orléans
–
Crosskick,
Kunsthalle, Lingen
– ARTFAIR 21, stall of Epikur Gallery from Wuppertal, Köln
– Between, Youth Atheneum, Warszawa
– 16th Aukcja Wielkiego Serca charitable auction, Manggha Center of Japanese Art and Technology, Kraków
2008 – The Magic Square, Kraków Academy of Fine Arts doctoral students’ exhibition, Solvay, Kraków; BWA Tarnów.
– !artlive, liveart!, The Beznadziejna Temporary Art Gallery, Warsaw
– Wagnis Wirklichkeit Realismus in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, 16 Künstlerpositionen, Galerie Epikur, Wuppertal
– !artgame! – Marcin Kowalik + Paul Schwer, Club69, Münster
– 17th Aukcja Wielkiego Serca charitable auction, Manggha Center of Japanese Art and Technology, Kraków
– 6th Warsaw Art Fair
2009 – Master and Pupils, presentation of the achievements of students and teachers from the painting studio
of Prof. Adam Wsiołkowski of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, Society of Friends of the Tarnowskie Góry Area,
Tarnowskie Góry
– The Magic Square, exhibition of works by doctoral students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, City Art
Gallery, Częstochowa
– The Revisit, Marcin Kowalik and invited artists from Ateliers Höherweg 271, Düsseldorf, Program Gallery,
Warszawa
– Fotomix,action, Emil Zander Studio, Duesseldorf
– Fragments, painting, Bernd Petri studio, Koeln
– The Borders of Personality, painting Koeln, Kraków
– The whole place is dark, and we see vol. 1, 2, Kraków, Wrocław
– Error%?:art, painting, 1500m2, Warszawa
– Christmas Palm, (Freies Museum and 6 other galleries),Berlin
2010 – The Merger - by following this 1 easy rule..., Chicago