Bartosz Kokosiński was born in 1984. Painter, visual artist. From 2004 to 2009 Kokosiński studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. A four-time scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Participant in the 6th Triennale of Young Artists in Orońsko and the 10th Geppert Contest in Wrocław. In 2015 he was awarded at the 42nd  Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale.

Bartosz Kokosiński involves an artistic reflection on the phenomenon of the picture, repeating the question about its status and significance. He is not interested in the aspect of illustrativeness of the painting medium, but in the very painting process, in the physicality of the matter that the painting is made of. The artist subjects paintings to deformation: he bends their structure, turns canvas inside out, sticks various objects inside. His works tend to be flawed, ‘ill’, presenting their imperfections to the audience (…). Kokosiński’s works have a very strong element of authenticity to them, they are the record of experience and emotions, doubts, and recurrent attempts to work out his own language of art in this medium that does not accept any compromises.

Ewa Gorządek

 

Selected solo exhibitions:

2023

World as a Background, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Pastula, Warsaw, PL

2022

Egzotarium, Galeria Geppart, Wrocław, PL

Shines, Inne Towarzystwo, Warsaw, PL (with Konrad Maciejewicz)

Painting it Black, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL

Bartosz Kokosiński, Galerie Dolu Michal, Ostrawa, CZ

2019

Bye Bye Budapest!, 1111 Gallery, Budapest, HU

2017

Toxic Fumes, Krynki Gallery, Krynki, PL

Pastel Block, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL

Community of Images of Density, State Art Gallery, Sopot, PL

2016

Moment Cutting the Dowel, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Project Room, Warsaw, PL

Clash, BWA Gallery, Miejski Ośrodek Sztuki, Gorzów Wielkopolski, PL

Dysfunctional Matter, Knoll Galerie Budapest, Budapest, HU

Dysfunctional Matter, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna, AT

2015

Nothing is Real, Everything is Possible, Water Tower Gallery, Konin, PL

Termokoloryzacja, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, PL

Vapours, ABC Gallery, Poznań, PL

2014

Crack, Knoll Galeria Budapest, Budapest, HU

Crack, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna, AT

2013

Kinky droppings thoughts (Thomas Bernhard), Galeria Promocyjna, Warsaw, PL

Bilder fressen Wirklichkeit, Club der Polnischen Versager, Berlin, DE

Fever, ABC Gallery, Poznań, PL

2012

Uncontrolled Content, Młode Forum Sztuki, Lublin, PL

(Dis)order of Things, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, PL

2011

Some Pictures Don’t Want to be Painted, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, PL

(NO) BODY (NO) SOUL (NO) ART, Small Gallery, Słupsk, PL

2010

In Shape, Sztygarka City Museum, Dąbrowa Górnicza, PL

For the Beginning — The End, Nova Gallery, Kraków, PL

2007

Shame of Repetition, Nova Gallery, Kraków, PL

 

Group exhibitions:

2023

What are we doing with the rest of the day, Pani Domu, Poznań, PL

2022

With Family, Inne Towarzystwo, Warsaw, PL

Visibility, NOWA Art Space, Nowa Ruda, PL

2019

My Name Is Red, State Art Gallery, Sopot, PL

Black Bile, Small Gallery, Słupsk, PL

Touch the Art, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL

Summer in the City, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw, PL

Nature in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków, PL

2018

As Cybis?, Gallery of the Museum of Opole Silesia, Opole, PL

Life is a Backyard, 13. INSPIRATIONS festival, TRAFO Centre for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, PL

Sudden Death of a Hero, KUBIK art space, Budapest, HU

Works of Indifference, City Art Gallery of Kalisz, Kalisz, PL

The Air and Other Things We Need to Live, BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, PL

100 Years of Polish Sculpture, Art Museum Riga Bourse, Riga, LV

2017

What with this Abstraction?, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, PL

Kunstwerk Leben, Centre for Persecuted Arts, Solingen, DE

The Wonder Years: Kokosiński / Matyszewski, Biała Gallery, Lublin, PL

#library, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznań, PL

2016

DADA tak? Tak!, Galeria Biała, Lublin, PL

Home at Last: the Polish House During the Transition, 8h edition of the Warsaw Under Construction, Warsaw, PL

Searching for Freedom. Contemporary painting from Poland, National Museum, Kiev, UA

Medicine in Art, MOCAK, Kraków

Father Glazier, Mother Glass, Henryk Gallery, Kraków, PL

Another World, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, PL

2015

Two Sticks — Exhibition at the part Think Tank lab Triennial International Festival of Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław, PL

42nd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2015, BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, PL

No More Objects for the Picture, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw, PL

Power of Abstraction, Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk, BY

Szaberland — Exhibition in the review of art Survival13, Riot Squads Police Barracks, Wrocław, PL

The Hideout, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL

Do (Not) Touch! Haptic Aspects of Polish Art After 1945, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, PL

Open Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Branch of the National Museum, Szczecin, PL

Ceci n’est pas cette pipe, Propaganda Gallery, Warsaw, PL

Still in Motion, E.M. Galerie, Drachten, NL

2014

The Boundaries of Painting, Contemporary Art Gallery BWA, Przemyśl, PL

Czech Pope, MOS — Małopolski Ogród Sztuki, Kraków, PL

Biala.art.pl, Galeria Biała, Lublin, PL

Self-love, National Art Gallery, Sopot, PL

Fixedgear, Lubicz Brewery, Kraków, PL

Art More Precious Than Mud, Lubicz Brewery, Kraków, PL

Czech Pope, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, CZ

Contrary to the Instructions, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL

Milk Teeth, Witches’ Tower, Słupsk, PL

2013

41st Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2013, BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, PL

Positive/Negativ, Art Moscow 17th International Art Fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow, RU

Clouds on Nail, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna, AT

Damage Has Been Done, El Gallery, Elbląg, PL

Urwanie głowy, Zona Sztuki Aktualnej, Szczecin, PL

Milk Teeth, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, PL

2012

Curators Network — Competition exhibition, MOCAK, Kraków, PL

Heart of Darkness, The 8th inSPIRACJE Festival, Zona Sztuki Aktualnej, Szczecin, PL

Silence of Snow, Nuremberg House, Kraków, PL

Pictures on Art, Art on Pictures — Roman Siwulak & Bartosz Kokosiński, Art Gallery of Fine Arts Academy, Kraków, PL

Je abstrakter die kunst wird, desto mehr wird sie kunst, Bestregarts Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, DE

2011

Przeciąg — Youth Arts Festival, Zachęta, Contemporary Art Museum, Szczecin, PL

10th Geppert Competition — What does a painter do?, BWA Wrocław, Awangarda Gallery, Wrocław, PL

6th Youth Triennials, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, PL

Preview Berlin, art fairs, Berlin, DE

Rybie Oko 6, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, PL

Markierter Ort, Zentrifuge Auf AEG, Nuremberg, DE

Kinderspiele, Zbiornik Kultury, Kraków, PL

2010

Post-competition exhibition of 20th OPMM PROMOTIONS 2010, Art Gallery, Legnica, PL

Project Silnia , Gallery U, Wroclaw, old glass factory on Sarego street and Kraków Center Gallery on the main market square, Kraków, PL

Markierter ort, exhibition, Kraków, PL

2009
The Champion and Pupils, Tarnogórskie Centrum Kultury, Tarnowskie Góry, PL

306, Floriańska 22 Gallery, Kraków, PL

Bestregarts Junge Kunst, Frankfurt am Mein, DE

2008

Rybie Oko 5, Small Gallery, Slupsk; Klima Bochenska Gallery, Warszawa, PL

blankly, perfect summer, VertexList, New York, USA

2007

JEUNE CREATION EUROPEENNE, Montrouge, FR

V. edition of the International Contest for Art Academy Students Self-portrait inspired by the works of a chosen artist, Regional Museum, Stalowa Wola, PL

2006

The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow exhibition, Kunststation, Kleinsassen, DE