Cyryl Polaczek
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Meadow
2024, oil on canvas, 130 × 150 cm
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Water Whipping
2024, oil on canvas, 80 × 90 cm
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Untitled
2023, oil on canvas, 100 × 90 cm
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Rain
2023, oil on canvas, 160 × 200 cm
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Night
2023, oil on canvas, 160 × 200 cm
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Night
2023, oil on canvas, 94 × 104 cm
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Beetle and Ants
2023, oil on canvas, 55 × 46 cm
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Rain at Night
2022, oil on canvas, 190 × 150 cm
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Strange Weather II
2021, oil on canvas, 195.5 × 155 cm
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Dungeon
2020, oil on canvas, 190 × 140 cm
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News
2019, oil on canvas, 240 × 180 cm
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Light Bulb
2018, oil on canvas, 150 × 180 cm
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Martyna Flounder
2018, oil on canvas, 180 × 150 cm
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The Hidden Therapies, J. Zięba
2018, oil on canvas, 60 × 60 cm
Cyryl Polaczek was born in 1989. Visual artist, painter, author of objects. Together with Karolina Jabłońska and Tomasz Kręcicki, he co-founded the artistic group Potencja. He studied painting at the Academies of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (2008–2010), Berlin (2013) and Kraków (2010–2014). He graduated from the studio of Professor Andrzej Bednarczyk. Winner of the main prize of the 11th edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey competition (2012). Lives and works in Kraków.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2024
Tenant, BWA Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, PL
Reckoning of Stars and Wisdom of Grass, Clay.Warsaw, Warsaw, PL
2022
Little Tears, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL
2021
James Fuentes Online, James Fuentes, Nowy Jork, USA
There used to be sea here, Galeria Potencja, Cracow, PL (with Martyna Kielesińska)
2020
Dicke Brummer, Good Job!, Lipsk, DE (with Martyna Kielesińska)
Through Quarantine I Developed My Passions, Galeria Dobro, Olsztyn, PL
Little Inconvenience, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL
2018
Floundering, Potencja, Cracow, PL
2016
Intermediate Forms, Galeria Zderzak, Cracow, PL
2014
Any Resemblance, Aacollection Gallery, Vienna, AU (with Tomasz Kręcicki)
2012
Ouueaooo, Fundacja Promocji Sztuki Współczesnej, Warsaw, PL
Selected group exhibitions:
2023
My Body Is Your Body, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE
Clouds of Lead, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk, PL
Reconciling Apparent Contradictions, Esther Schipper, Berlin, DE
Backyard, Galeria SKALA, Poznań, PL
Bruno Schulz. Iron Capital of Spirit, Museum of Literature, Warszawa, PL
Transition States, Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL
2022
A Season in Hell, Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL
The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Visibility, NOWA Art Space, Nowa Ruda, PL
Swamp/Sponge, Galeria Szaber, Cracow, PL
Potencja – Humoral Theory: Quattro stagioni, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL
MEGAWONSZ9, Kościół Nihilistów, Wrocław, PL
2021
Potencja – Humoral Theory, BWA Zielona Góra, PL
Z (Don’t Panic, Kiss Me), Studio BWA, Wrocław, PL
Guilty Pleasure, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL
Pokrzepiająca moc kserówki, Galeria Skala, Poznań, PL
2020
Time and Foam, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, PL
All of Poland, BWA Wrocław, PL
2019
NADA Projects Miami, Potencja, Miami, USA
The Artist as Muse, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, USA
Funny Games, Gussglashalle, Berlin, DE
44th Biennial of Painting Bielska Jesień, BWA Bielsko Biała, PL
Potencja: Soundcheck, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL
Małposzczur, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL
Force Field, Fundacja Rodziny Staraków, Oficine 800, Venice, IT
2018
New Perspectives. Leipzig meets Cracow, Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig, DE
Komunikacja ze wszystkim co jest, Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw, PL
Ozimina, Galeria Widna, Cracow, PL
LifeHack, Jedna Dva Tri Gallery, Prague, CZ
2017
Szwung, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, DE
No problem, Potencja, Cracow, PL
XY New Generation Polish-Hungarian Painting, MODEM, Debrecen, HU
Seans, Galeria Szara, Katowice, PL
Potency, Raster, Warsaw, PL
Future Perfect, Potencja, Cracow, PL
2016
Ojciec szklarz, matka szyba, Henryk Gallery, Cracow, PL
Interstelaż, Potencja, Cracow, PL
Apteka leków gotowych, Galeria Zderzak, Cracow, PL
2015
42nd Biennial of Painting Bielska Jesień, BWA Bielsko Biała, PL
2014
From Dusk Till Dawn, Galeria Zderzak, Cracow, PL
2013
Parade of Progress, West Germany, Berlin, DE