Łukasz Korolkiewicz was born in 1948 in Warsaw. Between 1965 and 1971 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, graduating from the Stefan Gierowski studio. He received grants from the US Information Agency in 1986, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 1986, and the Kościuszko Foundation in 1990. He received the Independent Culture Committee Award from the Solidarity Trade Union in 1983, and the Jan Cybis Award in 1991. Since 1980, he has worked at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and since 1996 he has been running a painting studio at the Faculty of Design.

His works can be found in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Cracow, National Museum in Poznań, Museum of Art in Łódź, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, as well as in private collections in Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, United Kingdom, Canada, and USA.

 

Selected solo exhibitions:

2022

Adult’s Games, Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec, PL

2021

Izolatorium, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL

2019

Subterritory, Górnośląskie Museum, Bytom, PL

2018

The Patient, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL

2016

Deceiver, National Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL

2015

Opera Gallery, Grand Theatre – Polish National Opera, Warsaw, PL

2013

Periphery, aTAK Gallery, Warsaw, PL

2010

In Uncertain Shadows, BWA Gallery, Community Art Centre, Gorzów Wielkopolski, PL

2008

Intimate Lighting, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń, PL

2003

BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra, PL

2002

At the Still Point, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

2001

BWA Gallery, Zamość, PL

1999

Illusions, Gallery of Critics, Warsaw, PL

1998

BWA Gallery, Zamość, PL

1997

Contemporary Art Gallery BWA, Katowice, PL

1996

Epiphanies, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, PL

1994

Arsenał, Municipal Gallery, Poznań, PL

State Art Gallery, Łódź, PL

1992

Mazowiecka Gallery, Warsaw, PL

1991

District Museum, Białystok, PL

Polish Institute, Stockholm, SE

1990

Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL

1988

New Print Studio, Glasgow, UK

1986

Inny Świat Gallery, Kraków, PL

1984

Society of Art Historians Gallery, Warsaw, PL

1981

MDM Gallery, Warsaw, PL

De Vere Studio, London, UK

1978

House of Artist’s Gallery, Warsaw, PL

1977

Arsenał, Municipal Gallery, Poznań, PL

1971

Contemporary Gallery, Warsaw, PL

 

Selected group exhibitions:

2023

The Art of Seeing. Nowosielski and Others, The Royal Castle, Warsaw, PL

Arcadia, National Museum, Warsaw, PL

Rococo Madness! Fascination with Rococo in Silesia, National Museum, Wrocław, PL

2020

Wall Wall Telescope, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL

2019

Borderline. Wrocław Drawing Triennial 2019, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, PL

First World Problems: Life Before Death, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, PL

2018

Beyond Cybis, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

Collection of Krzysztof Musiał. HERE WE ARE, Gallery “Meno parkas”, Kaunas, LT

The Place of an Artist, Kordegarda. The Gallery of the National Centre for Culture, Warsaw, PL

2017

Here we are. Selected works from the collection of Krzysztof Musiał, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, PL

The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL

2016

Meeting of Generations. Painters of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Gallery Salon of Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw, PL

Dark Place Behind the Door, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw, PL

2012/2013

Correspondences. Modern Art – Universal Art, Museum of Art, Łódź, PL

Treasures of Chopin Country. Polish Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, Pekin, CN; Seoul. KR

2011/2012

Collection, Królikarnia, National Museum, Warsaw, PL

2011

Politics and Ethics, Contemporary Art Museum, Radom, PL

Six Paths to Paintings from Photographs, Contemporary Art Museum, Radom, PL

Painters Speak Up, Art New Media Gallery, Warsaw, PL

2010

Ars Homo Erotica, National Museum, Warsaw, PL

2009/2010

Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, mumok Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, AT; Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

Rauchen Verboten, Klima Bocheńska Gallery, Warsaw, PL

In the Circle of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Museum of Varmia and Masuria, Olsztyn, PL

2008

Cream 2, State Art Gallery, Sopot, PL

Reality and Dreams, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL

2007

Records of Changes. Polish Art From the Collection of Krzysztof Musiał, National Museum, Wrocław, Poland; aTAK Gallery, Warsaw, PL

2006

Polish Painting of the 21^st  Century, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

2005

Warsaw – Moscow, Moscow – Warsaw, 1900-2000, Trietiakowska Gallery, Moscow, RU

The Secret Garden, Królikarnia, National Museum, Warsaw, PL

2004

Laureates of the Cybis Award for Painting, Galeria EL, Elbląg, PL

Duty and Rebellion (Academy of Fine Arts  in Warsaw, 1944–2004), Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

Master Painters at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw 1904-2004, National Museum, Warsaw, PL

Warsaw – Moscow, Moscow – Warsaw, 1900–2000, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PLL

2002

What Does the Cadaver’s Glassy Pupil see?, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

2000

Polonia Polonia, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

Images of Death in Polish 19th and 20 Century Art, National Museum, Kraków, PL

The Four Seasons, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Mein, DE

Paintings and Pictures (Circle of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw), Opera Gallery, Warsaw, PL

1999

Let’s Hurry to Love People (Father Twardowski’s Poems), Museum of Literature, Warsaw, PL

1998

The Garden. Form–Symbol–Dream, Royale Castle, Warszawa, PL

1996

I like it (selected by Andrzej Wajda), Art Palace, Kraków, PL

1993

We – Today (Art of the 70’s Generation), Arsenał, Municipal Gallery, Poznań, PL

Faces and Masks (Collection of Contemporary Art Museum in Radom), BWA Gallery, Olsztyn, PL

1992

Collection du Musée de Łódź, Musée d`Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR

1991

What about artist in the Meagre Time?, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL; National Museum, Cracow, PL

The Collection (20th Century Art from the Collection of the Art Museum in Łódź), Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

Epitaph and Seven Spaces, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL

1990

The Paradise Lost, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL

The Art of the Sixties, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL

1989

In the Likeness and Image, Norblin Factory, Warsaw, PL

Transgression – Borderlands of Photography, Awangarda BWA Gallery, Wrocław, PL

1988

Polish Realities. New Art From Poland, Third Eye Center, Glasgow, UK

1986

Kunst uit Polen, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, NL

1985

New Earth? New Heaven?, Parish God’s Mercy in Żytnia Street, Warsaw, PL

1983

Artists for Shipyard Workers, St. Nicholas Church, Gdańsk, PL

1981

The Garden of Knowledge, MDM Gallery, Warsaw, PL

1979

Thirty-five Years of Painting in the People’s Republic of Poland, National Museum, Poznań, PL

1978

Symbolist Realism, Gallery of Critics, Warsaw, PL

1977

Cream, MDM Gallery, Warsaw, PL