Education:

1996-2001 - Artur Grottger High School of Arts and Crafts (Panstwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im.  Artura Grottgera) in Suprasl, Poland

2003-2008 - Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts (Akademia Sztuk Pieknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta) in Wroclaw, Poland (Painting)

Currently  works as a Teaching Assistant at  Eugeniusz Geppert  Academy of  Fine Arts in  Wroclaw (from October 2008)

Selected Exhibitions:

2000 - after-contest exhibition “The 6th Takasaki Art & Music Competition for High School Students '99” at Takasaki Art Center College - Takasaki, Japan

2008 - „Malarstwo dolnoslasko – podlaskie” (“The Painting of Lower Silesia and Podlachia”) - solo show, Galeria na Solnym, Wroclaw, Poland

2008 - graduation exhibition, “BWA Awangarda” Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland

2008 - „Samsung Art Master” exhibition associated with charity auction for raising funds for Anna Dymna's foundation "Mimo wszystko", Old Orangery in Royal Baths Park (Lazienki Krolewskie) in Warsaw, Poland

2008 - World One Minutes Exhibition at Today Art Museum, Beijing, China  (the exhibition was included in the cultural program around the Olympic Games 2008)   info

2009 -"Dziewczynki sa madre a ladny chlopiec jest chopcem, jest chlopcem..." ("Girls Are Smart but the Pretty Boy Is a Boy, Is a Boy, Is a Boy..."), BWA Studio Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland

2009 - "Schätze aus Breslau", Kleine Haus der Kunst in Buttenheim, Germany    info (in German)

2009 -The One Minutes Train (as part of  "Rietveld Arsenale" exhibition) during the 53. Venice Biennale,  Arsenale Novissimo in Venice, Italy     www.rietveldarsenale.nl theoneminutes' photostream on Flickr

2009 - "Abel+4", Muzeum Ziemi Klodzkiej, Klodzko, Poland

STATEMENT

I work in variety fields of art such as painting, video art, printmaking and ceramics. The main medium that I work with is painting, which is an art form I find equally intellectual and aesthetic.
There are many sources of inspiration for my creations. The most important of these are Byzantine and Russian icons, Cubism, Dadaism and Pop-art.

One of the most common subjects of my work are ordinary items cut out from their original contexts, transposed into symbolic space with the medium of art creation . This is an idea taken from the Byzantine sacred painting, based on Plato's philosophy; the picture becomes a window into a different, mysterious reality, ruled by unrecognized rules, yet somehow possible to recognize on the level of intuition. To emphasize the symbolic nature of the depicted items, I often use numbers and letters which exist in my paintings on the same metaphorical level. The figures are completely accidental, or rather, I choose them based on my intuition.Each of the subjects, even though inspired by experiences of my private environment, become here a certain idea.The way of treating the painted subjects in a few cases evolve into almost complete abstract representation, with only slight allusion to the reality.

The other strong source of my inspiration is a language of visual communication: warning signs, information signs etc.

I often experiment with diverse materials – for example, I started a series of collages using empty drug packets. Here, it was the medium - a common waste, what first gave the context for the series, placing it in a strictly kind of post Pop-art arena. This series is an ironic comment on the certain issues of the global hyper-consumerist culture; a culture which creates an illusion of happiness, within arms reach, but instead abuses the ways of improving the quality of our lives, leading itself to slow self-destruction.I have used similar ideas in my other works, creating series of paintings with more obvious Pop-art and Dadaist references.