Kornel Janczy
Artist's portrait, courtesy of an Artist
Born in 1984 in Limanowa, currently lives and works in Kraków. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2019, he earned a PhD at the Faculty of Art at the University of National Education Comission in Kraków. His artistic practice includes a variety of media – from painting and drawing to installations and site-specific projects. He has received several scholarships, including the Creative Scholarship of the City of Kraków (2019), the "Young Poland" scholarship (2018), and the "Polish Culture in the World" scholarship (2018, 2021). He was also a finalist in the 11th Eugeniusz Geppert Painting Competition “Attention: Painting!” in 2013.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions:
2021 – Beautiful Obstacles, Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol, Switzerland
2021 – Milky Way, BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland
2021 – Wonderful Atmosphere, BWA Tarnów, Poland
2019 – Innocent Geography, Artzona, Kraków, Poland
2017 – Return from the Stars, Krakauer Haus, Nuremberg, Germany
2016 – Future Nostalgia, Aristoi Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2015 – Empty Weight, Open Studio – Quality Control, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland
2015 – Supertheory, Spectra Art Space, Warsaw, Poland
2014 – Epicenter, Wojciech Bednarski Park, collection of Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
2014 – World, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2014 – Naturally, Mieszkanie Gepperta Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
2013 – And Else, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków, Poland
2012 – Notpoland, BWA Sokół Gallery, Nowy Sącz, Poland
2011 – Deep Field, Nova Gallery, Kraków, Poland
Selected group exhibitions since 2019:
2025 – Future Forms of Feeling, Aspekty Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2024 – Sunset_sunrise, Aspekty Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2022 – Top of the Table, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland
2020 – Komorebi, BWA Gallery, Katowice, Poland
2020 – Dismantling, City of Gardens Gallery, Katowice, Poland
2020 – Office of Found Islands, BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
2020 – Herbarium Novum. Efflorescientiae, Municipal BWA Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland
2019 – The Spirit of Nature and Other Fairy Tales, Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland
2019 – The Map is Not the Territory, B32 Artspace, Maastricht, Netherlands
2019 – Borderline, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland
2019 – Force Field, Officine 800 Gallery, Venice, Italy
Other
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