Paweł Olszewski
Paweł Olszewski
The reality depicted in Paweł Olszewski's paintings resembles how it might be perceived by non-human detectors — whether artificial or the sensors of bats or flies. The space in them also brings to mind some undiscovered mutant hybrid of cubism and futurism. The colors are muted, the light is dim, the forms are blurry, abstract up close, the shapes emerge when you step back and look at them from a distance. The atmosphere there is reminiscent of the delirious state of mind of a haunted programmer late at night.
He lives and works in Cracow (PL)
Education: Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, PL & Universität der Künste, Berlin, DE.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (or duo)
2026
Unnamed Need, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL (with Piotr Skiba)
2024
Still Life, Editorial Projects, Vilnius, LT (with Urte Janus)
The Turn Turns Two Ways, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL
2022
Split #2, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL (with Nils-Alix Tabeling)
Group exhibitions
2024
Oyster Ears, Editorial Projects, Vilnius, LT
Liste Art Fair, Basel, CH
2023
Contemporary Myths and Artefacts, Stockholm Gasverket, Stockholm, SE
How to Disappear Completely?, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL
The Best Diplomas, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk, PL
AFFAIR Bucharest | heat. A collaborative exhibition Piktogram & Suprainfinit, Bucharest, RO
2022
Refugees Welcome, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
Back to School, Razem Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw, PL
2021
If Wishes Were Fishes We’d All Cast Nets, Krupa Gallery, Wrocław, PL
In These Days of Tumult, Heat and Dazzle I Retreat in My Mind, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, PL
2020
Pandemic Consequence: Dreams, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Serce Człowieka, Warsaw, PL
Collections
KAF Collection
