Stefan Gierowski

Stefan Gierowski was born on 21 May 1925 in Częstochowa. He spent his childhood in Kielce. From an early age, he displayed an interest in painting and wanted to train in the craft. His father, Józef Gierowski, a doctor, was a painting enthusiast who played an important role in fostering his son’s artistic vocation. His mother, Stefania née Wasilewska, had studied gardening and also encouraged the young Stefan to develop his artistic talents. The creative principle manifested itself in the family also through Józef’s uncle, Antoni Gierowski, a 19th-century painter and draughtsman. Patriotic traditions were an important part of the young artist’s formation.
When the Second World War broke out, Stefan, alongside his mother, joined the Armed Struggle Organization (ZWZ) and then the Home Army (AK), where he participated in underground activities under the nom-de-guerre “Hubert.” In 1941, at age 16, he started studying art clandestinely with Andrzej Oleś, a recognized Kielce-based watercolourist. Three years later, he had to discontinue those studies, having been transferred to the Home Army inspectorate in Częstochowa.

After the Home Army’s dissolution in early 1945, Gierowski moved to Kraków, where he enrolled simultaneously at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Faculty of Art History at Jagiellonian University. His knowledge of art history proved crucial for his reflections on the possibilities and prospects of painting, opening up Gierowski to modernity. Under the supervision of Wojsław Mole, he wrote a seminar paper entitled “Impressionism as Part of French Culture.”
At the art academy, he initially studied in the class of Prof. Władysław Jarocki, but when his clandestine studies with Oleś were officially recognized, he was transferred directly into the third year of the course. He trained under Zbigniew Pronaszko, an ex-Formist, as well as in the class of Karol Frycz, where he studied painting in architecture and designed stage sets. His training and conversations with Frycz acquainted him with the modernist art of the Young Poland movement. In Pronaszko’s class, his fellow students included Zbigniew Grzybowski, Jerzy Panek, Stanisław Wójcik, and Andrzej Wróblewski.
During his studies, Gierowski struck up a collaboration with the literary/cultural magazine Wieś, publishing articles on art and illustrating a number of issues.

In 1948, having completed his studies, Gierowski returned to his native Kielce, where he started working as a specialist in the fine arts at the Department of Culture of Kielce Province. He also ran an arts class at the local branch of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP).
In 1949, offered a permanent position as technical editor of Wieś, Gierowski moved to Warsaw. On behalf of the periodical, he participated in a conference on artistic education held by the Ministry of Culture and Art in Poznań. In June that year, he met Władysław Strzemiński at the National Museum in Poznań. Also that month, the ZPAP Congress convened in Katowice, with Gierowski as delegate of the Kielce branch, where the organization’s takeover by the communist Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) began, leading to restriction of Gierowski’s rights as a member.
The following years saw Gierowski devote himself to family life, with his marriage to Anna Golka and the birth of their two children, Magda and Józef. During that time, besides remaining active in the field of painting, the artist illustrated novels by his friend and fellow Kielce native Edmund Niziurski, such as The Book of Urchins. But financially it was a difficult period, living in a “kolkhoz” flat and not exhibiting because his paintings did not meet the criteria of socialist realism. The family survived on his wife’s modest salary as a dentist. In late 1951, Gierowski got a job in the portfolios and art books section of the publishing company Wydawnictwo Artystyczno-Graficzne. He maintained an acquaintance with Marek Włodarski, through whom he later met the members of the painting collective Grupa 55.
In 1955, with the Stalinist order already thawing, he took part in the International Young Art Exhibition at Zachęta in Warsaw, where his painting I Love Life! won 2nd prize. This put him in the spotlight and led to his recognition as a leading painter of the new generation. That status was reaffirmed by the work Pigeon House (1955), which was shown in the 6th Warsaw District Exhibition that year, winning critical acclaim.
Also in 1955, Gierowski participated in the Nationwide Exhibition of Young Visual Artists Against War—Against Fascism at the Arsenal in Warsaw, which proved to be a generational show of artists opposed to the aesthetics of socialist realism. The participants would soon become leading figures in the art of their generation as well as Gierowski’s longtime friends.
In January 1957, the artist exhibited for the first time at Galeria Krzywe Koło, thus initiating what would be several years of fruitful collaboration with Marian Bogusz and the associated milieu. In February, at the ZPAP General Congress, Gierowski was elected the union’s secretary. Together with the newly elected management board, led by his friend Jan Cybis as president, he began working on a new statute for ZPAP. It rejected all political references and socialist terminology, and refocused instead on the reorganization of exhibition structures and art centres. As a result of Gierowski’s efforts, several dozen ZPAP-affiliated exhibition spaces were opened around the country. Also in 1957, a year that proved pivotal for his career, Gierowski embarked on a series of paintings designated by Roman numerals. The first of those featured in the 2nd Exhibition of Modern Art at Zachęta, earning him wide critical acclaim, including from the prominent poets Julian Przyboś and Zbigniew Herbert.
In the following years, Gierowski, alongside Aleksander Wojciechowski and Marian Bogusz, was elected to the organizational committee of Confrontations 1960, a Krzywe Koło event that was recapitulated on 8 September 1960 during the 7th Congress of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). With Bogusz and Wojciechowski, he was responsible for the programme of Confrontations as well as exhibiting his works in one of the shows.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Gierowski frequently exhibited abroad, participating for example in the 1st International Biennale of Young Artists in Paris (1959), the 5th International Biennale of Contemporary Art in São Paulo (1959), and the exhibition 15 Polish Painters at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1961).
Following the success of the Polish presentation at the Paris Biennale, he was invited to stage a solo show at Galerie Lacloche, which opened in April 1961. The same year, at the urging of Marian Wnuk and Jan Cybis, he joined the faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw to teach painting in architecture in the department headed by Aleksander Kobzdej.
Soon, in 1965, he was granted permission to start his own class. His teaching style was friendly and open, with a curriculum based on general painterly issues, such as colour and gene. Over a hundred students completed his course, including such figures as Marian Czapla, Jerzy Kalina, Łukasz Korolkiewicz, Ryszard Ługowski, Jarosław Modzelewski, Marek Sobczyk, Antoni Starowieyski, Krzysztof Wachowiak, and Apoloniusz Węgłowski. In 1975–1981 Gierowski served as dean of the Faculty of Painting, and in 1983 was elected rector of the academy, but the authorities objected and he never took up the post. He served on the Organizational Committee of the Congress of Polish Culture in 1981. In 1982–1988, he was a member of the Chief Council of Science and Higher Education, and president of the Council of Higher Artistic Education. He was promoted to full professor in 1986.
Ten years later he retired from teaching, and thereafter lived and worked in Konstancin-Jeziorna near Warsaw.
The Stefan Gierowski Foundation was launched in 2014. Besides popularizing and protecting the artist’s oeuvre, it supports young painting through the annual Foundation Prize. It is also an active exhibition venue, organizing survey shows devoted to various aspects of contemporary and 20th-century painting.
Stefan Gierowski died in 2022 at the age of 97.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 
1955
Klub SARP (The Association of Polish Architects’ club), Warsaw

1957
Exhibition of Stefan Gierowski’s Works, Krzywe Koło Gallery, Warsaw 

1959
Exhibition of Stefan Gierowski’s Painting, Krzywe Koło Gallery, Warsaw 

1960
Stefan Gierowski, Krzywe Koło Gallery, Warsaw

1961
Lacloche Gallery, Paris

1963
SPAM Gallery, Warsaw

1965
Gierowski Gëomëtrie Spatiales, Galerie Lacloche, Paris

1967
Exhibition of Stefan Gierowski’s Painting, Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Gallery, Warsaw

BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Olsztyn 

1968
Galerie Numaga, Auvernier-Neuchatel, Switzerland

1970
Stefan Gierowski – Painting, Contemporary Gallery, Warsaw

Pryzmat Gallery, Cracow

1971
ZPAP (The Union of Polish Artists and Designers) Gallery, Gdańsk 

1973
BWA Gallery, Piastów

Kazimierz Pułaski Museum, Warka

Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw

1974
BWA Gallery, Lublin

The Museum of the Chełm Land, Chełm

1975
Gallery of Modern Art, Cracow - Nowa Huta

1976
Galerie Numag, Auvernier-Neuchatel, Switzerland

1977
Stefan Gierowski – Painting, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Łódź

Galerie Simone van Dormael, Brussels

1980
BWA Gallery, Wrocław

1981
Exhibition of Stefan Gierowski’s Painting, Winner of the 1980 J. Cybis Award, ZPAP (The Union of Polish Artists and Designers), Warsaw

1984
SHS Gallery, Warsaw

STUDIO Gallery, Warsaw 

1986
Piotr Nowicki’s Gallery, Warsaw

SHS Gallery, Warsaw

SARP (The Association of Polish Architects) Gallery, Warsaw

1987
Numaga Gallery, Auvernier-Neuchatel, Switzerland

1989
Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw

1989/1990
Painting the Ten Commandments in Tribute to a 15th-century Gdańsk Master, Archdiocese Museum, Warsaw

University Museum, Lublin

1990
A Couple of Paintings, Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw

1991
1958-1991 Paintings, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow Painting the Ten Commandments in Tribute to a 15th-century Gdańsk Master, Wspólnota Polska Association, Cracow

BWA Gallery, Kielce

1992
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

1993
Paintings, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

Gest Gallery, Łódź

1995
BWA Gallery, Zamość

1996
Gest Gallery, Łódź

Zderzak Gallery, Cracow

1997
Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw

1998
Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom

2000
National Museum, Poznań

Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

2003
Piekary Gallery, Poznań

2004
Black and Other Colours, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow

2005
National Gallery of Art, Sopot

Leon Wyczółkowski Regional Museum, Bydgoszcz

Prezydencka Gallery, Warsaw

The Line – Striving, Andzelm Gallery, Lublin

Pryzmat Gallery, Cracow

2006
The Process of Creation, Art NEW Media Gallery, Warsaw

2007
Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw 

2008
Three Landscapes and Four Metas, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow

2010
Painting the Ten Commandments in Tribute to a 15th-century Gdańsk Master, University of Warsaw Library, Warsaw

Quality – Brightness – Saturation, aTAK Gallery, Warsaw

Paintings from the `50s and `60s, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

Office of Prominent Citizens of Częstochowa, Museum of Częstochowa, Częstochowa

 2011
Painting the Ten Commandments in Tribute to a 15th-century Gdańsk Master, Radom Diocesan Curia, Radom

The Space of Paint – the Curiosity of Emptiness, Andzelm Gallery, Lublin

2013
Teatr Wielki, Opera Gallery, Warsaw

2014
Painting the Ten Commandments in Tribute to a 15th-century Gdańsk Master, Gallery of Contemporary Sacral Art, Kielce

2015
Painting the Ten Commandments in Tribute to a 15th-century Gdańsk Master, Leon Wyczółkowski Regional Museum, Bydgoszcz

XC. 16 Paintings – from the Fibak Family Collection, Fibak Gallery, Warsaw

Painting the Ten Commandments in Tribute to a 15th-century Gdańsk Master, St. Mary’s Church, Gdańsk

2016
Painting the Ten Commandments in Tribute to a 15th-century Gdańsk Master, Muzeum Archdiocese Museum, Katowice

Stefan Gierowski. From the Stefan Gierowski Collection, Atlas Sztuki, Łódź

Stefan Gierowski – Watercolours, “Space for Art”, Nowa Huta Cultural Centre, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow University of Economics, Cracow

Prof. Stefan Gierowski: Painting, University of Bielsko Biała, Bielsko Biała

A Key, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow

2017
Fragment I, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

Fragment II, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

2018
Fragment III, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

Overview of Works about Line under the Care of the Foundation, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

Stefan Gierowski – Line in Painting, Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biała

For Ms Marta instead of Dinner, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow

2019
Emptiness and Light. The Thing About Colour, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Olsztyn

Fragment IV, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

Fragment V, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

2019/ 2020
Fragment VI, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

2020
Stefan Gierowski: Thoughts Drawn Not Fully Seen, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

Fragment VII, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

2021
Stefan Gierowski. Another Space, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

Stefan Gierowski. Heights, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

2022
Stefan Gierowski. A Selection from the Archive, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

Stefan Gierowski – 2013, Galeria aTAK, Warsaw

Stefan Gierowski. Selection of works (1957-2013) under the auspices of the Foundation, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

2023
Stefan Gierowski. Earth: Divisions, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

2024
Stefan Gierowski. Sky – Line, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

That’s How the Light Gets in. The Art of Stefan Gierowski (1925–2022), CAFA Art Museum, Beijing

2025
That’s How the Light Gets in. The Art of Stefan Gierowski (1925–2022), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

Stefan Gierowski. Beginning and End, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1946
Poland 1939–1945, Kielce

1949
Exhibition of ZPAP division, Kielce

1955
Against War – Against Fascism, Arsenał Museum, Warsaw
International Post-Competition Exhibition for the 5th Festival or Youth and Students in Warsaw, Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Gallery, Warsaw

1956
Junge Generation. Polnische Kunstausstellung, Grassi – Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin

Ten Polish Painters, Galerie George Giroux, Brussels, Musé de Liége, Gent

1957
Modern Art. Exhibition, Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Gallery, Warsaw

Modern Polish Art, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Skopje

Young Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, BWA Pawilony Gallery, Sopot 

1958
Salon Marcowy festival, Zakopane

5 Pittori polacchi d'oggi, Galleria del Milione, Milano, Unione Culturale-Palazzo Carignano, Turin, Galleria La Loggia, Bolonia, Galleria L'Attico, Roma, Galleria d'Arte Minerva, Naples (1959)

Ausstellung Polnischer Künstler von der Modernen Galerie und Kulturhaus Warschau, Galerie Palette, Wuppertal, Stuttgarter Hausbücherei, Munich, Der Deutche Bücherbund Stuttgarter Hausbücherei, Bonn, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt on the Main, Essen, Hannover, Düsseldorf

Modern Art Exhibition of Krzywe Koło Gallery, Galerie Palette, Wuppertal, Duisburg, Soest 

1959
Paris Biennale, Paris

V Bienal Internacional de Arte Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo

Art Polonais. Poolse Kunst, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

2nd Salon Marcowy festival, Zakopane, Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Gallery, Warsaw

50 ars polskt malerei, Kungliga Konstakademien, Stokholm

3rd Exhibition of Modern Art, Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Gallery, Warsaw

Mostra di pittura polacca contemporanea, Sala Napoleonica, Venice

Poland – 50 years of Painting, Art and History Museum, Geneva 

1960
Konfrontacje [Confrontations] 1960, Krzywe Koło Gallery, Warsaw

1961
12 Modern Polish Painters, Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris, Paris

Six Contemporary Polish Painters, Galerie Chalette, Chicago, Galerie Chalette, New York

Gallery Painters, Galerie Lambert, Paris

15 Polish Painters, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Washington University, St. Louis, William Proctor Institute, Utica Munson (1962), Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Polsk Maleri, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo 

1962
Polnische Malerei, Folkwang Museum, Essen

Konfrontacje [Confrontations] 1956–1962, Krzywe Koło Gallery, Warsaw

Argumenty [Arguments] 1962, Exhibition of Polish and Czechoslovakian painters organised for the 6th International Festival of Contemporary Music Warszawska Jesień, Krzywe Koło Gallery, Warsaw

Polish Painters, Galerie La Calade, Avignon, Galerie Lambert, Paris

 1963
Argumenty [Arguments] 1963, Krzywe Koło Gallery, Warsaw

 1964
Profile IV. Polnische Kunst Heute, Stadtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum

The Function of Record. Contemporary Language of Art, Association of Polish Musicians, Warsaw

Marian Bogusz, Tadeusz Dominik, Stefan Gierowski, Rajmund Ziemski, Krzywe Koło Gallery, Warsaw

The 2nd Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, BWA Zamek Książąt Pomorskich Gallery, Szczecin

The 1964 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

The 3rd International Young Artist Exhibition Europe – Japan, Tokyo

1965
Image – Seeing – Imagination. Painting – Drawing – Sculpture, Współczesna Gallery, Warsaw

V Biennale Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, San Marino

Arte actual de Polonia. Pintura, tapicerias y arte gráfico, Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto "Torcuato Di Tella", Buenos Aires, Salon de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Museo de Arte Moderno Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico (1966), Casa de la Cultura, Guadalajara, Museo Michoacana, Morelia, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Havana (1967)

Porównania [Comparisons], The 18th Festival of Visual Arts, Sopot

The 2nd Visual Exhibition of Złote Grono Symposium, Muzeum Okręgowe / BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra

37 Polish Contemporary Artists, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

1966
17 Polish Painters, D'Arcy Gallery, New York

Space – Motion – Light, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wrocław

100 Malningar av Polska Konstnärer, Sveagalleriet, Stokholm

Tokyo International Exhibition of Art 1966 (AIAP), Keiô Department Stove, Tokyo

1967
Polské soudobné malířství, Galerie ULUV, Prague, Czechoslovakia

2. Internationale der Zeichnung, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt

The 1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Polish Contemporary Painting. Collections of Leon Wyczółkowski Museum in Bydgoszcz, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy

Space – Motion – Light, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wrocław

1968
34 La Biennale di Venezia, Polish exhibition hall, Venice

Triennale India, New Delhi, India

Moderne Malerei in Polen (1917–1967), Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany 

1969
Exhibition of Contemporary Polish Art, National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Moderne polnische Malerei und Graphik 1959–1969, Nationalgalerie, Berlin 

1970
ELEKTRA 70, New York

Painting in the People’s Republic of Poland, National Museum, Warsaw

1972
Puolalaisia kuvia – Polska Bilder, Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinfor Konsthall, Helsingin, Konstmuseet, Tampere, Finland

Arta plastiča contemporană din Republica Populařa Polonă, Sala Dalles, Bucharest

Modern Lengyel Művészet, Műcsarnok, Budapest

Deutsch – Polnische – Ausstellung II, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal 

1973
Mote med Kopernikus – Modern Polsk Konst, Museum, Malmö, Sweden 

1974
Pintura Polaca contemporanea, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas

Nationale Ausstellung Polen 74, Gruga Park, Essen 

1975
Polonia en Mexico Festival de las Formas /Pintura Contemporanea, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico

Polish Painting Today, Hastings Art Gallery, Hastings, Museum and Art Gallery Mansfield, Crescent Gallery, Mansfield, Crescent Gallery, Scarborough, Great Britain

Zeitgenössische polnische Kunst, Ausstellunshalle, Dortmund

1960 – Konfrontacje [Confrontations] – 1970, Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw 

1976
6th Festival of Fine Arts. Homage to Xawery Dunikowski on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth, Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Gallery, Warsaw

Pintura polaca contemporanea, Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto, Fundação Gulbenkoan, Lisboa, Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid (1977), Museo Histórico Municipal Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

1977
Romantic Spirit in Polish 19th- and 20th-Century Painting, Grand Palais, Paris

In a Circle of Friends. Exhibition of Aleksander Wojciechowski’s Collection of Paintings, ZPAP Gallery, Warsaw

Inheritors and Contesters in Polish 19th- and 20th-Century Art, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris

Modern Lengyel Festészet, Magyar Nemezeti Galéria, Budapest 

1978
7th Festival of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

”Arsenał”, Artistic Formation 1955–1977, Regional Museum, Gorzów Wielkopolski 

1979
Modern Polish Art, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen

Sávremeno pőljsko slikarstvo, Umentnički Pavilijon Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Muzej na Savremenato Umetnost, Skopje, Moderna Galerija, Titograd, Yugoslav Republic

Winners of National Awards and the Minister of Culture and Art awarded on the 35th anniversary of People’s Republic of Poland, Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Gallery, Warsaw

Polish Contemporary Painting – Winners of National Awards, Polish Institute, Paris

25 Polish Contemporary Artists, Centre d'Echanges de Perrache, Lyon

25 Years of Painting in People’s Republic of Poland, National Museum, Warsaw

1980
75 Years of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Creative Tendencies of the Teachers, National Museum, Warsaw

Polalaisia kuvia – maalauksia, piirustuksia ja taidegrafiikkaa, Porin Taidemuseo, Porin, Hämeenlinnan Taidesmuseo, Hämeenlinnan, Finland 

1981
Polish Painting from the Collections of the Regional Museum in Bydgoszcz, Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Gallery, Warsaw

1982
Presence, St. Alexander’s Church, Warsaw

1983
The Sign of the Cross, Parish of God’s Mercy, Warsaw

Reality and Imagination. Exhibition of the Polish Contemporary Art Collection of the National Museum in Wrocław, Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Gallery, Warsaw

Artist’s Thought, Palace of Art, Cracow

Through the Seen to the Unseen, Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Warsaw 

1984
Contemporary Art Collection of the Regional Museum in Bydgoszcz, BWA Gallery, Wrocław

Visual Artists – to Shipyard Workers. Exhibition of Visual Works on the Anniversary of September 1980, the Dominican Basilica of St. Nicolas, Gdańsk

1985
New Sky and New Earth?, Parish of Divine Mercy, Warsaw

Polnische Kunst '85 – zu gast bei Steyer – Daimler – Puch, Vienna

1986
Gruppe rbk Wuppertal. 27 Künstler aus 7 Ländern – Malerei, Graphik, Skulptur, Ausstellunshalle Alte Rathaus, Schweinfurt, Kulturzentrum Wilhelm Morgner Haus, Soest, German Federal Republic

Masters of Contemporary Art in Poland, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Pittura contemporanea polacca, Centro Studi di Arte e Cultura, Naples

1987
Painting in the Warsaw Academy Circle, Galeria EL, Elbląg, former Norblin Factory, Warsaw

Freiraum. Ver Generationen Konstrukivischer Strömungen in der polnischer Kunst, Kunstation, Kleinsassen, German Federal Republic

1988
Polnische Malerei seit 1945 aus der Sammlung des Bezirksmuseums Bydgoszcz, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Kunsthalle, Wilhelmshaven, German Federal Republic

Geometria és metafora. Kiállitás a Chelmi Kőrzeti Múzeum Anyagából, Budapest Galéria, Budapest

1989
Freiraum 2, VillaToscana, Gmunden, Austria

Vision and Unity, Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorm, Holland

In the Image, after the Likeness, former Norblin Factory, Warsaw

1990
Krzywe Koło Gallery. A Retrospective, National Museum, Warsaw

1991
20th c. Art Collection in the Art Museum in Łódź, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

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

Eyeshot. Within the Field of Vision, Nikolaj Gallery, Copenhagen

1992
Reduktivismus. Abstraktion in Polen, Tschechoslowakei, Ungam 1950–1980, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

Circle of "Arsenał 1955" – Painting, Graphic and Drawing from the Regional Museum in Gorzów, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

10 Years Later. Exhibition of Polish Contemporary Drawing, Contemporary Art Museum, Radom, BWA Gallery, Cracow, BWA Gallery, Częstochowa, National Art Gallery, Łódź (1993)

Art Museum in Łódź 1931–1992: Collection – Documentation – Actuality, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art + ELAC, Lyon

Polnische Avangarde 1930–1990, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin

1993
From the Nooks and Crannies, Scuplture Gallery, Warsaw

OdNowa Gallery 1964–1969, National Museum, Poznań

Vector of Art, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań

1994
Collection 2, Zamek Ujazdowski Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw

Widerstand und Aufbruch/Resistance and Breakthrough. Polish Art 1980–1993, churches, cities, Stuttgart

Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mrttel- und Osteuropa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bun des republik Deutschland, Bonn

Contemporary Classics, National Museum, Warsaw

1995
Drawing – the First Record (from the ateliers of 60 artists), Xawery Dunikowski Museum in Królikarnia, Warsaw

Lines – Linien, Xawery Dunikowski Museum in Królikarnia, Warsaw

To Cybis, to Samborski …, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Warsaw

1996
Kunst und Natur/Art towards Nature, BASF-Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

Collection 3, Zamek Ujazdowski Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw

The Thaw. Art around 1956, National Museum, Poznań

The Contemporary Warsaw Masters, the Society for Arts gallery, Chicago

Attitudes. Warsaw Artists’ Works, Studio Gallery, Warsaw

1997
Painting’s Limits, Zamek Ujazdowski Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw

Question about Metaphor, Academy of Fine Arts’ “Aula” Gallery, Warsaw

25 Years Ago and Now. An Attempt to Reconstruct, Studio Gallery, Warsaw

Generations, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

Art from Poland 1945–1996, Műcsarnok, Budapest, Vilnius šiuollaikino meno centras, Vilnius, Makslas muzeja Arsenals, Riga, Tallinna Kunstihoone, Tallin

1999
Generations. Polish Art at the Turn of the Centuries, Manege Central Exhibition Hall and Puszkin Gallery 10, Saint Petersburg

2000
Cracow Meetings 2000. FROM TO, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunker, Cracow

Verteidigung der Moderne. Positionen der Polnischen Kunst nach 1945, Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, Germany

2001
International Collection of Contemporary Art, 4th edition. Permanent exhibition. Zamek Ujazdowski Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw

In Between: Art from Poland 1945–2000, Cultural Center, Chicago

Jan Cybis, Stefan Gierowski. Chromatic Paintings, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow

2002
100% Painting, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow

Fijałkowski/Gierowski – Painting Visions, National Art Gallery, Sopot

Abstract Painting – Light, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Olsztyn 

2003
White Paintings, Stefan Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw

Gierowski and Krzywe Koło Gallery, Art Museum, Łódź 

2004
Euroart 1, Biennale of Art, former Prussian barracks, Świnoujście

Painting Classics, Part 1. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Academy of Fine Arts’ “Aula” Gallery, Warsaw

Malewicz in Poland, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok

2006
Warsaw in Berlin. Contemporary Polish Painting, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin

Warsaw in Sofia, Contemporary Polish Painting and Graphics, Sofia 

2008
Three Looks – Łapiński, Gierowski, Tarasin, ESTA Gallery, Gliwice 

2009
Clashes, ESTA Gallery, Gliwice

2010
Berdyszak - Gierowski - Kałucki – Kamoji, District Public Library Gallery, Lublin

Fijałkowski/Gierowski/Sempoliński, Art NEW Media Gallery, Warsaw

Behind the Iron Curtain. Official and Independent Art in the Soviet Republic and in Poland in 1945–1989, Polish Modern Art Foundation, Warsaw

2013
Polish Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London

2016
Meeting of Generations. Warsaw Academy Painters from Krzysztof Musiał’s Collection, Academy Hall, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

Imagines Medii Aevi, National Museum, Poznań

2016/2017
The Magic of the Square, National Gallery of Art, Sopot 

2018
After Cybis, What?, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

Cybis = Painting, DAP Gallery, Warsaw

2019
DEEP IMPACT - Stefan Gierowski and European avant-gardes in the 60s, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

Art Values. From the PKO Bank Polski Collection, National Museum, Warsaw

Abstraction and Geometry, Retroavangarda Gallery, Warsaw

2020
Zauberberg, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow

Colours of Change, National Art Gallery, Sopot

2021
Confrontations and Arguments: Modern Art According to the Krzywe Koło Gallery, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

2022
The Sense of Space, the Sense of Light, Dep Art Gallery, Mediolan

MODERNITÉS COSMIQUES, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence

Na tropie doskonałości. Wybrane dzieła z kolekcji Wojciecha Fibaka, National Art Gallery, Sopot
Więcek x Gierowski, Olszewski Gallery, Warsaw

2023
(Nie)obowiązkowe nauczanie kapizmu, The Czapski Palace, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Warsaw

THE SIGHT OF THE STARS MAKES ME DREAM, Time Gravity - 2023 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu

Everything Must Change for Everything to Remain the Same, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław

The Art of Seeing: Nowosielski and Others, The Royal Castle in Warsaw, Warsaw

2024
Hot World. Exhibition of paintings from the collection of Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, The Witold Lutosławski National Forum of Music, Wrocław

Teresa Panasiuk / Stefan Gierowski - Horizon, Wallspace Gallery, Warsaw

Inauguration Exhibition of Guangdong Museum of Art Baietan - City Chain: A Space for Artistic Experimentation in the Midst of Wind and Tide, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

Beyond the Line: Stefan Gierowski and Sean Scully, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw

2025
Beginnings, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw

Asclepieia, Studio Gallery, Warsaw