Pawel Olszczynski (b. 1985, Krakow), "My Vampire," 2024

Exhibited
"Navel of Dream", City Gallery in Wroclaw, 11.04 - 09.05.2024

Biography
Graduate of the graphic design department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and Hochshule fur Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main. In 2010-2012 he co-founded the New Roman gallery and collective in Krakow. Scholarship holder of the Mayor of Krakow (2011), scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2016). He mainly uses drawing, but also creates painting works and ceramic objects. Works on paper are usually drawings made in pencil, where the medium itself becomes almost an equal subject of the work - the mapping and juxtaposition of dense patterns and textures. The variation in the intensity of black and gray, can evoke associations with old engravings or retro illustrations. The juxtaposition of such a form with the depicted elements that refer to modernity can produce an effect of strangeness, but it is also a kind of game with our perception and memory - a search for connections between different eras, styles or motifs.

Selected solo and group exhibitions: "Nostalgia. Seekers of Fading Stars," MOCAK, Krakow, 2025; "Pines," Lisowski Gallery, Warsaw, 2025; "BRAID vs CHAIN," TURNUS Gallery, Warsaw, 2024; "Hold Me Closer," Warsaw Gallery Weekend with HOS Gallery, 2023; "UrbaMistyka," Tatra Museum, Zakopane, 2023; "Domestication," Villa Polonia, Busko Zdrój, 2023; "Heavy Ornament," Studio PRÁM, Prague, 2022; "Anxiety Comes at Dusk," Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2022; Refugees Welcome. Artists for Refugee Women and Refugees, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2022; "Once a River Flowed Here," Piana Gallery Foundation, Krakow, 2022; "Into These Hustling, Flaming and Staggering Days, I Am Transported by Thought," Stefan Gierowski Foundation, 2021; 44. Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale, BWA Bielsko Biała, 2019; "In the Near Past," BWA SiC, Wrocław, 2018; "Psycho-the-Rapist," Galeria piktogram, Warsaw, 2016.