Krzysztof Figielski

I feel that a journey towards our true self is also the most authentic way towards others, for the world extends both outside and within us. I am close to the matter of crossing the barriers of time and space, that is also the language, country, tribe, and most of all, approaching this what cannot be simply seen or heard even though it is. There are air travels, winged men, birds, the ocean full of undiscovered treasure, under-water voyages and trees, in my works. The world of imagination, archetypes i.e. primaeval pictures is the area that is perpetually being discovered. If a scientific laboratory is based on examining and explaining the matter, for me the most essential is investigating the interior. The goal is, like in fairy tales and myths, to understand. When it is possible to catch this what is born within silence the whole process is closing.

I was studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. I deal with art and design (pen and brush ink drawing, painting, relief printing, illustration, graphic design and digital media), My works have been shown at solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Many of my drawings have been published in Polish cultural magazines.

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Individual exhibitions

1986 Gallery Na Brechta, Warsaw
1988 Gallery Pokaz, Warsaw
1990 Gallery Młodych, Warsaw
1991 Künstlerbanhof Ebernburg, Bad Münster-Ebernburg
1995, 2001 Stadtbibliothek Kreuzberg, Berlin
1995 Gallery Abakus, Warsaw
1996 The Museum in Szklarska Poręba, Szklarska Poręba
1997 The Museum Burg Posterstein, Posterstein
2000 Gallery MOK - The Cultural Centre, Milanówek
2007 Gallery BWA, Jelenia Góra
2009 Studio Plastyczne Ścieżka, Warsaw
2011 Jacob Böhme House, Zgorzelec/Görlitz


Selected group exhibitions

1985 Metaphoric Stream in the Contemporary Painting, BWA, Koszalin
1988 Arsenal 88 - Young Polish Art Exhibition, Warsaw
1990 Space of Art III, BWA, Łódź
1995 From the Evening Castle, BWA, Jelenia Góra
1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 Contemporary Polish Book Art - edition III, IV, V, VI, Warsaw, Cracow, Prague, Berlin, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Sofia, Stara Zagora, Bratislava, Groningen
1997 Picture ’96 The Miyauchi Foundation, Warsaw, Tokyo
1999 Magnificent Landscape. The Artists and the Artistic Colonies in the Giant Mountains in the XX century, Jelenia Góra, Wrocław, Berlin, Ratingen-Hösel, Görlitz
1999 Aqua Fons Vitae, Galeria BWA, Bydgoszcz
2000 - 2001 Around Great Mountain, Jelenia Góra, Zabrze, Herrnhut, Vrchlabi
2011 „Furament. Water in de Kunst”, Tervuren (Belgium).


Grants

1988 Fondation pour une Entraide Intelectuelle Européenne, Paris
1991 Verein Künstlerbanhof, Bad Münster-Ebernburg


Selected publications

1991 In andere Umgebung ,,ein freies Auge", Algemeine Zeitung, Oct. 30
1996 Waniek Henryk: Sąsiad sąsiadowi, Sycyna, Aug. 4
2009 Piekarska Małgorzata Karolina: Czerń kontra biel. Wystawa rysunku i grafiki Krzysztofa Figielskiego, ,,Wyspa'' kwartalnik literacki, no 3
2010 Góra analogii. Krzysztof Figielski Grafik, Radar magazine [online]:
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Since 1987 publications of drawings in polish magazines and newspapers.