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Tomasz Kowalski

Born in 1984 in Szczebrzeszyn, Poland.
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

EDUCATION

2009 Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (PL)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 Fondazione Bonollo, Vicenza (IT)
2025 At the Excavation Site, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)
Tomasz Kowalski, Gdańsk Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk (PL)
2024 COIL, Clearing, New York (US)
2023 Lalka, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2022 Psy-trans, 15 Orient, New York (US)
2021 Foam City, Swallow, Vilnius (LT)
Delirious Szczebrzeszyn, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2020 Duch, aktor, rzecz/Ghost, Actor, Thing, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2018 Release of Everlasting Somersault, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
New Vehicle, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leibzig (DE)
Proto Weather, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Natty Dread (with Alicja Kowalska), Condo, Arcadia Missa, London (UK)
2017 A Man Moves Out of a Skeleton, Clark House Initiative, Mumbai (IN)
Złota drabina / Golden Ladder, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2015 Djinn, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Planck Time, carlier gebauer, Berlin (DE)
2014 Tomasz Kowalski, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (US)
Relativity Express, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna (AT)
2013 Paintings and Assemblages, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Untitled, carlier gebauer, Berlin (DE)
2012 The Truant, carlier gebauer, Berlin (DE)
Routine investigation, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2011 A chimeny sweeper on the church roof, Centre for Contempory Art Ujazdowskie Castle, Warsaw (PL)
Duet (with Agnieszka Polska), Goldex Poldex, Kraków (PL)
2010 Sen, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna (AT)
Powrót przodka, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Pokaz, Galeria Kronika, Bytom (PL)
2009 Nocne Zwiedzanie/Nightseeing, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun (PL)
Gniazdo, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
Tomasz Kowalski, carlier gebauer, Berlin (DE)
2008 Art Kabinett, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (US)
Tomasz Kowalski, carlier gebauer, Berlin (DE)
Piosenka, Galeria Pies, Poznan (PL)
BWA Zielona Gora, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zielona Gora (PL)
2007 Galeria Zak, Berlin (DE)
2006 Człowiek bez właściwości, Galeria Nova, Kraków (PL)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Ways of Seeing, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (PL)
House of Day, House of Night,  MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Cracow (PL)
Moving Image, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)
Words Reflect on Themselves, Museum Jerke, Recklinghausen (DE)
Maison CLEARING,  Basel (CH)
You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, curated by Su Wu, Dallas Contemporary (US)
Breaking the Joints,  Sapieha Palace, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (LT)
Elegy,  As it Stands, Los Angeles (US)
2024 Words Reflect on Themselves, Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw (PL)
Transformations. Modernity in the Third Polish Republic,  National Museum, Kraków (PL)
Meet me by the lake, CLEARING, New York (US)
Café Crèvecoeur, Montesquiou (FR)
Wellspring, CLEARING, Los Angeles (US)
Surrealism. Other Myths, National Museum, Warszawa (PL)
it was a hot day, a day that was blue all through, Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR)
Bal (de)masque,  Emile Verhaeren Museum, Sint-Amands (BE)
2023 Palomar, Simo Bacar, Lisbon (PT)
Inauguration, Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris (FR)
Cmentarz wspaniałości, Piktogram, Warsaw (PL)
Ołowiane Chmury, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk (PL)
Beach, Nino Mier Gallery, New York (US)
2022 Distant Voices / Odlegle Glosy, Galeria Stereo, Warschau (PL)
ca. 2009, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warschau (PL)
2021 Baltic Triennial 14, The Endless Frontier, CAC Vilnius (LT)
Words and Things, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (DE)
Konteksty: Kongres Postartystyczny, Sokołowsko (PL)
La Ruta Natural, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes (FR)
2020 Refugees Welcome, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej MSN, Warsaw (PL)
5 Year Anniversary, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
Enjoy and Take Care!, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
In Exile, Huis Henk Visch, Eindhoven (NL)
The Spirit of Nature and Other Fairy Tales, Silesian Museum, Katowice (PL)
2019 Spojrzenia 2019 / Views 2019, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)
Rock Paper Scissors, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna (AT)
Drowning in a Sea of Data, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES)
The Last Waltz (For Leon), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2018 Autofictions, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (DE)
Ordination, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna (AT)
Bureau_Audio hour, Matthew Gallery, New York (US)
Przepowiednia Jurodiwego / Fool’s prophecy, Muzeum Ikon, Warsaw (PL)
Weeping, Dreaming, Fucking, Laughing, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw (PL)
Dzikość Serca / Wild At Heart, Zachęta National Art Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
One Long Changing Body, carlier gebauer, Berlin (DE)
2017 Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
In Paper We Trust, The Dot Project, London (UK)
2016 Szalona Galeriav, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej MSN, Warsaw (PL)
Parallel Vienna 2016, Parallel Vienna, Vienna (AT)
Objects Do Things, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (PL)
2015 Very Long Fingers, Simone Subal Gallery, New York (US)
Procedures for The Head, Kunsthalle Bratislava (SK)
I hear your voice reflected in a glass and it sounds like it is inside of me, carlier gebauer, Berlin (DE)
For Me Abstraction is Real!, Boccanera Arte Contemporanea, Trento (IT)
Run For The Roses, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Uciec i wrócic / Escape and Return, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2014 Painting, Poetry, Pottery, Tobias Naehring Galerie, Leipzig (DE)
Gelatin: Paint Me, Paint Me Everywhere, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL)
The Night of the Great Season, Kunsthalle Mulhouse (FR)
As You Can See: Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL)
Hoch Hinaus!, Museum Neuer Wiener Kunstverein, Vienna (AT)
The Lamp of Memory, Valentines Mansion, London (UK)
2013 British British Polish Polish. Art from Europe’s Edges in the long 90s and Today, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw (PL)
Everything and More, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Yellowing of the Lunar Consciousness, Galleria Massimodeluca, Venice (IT)
2012 Soundworks, ICA, London (UK)
The Castle in the Air. Séance of Imagination, Zamek Centre, Poznan (PL)
Circus as a Parallel Universe, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
Air de Pologne, De Garage, Mechelen (BE)
The Poster Show, carlier gebauer, Berlin (DE)
2011 Genius Without Talent, De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
Museum der Wunsche/Museum of Desires, MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (AT)
Acquisitions récentes : D’Antonin Artaud à Tatiana Trouvé, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
EastExEast, Brand New Gallery, Milan (IT)
Gone to Croatan - Strategien des Verschwindens, HMKV, Dortmund (DE)
Die Unsichtbaren Vier, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna (AT)
2010 Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K. Ghent (BE)
Public Private Painting, Mu.ZEE, Ostend (BE)
In Dreams, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (UK)
Przeklenstwa Wyobrazni/The Curse of Imagination, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL)
Small Improvisation, Stadtgalerie Kiel (DE)
Passion Fruits, Sammlung Olbricht, me Collectors Room Berlin (DE)
2009 Le cœur est un chasseur Solitaire, Gare Saint-Sauver, Lille (FR)
Crotla presents, Lothringer13, Stadtische Kunsthalle München, Munich (DE)
Blue Almost White, ING Polish Arts Foundation/Leto, Warsaw (PL)
Hell of things, CCA Galeria Kronika, Bytom (PL)
2008 Ballady i Romanse, Raster, Warsaw (PL)
Establishment (and its discontents), Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (PL)
Wyprzedaz Teatru, BWA Arsenal, Bialystok (PL)
2007 The Ship of Fools, Studio Angeletti, Rome (IT)
Small is Beautiful, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal Unterowisheim (DE)
16 things, which may have not been found, Artpol, Kraków (PL)

INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS

Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (PL)
Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (AT)
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes (FR)
MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków (PL)
Fondazione Bonollo, Verona (IT)
Collection Pinault
X Museum, Beijing (CN)
Olbricht Collection
Boros Collection

AWARDS

2014 Prix de Dessin de la Fondation d’Art Contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain