KRZYSZTOF MĘTEL

was born in 1993, Poland. In 2016 he accomplished B.A. in the Faculty of Painting under the supervision of Professor Włodzimierz Dudkowiak at the University of Arts in Poznan, Poland. In 2014 he was taking part in Student Exchange – in Oil Painting Department (atelier He Zhenhao) at Shanghai Normal University. One year later he won the Competition for project and realization of mural of „polish national opera # unfashionable 2015”. In 2015 he began his studies of classical philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University and he represented the University of Arts in Poznan at the International Open Air in terms of spatial activities and performance – Object in the event in Skoki and in the National Academic Partnership – Revitalization – secondariness in the era of overproduction organized by the Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko. He lives and works in Poznan, where he continues his M.A. in painting. 

Selected exhibitions (solo and group):

2017 – The Next Day vol.2, Allerstrasse 15, Berlin, Germany

2017 – Islands and atolls: mapping the imagination, Galeria Sztuki Wozownia, Torun, Poland

2017 – Touch point; borders and boundaries, Curator’s Lab, Poznan, Poland

2017 – No Budget Show 9: Shortage-Collapse-Loss, Owinska, Poland

2017 – II Painting Department UAP, Duza Scena UAP, Poznan, Poland

2017 – Re-akcje 5, Promocyjna Gallery, Krakow, Poland

2017 – Re-akcje 5, Atrium UAP, Poznan, Poland

2017 – Re-akcje 5, Mala Zbrojownia, Gdansk, Poland

2017 – Nostalgia on sale, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland

2017 – Anestetyki, Specjalistyczna Przychodnia Lekarska NZOZ „Plac Kolegiacki”, Poznan, Poland

2017 – Correspondence 2, Szewska Gallery, Poznan, Poland

2017 – My Zakopane, Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Zakopane, Poland

2017 – Katedra Sztuki, Opactwo Cystersow, Lubiaz, Poland

2016 – The Next Day, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland

2016 – Connecting Points, R 20 Gallery, Poznan, Poland

2016 – Neosarmaci – heroes and losers, Mona Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland

2016 – Temporary Autonomous Zone, Mona Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland

2015 – Fallout Skies / Bad Weather, FLOW, MONA Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland

2015 – Revitalization -secondariness in the era of overproduction, the National Academic Partnership 2015 1st Edition, Polish Sculpture Center, Oronsko, Poland

2015 – Borders, 45th International Art Festival FAMA, Swinoujscie, Poland

2015 – Counterpoints and  autonomies /between sound and image, Pod Biblioteką Gallery, Konin, Poland

2014 – Signature, Kontrapunkt Gallery of Contemporary Art, Poznan, Poland

2012 – Review, Nad Odrą Gallery, Opole, Poland

Selected awards, achievements:

2015 – 1st Prize in Competition for project and realization of mural of „polish national opera # unfashionable 2015”

2015 – International Open Air in terms of spatial activities and performance – Object in the event in Skoki, Poland

2015 – The National Academic Partnership – Revitalization – secondariness in the era of overproduction organized by the Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko,  Poland

2014 – Student Exchange – in Oil Painting Department (atelier He Zhenhao) at Shanghai Normal University