MATEUSZ PIESTRAK

was born in 1991, Poland. Graduated from University of Arts in Poznan, Poland in the Faculty of Painting under the supervision of Professor Włodzimierz Dudkowiak in 2016. At the same year he was nominated to 36 th edition of the Maria Dokowicz Competition – The Best Diplomas in Art 2016 (Poznan International Fair) during which he won the Grand Prix in the category of Artistic Diploma and Special Prize of the Bank PKO SA. In 2016 he get Artistic Award in the National Painting Competition New Image/New View and he was finalist of Hestia Artistic Journey Competition (2014, 2016). He lives and works in Poznan where he continues his Phd. in painting.

Selected exhibitions (solo and group):

2017 – Two more heads would appear in its place, MITCH + CO pop up exhibition, New York, USA

2017 – Foundations, POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany

2017 – Modernization, GATE art zone, Düsseldorf, Germany

2017 – Haunts, Duża Scena Gallery of the UAP, Poznan, Poland

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

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

2017 – Non-places, Berlin Gallery Weekend, Neukölln, Allerstrasse 15, Berlin

2017 – Now when I build, I shall begin with the smoke from the chimney, The Curators’LAB Gallery, Municipal Galleries of the University of the Arts in Poznan, Poland

2017 – Stream not found, Assembly Gallery Poznan, Poland

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

2016 – Can you imagine a luminous ruin?, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland

2016 – BERLINER LISTE 2016, Fair for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

2016 – OSTRALE, error: X, 10. International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, Dresden, Germany

2016 – International Contemporary Art Fair ARTVILNIUS’16, Vilnius,    Lithuania

2016 – The 36th edition of the Maria Dokowicz Competition – Best Diplomas UAP 2016, International Art Fair, Poznan, Poland

2016 – New Picture/New View – Finalists Exhibition, Poznan and Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland

2016 – Hestia Artistic Journey Competition – Finalists Exhibition in Museum of Modern Art (MSN), Warsaw, Poland

2015 – Border, Nowa Gallery in Poznan, Poland

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

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

2014 – Non-place, Fama, Swinoujscie, Poland

2014 – Liquidity of image FF Gallery, Łódź, Poland

2014 – The images of the real world, Ptapty, Poznan, Poland

2014 – Out, Art Pavilion Ergo Hestia, Warsaw, Poland.

2014 – The Competition Hestia Artistic Journey – Finalists Exhibition, Dom Towarowy Bracia Jabłkowscy, Warsaw, Poland

2013 – Woody Wood ago, Collegiate Art, Poznan, Poland

2013 – Recognition, Place of Art 44, Swinoujscie, Poland

2013 – Kontakte, Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

2013 – Areas Figure, Gallery Jesuit, Poznan, Poland

2010 – Phototeque, ShowOff, Month of Photography in Krakow, Poland

Selected awards and achievements:

2016 – Grand Prix in the category of Artistic Diploma – the 36th edition of the Maria  Dokowicz Competition – The Best Diplomas in Art 2016 (Poznan International Fair)

2016 – Special Prize of the Bank PKO SA – the 36th edition of the Maria Dokowicz  Competition – The Best Diplomas in Art 2016 (Poznan International Fair)

2016 – Main Award in the Competition New Image / New View

2014, 2016 – Finalist of the Hestia Artistic Journey Competition