foto: Kasia Kasica

Born 1985, lives and work in Warsaw
2009 MA, Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PL
(Prof. Jaroslaw Modzelewski ,Pawel Boltryk Heban)
from 2020 Tutor at Studio 55, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
​(together with Paweł Boltryk Heban). 
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He creates paintings, drawings, videos, murals and installations. He is an observer of everyday life, which he regularly comments in his drawing diaries. He collects stories and objects from the past, which he is often inspired by. In his works, he combines a spontaneous and often destructive visual gesture with very precise action and long working hours. He is interested in obsessively repeated motives. Recently he collaborates with a choreographer Liwia Bargieł.
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“People who practice art live in a secret brotherhood.
Although each of them explores their own domains and sets their own laws, they are all connected as a community of lone wolves working hard on their own without any guarantee for the success. Even at the Academy of Art, where is the typical relationship teacher—student, there is some additional thread of understanding between painters, old and young.
I have especially warm feelings about Bartek, even now, few years after he completed his art diploma. I see that he IS a painter, an artist, and an active worker in arts. And there is so easy to give up…”
- Jarosław Modzelewski.

Exhibitions:

Sublimacja, solo exhibition, Galeria Biała, Lublin, 2020
Rewizjonizm Magiczny, group show together with "Zbiorowy collective", Galeria Propaganda, Warsaw, 2020
We are people/Jesteśmy ludźmi, group show, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, 2020
Borderline, group show, Muzeum Współczesne, main exhibition at Triennale Rysunku, Wrocław, 2019
The Son of Man Machine, group show, Centrum Sztuki Galeria EL, Elbląg, 2019
​I've been living in somebody's dream for some time, solo exhibition, Gallery Contrast, Warsaw, 2018
Summer, group show, Roberto Polo Gallery, Brussels, 2015
Building diary, solo exhibition, Centre for contemporary art Ujazdowski castle Warsaw, 2014
Parachuters, solo exhibition, 81 Gallery Warsaw, 2013
Przestrzeń do wynajęcia, solo exhibition, "Jerozolima" Warsaw, 2012
Dessa concert, project with Dessa, "Jerozolima" Warsaw, 2012
Chora sztuka, "Jerozolima" Warsaw, 2012
Yemanja, solo exhibition and performance, 81 Gallery Warsaw, 2012
Koleiny losu, solo exhibition, Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw, 2012
Meia lua, solo exhibition and murals DAP gallery Warsaw, 2011
Coming Out, best diploma Academy of art, 2009
Art Competition of Siemens, first prize, 2009
Diploma 2009, Aula Gallery, Academy of art Warsaw, 2009
Nigdzie czyli gdzie?, Aspekt Gallery, 2009
Bartek Kiełbowicz, solo exhibtion, Galeria Podlaska, 2009
Powstanie sztuki, Mural „Elektrownia” Radom, 2009
Czy posprzątałeś po swoim psie?, Aspekt Gallery, 2008
Impluwium, mural, XXI Gallery, 2008
Blow up, solo exhibition, Schody Gallery, 2008
Art and nature in China, Baltycka Gallery Ustka, 2007
Sudents of Jarosław Modzelewski, Mural, Gallery Zielona Góra, 2007

Reviews:
text written by Stach Szabłowski
text written by Grzegorz Borkowski
interview by Piotr Jastrzębski
text written by Łukasz Wiącek
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