I create using techniques of artistic printmaking and painting. I combine various materials and printing methods, experimenting with texture and scale. I’m interested in the relationship between the surface of the image and its spatial dimension. The figure serves as a point of reference for me — a way of structuring the image and narrating the world.
In my graphic work, I use almost exclusively black and white. This ascetic approach allows me to precisely examine the relationships between light and shadow, movement and stillness, surface and pictorial space. In painting, I engage in a much bolder dialogue with color — treating it as a way to break the severity of structure and to draw out tensions that cannot be expressed through line and contrast alone.
Figures depicted across these media become representations of the human condition: fragile, suspended, yet at the same time capable of decision and effort. My work is an attempt to capture this constant, fundamental relationship between the human being and reality.
To date, I have held 30 solo exhibitions and over 120 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, presenting my work in Europe, both Americas, and Asia. I have also conducted graphic art workshops in many parts of the world, including Brazil, Italy, Greece, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania.
My name is Paweł Kwiatkowski. I grew up in Tykocin in the Podlasie region of Poland, developed creatively in Łódź, and today I also work in Szczecin. These three places — a small town, an industrial center, and a port city — form a map that continuously shapes the way I think about space, movement, and the human figure.
