My name is Paweł Kwiatkowski. For many years, I have been engaged in artistic printmaking and painting, focusing on experimental printing techniques and the combination of various graphic media. My work encompasses printmaking, painting, and drawing, and I have exhibited my pieces in Poland and abroad — including in China, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Italy, and Lithuania. In my artistic practice, I combine technical expertise with a search for new formal and conceptual approaches. I work as an associate professor at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, where I run a printmaking studio.
Inspiration
The source of my artistic practice is a reflection on the condition of contemporary humanity — its fragility, disorientation, and the search for meaning within a reality full of tensions and contradictions. In my works, I visualize personal reflections and intuitions that arise from an attentive observation of everyday life. These are not literal depictions of the world, but filtered reflections of it — traces of emotions, doubts, and moments of illumination that gradually form coherent graphic cycles.
For me, the creative process is open and introspective. Numerous digressions and images emerge spontaneously as the work evolves, and its meaning often reveals itself only after completion — at the moment when I can view it from a distance. This is not a matter of chance, but of a conscious need to leave space for uncertainty and intuition, which become integral components of the composition.
For more than a decade, I have been consistently exploring the phenomenon of the graphic medium — its unique materiality, its ability to combine techniques, and its potential to generate multilayered meanings. Printmaking, to me, is not only a visual language but also a means of self-inquiry — a way of capturing the delicate balance between what is visible and what remains hidden.
works in collections:
- National Museum in Warsaw, Poland
- National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
- Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
- China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China
- Ino-cho Paper Museum, Kochi, Japan
- Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia
- Tatarstan Museum, Kazan, Russia
- International Printmaking Centre KAUS, Urbino, Italy
- Museo Real Casa de la Moneda de Madrid, Spain
- Centre of Graphic Arts and Visual Researches, Belgrade, Serbia
- Centre of Graphic Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Polish Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania
- University of Arts in Ostrava, Czech Republic
- Szekler National Museum, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
- International Print Triennial in Cracow, Poland
- Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Poland
- Gallery at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (“U Dyplomatów”), Warsaw, Poland
- National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania
- Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Gallery of Graphic Arts, Zielona Góra, Poland
- Municipal Art Gallery, Łódź, Poland
- Museum of the Kresy Region in Lubaczów, Poland
awards and mentions
- Grand Prix at the International Biennial of Graphics, Bucharest (Romania), 2019
- Honourable Mention at the International Print Triennial, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2019
- Zereda Art Camp Award at the International Print Triennial, Sfântu Gheorghe (Romania), 2016
- Honourable Mention at the International Print Triennial, Krakow (Poland), 2015
- Award of the Centre for Graphic Arts and Visual Researches at the International Print Triennial, Belgrade (Serbia), 2014
- Grand Prix for the Best Diploma of Art Academies in Poland, 2012
- Distinction for the Best Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, 2011
- Grand Prix in the Władysław Strzemiński “Fine Arts” Competition and Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, 2010