{"id":2126,"date":"2025-11-06T19:06:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/?page_id=2126"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:25:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1712\" src=\"https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-scaled-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-2048x1369.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.-czyszczenie-powierzchni-matrycy-kolagraficznej-z-nadmiaru-farby-for.-Walter-Rindone-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-spacer stk-block-spacer stk--no-padding stk-block stk-5497a48\" data-block-id=\"5497a48\"><style>.stk-5497a48 {height:80px !important;}<\/style><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is Pawe\u0142 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 \u2014 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.<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-8374361c wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-spacer stk-block-spacer stk--no-padding stk-block stk-5bf21bb\" data-block-id=\"5bf21bb\"><style>.stk-5bf21bb {height:50px !important;}<\/style><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-spacer stk-block-spacer stk--no-padding stk-block stk-6d34e5a\" data-block-id=\"6d34e5a\"><style>.stk-6d34e5a {height:39px !important;}<\/style><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-6a6e5d22 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kwiatkowskipawel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pawel2-874x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-1429\" width=\"874\" height=\"1024\" title=\"pawel2\" role=\"img\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inspiration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The source of my artistic practice is a reflection on the condition of contemporary humanity \u2014 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 \u2014 traces of emotions, doubts, and moments of illumination that gradually form coherent graphic cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">For more than a decade, I have been consistently exploring the phenomenon of the graphic medium \u2014 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 \u2014 a way of capturing the delicate balance between what is visible and what remains hidden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-columns stk-block-columns stk-block stk-7f51d43\" data-block-id=\"7f51d43\"><div class=\"stk-row stk-inner-blocks stk-block-content stk-content-align stk-7f51d43-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-ced231b\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"ced231b\"><style>.stk-ced231b {margin-top:var(--stk--preset--spacing--none, 0px) !important;margin-right:var(--stk--preset--spacing--none, 0px) !important;margin-bottom:var(--stk--preset--spacing--none, 0px) !important;margin-left:var(--stk--preset--spacing--none, 0px) !important;}<\/style><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-ced231b-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks stk-ced231b-inner-blocks\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-spacer stk-block-spacer stk--no-padding stk-block stk-a193f1f\" data-block-id=\"a193f1f\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">works in collections:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>National Museum in Warsaw, Poland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ino-cho Paper Museum, Kochi, Japan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tatarstan Museum, Kazan, Russia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International Printmaking Centre KAUS, Urbino, Italy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Museo Real Casa de la Moneda de Madrid, Spain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Centre of Graphic Arts and Visual Researches, Belgrade, Serbia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Centre of Graphic Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Polish Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University of Arts in Ostrava, Czech Republic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Szekler National Museum, Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe, Romania<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International Print Triennial in Cracow, Poland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leon Wycz\u00f3\u0142kowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Poland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gallery at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (\u201cU Dyplomat\u00f3w\u201d), Warsaw, Poland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gallery of Graphic Arts, Zielona G\u00f3ra, Poland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Municipal Art Gallery, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Museum of the Kresy Region in Lubacz\u00f3w, Poland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">awards and mentions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Grand Prix at the International Biennial of Graphics, Bucharest (Romania), 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Honourable Mention at the International Print Triennial, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zereda Art Camp Award at the International Print Triennial, Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe (Romania), 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Honourable Mention at the International Print Triennial, Krakow (Poland), 2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Award of the Centre for Graphic Arts and Visual Researches at the International Print Triennial, Belgrade (Serbia), 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grand Prix for the Best Diploma of Art Academies in Poland, 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Distinction for the Best Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, 2011<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grand Prix in the W\u0142adys\u0142aw Strzemi\u0144ski \u201cFine Arts\u201d Competition and Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Pawe\u0142 Kwiatkowski. 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