Tomasz Kowalski
Tomasz Kowalski was born in Szczebrzeszyn in 1984. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He runs Alicja, a music label releasing various artists and his own music and audio-plays.
Lives and works between Warsaw and Antwerp.
Works in collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig), Vienna, AT
MOCAK (Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków), Kraków, PL
X Museum, Beijing, CN
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, FR
Pinault Collection, Venice, IT
Boros Collection, Berlin, DE
Fondazione Bonollo, Verona, IT
Solo Exhibitions
2024
- COIL, Clearing, New York, USA
2023
- Lalka, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2022
- Psy-trans, 15 Orient, New York, USA
2021
- Foam City, Swallow, Vilnius, LT
- Delirious Szczebrzeszyn, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL
2020
- Ghost, Actor, Thing, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL
2018
- Release of Everlasting Somersault, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- New Vehicle, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leibzig, DE
- Proto Weather, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, BE
- Natty Dread (with Alicja Kowalska), Condo, Arcadia Missa, London, UK
2017
- A Man Moves Out of a Skeleton, Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, IN
- Golden Ladder, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL
- Eliksir / Myriad Examples, Bureau Audio, New York, NY, USA
2015
- Djinn, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, BE
- Planck Time, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
2014
- Tomasz Kowalski, CAM, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (MO), USA
- Relativity Express, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Wien, AT
2013
- Paintings and Assemblages, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL
- Untitled, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
2012
- The Truant, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
- Routine investigation, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2011
- A chimney sweeper on the church roof, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
- Duet (with Agnieszka Polska), Goldex Poldex, Krakow, PL
2010
- Sen, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, AT
- Powrót przodka, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, BE
- Armory Show, New York, USA
- Pokaz, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, PL
2009
- Nightseeing (feat. Norman Leto), Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, PL
- Gniazdo, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
- carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
2008
- Art Kabinett, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL, USA, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
- Piosenka, Pies Gallery, Poznan, PL
- BWA Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, PL
2007
- Zak Gallery, Berlin, DE
2006
- Człowiek bez właściwości, Nova Gallery, Cracow, PL
Group Exhibitions
2024
- Words Reflect on Themselves, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, PL
- Meet me by the lake, Clearing, New York, USA
- Wellspring, Clearing, Los Angeles, USA
- it was a hot day, a day that was blue all through, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris, FR
- Bal (de)masque, Emile Verhaerenmuseum, Sint-Amands, BE
2023
- Palomar, Simo Bacar, Lisbon, PT
- Inauguration, Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris, FR
- Cmentarz wspaniałości, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL
- Ołowiane chmury, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk, PL
- Beach, Nino Mier, New York, USA
2022
- Distant Voices / Odlegle Glosy, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, PL
- ca. 2009, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2021
- Baltic Triennial 14 “The Endless Frontier”, CAC Vilnius, LT
- Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE
- Konteksty: Kongres Postartystyczny, Sokołowsko, PL
- La Ruta Natural, Franc des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, FR
2020
- 5 Year Anniversary, Nino Mier, Los Angeles, USA
- Enjoy and Take Care!, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, BE
- In Exile, Huis Henk Visch, Eindhoven, NL
- The Spirit of Nature and Other Fairy Tales, Silesian Museum, Katowice, PL
- Entertainment Through Absence, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, AT
2019
- Views 2019 Deutche Bank Award, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
- Drowning in a Sea of Data, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
- Rock Paper Scissors, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, AT
- The Last Waltz (For Leon), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2018
- Autofictions, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE
- Ordination, organized by Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, AT
- Bureau_Audio hour, Mathew Gallery, New York, US
- Fool’s prophecy, Museum of Icons – Museum of the Warsaw Orthodox Metropolis, Warsaw, PL
- Weeping, Dreaming, Fucking, Laughing, Wschód Gallery, Warsaw, PL
- Wild At Heart, Zachęta – National Art Gallery, Warsaw, PL
- One Long Changing Body, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
2017
- The tenth anniversary of the Contemporary Drawing Prize of the Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
- In Paper We Trust, The Dot Project, London, UK
2016
- Szalona Galeria, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
- Parallel Vienna 2016 – Parallel Vienna, Vienna, AT
- Objects Do Things, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
2015
- Very Long Fingers, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, USA
- Procedures for The Head, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, SK
- I hear your voice reflected in a glass and it sounds like it is inside of me, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
- For Me Abstraction is Real, Boccanera Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT
- Run For The Roses, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, BE
- Escape and Return, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL
2014
- Painting, Poetry, Pottery, Tobias Naehring Galerie, Leipzig, DE
- Gelatin: Paint Me, Paint Me Everywhere, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, PL
- The Night of the Great Season, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Moulhouse Cedex, FR
- As You Can See: Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
- Hoch Hinaus!, Museum Neuer Wiener Kunstverein, Vienna, AT
- The Lamp of Memory, Valentines Mansion, London, UK
- Autofictions, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE
- Stendhal Syndrome, Galeria Zona, Szczecin, PL
2013
- British British Polish Polish. Art from Europe’s Edges in the long 90s and Today, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
- Everything and More, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, BE
- Yellowing of the Lunar Consciousness, Galleria Massimodeluca, Venice, IT
2012
- Soundworks, ICA, London, UK
- The Castle in the Air. Séance of Imagination, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznan, PL
- Circus as a Parallel Universe, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
- Air de Pologne, De Garage, Mechelen, BE
- Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, USA
- The Poster Show, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2011
- Genius Without Talent, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
- Museum der Wunsche/Museum of Desires, MUMOK – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, AT
- Acquisitions récentes : D’Antonin Artaud à Tatiana Trouvé, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
- East Ex East, Brand New Gallery, Milano, IT
- Gone to Croatan – Strategien des Verschwindens, HMKV, Dortmund, DE
- Duet (with Agnieszka Polska), Spółdzielnia Goldex Poldex, Cracow, PL
- Die Unsichtbaren Vier, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, AT
2010
- Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K. Ghent, BE
- Public Private Painting, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, BE
- In Dreams, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
- Przeklenstwa Wyobrazni/The Curse of Imagination, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, PL
- Small Improvisation, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, DE
- Passion Fruits, Sammlung Olbricht, me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, DE
2009
- Le Coeur est un Chasseur Solitaire, Gare Saint-Sauver, Lille, FR
- Crotla presents, Lothringer13, Stadtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, DE
- Blue Almost White, ING Polish Arts Foundation/Leto Gallery, Warsaw, PL
- Hell of things, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, PL
2008
- Ballady i Romanse, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
- Establishment (and its discontents), Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
- Wyprzedaz Teatru, BWA Arsenal, Bialystok, PL
2007
- The Ship of Fools, Studio Angeletti, Rome, IT
- Small is Beautiful, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal Unterowisheim, DE
- 16 things, which may have not been found, Artpol, Cracow, PL
- João Laia, In Tomasz Kowalski’s Psychedelic Paintings, Sleep, Dreaming and Wakefulness are Equally Present, frieze, 2018
- Interview with Tomasz Kowalski, by Joanna Zielińska, Flash Art, 2016
- Blinds and Mirrors, interview with Jordan Casteel, Tomasz Kowalski, and Birgit Megerle, by Martha Kirszenbaum, Flash Art, 2015
- Jurriaan Benschop, Tomasz Kowalski (review), Artforum, 2012
- Ardel Pennell, Opening of Tomasz Kowalski and Anna Orlikowska, Whitehot Magazine, 2007
- Azorro, Wojciech Bąkowski, Ewelina Chrzanowska, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Rafał Jakubowicz, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Tomasz Kowalski, Agnieszka Polska, Pimpek, Wilhelm Sasnal, Paweł Sysiak, Barbara Szelwach, Tobias Zielony, ca. 200912.02-02.04.2022
- Tomasz Kowalski, Delirious Szczebrzeszyn29.05–17.07.2021
- Tomasz Kowalski, Ghost, Actor, Thing17.01-22.02.2020
- Alicja Kowalska, Tomasz Kowalski, CONDO13.01—10.02.2018
- Tomasz Kowalski, Golden Ladder21.09—27.09.2017
- Mihut Boscu Kafchin, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Tomasz Kowalski, Marcin Zarzeka, Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others29.09—31.10.2015
- Jan Dobkowski, Gelitin, Tomasz Kowalski, Agnieszka Polska, Piotr Urbaniec, Escape and Return01.01—14.02.2015
- Tomasz Kowalski, Paintings and Assemblages27.09—26.10.2013