Grzegorz Witek "SCULPTURE"

Grzegorz Witek "SCULPTURE" - vernissage

21 April 2023, hour 18:00

BWA SOKÓŁ Gallery of Contemporary Art

Art

Exhibition opening

On Friday, April 21, at 6:00 pm., we invite you to the BWA SOKOL Contemporary Art Gallery for the opening of an exhibition of sculpture by Grzegorz Witek.

Grzegorz Witek
Was born in 1976 in Ciężkowice. In 1996 he graduated from State Fine Arts Comprehensive School in Tarnów, in 1991–1992 he was a grant holder of the National Fund for Children. In 1996 he started studies at Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He graduated from academy, receiving the rector’s distinction, in 2001 in the sculpture atelier of professor Adam Myjak. Since 2002 he has worked as a teacher at Faculty of Sculpture at his Alma Mater (he was an assistant to professor Jan Kucz and professor Piotr Gawron). In 2003 he received a scholarship of the Minister of Culture and Art. In 2010 he obtained a PhD degree and in 2016 – a post-doctoral degree in Fine Arts. Since 2016 he has run a sculpture atelier for 1st year students at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
He has presented his works at 20 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 60 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1999 – BWA Tarnów – sculptures and drawings
1999 – BWA Gorlice – sculptures and drawings
2001 – BWA Gorlice – sculptures and drawings
2002 – “Eufemia” Café at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw – sculptures and drawings
2002 – “Pokaz” Critics Gallery, Warsaw – “Heads” sculpture
2002 – “Prochem” Gallery, Warsaw – sculptures and drawings
2004 – BWA Tarnów – sculptures
2004 – BWA Gorlice – sculptures
2004 – Oficyna z Ograniczoną Odpowiedzialnością Gallery, Warsaw – “Cage” installation
2004 – Miniatura Art Gallery, Grybów – sculptures
2006 – Art Agency of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw – “Identity”
2008 – 3A Gallery, Warsaw – “Miracle”
2008 – “Pokaz” Critics Gallery, Warsaw – „Between”
2009 – Polish Sculpture Center Oranżeria Gallery, Orońsko – “Between” sculptures, objects, installations
2015 – Ostrołęka Gallery – sculptures
2015 – Zamek Art Gallery, Szczecinek – sculptures (co-authored exhibition)
2015 – Przy Fabryczce Gallery, Wołomin – sculptures
2016 – Lufcik Gallery OW ZPAP, Warsaw – “Self-Reflection”
2018 – MCK Płońsk exhibition hall – “Sculptures”
2019 – Podziemia Kamedulskie, Bielany/Warsaw – “MATERIAL” (exhibition with Marek Kowalski)
2019 – ZPAP Warsaw – “HUMAN SCALE” (exhibition with Maciej Aleksandrowicz and Stanisław Brach)

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2000 – Kontynent Gallery, Warsaw – ceramics
2000 – Stara Kordegarda Gallery in Royal Baths, Warsaw – exhibition
of Participants of Most Talented Support Program
2001 – Słowacki Institute Gallery, Warsaw – sculptures
2003 – ZPAP Pryzmat Gallery, Kraków – exhibition of Warsaw artists “We Look At Ourselves”
2003 – Browarna Gallery, Łowicz – exhibition of the works by Jacek Siennicki and students of the drawing atelier at Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2004 – Płock Art Gallery – “Dialogues”
2004 – Market Square, Tarnów – installation: Frame – European Street Art, Festival of Cultural Heritage
2004 – lecture theater of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw – from “Body Memory” cycle
2004 – Płock Art Gallery – “On the Road”
2004 – Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko – The Youth Triennial, exhibition of leaders
2004 – “Pokaz” Critics Gallery, Warsaw – “On the Road”
2004 – BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski – Autumn Salon
2005 – ZUSAMMENARBEIT, Potsdam, Germany
2005 – Lesko – “On the Road”
2005 – Contemporary Art Museum, Radom – “On the Road”
2005 – Stockholm – “Time Witnesses”
2005 – Zepter Gallery – exhibition of staff of Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2005 – Oko C.P. Gallery, Warsaw – “Teresa Plata and Friends”
2006 – Berlin – “Testimony of Time”
2006 – Bożena Marka Art Gallery, Warsaw – “Around the Academy”
2006 – Diocese Museum in Płock – “Stone – wood – metal”
2006/2007 – Płock – “Against Evil”
2007 – Art Gallery, Łódź – “Youth from Warsaw”
2007-2017 – Galeria na Emporach, Warsaw – “Saints”, “It Happened”, “Pontificate”, “Heaven and Earth”, “Birth”, “Father”, “Him and Her”, “Tree Wood”, “City”, “Crossroads”, “Water”
2008/2009 – Warsaw University Library Gardens – “Sculpture for Warsaw”
2008/2009 – Nowy Sącz, Zakopane, Sucha Beskidzka, Kraków – Exhibition of Teachers of Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2009 – European Center of Culture Logos, Łódź – “Revelations”
2010 – “Towards Space” – Exhibition of Teachers of Faculty of Sculp- | 21 ture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2010 – Academy Salon, Warsaw – “Teresa Plata and Friends”
2010 – Art Gallery, Sopot – “Resistance”
2011 – Spokojna 15 Gallery, Warszawa – “Resistance”
2011 – Nad Strugiem Gallery, Zakopane – Exhibition of Teachers of Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2012 – Gallery -1 PKOL, Warsaw – “Form, Space, Object” Exhibition of Teachers of Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2012 – Saska Kępa Gallery, Warsaw – Exhibition of Teachers of Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2014 – Culture Promotion Center, Warsaw – Sculpture Atelier 15
2014 – Galeria przy Fabryczce, Wołomin – Sculpture Atelier 15
2015 – Galeria przy Fabryczce, Wołomin – Sculpture Atelier 005
2016 – Botanical Gardens, Warsaw – “Dialogues. Warsaw Art Station”
2016 – ZPAP Kierat I Gallery, Szczecin – “Between”
2017 – Conference and Exhibition Center – „Kasztel w Szymbarku” – manor house outbuilding
2017 – “Contemporary Sculpture” Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (exhibition coordinator)
2017 – OW ZPAP, Warsaw – “EGO”
2017 – Botanical Gardens, Warsaw – “Genetic Code XXI”
2017 – Culture Promotion Center in Praga-Południe district of Warsaw – Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, sculpture atelier of professor Piotr Gawron and dr. hab. Grzegorz Witek
2017 – Leszek Dutka Museum Gallery – “Zawiercie Museum Night 2017”
2018 – OW ZPAP, Warsaw – “Passion” (exhibition of the sculpture section)
2018 – ZPAP Nurt, Toruń – “Winter Concentration 2018”
2018 – CSW Toruń – “AND WHAT WE NEED FREEDOM FOR”
2018 – Main building of Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław – “COLLECTION” an exhibition of Teachers of Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2018 – Museum of Technology and Communication, Zajezdnia Sztuki in Szczecin – “50/50”
2019 – ZPAP Warsaw – “SOURCE”
2019 – Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk – “What sculptures do” wystawa profesorów i pedagogów Wydziału Rzeźby ASP w Warszawie an exhibition of Teachers of Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2019 – Fabryczka Gallery, Wołomin – “Sculpture and Sculpture”
2019 – Krużganek Gallery, Catholic Center of Culture Good Place – “Anima MEA”
2019 – ZPAP Warszawa – “Scar”
2020 – ZPAP Warszawa – “Pro futuro” exhibition of the sculpture section [premiere work], sculpture titled “AND WHAT NEXT”
2020 – CRP Orońsko – exhibition – presentation in park area of the work titled “HORIZON” [the work created during the Contemporary Sculpture Symposium/CRP Orońsko)
2021 – Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń – “Which, in spite of everything, gives you some hope” [the presented work, titled “Beginning”, premiere show, materials: clay, hair, ash, dimensions: 35x35x30 cm)
2021 – Stalowa Gallery, Warsaw – “Strike” (the work titled “NOT/ POSSIBLE”, premiere presentation, beech wood, length 400 cm), curator Jerzy Brukwicki
2022 – ZPAP Warszawa – “Dualism”, exhibition of the sculpture section
2023 – ZPAP Warszawa – “Impuls”, exhibition of the sculpture section
2023 – Museum of Kashubian and Pomeranian Writing and Music in Wejherowo “CATHEDRAL RUDIMENTS”

COMPETITIONS — PRIZES — AWARDS (each event was accompanied with a post-competition exhibition)

1993 – award at National Review of Drawings and Paintings, Koszalin
1995 – award in Painting category at Second National Competition of Drawing and Painting, Bielsko-Biała
1998 – International Triennial of Sculpture in Osaka, Japan (postcompetition exhibition)
2000 – award for “Rivals” at International Olympic Competition of Art and Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland
2000 – participation in Tarnów Winter Salon 2000 – award for “Time Machine” sculpture
2001 – participation in collective exhibition of the 1st National Biennale “Tarnów Climate 2001”, award for “Man and Flag” sculpture
2001/2002 – participation in “Primate of the Millenium” competition of the Archdiocese Museum in Warsaw, Marki Culture Center
2004 – honorary award in a competition for the Monument of Johannes Hevelius at Grand Mill in Gdańsk
2005 – award in a competition for a statuette – an award form for the Ministry of Infrastructure in Transport Field (implemented)
2005 – Award of the Rector of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw for artistic and educational achievements and involvement in Academy matters
2006 – award for “Facts” and for works from “Dialogue” cycle at VI Triennial of Sacrum Art, Częstochowa
2007 – equal award at International Triennial of Plein-Air Sculpture, Katowice 2007 (sculpture to be placed in urban space)
2007 – I award in the competition for designing a medal called “Black Sheep. Sentenced to Protect Nature” (implemented)
2009 – I award in a competition for designing a medal for the faculty of Management at University of Warsaw (implemented)
2011 – competition for designing a medal: “To Katyń Widows”
2011 – award in the competition for designing a statuette (Economic Award of the President of Poland)
2012 – II equal award (1st award was not given) in a competition for a monument commemorating Soldiers of Peasants’ Battalions and Peasant Association of Women
2012 – III award in a competition for a monument to Stanisław Staszic
2013 – competition for Monument to Wielkopolska Uprising Participants, Środa Wielkopolska
2014 – Medal of Merit from Association of Polish Veterans and Former
Political Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps
2014 – award in competition for monument to Primate August Hlond
2014 – award in a competition for designing SOLIDARITY statuette for Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2015 – participation in a competition for designing a monument to Cavalry Captain Witold Pilecki, Warsaw (team work)
2016 – II award in a competition for developing the concept of a monument to Danuta Siedzikówna pseudonim “Inka”, Białystok
2016/2017 – III award in sculpture and architecture competition for developing the concept for the 1 Memory Quarters at Navy Cemetery
in Oksywie, Gdynia
2017 – 1st degree distinction in a competition to develop the Invincible Alley, Białystok
2017 – participation in a competition to develop a monument commemorating Feliks Stamm, Warsaw
2020 – I award in a closed competition for developing the concept commemorating Władysław Raczkiewicz, the work to be implemented, location: Kutaisi, Georgia
2021 – participation in sculpture and architecture competition for developing the concept of a monument commemorating professor Władysław Bartoszewski – Białystok (making the bust – portrait of Władysław Bartoszewski in 1:1 scale compared to the size of the monument and making a figurative monument model in 1:5 scale in unpatinated gypsum)

REALIZATIONS

commemorative Plaques for University of Warsaw
plaque commemorating Jan Kreczmar – Theater Academy in Warsaw (bronze cast)
statuette for Stock Exchange Issuers
statuettes for the Ministry of Transport (awarded in three categories)
2004 – design and construction of the altar in Immaculate Mary Church in Nowy Sącz, making a figure, height 300 cm (linden wood, partial polychrome), team work with Bartłomiej Bałut
2010 – realization of “Seeds” sculpture – Plein Air in Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko – the design was selected in the competition “Sculpture for Warsaw”
2010 – design and realization of the “Harbinger” sculpture, Symposium of Sculpture in Stone “Mrągowo – Sculpted City”, height 220 cm, 65×415 cm (pebble stone, steel elements) the work located in urban space, Mrągowo
2011–2013 – design and realization of three main doors to Saint Father Pio Church in Warsaw-Ursynów, height 450 cm (bronze cast)
2012 – Plaque commemorating Jasna Góra Vows of Polish Nation by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, height 200 cm, width 160 cm (bronze cast, gilded elements, frame from granite), the work placed on the main façade of the Jasna Góra monastery in Częstochowa
2013 – design and realization of “Life” sculpture for Gynecology and Obstetrics Hospital in Warsaw, height 250 cm (bronze cast, pebble stone)
2013 – design and realization of the plein air sculpture titled “Borders”, Zawiercie – Sculpture Plein Air, height 250 cm, width 200 cm, thickness 60 cm (sandstone, pebble, steel element), the work situated in Veteran Alley in Zawiercie
2015 – design and realization of the figure of Crucified Christ for the main altar in Saint father Pio Church in Warsaw-Ursynów, height 270 cm (sculpture intended for bronze cast)
2016 – design and realization of plein air sculpture titled “Pendulum” – IV International Plein Air of Wooden Sculpture “Migrants. Local? Alien?”, Gdańsk, height 500 cm, length 860 cm, width 70 cm (wood, stone, steel, wind)
2017 – design and realization of a plaque commemorating blessed Honorat Koźmiński, height 85 cm, width 85 cm (patinated bronze), the work is situated in Holy Spirit Church in Warsaw
2018 – realization (co-author) of a replica of a commemorative plaque devoted to 26 pupils of Merchants’ Congregation School in Łódź, who died in battlefields of the First World War and Poland-Soviet War in 1914–1920, height 200 cm, width 113 cm (patinated bronze), the work is mounted to the wall of the rector’s Office at University of Łódź
2020 – realization of portraits for reliquaries situated in Saint Father Pio Church in Warsaw-Ursynów, low relief, height 70 cm, patinated bronze – 7 items, height 100 cm – 2 items
2020 – bust of Władysław Raczkiewicz, full sculpture, height 80 cm (patinated bronze), location of the commemorative sculpture – Kutaisi, Georgia
2020 – realization of “HORIZON” work, the work created during the Contemporary Sculpture Symposium/CRP Orońsko (materials: spruce wood, lead, fire, own technique – experiment, dimensions: height 150 cm, width 120 cm, length 450 cm)
2020 – realization of the statue of Kind Mother Mary, situated in Saint John Paul II Sanctuary in Radzymin (co-author), sculpture height 300 cm, height of the whole monument 1100 cm (figure – patinated bronze)
2021 – realization of the bust of blessed Bolesława Maria lament (patinated bronze), height 60 cm, width 70 cm, depth 40 cm, sculpture located in General Assembly of Missionary Nuns in Komorowo