Paweł Czekański (1989, Lublin) graduated from the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, majoring in Sculpture in 2014. He received the title of Doctor of Fine Arts in 2023. Since 2018, he has been an academic teacher at the Department of Sculpture and Art Mediation, Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Author of installations, sculptures, films and photographs. Paweł Czekański's works have been shown in exhibitions at BWA Wrocław Główny, Gallery of Contemporary Art in Opole, Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko, Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Dishman Art Museum in Beaumont, USA, Rathaus Johannisthal Gallery in Berlin, among others. Nominated for the 2022 Worth Award in the visual arts category. He lives and works in Wroclaw, Poland.
Artist statement:
I base my work mainly on the basis of basic symbols and cultural references, legible in our consciousness. Building a vision of the world often based on the philosophy of fatalism and at the same time balancing on the border of perversity and irony, I look for new ways of telling about the absurdities of the modern world. Very important to me is the search for the dialectic between man and the reality around him, so I often reach for emotional and historical charges strongly rooted in culture.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2025: Post romantic stress disorder, Galerie města Třince, Czech Republic
2024: So many years of ordeal all like blood in the sand, Laboratory, Imperial Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland
2024: What's for dessert? Pawel Czekanski, Monika Malewska, January-March 2024, Piękna Gallery, Warsaw. 2023: World of Play, BWA Wrocław Główny, Wrocław.
2022: Only flowers will survive, Exit Gallery, Wroclaw.
2021: Let it Burn, Browar Mieszczański Cultural Center, Wroclaw, Poland.
2021: Let the world burn, GSW Annex Gallery, Opole.
2020: I can see you, BWA Drewniana, Swidnik.
2018: In your bones with Atsushi Aizawa, Socato Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2018: Hark, Socato Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017: Pivot, MD_S Gallery of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw, Poland.
Selected group exhibitions:
2024: Music of the City, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice.
2024: CLIMAX, ArtTrakt Gallery, Wroclaw.
2023: Survival Art Review: Erzac, Popowice Depot, Wroclaw.
2023: 10th Triennial of the Young: Perpetuation, Center for Polish Sculpture, Orońsko
2023: Burning re-collection vol. II, Geppart Gallery, Wroclaw.
2023: Critical Mass #1, Laboratory, Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk.
2023: Spectrum of the Anthropocene, Browar Mieszczański Gallery, Wrocław, Poland.
2022: Fer précieux, Rathaus Johannisthal Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022: Let it burn, Arttrakt Gallery, Wrocław, Poland.
2022: Burning Re-Collection, Industra Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
2022: Ukraine!, Exit Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2022: Iron: Translating Territories, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2021: Mission Impossible, Geppart Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2021: Was, Is And Will Be. Art Symposium / in Process, Gallery Behind the Glass, Wroclaw, Poland.
2021: Eco-Empathy, Bourgeois Brewery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2021: Was, Is And Will Be. Art Symposium / in Process, Morawa Palace, Morawa.
2021: International Workshops of High Temperatures 2015-19, Hungarian Univerzity of Arts, Budapest, Hungary.
2021: Point of View, BOHCXY Art Gallery, Lutsk, Ukraine.
2021: Master5 Election, FX Gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.
2021: Survival 19th Art Review, Pafawag, Wroclaw, Poland.
2021: Work of Fire, Neon Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2021: Proof of Presence, Center for New Technologies, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice.
2021: Iron Tribe 2021, Burris Hall, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA.
2021: Master5, G18 Gallery, Zlin, Czech Republic.
2021: New Market, New Market Square, Wroclaw, Poland.
2020: 2020 Situational Invitational, wciaa.org
2020: 3D Print Poland/Texas, Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, USA.
2020: From-to, Promotional Gallery, Gallery R, Krakow, Poland.
2019: Place of the beginning, Conductor House of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Częstochowa, Poland.
2019: Was, is and will be. Lost Art, Moravia Palace.
2019: Scrap-Art, marketplace in Pleszew.
2019: Arguments, Bourgeois Brewery, Wroclaw.
2019: Ritual edition XVI, Bakery Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland.
2019: Arguments II, Underwater Wroclaw, Browar Mieszczański, Wroclaw.
2018: In your bones withAtsushi Aizawa, Socato Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2018: Section - Section, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj - Napoca, Romania.
2018: Was, is and will be vol. 2, Palace in Moravia.
2018: 01 Open Call, 01Gallery.co.uk.
2018: Young Sculpture, New Market Square, Wroclaw.
2018: Survival 16th Art Review, Capital, Wallenberg - Pachałych Palace, Wrocław.
2018: Scion - National Sculpture Exhibition, Old Mine - Science and Art Center, Walbrzych.
2018: Ritual Casus Belli Edition XV, Time-Space, Wroclaw, Poland.
2018: Overgrowth of Form, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ostrów Wielkopolski.
2018: Biennale of small sculptural form, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj Napoca, Romania.
2017: 24h Brl/Wro, Krupa Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017: Was, is and will be, Palace in Moravia.
2017: Wrong Circle as part of the Underwater Wroclaw festival, Browar Mieszczański Cultural Center, Wroclaw.
2017: Meeting, Fashion Promotion Center, Lodz, Poland.
2017: Everyday Bodies, Socato Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017: Cast iron stories, GalleryMD_S, Wroclaw, Poland.
2016: In Form, ASP, Wrocław, Poland.
2016: VI Review of Young Art Fresh Blood, Socato Gallery, Wrocław, Poland.
2016: 70th anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw.
2015: Gate, Ring Gallery.
2014: Disappear, former church building, Klodzko.
2013: International casting workshop, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
2012: Parking, post-air exhibition, City Park, Duszniki-Zdrój.
2012: ScrapART, post-air exhibition, Market Square, Pleszew.
2011: Bucket, Włodkowica 11, Wrocław.
2011: Revitalization of minds as part of Underwater Wroclaw, U Gallery, Wroclaw.
2009: MacroArt, exhibition in urban space, Athens, Greece.
