Kołacz Wojciech
In 2009 he graduated from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Faculty of Graphics and Media Art. He received a diploma in printmaking from Professor Przemysław Tyszkiewicz, and a diploma in creative drawing from Professor Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz.
I am interested in the role of visual arts in the building of interpersonal relations. I run the studio called "The Abundant Printing House", where I make limited editions of original prints. I use the techniques of relief printing; I am passionate about linocut and woodcut. I explore the possibilities and relationships of these techniques in the contemporary world, especially in the fields of illustration, street art and the combination of traditional media with contemporary technology.
I have been active in the fields of large format painting, illustration and applied arts for over a decade. I create murals in urban space, for example in Helsinki FIN, Buffalo USA, Breda NL, Lille FR, Lyon FR, Besancon FR, Dresden GER, Berlin GER, Kosice SK, Wrocław, Katowice, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Gdynia, Leszno, Świdnica, Jelenia Gora, Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Jarocin, Legnica, Kowary. I try to make my works refer to the place and its identity, history or current events, as well as the style of the architecture in which they are created; at the same time I am not afraid of formal experiments.
My works have been presented in several albums on street art and contemporary muralism.
Awards and scholarships
2013 – Artist in residence at the invitation of the Bien Urbain foundation, Besançon, Francja
2012 – Inhabitants, the project executed within the framework of the scholarship received from the Mayor of the City of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
Exhibitions
2019 – Mural on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of Breda, commemorating the First Armoured Division of General Maczek, Breda, Netherlands
2018 – Work and Play, painting in public space commissioned by Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2017 – Hortus, individual exhibition, Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznań, Poland
2016 – Pictor Ignotus, individual exhibition, The Cobbler's Passion Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
2014 – Narrative Urban Poland, collective exhibition, Urban Spree Gallery, Berlin Germany
2013 – Biennale Internationale d'Art Mural, Lille, France
Publications
2020 – Blind Walls Gallery: Het Museum Op Straat, published by Graphic Matters
2019 – Presentation of works in the American magazine Pigeon Carrier
2015 – So that it is nice. Discussion of the boom and crisis in street art in Poland, Sebastian Frąckiewicz, published by Arsenal
2012 – Polish street art, Elżbieta Dymna, Marcin Rutkiewicz, published by Carta Blanca
2010 – Street Sketchbook: Journeys, Tristan Manco published Thames & Hudson, London 2010