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Kołacz Wojciech

Wojciech Kołacz, MFA

Erasmus+ programme coordinator, Department of Printmaking

 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