Tomasz Kręcicki (1990) Poland
lives and works in Kraków, Poland. Reaching for objects from his closest milieu, the home and the street, Kręcicki manipulates the context and scale of the everyday. Hands, feet, fruit and vegetables are among Kręcicki’s favorite motifs, portraying them in a central composition to augment them with metaphorical meanings. The potato hangs in dark space like a meteorite, the pill rests on the screen of a phone, and the core of an apple forms the axis of a gloomy landscape. Fascinated with cinema, Kręcicki employs techniques of cinematic framing, adopting lighting configurations to create the moody settings of his paintings. Shapes emerge from the darkness, a body or object lit by a fridge light, smartphone screen, or sodium street lamp. These and other procedures serve the artist as tools for exploring and recording everyday life. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, most often both at once.
2022 – Fores Project residency, London, UK
2018 – LIA Programme residency, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
2018 – MeetFactory Residency, Prague, Czech Rep.
2010 – 2015 – Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow
2014 – 2015 – Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg
2015 – POTENCJA – artist’s run space founded with Karolina Jabłońska and Cyryl Polaczek
http://galeriapotencja.tumblr.com/
solo exhibitions:
Water Towers / Wieże ciśnień, book → exhibition / książka → wystawa, 12. 2020
Eating Food Break / Przerwa na jedzenie, Stereo, Warsaw, 2020
Eating Food / Jedzenie, Stereo, Warsaw, 2020 – interrupted by the lockdown
XXL, Muzeum Regionalne, Stalowa Wola, 2020
Spirit level, Fundacja Szara Kamienica, Cracow, 2019
Six lessons / Sześć lekcji, Galeria Potencja, Cracow, 2017
Everything I do not do / Wszystko, czym się nie zajmuję, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow, 2015,
Any resemblance, Aa Collections, Vienna, 2014, (with Cyryl Polaczek)
Waste / odpadki, Arsene Galeria Wiatrak, Cracow
group exhibitions:
Humoral Theory: Quattro Stagioni, BWA Bielsko-Biała, 2022
Men of Late Patriarchy / Mężczyźni późnego patriarchatu, Galeria Podbrzezie, Cracow, 2022
Dlaczego mi smutno, Galeria Duża Scena UAP, Poznań, 2022
Humoral Theory / Teoria Humoralna, BWA Zielona Góra, 2021
From A to Z and Back Again / Od A do Z i z powrotem, Stereo, Warsaw, 2021
Z (Don’t panic, kiss me), Studio BWA, Wrocław, 2021
Guilty pleasure, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, 2021
Give us this day… / …Daj nam dzisiaj, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, 2021
Pokrzepiająca moc kserówki, Galeria Skala, Poznań, 2021
Alraune und Kartoffeln, Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nurnberg, 2020
Time and Foam / Czas i Piana, Galeria ASP Kraków, 2020
Cała Polska, BWA Wrocław, 2020
NADA Projects Miami, Art Fairs with Potencja, Miami, 5-8.12. 2019
The artist as Muse, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, 2019
Sensations / Closer to the people, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Schattendorf, 2019
Soundcheck, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, 2019
Funny Games, Gussglashalle, Berlin, 2019
Czekając aż pstryknie, Były Klub Pod Muzami, Kalisz, 2019
New Perspectives. Leipzig meets Cracow, Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig, 2018
Ozimina, Widna Gallery, Cracow, 2018
LifeHack, Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Prague, 2018
Jeszcze już bardzo, Fundacja Szara Kamienica, Grey House Foundation Prize, Cracow, 2017
Szwung, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, 2017
Look at us!, Gnyp Gallery, Berlin, 2017
No problem, Galeria Potencja, Cracow, 2017
„XY” New Generation Polish-Hungarian Painting, The MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, 2017
Movie Show / Seans, Szara Gallery, Katowice, 2017
Art in art / Sztuka w sztuce, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, Cracow, 2017
Potency / Potencja, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, 2017,
Future Perfect, Galeria Potencja, Cracow, 2017
12th Geppert Competition / 12. Konkurs Gepperta, BWA Wrocław, 2016
Out of sight, Out of Mind / Ojciec szklarz, matka szyba, Henryk, Cracow, 2016,
Converstations with plants / Rozmowy z roślinami, Księgarnia/Wystawa, Cracow, 2016,
Interstelaż, Potencja, Cracow, 2016,
42. Biennale Malarstwa Bielska Jesień, Galeria Bielska BWA, 3rd Prize, Bielsko Biała, 2015
Lepiej mieć horyzont wąski…, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow, 2014
What is Art For? / Po co sztuka?, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, Cracow, 2013
Spring / Wiosna, Wiarus Canteen, Cracow, 2013