Michał Wasiak
Poland (*1983)
“A solid approach to art as a craft is important to me."
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by Michal Wasiak
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Polish artist Michal Wasiak's sculptures are dedicated to representational art that is significantly influenced by the aesthetics of science fiction, post-apocalypse, and cyberpunk. His works offer pictorial representations that focus on the relationship between contemporary man and his environment, particularly the influence at the intersection of nature, culture, science, and technology.
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“In my creative work I am currently focusing primarily on figuration (representational art). Based on the aesthetics of the Science-Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic (Post-Apo) and Cyberpunk trends, I try to metaphorically render the silhouette of modern man. His relationship with the environment and flows at the interface of the natural world, culture, science and technology.
I draw inspiration for my work and learn by studying the works of past and present masters of sculpture and other fine arts. A solid approach to art as a craft is important to me. For classical patterns and techniques, at the same time I try to find adequate contemporary working methods and means of expression.
Equally important to me, as individual creativity, is my teaching work at the Wroclaw University. Contact with young people - future artists - the opportunity to share my own experience, and at the same time to learn about the way they think about the world and art, gives me a lot of satisfaction, inspiration and motivation to continue my creative path.”
Artist information
Participated Exhibtions
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 - "Concentration 1000", Wroclaw, Poland , MD_S Contemporary Art Gallery (13.03.2014)
2015 - "City Jungle", Porto, Portugal, Casa Bo (23.06.2015)
2016 - "Don't Expect a Miracle" (duet with Sabina Sokol), Wroclaw, Poland, MD_S Contemporary Art Gallery
Wrocław, Poland (09.04.2016)
018 - "Portrait of a Modern Man", Wroclaw, Poland, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw.
Wrocław - showcase at the rector's office - exhibition within the framework of the opening of the doctoral dissertation under the
under the direction of Prof. Christos Mandzios and Dr. Magdalena Grzybowska (05.2018)
2020 - "Młoda Rzeźba", Wrocław, Poland, pl.Nowy Targ - 5th edition of the project Młoda Rzeźba W
Urban Space org. Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (02-06.2020)
2022 - "Capita", Gliwice, Poland, Silesian University of Technology - Center for New Technologies, Foucault Gallery.
(05.2022)
2022 - Sculpture exhibition, Wroclaw, Poland, FAMA Library and Cultural Center (05.2022)
2023 - Sculpture exhibition, Wroclaw, Poland, Concordia Design - Black Frame, Słodowa Island
(2023.01.12)
2023 - "Body", Oława, Poland, Art Center in Oława (05.2023)
2023 - Sculpture exhibition, Wroclaw, display cabinets in the city space (org. Eugeniusz
Geppert in Wroclaw), Świdnicka Street (09.2023)
2016 - "Underwater Wroclaw", Wroclaw, Poland, Browar Mieszczański - individual exhibition of sculpture
as part of the festival (17-18.06.2016)
2017 - "Ritual XIV - Fasting", Wrocław, Poland, Tamka Island (26.05.2017)
2017 - "Underwater Wroclaw" , Wroclaw, Poland, Browar Mieszczański - individual exhibition of sculpture
as part of the festival ( 22-24.06.2017 )
2018 - "Sculpture and Space", Wroclaw, Poland, University of Wroclaw - Auditorium Comicum -.
group exhibition of didactics of the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (15.06.2018 -
29.06.2018)
2019 - "To the memory", Gdansk, Poland, "WL4" - group exhibition of graduates and students of the
Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk and the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (17.04.2019 - 23.04.2019)
2019 - "Poly-Technology", Gliwice, Poland, Silesian University of Technology - Foucault Gallery - group exhibition.
Faculty of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw ( 04.04.2019 - 30.06.2019)
2020 - Sculpture exhibition, Cracow, Poland, Promotional Gallery, Gallery "R" of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in
Krakow - group exhibition, exhibition of didactics of the E.Geppeert Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw.
Wroclaw ( 05.02.2020 - 01.02.2020)
2021 - "Interferencje", Wrocław, Poland, National Forum of Music - exhibition of graduates from the studio of
Professor Grazyna Jaskierska-Albrzykowska and the Department of Sculpture and Spatial Activities of the Academy of
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (02-03.2021)
2021 - "Work of Fire", Wroclaw, Poland, Neon Gallery - group exhibition within the framework of the 13th Festival of
High Temperatures org. Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw ( 22-28.06.2021)
2021- "Point of View", Lutsk, Ukraine, Art Gallery ВО НСХУ Volyn Organization of the National
Union of Artists of Ukraine - group exhibition of the Department of Sculpture and Art Mediation of the Academy of Arts
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (07.2021)
2021 - "Return from the stars" - post-competition exhibition, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, Center for Artistic Activities
Artistic Activities (ODA) in Piotrkow Trybunalski - exhibition within the VI Piotrkow Biennale
Art ( 10-12.2021)
2021 - Exhibition of sculpture in metal, Cracow, Poland - exhibition of sculptures cast in metals,
students, absolevnts and pedagogues of the Academies of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Warsaw, Krakow and
Wroclaw as part of the 25th anniversary of Huttenes-Albertus Poland (10.2021)
2022 - "Ładne Rzeczy", Legnica, Poland, Art Gallery in Legnica - exhibition of employees of the Faculty of
Sculpture and Art Mediation of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw ( 01-
02.2022)
2022 - "Presence", Gdansk, Poland, Armory of Art - exhibition of the didactics of the Sculpture Department, at the
Department of Sculpture and Art Mediation of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw.
(05.2022)
2022 - "Pangea Proxima", Ziębice, Poland, Evangelik Gallery- an exhibition of didactics of the Faculty of Sculpture and
Art Mediation and Painting, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw.
2023 - "Fe", Wroclaw, Poska, Neon Gallery - International exhibition of contemporary cast iron sculpture
(02.2023)
2023 - "Difference/Equal", exhibition within the framework of the festival, Wroclaw, Gallery Behind the Glass, ASP Wroclaw.
(26.04.23)
2023 - "Symptom", Wroclaw, Poland, Geppart Gallery - Exhibition of didactics of the Department of Sculpture and
Art Mediation of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (11-31.07.2023)
2023 - "Ritual XX", Wrocław, Poland, Museum of Architecture.
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2009 - Honorable mention in the architectural competition "The idea of a garden city and the green areas of the city of
Nysa" under the patronage of the Mayor of Nysa, Nysa, Poland (23.05.2009)
2011 - Award in the competition for Medal-Small Sculptural Form "To the Widows of Katyn", announced
by the IDMSA Brokerage House, the Warsaw Association "Police Family of 1939" and the Faculty of
Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Cracow, Poland (11.04.2011)
2012 - Honorable Mention at the 5th International Drawing Competition Wrocław 2012, org. Rector
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Museum of Architecture in
Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland (12.12.2012)
2015 - 4th prize - Competition for the design of the development of the traffic circle at Słonimskiego and Rychtalska streets,
Wrocław, Poland (10.11.2015)
2019 - Participation in the research project of the Faculty of Archaeology of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń - reconstruction of an
anthropological reconstruction of an authentic figure of the noble state from the 17th century on the basis of a skull
excavated from the crypt of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Cracow (11.2019),
Publication of the results of the project in 2020;
Kwiatkowska B., Bisiecka A., Fryc D., Mirko D., Martewicz K., Bonter-Jędrzejewska R., Biewald J..
Wasiak M., Michalak M. 2020 Reconstruction of the life appearance of three persons buried in the
crypts, [ in:] Sepulchral crypts of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Cracow in the light of interdisciplinary research.
Interdisciplinary. Anthropology-Archaeobotany-Microbiology-Conservation of Monuments, Vol. 2.,
ed. by A. Drążkowska, Toruń, pp. 59-71. , Scientific Publishing House of the Nicolaus Copernicus University
2020 - Catalogue Młoda Rzeźba 2020 p.58-69, published by the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław ISBN:
978-83-66321-39-7
2021 - Scholarship of the President of Wroclaw for the second half of 2021 (selected through a competition).
"Forgotten Language - Architectural Detail in terms of contemporary figurative sculpture".
2022 - Sculpture Notebook no11/2022, published by Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, ISSN 2450-. 8063