Piotr Ambroziak

THE ARTISTIC BIOGRAPHY

Piotr Ambroziak

Visual artist, curator, originator of the Festival of Independent Art „Warsaw off ART”, originator of „Warsaw by ART” – a festival of independent art galleries. A social activist who always goes against the tide. He studied at the Faculty of Graphics and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.
In 1996 he graduated with honours in the woodcut studio of prof. Andrzej Bartczak (annex in photography under the supervision prof. Ireneusz Pierzgalski). He studied painting in the studio of prof. Juliusz Narzyński. He obtained a Scholarship of the Minister and Culture in 1995. Doctor of Arts at the University of Arts in Poznań under the supervision of prof. Dominik Lejman. His controversial doctoral dissertation entitled „The Power of an Exhausted Gesture” aroused a lot of emotions. The replacement of a painting gesture with neon light was the focal point. As the artist writes, „This is the emerging idea of ​​the beginning of a movement, which, like a flash of neurons, gives an impulse to an expressive gesture. A hand gesture that consciously or subconsciously initiates a movement with a painting brush. A beginning and an end, which gives internal expression a certain outcome”.

Ambroziak creates large-scale paintings, neon light gestures, installations, objects and sculptures. He deals with art in space. He created the installation „Urban Cave”, by painting the entire gallery in the shape of a palaeolithic cave. He also created the happening „Paint over the painting for the artist”, that is painting the artist’s paintings together with the audience. The exhibition „Spitting Image” is one of the many exhibitions that arouses strong emotions among the public and art critics.

Participant of many artistic associations as well as international and Polish exhibitions. His works are held in numerous Polish, foreign and state collections.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 – „City of the Lights” , Gallery CH25, Warsaw
2018 – „Urban Cave” , Gallery Wejście przez sklep z platerami, Warsaw
2017 – „Split painting”, GalleryApteka Sztuki, Warszawa
2017 – The pressure of existence, Gallery Rotunda, UAP, Poznan
2017 – „Presja Istnienia”, Gallery Bohema, Warszawa
2015 – Angels and aliens, Gallery Arts Pharmacy, Warsaw
2015 – The dark side 2… – Gallery, BWA Kielce
2014 – Full Moon – Gallery Ptapty. Polish Theatre in Poznan
2013 – Arche – Gallery Imaginarium, Lodz
2013 – The dark side… – Gallery, BWA Kielce, Busko-Zdroj
2013 – Roots of Art – Gallery Frame, International Night of Museums, Warsaw
2012 – CUSTOM – Opus Gallery, Lodz
2011 – Memotion XXX – Lufcik ZPAP Gallery, Warsaw
2010 – Piotr Ambroziak – IMPART Art Center, Wroclaw

SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2020 – NEOEX, Gallery Dul Michal, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2019 – Curator„Art has no RULES”, Warsaw off ART, Warsaw
2018 – Curator- Warsaw off ART, Warsaw
2017 – Curator- Warsaw by ART, otwarte pracownie,
2016-2017 – Animal, Gallery, Bardzo Biała, Warszawa
2016 – V International Biennial of Painting „Quadro-Art”, Łódź
2016 – Trauma Square- Exhibition PhD, Wrocław, Poznan
2016 – 25 Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, Szczecin
2016 – Jamasi Vu- Exhibition PhD, Wroclaw, Poznan
2016 – YOUNG AT ART – Gallery on the floor, Chrzanow
2015 – „Bałuty XXX”, object art, gallery street, Lodz
2015 – „Third Piotrkowskie Biennale” paintings, ODA, Piotrkow Trybunalski
2015 – Traces ” YOUNG AT ART, Gallery DAP 1, Warsaw
2014 – Getto XXI – Monopolis, Lodz
2014 – „Warsaw” YOUNG AT ART, Gallery DAP2, Warsaw
2014 – Humanoid – Gallery Konduktorownia, Czestochowa
2013 – STORM – II Art Festival YOUNG AT ART, Gallery DAP, Warsaw
2013 – Artist review your self – Birmingham, England
2013 – Culture is! -. Manhattan Gallery, Lodz
2012 – LODZ in VIEN – DASVIADUKT, Vienna, Austria
2012 – The end of the World – Museum of Art Book Lodz
2012 – Catechesis I, II , III – Museum of Art Book, Centre Impart, Wroclaw Townhouse Gallery of Miracles, Lublin
2012 – Express East – BACK TO THE AVANT-GARDE – Festival of Four Cultures, Lodz
2010 – I Here and Now 2010 V International Workshop Intermedia – Installation, Lodz