Rafał Podgórski (b. 1984), Landscape with hidden meaning, 2020

Oil, canvas, 100 x 130 cm, signed on the back.

Lives and works in Koszalin. In 2009 he graduated from painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk in the studio of Prof. Jerzy Ostrogórski (he completed an annex to his diploma in the Intermedia studio under the direction of Prof. Witoslaw Czerwonka). In 2015, he received a Doctor of Art degree at his alma mater under the direction of Prof. Mark Model. In 2012, he received the Scholarship of the Marshal of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship for those professionally engaged in artistic creativity in the field of culture. Participant in a number of group exhibitions and author of many solo exhibitions. Selected individual exhibitions: 2015 - "Mythic Identity of the Architecture of the People's Republic of Poland", Gallery on the Floor, Koszalin; 2015 - "Mythic Identity of the Architecture of the People's Republic of Poland", Pionova Gallery, Gdansk; 2014 - "Mythen und zahlen - uber das Wesen des Modernismus". Germany/Karlsruhe/Poly Produzentengalerie; 2014 - "Architectural Identity of the Northern Secession" Gallery of the Roundabout Theater, SOK, Slupsk; 2012 - "Architectural Identity of the City of Szczecin", Elisabethan Hall, Castle of Pomeranian Dukes, Szczecin; 2011 - retrospective individual exhibition, "Old Boiler Room", Koszalin; 2010 - individual exhibition from the series "Gdansk Landscape Club", PiTiPa Gallery, Gdansk. Selected group exhibitions: 2014 - "No title", Art-Affairs Gallery, Gdansk; 2012-2013 - traveling group exhibition of 10 young painters from ASP Gdansk "Junge Kunst aus Polen. Malarei aus Pommern," Neusterlitz/ Nuremberg/ Hilpoltstein.