Jakub Slomkowski (b. 1982), Wieloslon, 2021

oil on canvas, 90/110 cm

Jakub Slomkowski painter, illustrator, musician, creator of installations. Graduate of the Warsaw
Academy of Fine Arts (diploma in painting in the atelier of Krzysztof Wachowiak in 2007
year). In 2004-2005 he studied in the department of fine arts at the University of
Complutense in Madrid.
Major group exhibitions: Summer Juvenile , Zachęta National Art Gallery 2010.
Samsung Art Master - post-competition exhibition of the CCA in Warsaw 2009. Tide - young
Polish contemporary art Wroclaw ECC 2016, Triennale of Drawing , Wroclaw edition 2019
and 2022, In these days hustling flamboyant and bewildering I move with my thoughts , S. Foundation.
Gierowski 2021. Oknoplast For Art, MOCAK, Bielska Jesien 2017, Bielska Jesien 2023.
Major solo exhibitions: Holy Animal , El Gallery 2015. Dawn of Humanity BWA
Olsztyn 2016. The Destroyers of Worlds kunsthallekleinbasel 2019r, Indian Slava,
Nanazenit 2021, The Queen and her Brothers , Beautiful Gallery 2021r, Giant gallery Hos 2022.
Since 2010, he has been composing music for Iza Szostak's performances. He is the creator of the band
Andy Why music band and the duos Kubatwiceimprovise and Sicarios Unidos. As of 2019
Jakub Slomkowski is creating an individual musical project I AM SORRY DAVE. In 2022, together with
with Rafal Smolinski, he created music for the animation Airborne by Andrzej Jobczyk, which
received the award for best short animation at the prestigious and
Oscars-qualifying Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2022.Winner of the competition
Oknoplast for Art and finalist of the Bielska Jesień 2017 and 2023.
Member of the NZTB Association, the Program Council of the ArtWalk gallery, informal groups
Art groups Time New Roman, FreeBloopGroup, organizer of the cyclical event
Dinner at the Steelworks (since 2007) His works oscillate between abstraction and symbolism. W
His works look at how the spheres of the Sacred and Profane act on human
imagination, and seeks ways to communicate between the animate and inanimate worlds.
inanimate. He is interested in apotropaism. Space, which occurs in many
parallel orders is the leitmotif of Slomkowski's work.