Marcin Maciejowski (born 1974), Final Party, 2006

oil, canvas, 80 x 110 cm, signed on the back: ''FINAL PARTY | M. MACIEJOWSKI | 06.''


One of the most recognizable Polish painters. From 1994 to 1996 he studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology. In 1995 he started attending additional drawing classes, where he met senior students Wilhelm Sasnal and Rafał Bujnowski. The young students fell in love with the class instructor Marek Firk and Jozef Tomczyk and founded an informal creative group, which in the near future was to be named "Grupa Ładnie" (1995-2001). Maciejowski, in his third year of studies from architecture, moved to the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he became known as an unruly student, following his own path. In 2002, he was the winner of the Polityka Passports, and in 2010 he received the prestigious German Lovis Corinth Preis award. Maciejowski's works can be found in many public and private collections at home and abroad, including: National Museum, Krakow; MOCAK, Krakow; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow; ING Polish Art Foundation, Warsaw; Belvedere Museum, Vienna; Burger Collection, Berlin; Frissiras Museum, Athens; Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg; Olbricht Collection, Berlin/Essen, Schauwerk Sindelfingen Museum, Sindelfingen; Volpinum Kunstsammlung, Vienna. Author of about 30 solo exhibitions presented, among others. At Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London/Salzburg/Paris (2019, 2016, 2010); Wilkinson Gallery, London (2015, 2012, 2008), Galeria Raster, Warsaw (2014, 2006, 2001), Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2013, 2009, 2006, 2005, 2002); BWA Bielsko Biala (2012), National Museum in Krakow (2010); Gallery Leo Konig, New York (2005); Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok (2004); Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles (2004); State Art Gallery, Sopot (2003); Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2002); Zderzak Gallery, Krakow (2001, 2000). Participant in dozens of group exhibitions in Poland and abroad