“The truth is tied to a force beyond my means. What remains is to create, create and live.”
-Dawid Wojtalewicz
Dawid Wojtalewicz (1989- , Gostynin (Poland)) graduated in 2017 with magna cum laude from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (Master degree in Fine Arts), furthermore he studied in S.A.S.K. Turnhout, 2016 and in Athens School of the Arts (Greece) in 2016-2017 . He also had his internship in orthodox iconography on the Athos Peninsula
Dawid won the Hugo Roelandt Prize and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA ) in 2018.
He is looking for a human trail, for the complexity of nature and insight into matter.
Dawid creates contemporary paintings with respect to tradition, murals and frescoes, especially on religious and historical topics. He builds his work based on geometry, colour system and symbolic language. At the same time, he is faithful to basic philosophical values. His works are based on three pillars: technical skill, intellectual value and reason.
He is co-creating artistic groups for example: Pink TV Only Good News, Polish Art Benelux, Time New Roman and 4Fold.
He is also a performance artist .
Based on Dawid’s unique view “space is not an autonomous container in which things simply exist. Instead, space is to be an inherent feature of interconnected objects”.
The ability of space “to the world” is not limited to human experience. Objects like “world.” To shed light on the relationship between being and space. To challenge the historically constructed and socially embedded understanding of space. To look for answers to the question of where are people, not what makes us human. To create a new attitude for viewers / performers to space itself? “
Solo exhibitions:
Wouter De Bruycker Fine Arts & Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2022.
ARTmageddon, Galerie Verbeeck-Van Dyck, Antwerp, May 2022.
Si! Beauty!, Lucas Cranach-Stiftung, Wittenberg, Germany, March 2022.
Halo Portrety, Halo Kultura, Gdynia, Poland, February 2022.
Nomad, Żak art gallery, Klub Żak, Gdańsk, Poland, January 2022.
Art gallery Mara, Turnhout, Belgium, December 2017, March 2019 and February 2021.
Glow of the sound of light, European Art Center Frédéric Chopin in Sanniki, Poland, February 2020.
Glow of enlightenment, Galerie Verbeeck-Van Dyck, Antwerp, August 2019.
Kwadrato Roso s Pektywa, INBOX, M HKA, Antwerp, March 2018.
Na początku drogi, Muzeum of Gąbin, Poland, 2012.
Important group exhibitions:
Time New Roman, group exhibition, Sopot, Poland, April 2022.
4 + 1 anniversary of Pink TV, University of Arts in Poznan, Poland, December 2021.
Art Biennale in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, December, 2021.
Nowe Znaczenie group exhibition, Halo Kultura, Gdynia, Poland, October 2021.
Biennial of Painting Lubelska Wiosna , CSK Lublin, Poland, March 2021.
Grote Prijs Ernest Albert 2018, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, August 2018.
Group exhibition with Greg Van Staey and Martins Rozenfelds, Galerie Verbeeck-Van Dyck, Antwerp, May 2018.
De Opwarming, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, November 2017.
Artagon – The International Encounter of Art Schools Students, Paris, April 2016.
Polish Art Benelux Presents:, FWD: gallery, Poznan, Poland, March 2016.
Antwerps kunstsalon, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, July 2015.
Lieven in Heimwee, Catharinakerk, Eindhove, Netherlands, 2013.
Global Soul – Exposition on the move’, De Warande, Turnhout,
2013.
Residences / performance art:
Painting Residency, European Art Center Frédéric Chopin in Sanniki, Poland, September 2020.
International Painting Residency, Slubice Palace, Poland, 2018 and 2019.
Festival Excentricités, Besançon, France, 2018.
4fold in Beeld, Antwerp, 2018-2019.
Pink TV only good news, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp Art Weekend 2017.
Pink TV only good news, WATT festival, MAS Museum, Antwerp, November 2017.
Belgium Performance Festival III, Brussels, 2017.
Curator of Charalampi 3 art space, Athens, Greece, 2016-2017.
Exhibition data and photos ©copyright Dawid Wojtalewicz