Michał Mąka, FRIDA LV
Acrylic, spray, hand-cut stencils on canvas.
100 x 80 cm.
Michal Mąka
Graduate of the Master's Degree in Artistic Education in Fine Arts at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts in Kalisz.
He works in painting, printmaking and street art. He usually places his works in abandoned, post-industrial buildings, which he wants to revitalize.
In his latest compositions he refers to the aesthetics of "glitch art" and "graffuturism." He often uses objects encountered in urban space, such as old newspapers, sheet metal, glass, flyers, as sub-paintings.
EXHIBITS:
2018 - Przenikania - group exhibition, officyna art & design gallery, Warsaw,
2018 - Ziomki i Przyjaciele - group exhibition, O29 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland,
2018 - Art Now - group exhibition, National Museum, Krakow, Poland,
2017 - Movement in place - street installation, Multi Art Festival, Kalisz,
2017 - POW! WOW! - International mural festival, Worcester, Massachusetts,
2017 - Geometry of Sound - solo exhibition, Pulsar Gallery - Jan Tarsin Art Gallery, Kalisz,
2017 - Off the shelf - group exhibition, Station of Culture, Rumia,
2017 - A-cumulations - 1st Kalisz Art Biennale, Jan Tarasin Art Gallery, Kalisz,
2016 - 10th Triennial of Small Painting Forms, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń,
2016 - Salon of the Rejected, State Art Gallery, Sopot,
2016 - City Lights, Next Art Gallery, Bydgoszcz,
2015 - Workshop printmaking at UAM, University of Minsk, Belarus,
2015 - Dissociation - solo exhibition, Mug and Pencil, Warsaw, Poland,
2015 - Icons of Pop Culture - post-competition exhibition, Municipal House of Culture, Wroclaw, Poland,
2015 - Bipolarity, Think Art Gallery, Poznań,
2015 - Culminations - Students' Culture Festival, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland,
2014 - State of dissociation - solo exhibition, Input/Output Gallery, Kalisz,
2014 - Graphics from the University - group exhibition, Municipal House of Culture, Kalisz/Municipal House of Culture, Sieradz,
2014 - Questions of Art - Wake Up, District Museum of Kalisz Land, Kalisz,
2014 - Diplomas - Pressure Tower Gallery, Kalisz,
2014-2016 - Ars Universitatis, University Art Gallery, Kalisz,
2014 - Painting Live, Club Fort Colomb, Poznań,
2014 - 2015 - Template Jam graffiti festival - stencil technique, Warsaw,
2014-2017 - Bezdomna Gallery, Kalisz.
Artistic activity in urban space of such cities as Kalisz, Poznań, Wrocław, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Berlin, Rome, London, Boston, Worcester, New York, Providence, Bünde.
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2017 - Scholarship of the Marshal of the Wielkopolska region in the field of culture,
2016 - First place in the National competition for the design and execution of a mural on the building of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn,
2016 - ARS UNIVERSITATIS - honorable mention in the 16th Visual Arts Competition, Kalisz,
2015 - V All-Poland Art Contest - Icons of POPKULTURY - portrait of the artist and his legend - 1st equal prize, MDK Wrocław,
2015 - Author of a mural on Nowy Świat Street in Kalisz as part of the Poznań FESTIVAL OF ART AND SCIENCE in Kalisz,
2013 - ARS UNIVERSITATIS - honorable mention in the 13th fine arts competition, Kalisz.
Art projects:
2016 - 2017 - Art in the window - artistic interventions in windows, doors, facades of abandoned tenements in Kalisz, curator Arkadiusz Pacholski - Kalisz Literary Association,
2017 - Summer in the theater - workshops - Wojciech Boguslawski Theater in Kalisz,
2017 - Workshop - 40th anniversary of Jan Tarasin Art Gallery in Kalisz.
