Rafał Podgórski

I’m free and spontaneous artist painter, expressing myself in multiple painting styles. Over 20 years of my artistic adventure, I have created more than 200 arts (mostly paintings), with more than 10 exhibitions internationally. I have a PhD in arts from Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, giving lectures, seminars and workshops, as sharing knowledge about art is my true passion, alongside the painting.

My artistic output includes numerous projects and exhibitions in Poland and abroad, which allows me to introduce perspectives that are diverse and open to contemporary challenges. They explore the complex relationships between art, education and visual culture. One of the key events is the upcoming exhibition Modular & Wild Land in Venice, which took place in December 2024 under the patronage of the Polish Institute in Rome. This exhibition introduces a dialogue between modernism and tradition, exploring the tensions between nature and the city, and between the modernist approach and drawing on old master techniques. My involvement in this event perfectly reflects my approach to art as a field of encounter between different narratives and the possibility of reinterpreting them in a contemporary context.

These days, my main focus is...

2015. Doctor of Arts in the discipline of painting

Dissertation topic: "Mythology of painting structures in discovering the architectural identity of the Polish People's Republic"
2014 Postgraduate studies in pedagogical preparation. Koszalin University of Technology.

2009. Diploma of the Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Painting
Master's thesis title: "i3 Virtual Reality". Specialization: easel painting;

Appendix: intermedia,
2005. Graduate diploma of PLSP in Koszalin, specialization: exhibition management.

individual:
2024. "Modular and Wild land". Painting Exhibition.
Curator: Niccolo Lucarelli,
Fundazione Marta Czok, Venice, Italy.
Patronage: Polish Institute in Rome, Contemporary Lynx,

2023. "Human Nature" Kierat Gallery. Szczecin.
2021. "Without significance" Culture Incubator Piraeus. Poznań.
2021. "Personal paintings" - Żak Gallery - Gdańsk.
2020. "The duration of the image" - BWA Piła.
2020. "Podgórski's painting". Warzywniak Gallery, Oliwski Ratusz Kultury. Gdańsk.
2018. "You can't see the trees from the forest". Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Gallery of the Faculty of Graphic Arts.
2015. "Mythical Identity of PRL Architecture". "Galeria na Piętrze". Koszalin.

2015. "Mythical Identity of PRL Architecture". Galeria Pionova. Gdańsk.

2014. "Myths and Numbers - on the Essence of Modernism". Karlsruhe, Germany, Poly Produzentengalerie.

2014. "Identity of Northern Art Nouveau Architecture". Galeria Rondo. Cultural Center in Słupsk.

2012. "Architectural Identity of the City of Szczecin". Elizabethan Hall of the Pomeranian Dukes' Castle in Szczecin.

2011. Painting - individual exhibition "Stara Kotłownia" Koszalin.

2010. "Gdańsk Landscape Painting Club" - individual exhibition at PiTiPa Gallery - Gdańsk

collective:

2020. Gr...