Krzysztof Gliszczynski

Mariola Balińska
Krzysztof Gliszczyński: Beyond the Painting


Krzysztof Gliszczyński’s latest works refer to the passage of time and, at the same time, to concepts related to the beginning and birth, the final disintegration and degradation of broadly understood matter. This labyrinth of related thoughts through which Gliszczyński’s painting leads us touches the essence of life and enables the viewer to search for metaphysical experiences in his painting. He treats our existence as a momentary presence in the universe, in which the goal may be to move towards the inevitable end. Through the “cracks of existence” – the incommensurability of the processes of being and passing – the artist observes reality, tries out forms of artistic expression that allow him to find answers to questions about not only the essence of art, but also the essence of life, the primeval beginning from which the cosmos was born. The artist treats reality as the outer layer of the world, hiding something more beneath the surface. Something that the human eye cannot see right away, something that we cannot touch.


The experience of seeing that which is invisible makes you realize that it is possible to capture it, that there is a subtle boundary between fa...

1977-82 Attends the State Grammar School for Visual Arts in Szczecine1982-87 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, the graduete studio of Prof. Kazimierz Ostrowski.Since 1987 teaching job at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdask , now as professor in the studio of painting.In years 1995–2002 co–author of the ‘’Koło” Gallery in Gdańsk.

1992 - Art Residency at Atelierhaus Worpswede , DAAD, Germany1994 - Distinction in the All-Polish Painting Competition Bielska Jesie1996 - The Ziemowit Szuman award - XVI Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting in Szczecin2000 - Grant from the Pollock- Krasner Foundation Inc., New York, USA2001 - Art Residency at Shanghai Shanghai in the Eye of World Artist, China2005 - Art Residency, Association d'art Chambre de sejour...Saignon, France