Mariusz Soltysik

Mariusz Sołtysik is a Polish visual artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, collage, installation, video and interactive media. His work explores the position of the human being within contemporary systems of information, technology, culture and the environment, often addressing questions of perception, memory, hierarchy and the Anthropocene.

Drawing, painting and collage form an important part of his interdisciplinary practice. He frequently works with found visual structures, fragments of everyday materials, packaging, diagrams and accumulated images, transforming them into works that move between abstraction and conceptual narrative.

Sołtysik studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland, and at the École des Arts Plastiques et Visuels de l’État in Mons, Belgium. He holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice.

His works have been presented in more than 100 exhibitions, predominantly international, including projects in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Sweden, Italy, Australia, India, Taiwan, Chile, the United States, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Poland. He has participated in 14 international artist residencies.

Selected awards and distinctions include the Bronze Medal for Merit to C...

Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland
Studies in the studios of Roma Hałat, Stanisław Fijałkowski, Andrzej M. Bartczak and Leszek Rózga.
École des Arts Plastiques et Visuels de l’État, Mons, Belgium
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland
PhD in Fine Arts. Doctoral project: An Extraordinary Art Object (EAO).

2026
— Water Tower Art Festival in Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
2025
— What Connects Sosnowsky’s Hogweed, Raccoon and Artificial Intelligence?, Šiauliai County Povilas Višinskis Public Library Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
— ”Common grounds” Macchina Gallery, EC, Santiago, Chile,
2023
— ”I have no good news – simulacra, inclusions, prototypes”, solo exhibition, Wschodnia Gallery, Łódź, Poland
2022
— ”I Was Lookin’ Back to See if You Were Lookin’ Back at Me to See Me Lookin’ Back at You – IWLBtS/iYWLBaM/tSMLBaY” Nowa Huta Museum, Krakow, Poland
2020
— ”The One Minutes International Competition 2020” China, Shanghai, Dragon TV
2018
— ”NÓmade Bienale – Gross Capital” MAC – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Quinta Normal, Santiago de Chile
2017
— ”MEM Experimental Arts International Festival”, MEM Exhibition Hall, Bilbao, Spain
— ”Keelung Ciao” International Festival & Residency, Heping Island, Keelung, Taiwan
2015
— ”War in pictures”, Pasaż Klub, Krakow – in frame of Conrad Festival 2015