Piotr Kotlicki is a polish artist. He currently works at the National Film School in Łódź at The Film and Television Directing Department. The figures he paints take place in unreal and dark contexts, in an apparently state of unconsciousness. They are between movement and stasis, between destruction and suspense. The unidentified figures, the spaces, and the temporality they inspire could belong to dream.
At the same time destruction and suspense
Solo Exhibitions:
2018 7 million years, Olimpus Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2018 Lunatic in his garden, Assembly Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 Barbarians, ODA, Piotrkow Tryb, Poland
2017 Black paintings, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2017 There is a terribly acute today, 16th Science Technique and Arts Festival, ROKEiDM, Lodz, Poland
2016 We are turning into nothings – exlaimed the general , Sandhofer Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
2016 Motion compositions in paintings, PAF 2016 Animation Festival, Leuven, Belgium
2015 There are paths here which I’m jumping of, often getting bloody wounds , Olimpus Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2015 The truth is only known by ferns, Odnowa Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2010 Man jumping over, Bałucka Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2008 Searchings 2000-2008, BWA, Piotrkow Tryb., Poland
Group Exhibitions:
2018 Mascullinea, Kobro Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2018 6 Mediations Biennale, The Library, Poznan, Polska
2018 10#, Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, Germany
2018 To the point, Kobro Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2018 Mascullinea, BWA, Kielce, Poland
2018 Artvilnius’18, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 Hotel Europa – Continent Des Anecdotes, LE 26 – Galerie Felix Frachon, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Strzemiński’s bastards, Kobro Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2017 On the Edge, Lima Theatre, Esslingen, Germany
2017 43 Biennale Malarstwa Bielska Jesień, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
2017 The Next Day vol.2, Assembly Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 Short stories, Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2017 New man?, IV Piotrkow Biennal, ODA, Poland
2017 Hotel Europa, ArtVilnius’17, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 One-for-one – art of exchange, Galeria OdNowa, ASP, Lodz, Poland
2016 The Next Day, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2016 The first line, Oda, Piotrkow Tryb., Poland
2016 Spilotek, Drei Ringe, Leipzig, Germany
2016 Freedom of Form, The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdansk, Poland
2016 Łódź with a sea view, Browar Mieszczański WRO2016, Wroclaw, Poland
2016 The Access Point festival (Точка зрения), St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 Display, Imaginarium Gallery, Traugutta 18, Lodz, Poland
2016 Things, Museum of Archeology and Etnography, Lodz, Poland
2016 Minority XXI, Museum of the Factory, Lodz, Poland
2014 NordArt, Budelsdorf, Germany
2013 Dazibao, Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China
2013 Labour in a Single Shot, Krytyka Polityczna, Warszawa, Poland
2013 Suitcreature, MS Dockville Festival in Hamburg, Germany
2013 Dazibao, Organ House, Chongqing, China
2013 Splendour of textile, National Gallery of Art (ZACHĘTA), Warsaw, Poland
2013 All hands on deck, Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, Germany
2012 Madatac, The Contemporary Audio-Visual&New Media Arts Festival, Madrit, Spain
2012 Videomedja,16th International Video Festival , Studio M, Novi Sad, Serbia
2012 TGV en 50 secondes, CO.AR.CO, Marseille, France
2012 Festival Kultura 2.0, National Audio-Visual Institute Warsaw, Poland
2012 The Beginning of The End, Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania
2012 In beetwen, Am Kietz, Schwedt, Germany
2011 When parks becomes an arena, SURVIVAL 9-Art Review, Wroclaw, Poland
2011 Summer presentations, Gallery Milano. Warsaw, Poland
2010 Kettle full of diamonds, Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, Germany
2010 Quadratkubikmeter hoch eins, Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, Germany
2008 Back side of medal-Artists for Tybet, Gallery of Young Promotion, Lodz, Poland
2008 The Grande Bouffe, GAZ, Lodz, Poland
2007 Użpildyta erdve 3, Petro Kriaučiūno Viešoji Biblioteka, Mariampole, Lithuania
2007 Echange symetrique, Génie de la Bastille, Paris, France
2007 Echange symetrique, Artbook museum, Lodz, Poland
2002 Two citys-four artists , Stadt Gallery, Esslingen, Germany
2000 Piano-forte, Manhattan Gallery, Lodz, Poland
1999 Beyound the plan, Manhattan Gallery, Lodz, Poland
Awards:
2017 Grand prix , IV Piotrkow Biennale of Art, ODA, Piotrkow Tryb, Poland
2016 Grand prix Freedom of Form, The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdansk, Poland
2014 Shortlisted for „100 painters of tomorow” , Beers Contemporary and Thames & Hudson, UK