Paweł Sobczak
Paweł Sobczak, photo: Teresa Miarka

(1997 b.) is a visual artist working mainly with painting and objects. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, receiving a master’s degree with distinction, and from Universitat Politècnica de València (Facultat de Belles Arts de Sant Carles).

He has presented his work in solo exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art Kronika in Bytom, the BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice, as well as in independent spaces such as Hidden Gallery in Prague. He has taken part in group exhibitions, among others at the Musée royal de Mariemont in Belgium, the Pola Magnetyczne Gallery in Warsaw, and the Utazu Art Award Biennale in Japan.

In his practice, he examines traces of processes of disappearance and transformation, relating them to memory, landscape, and the relationships between matter, time, and environment. He uses motifs connected with geology, post industrial landscapes, natural history, and family experience.

A particular focus in his practice is coal, a cultural figure linked to the history of Upper Silesia. The artist analyses its meanings as a residue of past life, an industrial raw material, a source of energy, and a carrier of memory.

In painting, he refers to the traditions of landscape and still life, using their historical conventions to examine processes of disappearance, displacement, and transformation. Recurring motifs of organic forms and endangered species relate to tensions between persistence and loss. His works function as attempts to read traces left by humans, organisms, and matter across different scales of time.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025

BLACKOUT, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland

2024

Czerń ziemi słonej, Jak Zapomnieć, Krakow, Poland

,,Czemu pies szczeka, targa się po nocy?”, Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy, Poland

2023

Jeśli siebie nie poznasz, Kronika, Bytom, Poland

Your tears taste like sugar, PAS, Berlin, Germany

Close Enough, Hidden Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2022

I have never been a child, nor have I been an adult. BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland

2021

Cuando yo era un niño, Freezia, Valencia, Spain

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026

Nie wchodź do lasu po zmroku, kur. Paulina Winiarska, galeria ateneum, Katowice, Poland

putting face into soil, licking the wormy pile, kur. Angelika Puff, Filth, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wszystko co uniesiesz, kur. Alicja Klimek, desertlaw, Krakers, Cracow, Poland

Human Nature, kur. Adrian Chorębała, Wejście Główne, Katowice, Poland

2025

Relacje. Przestrzeń. Schronienie. Krupa Art Fundation, Wrocław, Poland

Lostro, BWA Ostrowiec, Ostrowiec, Poland

Jesienna Wystawa SChAP, MM Gallery, Chorzów, Poland

When Doors Close Walls Rise, Jak zapomnieć, Kraków, Poland

Fitoglosje, Ignacy Mine, Rybnik, Poland

Y, Palace of Arts Krakow, Poland

Imperium chlorofilu, Nature Education Center, Krakow, Poland

Wystawa SChAP, BWA Gallery Jatki, Nowy Targ, Poland

2024

POSTBAUHAUS: Memories of the Future, Plato Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Fitoglosje, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland

XXVII Jesienna Wystawa SChAP, Galeria MM, Chorzów, Poland

A+ MNFST, Metropolitan Warsaw, Poland

Limburg Biënnale 2024, Marres Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

Urządzenie ciał, Monidło Studio, Katowice, Poland

Zgasić światłość wiekuistą. Przeobrażenia wizji duchowości, Wallspace Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2023

Égypte. Éternelle passion, Musée royal de Mariemont, BelgiumXXVI

Jesienna Wystawa SChAP, MM Gallery, Chorzów, Poland

2022

Of Blood And Milk, Pola Magnetyczne, Warszawa, Poland

Europe in the face of the Fifth Freedom, Szyb Wilson, Katowice, Poland

Migrations, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland

The Art of Algorithm, Szyb Wilson, Katowice, Poland

2021

PROYECTAR [SE], Colegio de Arquitectos, Toledo, Spain

National exhibition Jury, Delaline Arts Center, Maryland, United States

Trayectos, Facultat de Belles Arts de Sant Carrles, Valencia, Spain

Reflecto, Facultat de Belles Arts de Sant Carrles, Valencia, Spain

2020

Utazu Art Award Biennale, Japan

Figurama, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland

International Student Drawing Trienale, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland

Equinox, Springfield, United States

Katowice Graphic Month, UMCS, Lublin, Poland

Process, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland2019 Figurama, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland

Schronienie, Schron bojowy nr. 27, Ruda Śląska, Poland

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