Andrzej Szewczyk
Andrzej Szewczyk (born in 1950 in Szopienice near Katowice, died in 2001 in Cieszyn) studied art education at the Silesian University (Cieszyn branch) from 1974 to 1978.
He was artistically active from the late 1960s. In his paintings, he denied the traditional role of the image and the painter as a creator. From the late 1970s, issues related to the recording of text—such as writing, books, and calligraphy—became central themes in his art. In 1977, he began exhibiting at the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, with which he remained connected for over two decades. From 1981, he created compositions made of pencil shavings, wooden blocks glued to boards and canvases, and poured with encaustic, paint, and lead. He exhibited both in Poland and abroad. A permanent collection of his works is held at the Silesian Museum in Cieszyn.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2023/24 Roma Hałat, Andrzej Szewczyk. Repeat, remind, HOS Gallery, Warsaw
2022 Andrzej Szewczyk - The Artist is an Argument, Bielska Gallery BWA, Bielsko-Biała
2022 The Wonderfulness of Repetition, Art Agenda Nova, Cracow
2020/21 Words saturated with experience. Andrzej Szewczyk from the Simulart collection, State Gallery of Art, Sopot
2020 Written Images, Connaisseur, Cracow
2018 Sensual Matter of the Image, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
2017 Andrzej Szewczyk - Fragments of an Archive, Castle Cieszyn
2007 Andrzej Szewczyk. Paintings from the Peasants, Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom
2007 Painting on mirrors by Andrzej Szewczyk, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
2002 Wspomnienie, Szara Gallery, Cieszyn
2000 Manuscripts, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
1995 Andrzej Szewczyk. Tomasz Wawak – To K. Niemczyk, AT Gallery, Poznań
Selected group exhibitions:
2022 Triennale of Drawing Wrocław 2022, BWA Wrocław Główny
2017 283 x 100 x 27, 12 x 6 x 5. Artists from the Collection, Atlas Sztuki, Łódź
2016 Illegibility: Contexts of Writing, Art Stations Gallery, Poznań
2010 Paintings of the Collection, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok
2009 We See You. The Activities of Foksal Gallery 1966–1989, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn; Collection. 20 Years of the Starmach Gallery, National Museum, Kraków
2003 Katowice Artistic Underground after 1953, Contemporary Art Gallery BWA, Katowice
2002 artEfakty, Kronika Gallery, Bytom
2001 Around the Sign, Contemporary Art Gallery BWA, Katowice; Collection 4, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Foksal Gallery Deposit, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
2000 In the Circle of Kronika, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok
1999 Creeping Revolution, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
1998 In Search of the Lost Letter, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko; 350 km of Fast Driving, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw; Ryszard Ługowski, Andrzej Szewczyk, Tomasz Tatarczyk, Selected from Art, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw
1997 Art from Poland 1945–1996, Mucsarnok, Budapest; 14 Polish Contemporary Artists, Chosun IIbo Gallery, Chosun
1996 Fober, Molenda, Szewczyk, Lucerna; 14 Polish Contemporary Artists, Sonje Museum, Kwangju Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju
1994 Desert Storm, Contemporary Art Gallery BWA, Katowice; Europa, Europa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn
1993 Places, Contemporary Art Gallery BWA, Częstochowa; Books and Pages, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
1992 Museum of Art in Łódź 1931–1992, Museum of Contemporary Art ELAC, Lyon; Books and Pages, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Bielska Autumn, Bielska Gallery BWA, Bielsko-Biała; 5th International Drawing Triennial, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław
1991 Sketch for Contemporary Art Gallery, National Museum, Warsaw; 20th Century Art Collection at the Museum of Art in Łódź, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw
1990 Polish Books and Art Publishers of the Eighties, Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg; Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Books and Beyond, Raczyński Library, Poznań
1989 Wurzeln Treiben, Kunsterhaus, Berlin; Vision and Unity, Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn
1988 VII Biennale of Sydney; Sculpture in the Garden, SARP Garden, Warsaw; Polish Realities, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Johanna Ricard Gallery, Nuremberg
1987 Geometry and Order, Gallery 27, Chełm
1986 Art from Poland, Nouvelles Images Gallery, The Hague; Geometry and Expression, Parko Eleftherias, Athens
1985 4 Foksal Gallery Artists, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
1984 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
1983 Drawings by Ten Polish Artists, MAC, São Paulo
1982 12th Biennale des Jeunes Artistes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1981 Air Gallery, London; 16th São Paulo Biennale
1980 11th Biennale des Jeunes Artistes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris