Bartosz Kokosinski, Gasoline, 2024

oil, resin, canvas, 98.5 x 68 cm signed, dated and described on the reverse: Bartosz Kokosiński/2024/ oil, resin on canvas/"Beznzyna"/98.5 x 68 cm/framed 104 x 73 cm

Bartosz Kokosiński (born 1984) - painter and creator of painting and video installations. Graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he received his diploma in the studio of Prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk and Prof. Witold Stelmachniewicz in 2009. He was a member of the Silnia group in Cracow. His works are in the collection of, among others, the National Museum in Gdansk, the Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko, the Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery in Krakow, the State Art Gallery in Sopot, PKO Bank Polski, the BWA Bielska Gallery in Bielsko Biala and in many private collections in Poland and abroad. Bartosz Kokosiński is a multiple recipient of scholarships from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. He triumphed four times in the ranking of young Polish artists "Kompas Młodej Sztuki". His works have been shown in numerous individual and group exhibitions at home and abroad.

Selected solo exhibitions:

2022 I see it blackly, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw.

2021 I remain the same, though I have changed, Witches' Tower, Slupsk

2020 Unfinished Stories, KZMRZ Foundation, Kazimierz Dolny

2019 Bye Bye Budapest!, 1111 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
2017 Chad, Krynki Gallery, Krynki
Pastel Estate, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Community of ideas of density, State Gallery of Art, Sopot
2016 Moment shearing the peg, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Bank Pekao
Project Room, Warsaw
Rapture, BWA Gallery, Gorzow Wielkopolski
Dysfunctional Matter, Knoll Gallery Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
Dysfunctional Matter, Knoll Gallery Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2015 Nothing is real, but everything is possible, Pressure Tower Gallery, Konin, Poland
Thermocoloration, Lubelska 30/32 U-42, Warsaw
Vapors, ABC Gallery, Poznań
2014 Crack, Knoll Gallery Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
Crack, Knoll Gallery Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2013 Perverse Feces of Thought (Thomas Bernhard), Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
Images devouring reality, Polish Losers Club, Berlin, Germany
Fever, ABC Gallery, Poznań
2012 Uncontrollable Content, Young Art Forum, Lublin
(Un)order of things, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow
2011 Some paintings don't want to be painted, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Katowice, Poland
(no) body (no) soul (no) art, Kameralna Gallery, Slupsk
2010 In form, Sztygarka City Museum, Dąbrowa Górnicza.
At the beginning - the end, Nova Gallery, Cracow
2007 Ashamed of repetition, Nova Gallery, Cracow.

Selected group exhibitions:

2020 Inselkunst 2020: Bartosz Kokosinski and Philipp Eyrich, Dom Krakowski Cultural Center, Nuremberg, Germany Herbarium novum. Efflorescentiae, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
2019 Knoll Gallery Budapest is 30 years old, Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
My Name is Red, State Art Gallery, Sopot
Black bile, Chamber Gallery, Slupsk
Touch Art, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.
Summer in the city, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw.
Nature in art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Cracow.
2018 Like Cybis, Gallery of the Opole Silesia Museum, Opole.
Life is a backyard, as part of the 13.inSPIRACJE festival, TRAFO Trafostacja Sztuki, Szczecin
Sudden death of the main character, KUBIK art space, Budapest, Hungary
Indifferent works, exhibition with Andrzej Szewczyk, Jan Tarasin Art Gallery,
Kalisz
Air and other things we need to live, BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biala
Artistry. 100 years of Polish sculpture, Bourse Art Museum, Riga, Latvia
2017 What about this abstraction, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, Poland.
Kunstwerk Leben, Center for Persecuted Arts, Solingen, Germany
Wonderful Years, Kokosinski / Matyszewski, Galeria Biala, Lublin, Poland
#biblioteka, Zamek Cultural Center, Poznań
2016 Finally in our own home. Polish Home in Transformation, 8th edition of the Warsaw Under Construction festival, former printing house building Nowogrozka 84/86 Street, Warsaw
Seeking Freedom. Polish contemporary painting, National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Medicine in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland.
2015 Two Sticks, Think Tank lab Trienniale, International Festival of Contemporary Drawing Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland.
42nd Painting Biennale "Bielska Jesień 2015", Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała
Objects for the Image are no longer there, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw
The Power of Abstraction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus
Shaberland, exhibition as part of the Survival13 art review, Police Prevention Unit Barracks, Wroclaw, Poland.
Hideout, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin
(Don't) touch! Haptic aspects of Polish art after 1945, CCA Signs of the Times, Toruń
Open Collection, National Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin
Still in Motion, E.M. Gallery, Drachten, Netherlands
2014 Boundaries of Painting, as part of the series of exhibitions Artifacts, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Przemyśl
Self Love. That is, artists love themselves, State Art Gallery, Sopot
Bohemian Pope, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Against the Instructions, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole, Poland
Tomek Baran, Bartosz Kokosinski, Monika Smyla, allerArt, Bludenz, Austria
2013 41st Painting Biennale "Bielska Jesień 2013", Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała.
Damage has been done, Kokosinski / Juszkiewicz, EL Gallery, Elbląg
Headache, Kokosiński / Juszkiewicz, Zona Sztuki Aktualnej, Szczecin
Milky Teeth, BWA, Katowice, Poland
2012 Curators Network, project with Ewa Juszkiewicz, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow.
Painting about paintings - Roman Siwulak, Paintings about painting - Bartosz Kokosiński, Gallery of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland.
2011 3rd Festival of Young Art "Draught", Zachęta Contemporary Art Gallery, Szczecin.
10th Geppert Competition, BWA Awangarda, Wroclaw.
6th Triennial of the Young at the Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko
6th Youth Biennale "Fish Eye 6", Chamber Gallery, Slupsk
Kinderspiele, Zbiornik Kultury, Cracow
2008 Blankly, perfect summer, VertexList, New York, USA
2007 Jeune Création Européenne, Montrouge, France
2006 Exhibition of paintings from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Kunststation Kleinsassen, Germany.

artistic achievements:

2019 Visegrad Fund Grant, Bratislava, Slovakia
Young Poland Scholarship, Warsaw, Poland
Scholarship from the Fund for the Promotion of Creativity, ZAiKS Authors Association, Warsaw, Poland
2018 1st place in the ranking of young Polish artists "Kompas Młodej Sztuki", Warsaw
2017 1st place in the ranking of young Polish artists "Kompas Młodej Sztuki", Warsaw
2016 1st place in the ranking of young Polish artists "Kompas Młodej Sztuki", Warsaw
2015 Regulatory distinction in the 42nd Painting Biennale "Bielska Jesień 2015", Bielsko-Biała
Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw
Artistic Scholarship of the City of Warsaw, Warsaw
2014 1st place ex aequo with Ewa Juszkiewicz in the ranking of young Polish artists "Kompas Młodej Sztuki", Warsaw.
2013 Silesian Voivodeship Marshal's Award for young artists, Katowice.
41st Painting Biennale "Bielska Jesień 2013", Bielsko-Biała :
- honorable mention
- honorable mention of the editors of "ARTLUK"
- honorable mention of the editorial staff of the quarterly "EXIT"
- distinction of the editors of the portal "OBIEG"
Distinction in the 1st International Painting Competition "Modessqe", Warsaw
Distinction in the 9th Triennial of "Small Painting Forms", Wozownia, Toruń
2012 Scholarship of the Marshal of the Silesian Province, Katowice
Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw
2010 EXIT Art Quarterly Award in "Promotions" competition, Art Gallery, Legnica.
2009 Academic Scholarship of the Capital Royal City of Cracow, Cracow
2001-2009 City Council Scholarship, Dabrowa Górnicza
2007 Sapere Auso Scholarship, Cracow
Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw
2006 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Montreal, Canada
2002/2003 Scholarship of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Warsaw, Poland
2002 Scholarship of the Minister of Culture, Warsaw

residencies:

2019 Bartok Quarter / Eleven Blokk Art Foundation, Budapest, Hungary.
2016 MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic

other activities:

2018 Portals, temporary exhibition in urban space, New Art Space Foundation, Busko-Zdrój.
2014 Litany, IN OUT Festival, Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk
Up, metamatic:taf, Athens, Thessaloniki, Greece
Dangerous Forms, SOON_ 11, Starak Family Foundation, Spectra Art Space, Warsaw, Poland
2007 Participation in 1st International Intermedia Festival and Workshop, Debrecen, Hungary.