Zbigniew Olszyna, Little Talisman, 2019

oil, canvas, 100 x 120 cm signed, dated and described on the reverse: "Little Talisman"/Zbigniw Olszyna/2019/OLSZYNA

Zbigniew Olszyna (1980) - graduated in 2007 from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts. Władysław Strzemiński in Łódź. He lives and works in Lodz. He works in painting, drawing and photography.


"Painting for me is the power to create a universe full of personal symbols, in which the viewer, through the prism of his experiences, can discover the content that interests him. When creating my compositions, I subconsciously feel what is important to me at a given moment, so I rely on my intuition when working on a painting. However, I try to be attentive to every fleeting thought, which often becomes a seed that sprouts into something bigger. I look for connections between the creations of man and the organic nature, welding them into dreamlike compositions where abstraction and figuration intermingle and complement each other on many levels.In painting I am attracted to the aura of mystery, strangeness, the clash of opposing poles and the duality of all things."

Major exhibitions over the past 6 years:


2022 Exhibition. Individual exhibition entitled: Hypnagogues" at Art Hub Gallery in Lodz, Poland.

2020 Collective project realized by Lodz Events Center and 12 invited artists in Lodz urban space titled: "How Many Roads".

2019 Individual exhibition titled: "Four Jumps into the Future" at Olympia Gallery at Krakers Cracow Art Week in Cracow, Poland.

2018 Exhib. Individual Exhibition titled: "Art of Meat" at the Large Room Studio in Warsaw.

2017 Individual exhibition titled: "Cie(r)nie" in the Portrait Studio at the Festival of Art. Blask/Brzask contemporary art festival in Lodz.


All artistic activities of the last 6 years:

2022

photographs from the series "National Tattoo Salon" group exhibition entitled: "Tattoo. Symbol, stigma, beauty" Ethnographic Museum in Torun
painting entitled: "Mrs. Kolczakówka" group exhibition at the 12th Triennial of Small Painting Forms in Torun
paintings titled: "Hypnagogues" individual exhibition at Art Hub Gallery in Lodz.
2021

paintings, group exhibition titled: "Draught" in Wilanowski tlen Gallery in Warsaw
photographs titled: "Grains" and "Fruits" from the series Danse Macabre group exhibition at the 9th International Salon of Still Life in Photography at the Municipal Art Gallery in Częstochowa
2020

site specific project realized by Lodz Event Center and 12 invited artists in Lodz urban space entitled: "How Many Roads" http://howmanyroads.pl/
paintings, photographs, prints, drawings - cross-sectional exhibition entitled: "18/40" at the Lokal venue in Lodz
painting "Poisonous plant" - group exhibition "Collection of still life in the collection of BWA in Sieradz".
2019

paintings, drawings, objects, photographs titled "Four leaps into the future" - collective exhibition with Wiki Królikowska at Olympia Gallery during Krakers Cracow Art Week
paintings "Danger Zone", "Kerlingarfjöll" , "Disturbance in Paradise" and drawings-collages "Installation 1" and "Installation 2" - collective exhibition entitled: "Future Dust" organized by Poleski Art Center, Wi-ma, Lodz
paintings entitled: "VV2K0" and "Red or Blue?" at a group exhibition at the 14th International Autumn Art Salon, BWA Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, Poland
paintings titled: "Miss World" and "How much is this saltpeter?"- guest exhibition together with Odio Tower project titled: "All Poland" at BWA Wroclaw
2018

paintings, photographs, drawings from the series "Szt. Mięsa" solo exhibition in the Large Room Studio in Warsaw
drawings entitled: "Between heart and mind" - group exhibition entitled: "Wilkoń and us" at the Kobro Gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz
paintings titled: "Pipe" and "Poisonous plant" - Group exhibition VII national painting competition "Triennale with Still Life" at BWA in Sieradz. Honorable mention for the painting "Poisonous plant".
paintings, group exhibition entitled: "Afterimages" in the Inspiration Zone at the City Furniture Interior Gallery in Gdansk.
painting titled: "RGB" group exhibition at the International Biennale of Painting "Quadro-Art" 2018 at Willa Gallery in Lodz -.
2017

drawings from the series: "Bodies" - Body Language at Berlin Blue-art gallery - group exhibition in Berlin
paintings from the series " Bodies" - exhibition of paintings at the tourist information center in Lodz
paintings, photographs and objects entitled "Cie(r)nie" - individual exhibition at the Portrait Studio in Lodz during the Festival of Contemporary Art Blask/Brzask
photographic series "Superwoman" individual exhibition titled: "And to make it shine" in the Gallery of Contemporary Art "Aneks" in Opole (Night of Culture in Opole)
drawings titled: "Corporis" - individual exhibition in ZPAP Nurt gallery in Torun
virtual sculpture entitled: "Meat" open triennial, 8th triennial of youth in Oronsko


2016

painting titled. "Ga(y)me Over" and painting titled: "Black Hole" - group exhibition titled: "Minority XXI" at the Factory Museum in Lodz
painting entitled: "Sopot Tenderloin". - 10th Triennial of Small Painting Form in Torun - group exhibition
painting entitled: "Window" group exhibition at the 13th International Autumn Salon of Art in BWA in Ostrowiec Swiętokrzyski
drawings entitled: "Sex Mortem" - Art Center "Solvay" in Krakow - collective exhibition titled: "Strategies of carnality - cialo as a message".
paintings: "Level3" and "Toxic waste" group exhibition at the Triennale of Polish Contemporary Painting at BWA in Rzeszow