Rafał Kowalski was born in 1973 in Warsaw. In 1994-1999, he studied at the Painting Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since 1996, he has worked at the Painting Faculty of the Warsaw Academy. In 2008, he gained a doctoral degree in the field of fine arts, the discipline of fine arts.

He received a Scholarship of the Polish Cultural Foundation (2013) and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2014).

His speciality is painting, drawing and installations. In his work, he attaches great importance to tradition and its relation with presence. Focus, composition discipline and formal simplicity are the main means of expression which accompany topics taken from everyday life, often full of reference to collective memory or cultural symbols.

What is important in this art are repetitions, interferences, afterimages, while the ideology, hidden meanings and metaphors are less frequent. Prevailing elements direct our attention to abstraction; they liberate work of art from expression or narration coming from real scenes and situations visible on paintings.

Selected exhibitions:

2017 „Skazy” Galeria Wystawa, Warszawa

2015 „Utracona Arkadia” Galeria Styk, Warszawa

2014 „ Fala” Galeria A 19, Warszawa Warszawa

2013 „Produkcja” Galeria Promocyjna, Warszawa

2012 „To wszystko cienie” Galeria Salon Owalny, Warszawa

2011 „Spectrum” Galeria Ral 9010, Warszawa

2011 „Arkadia” Galeria 2.0,Warszawa

2011 „71369” Centrum Sztuki Galeria El, Elbląg

2011 „Małe Formy” Galeria Ral 9010,Warszawa

2010 „Warschauer Kunstkraftwerke” Galeria Corridor, Berlin (Niemcy)

2009 Galeria Wystawa, Warszawa

2009 Dom Sztuki, St.Petersburg (Rosja)

2008 Galeria Łazienkowska, Warszawa