Tymek Borowski

born 1984 in Warsaw

Education:

2004 – 2009 Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, diploma in painting, prof. Leon Tarasewicz’s studio

Lives and works in Warsaw.

Individual exhibitions (selected):

2010
No Laughing Matter, Kolonie Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2009
Good New Times, A Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Problems, Bielany Culture Centre, Warsaw, Poland (collaboration with Paweł Śliwiński)
2008
Joint Pictures with Hidden Meanings, A Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (collaboration with Paweł Śliwiński)
individual exhibition, Faculty of Painting, ASP Warsaw, Poland
2007
mural in front of the entrance to Centrum Underground Station, Warsaw, Poland
2005
Kartofel Painting Action, Faculty of Painting, ASP Warsaw, Poland (collaboration with Paweł Śliwiński)

Collective exhibitions (selected):

2011
Landscape, Portrait, Still Life, Kolonie Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
MOCAK Collection, MOCAK, Cracow, Poland
Hi, Stereo Gallery, Poznań, Poland
2010
The Dictionary of Received Ideas, Q, London, UK
Wakey Wakey!, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland (collaboration with Paweł Śliwiński)
2009
Blue Almost White. ING Polish Art Foundation Game, Leto Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Fancy Success. Positions in Young Polish Painting, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, Poland
4th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
2008
Tribute to Wróblewski, Program Gallery, Warsaw; Pies Gallery, Poznań, Poland
ING collection works, exhibitions in various cities
Tarasewicz’s Studio in Andalusia, Atak Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2007
16 Things That Could Not Be Found, Artpol, Cracow (collaboration with Paweł Śliwiński)

Major online projects:

2011
theory and practice of reality, www .tymekborowski .blogspot .com
Herostrates Gallery, www .herostrates .com (collaboration with Paweł Śliwiński)

Lectures / performances:

2010
Tomorrow’s Archive, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland (collaboration with Paweł Śliwiński)
KMS meeting event, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (collaboration with Paweł Śliwiński)

In his painting, Tymek Borowski demonstrates truly erudite knowledge and a good-humoured distance to the history of the medium he uses. His works are full of joy and a sense of confidence at the same time, resulting from the right choice of technique. Both sensual and conceptual, his painting restores faith in its significance, potential, but also capacity and multidimensionality. It is the kind of creation that gives both aesthetic and intellectual pleasure, rewarding equally the artistic awareness and manual skills, which are obvious right from the start. In a fully deliberate but light way, Borowski plays with conventions, clues, past and present. Contrary to appearances, he does not escape reality but rather follows its trails and records in order to relate to its fluid, elusive nature. It is painting of self-awareness and fulfilment, created with a huge dose of imagination and constant analysis, not just semantic, but also technological. Borowski is in it, with it, analyses and gets analysed. It is not that he loses his distance – he just sometimes chooses to forget about it and simply plunges into painting as the ultimate meaning.

Wojciech Kozłowski

Tymek Borowski, no title, mixed media, composition approx. 2 x 6 m, 2011