Tomasz Kowalski - Artists - Nino Mier Gallery

Tomasz Kowalski November 2018

Kowalski’s work is enigmatic in nature – strange yet familiar scenes host an array of mysterious narratives: each work an intricate tableau collected from a fragmented reality. Figures navigate through peculiar landscapes, their bodies changing with the environments around them, consumed by space.

Frieze

In Tomasz Kowalski's Psychedelic Paintings, Sleep, Dreaming and Wakefulness are Equally Present June 2018

In his 2013 book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep, critic Jonathan Crary articulates an exasperated, contemporary state of permanent awareness produced by hyper-connectivity and continuous consumption. As if providing an antidote to today’s demand for perpetual presence, the works of Tomasz Kowalski suggest a conception of society where sleep, introspection, dreaming and wakefulness are equally present.

Architectural Digest

Designer Sara Story’s Contemporary Family Ranch in Texas December 2016

Designer Sara Story's Proustian Madeleine—the thing that can instantly transport her back to happy times—is the sound of bells, which bring to mind her childhood and the clanging that called her and her sisters to dinner at the family’s ranch in the Texas Hill Country.

Artsy

Warsaw’s Daring Young Art Scene Is Forging Its Own Path September 2016

On Friday evening in Warsaw, a small crowd swelled in an unlit courtyard outside the city’s temporarily closed Museum of Modern Art. Young Polish hipsters and foreign arts professionals rubbed elbows as they edged their way towards a door, with the determination of eager club-goers keen to kick off an all-nighter.

Flash Art

Blinds and Mirrors July/August/September 2015

Tomasz Kowalski: Finding different ways to represent a human being in painting has always been my central interest. The feeling of “de-humanization” that you get when you look at my works comes from an idea of showing the body detached from its inner traumas, but depicting these inner traumas as a landscape. In my paintings, the earthly being is usually placed in a virtual space of its mind, being somehow turned inside out. This space of mind serves as a stage for dummies — like protagonists doomed to an endless play with the given props.

Artforum International

Tomasz Kowalski October 2012

The first impression is always one of freedom: Tomas Kowalski flits - almost carelessly, you might say - between his personal imagination and echoes of familiar modernist styles. In the crowded landscape of contemporary painting, it is remarkable enough that an artist not yet thirsty even has a “personal” imagination. In Kowalski’s visual world, fresh invention enters in dialogue with art history.

Flash Art

Tomasz Kowalski October 2010

Joanna Zielinska: The overall image inyourworks is governed by very specific rules. Motifs circulate and paintings - which often have a painting-within-apainting structure - are ftrtherreflected in sculptures and objects...

Tomasz Kowalski: There are no clear boundaries between particular pieces. I picture a rituation:I decide upon a detail and cropit; singular elements are transformed into others... Sculptures work on the same basis; they are often attributes of the figures depicted in figurative paintings.

Whitehot Magazine

Opening of Tomasz Kowalski and Anna Orlikowska March 2007

Last Friday night continued Mitte’s transformation into an outpost of trendy twenty-somethings from new EU member states, when Zak Gallery filled with young Poles celebrating a coming-out party of sorts for their contemporaries. At 22, painter Tomasz Kowalski has already garnered acclaim in his hometown of Kracow, but this is his first solo show outside of . The slightly more seasoned Anna Orlikowska, 27, with whom Kowalski shares Zak’s small space, has been living in Berlin since 2006 on a Deutsche Bank stipend but this is also her first German solo.