Artists

Adam
Kozicki

painter

Adam Kozicki (b. 1992, Warsaw) graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Faculty of Painting. Winner of the mBank Award “m jak malarstwo” (UpComing, 2021), third prize in the 45th edition of the Painting Biennale 'Bielska Jesień' (2021), Grand Prix ex aequo of the 14th edition of the Geppert Competition (2023) Grand Prix ex aequo of the 46th edition of the Painting Biennale 'Bielska Jesień' (2023).

His most recent exhibitions include “A Friend Asks” at Galeria Bielska BWA in Bielsko-Biała (2025) and “Let Me Tell You About Myself / About Us (Part I)” at Green Gate, National Museum in Gdańsk (2025). His works in 2022 took part in, among others, the group exhibition “The Discomfort of Evening” at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and the 14th edition of the Festival 'Warsaw in Construction' – “Streetfight” at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Selected solo and group exhibitions:
 

2025

A Friend Asks, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała (PL)
Let Me Tell You About Myself / About Us (part I), Green Gate, National Museum in Gdańsk (PL)

2024

Beneath the Syzygy of Blisters, Holešovická Šachta, Prague (CZ)
Weird Politics, Miejski Ośrodek Sztuki, Gorzów Wielkopolski (PL)
Dark Academia, Kościół Nihilistów, Wrocław (PL)
Postbauhaus: Memories of the Future, PLATO Ostrava (CZ)
Testimony. Boris Lurie & Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe, Neues Museum Nürnberg (DE)
You Know What Hurts You, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała (PL)
And In the Wilderness, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław (PL)

2023

I Wake Up in a Place Where No Human Being Can Live, 66P Subjective Institution of Culture, Wrocław (PL)
You Will Never Walk Alone/pl. Nigdy nie będziesz szła sama, Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw (PL)
And In the Wilderness, BWA Warszawa (PL)
Temporarily Embarrassed Moonwalkers, HOS Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Transitional States – an Exhibition from the Art Collection of the Bielska BWA Gallery, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała (PL)
Bad Romance, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice (PL)

2022

Means of Direct Coercion/pl. Środki przymusu bezpośredniego, Łęctwo Gallery, Poznań (PL)
The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)

2021

priv, Galeria Sandra, Warsaw (PL)
Things Are Heating Up/pl. Robi się gorąco, Galeria Officyna (now: Turnus), Warsaw (PL)

2020

WGW 2020: Pandemic Effects: Dreams/pl. Skutki pandemii: sny, galeria Serce Człowieka, Warszawa (PL)
Sandra in the Grass, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)
A Heavenly Student Sleeps with a Man in a Grave, Having Never Done It Before/pl. Rajski student śpi z człowiekiem w grobie, bo nigdy wcześniej tego nie robiła, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL)

2019

VideoNews 6, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (PL)
No Love/pl. Nie ma miłości, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw (PL)

Exhibitions view

Works

Thanks for the Conscience
Adam Kozicki Thanks for the Conscience acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024
Thank You
Adam Kozicki Thank You acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2023
Historia magistra vitae est (Lee Miller)
Adam Kozicki Historia magistra vitae est (Lee Miller) acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2025
A Year has Passed. That’s Quite a Lot, Yet Nothing has Changed for Me / from the 'KOLEGA' Series
Adam Kozicki A Year has Passed. That’s Quite a Lot, Yet Nothing has Changed for Me / from the 'KOLEGA' Series acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024
To Have a Name, Consciousness, Feelings, Desires—and Become Food
Adam Kozicki To Have a Name, Consciousness, Feelings, Desires—and Become Food acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024
Tenement Apartment
Adam Kozicki Tenement Apartment acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024
He Won’t Comfort Me
Adam Kozicki He Won’t Comfort Me acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024
Slashed Hands, Twisted Bones, Crushed Limbs
Adam Kozicki Slashed Hands, Twisted Bones, Crushed Limbs acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024
Somehow We Couldn’t Catch Each Other
Adam Kozicki Somehow We Couldn’t Catch Each Other acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2025
Something
Adam Kozicki Something acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024
As for Me, I don’t Want the Will to Power Anymore
Adam Kozicki As for Me, I don’t Want the Will to Power Anymore acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024
Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown
Adam Kozicki Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2025
They Came Back Exhausted from a Twelve-Hour Shift and Ended Up in a Tree (2)
Adam Kozicki They Came Back Exhausted from a Twelve-Hour Shift and Ended Up in a Tree (2) acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024
They Came Back Exhausted from a Twelve-Hour Shift and Ended Up in a Tree (3)
Adam Kozicki They Came Back Exhausted from a Twelve-Hour Shift and Ended Up in a Tree (3) acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2023
They Came Back Exhausted from a Twelve-Hour Shift and Ended Up in a Tree
Adam Kozicki They Came Back Exhausted from a Twelve-Hour Shift and Ended Up in a Tree acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2022
Your Eyes Should be on the Floor, Nowhere Else
Adam Kozicki Your Eyes Should be on the Floor, Nowhere Else acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024
‘From then on, these animals had to walk on their own feet and “carry themselves” to places where water had previously carried them [...]' / The Old, Sick Nietzsche (Hans Olde – Der kranke Nietzsche)
Adam Kozicki ‘From then on, these animals had to walk on their own feet and “carry themselves” to places where water had previously carried them [...]' / The Old, Sick Nietzsche (Hans Olde – Der kranke Nietzsche) acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas 2024