BARTEK SWIATECKI

Bartek Świątecki lives and works in Olsztyn, Poland. A 2006 graduate of the University of the Arts in Torun, he has been teaching painting and drawing at the Olsztyn Art School since 2008, becoming a certified teacher ten years later and receiving an award from the Ministry. Alongside this teaching activity, Bartek Świątecki has been developing his personal painting practice, exhibiting his work regularly since 2011. He has received several awards and distinctions from the Polish government in recognition of his work and the important role he plays in Olsztyn's cultural society through curating projects and scholarships.
A product of the late 90s graffiti scene, Bartek Świątecki - known as Pener - travels the world and takes part in numerous graffiti and muralism festivals. His work is part of the Graffuturism movement, which brings together a number of artists who have taken their practice of graffiti writing far beyond the boundaries of lettering and urban space in a transdisciplinary development of abstraction. Bartek Świątecki's work was soon exhibited as part of a series of exhibitions organized in the United States and Europe around the theme of Graffuturism. He has had solo exhibitions in Poland, Austria, Slovakia, the UK, the USA and New Zealand. His work is based on a geometric abstraction composed between order and chaos, in a balance of color and form that is at once sensory, emotional and reflective.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 - Chasing the Wind, CHENUS LONGHI, Paris (FR)

2023 - Stare Kawkowo, State High School of Fine Arts Gallery, Olsztyn (PL)

2022 - Vacation From Reality, Fiksate Gallery (NZ)

2020 - Take it Easy, Punkt Gallery, Gdynia (PL)

2016 - Balance, The Book Club, London (UK)

2015 - Nocturnes, 886Geary Gallery, San Francisco (US)

2015 - Planed Freestyle, Sopa Gallery, Kosice (SK)

2015 - Cosmogramma, Inoperable Gallery, Vienna (AT)
2012 - Dekonstrukcja, Radar gallery, Kraków (PL)

2011 - Signal to nois, NRD gallery, Toruń (PL)

2011 - Galeria Koloru, Rabekogallery, Warszawa (PL)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS

2022 - Retransmission, Mirus Galery, Denver (US)

2022 - 30 aukcja Sztuki XXI Wieku", Sopocki Dom Aukcyjny (PL)

2021 - Intersection, duo show x 36RECYCLAB, Artcan Galery, Paris (FR)

2019 - L'Avenir - Graffuturism, Mirus Gallery, Denver (US)

2019 - NoteColors, Hsinchu City Art Gallery, Hsinchu (TW)

2019 - Urban Abstract, Fiksate Gallery, Christchurch (NZ)

2018 - New Order, Streetart Doping Gallery, Centrum Praskie Koneser, Warszawa (PL)

2018 - Le Temps d'un été, Art Can Gallery, Marseille (FR)

2018 - AR/T/HITECTURE, License Art Gallery, Tainan (TW)

2018 - Bruce / Zest / Pener, ArtCan-Gallery, Marseille (FR)

2017 - Unknown Pleasure, National Taipei Uniwersity Of Education, Taipei (TW)

2017 - Bom.K / Zest / Pener, Galerie Nicolas-Xavier, Montpellier (FR)

2015 - Urban Masters, Group Show, Hausamann Gallery, Miami (US)

2015 - 1am Revolution groupexhibition, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco (US)

2015 - Graffuturism 5yr, 886Geary Gallery, San Francisco (US)

2015- A Major Minority 2015, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco (FR)

2014 - Polish Urban Art, Europejska Fundacja Kultury Miejskiej, Paris -Berlin - Batumi - Lviv -Kyiv -Minsk -Lublin - Stockholm

2014 - Same/Different, TheOutsiders Gallery. Newcastle (UK)

2014 - Urbstraction,PrettyPortal Gallery, Duseldorf (DE)

2014 -Spring art collection, 1AM gallery, San Francisco (US)

2014 - Major Minority, 1AM gallery, San Francisco (US)

2014 - PL' group show, 44309 gallery, Dortmund (DE)

2013 - Graffuturism, Openspace Galery, Paris (FR)

2011 - Brain Damagegallery no#1, groupexhibition, Lublin (PL)

PRIZES

2023 - Marshal Art Scholarship of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (PL)

2019 - Bronze Medal from the Polish President for merits and years of service in education

The Individual Award of the Director of the Center of Artistic Education II degree for special contribution to the development of artistic education in Poland

2016 - Statue of St.James in the field of Culture and Art, Mayor of Olsztyn City (PL)

2015 - Art Scholarship from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute-for his first solo show in the US at the 886Geary gallery in San Francisco

2015 - Art Award for outstanding achievements in the Art.s, Mayor of Olsztyn City (PL)

2014 - Marshal Art Scholarship of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (PL)

2014 - Nomination for the Skurpski Art Award, Olsztyn (PL)