Piotr Łakomy

Biography

b. 1983, lives and works in Poznań

Graduated at the studio of Professor Leszek Knaflewski in the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Zielona Góra. He had several solo shows (Institute of Avant-Garde, Warsaw; Stereo, Warsaw; The Sunday Painter, London; BWA Zielona Góra; Galeria Arsenał, Białystok) and participated in a number of group international exhibitions (Poland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, USA, Australia, among others); his works have been presented in Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Fondation Cartier in Paris, CASS Sculpture Foundation in West Sussex and Fahrenheit in Los Angeles. Nominated for the Deutsche Bank Award Views in 2015, and in 2016 for Paszporty Award of the Polityka Weekly. Solo presentations include LISTE Art Fair Basel (2014), Art Basel Statements (2016)(w/Stereo), Frieze New York (2017)(w/The Sunday Painter).

Selected solo exhibitions

2021

• “Półpiętro”, Le Creux de L’enfer, Thiers, FR
• “Combined Vessels” Stereo, Warsaw, PL

2020

• “Under the Same Roof”, MOS, Gorzów Wlkp, PL
• “Vessel”, Simian, Copenhagen, DK
• “Waiting Room”, KOENIG2, Vienna, AT
• “Through the Ribs”, Skala, Poznań, PL

2019

• “Fenix”, Avant-Garde Institute, Warsaw, PL
• “3 Inch Giant in Your Bathroom”, FUTURA, Prague, CZ

• 2018

Paris Internationale w/ Stereo, Paris, FR

2017

“From The Tenth Floor People Seem Smaller”, Stereo, Warsaw, PL
“Pale House”, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL
Frieze NY w/ The Sunday Painter, New York, US

2016

“Room Temperature”, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
Art Basel Statements w/ Stereo, Basel, CH
Granpalazzo w/ SpazioA, Zagarolo, Rome, IT

2015

Carl Kostyal, London, UK
SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
“Endless Room”, BWA Zielona Góra, PL

2014

NADA Miami w/ The Sunday Painter, Miami, US
“Tomorrow will be smaller”, Stereo, Warsaw, PL
Liste 19 w/ Stereo, Basel, CH

2013

“Life Size Shadow”, The Sunday Painter, London, UK

2012

“I see no evil, I hear no evil, I speak no evil”, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, PL

Selected group exhibitions

2021

“Conscious Becoming”, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, NL

2020

“Who Are We Are Who”, Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne, DE

2019

“Spoilage2”, SALTS, Basel, CH
“Metamorphosis. Art in Europe Now”, Fondation Cartier, Paris, FR
“The House Where You Live Forever”, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL

2018

“Le belle été”, Noire Gallery, Turin, IT
“What Has Remained”, MOS, Gorzów Wlkp., PL
“Somewhere in Between. Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe”, BOZAR, Brussels, BE
“The shape left by the body”, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
“Orient”, Kim?, Riga, LV
“Friend of a Friend”, Stereo, Warsaw, PL

2017

“Kingsize” (with Christopher L G Hill), Sydney, Sydney, AU
“Half-Truth” Królikarnia, Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, Warsaw, PL
“Sticky Fingers”, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, US
“Disappointment Island” (organised by Galeria Stereo) Griffin Art Space,
Warsaw, PL

2016

“2000” Sydney, Sydney, AU
”Elosie Hawser, Piotr Łakomy, Jonas Weichsel”, Konrad Fischer Galerie,
Berlin, DE

2015

“Alive For An Instant” , Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, PL
(with Paul Czerlitzki) Mélange, Cologne, DE
“Views 2015” Deutsche Bank Award, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
“σ” (with K.r.m Mooney), Hester, New York, US
“John”, The Sunday Painter, London, UK

2014

“Aluminum Song”, Raster, Warsaw, PL
“Private Settings”, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
“The Space Between Us”, Fahrenheit, Los Angeles, US
“About Sculpture #2” Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, DE

2013

“Driving fast nowhere”, Polansky Gallery, Prague, CZ
“The New morals”, Stereo, Warsaw, PL
“Things in common”, Art Stations gallery, Poznań, PL
“Bold Tendencies“, Multi Storey Car Park, Peckham, London, UK
“Six-Line staff” Audio-Visual Interventions, Chopin Museum, Warsaw, PL

2012

“Cosmo’s Levels”, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
“My safe reduction to form”, Exile, Berlin, GE
“Makeshift”, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, PL