Marcin Kowalik 1981 born in Zamosc, Poland Lives and works in Zamosc, Poland Marcin Kowalik works as an asistant lecturer at at Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland. His work includes painting and installations. He was ranked in the top ten of Kompas Młodej Sztuki (The Compass of Young Art). Marcin Kowalik has participated in about 40 exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He has had over 30 individual exhibitions in Brussels, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Dublin, Bern,Warsaw, Cracow (The National Museum) and other cities. He is a holder of scholarships of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the president of the city of Cracow and the President of his home city of Zamość. Together with Adam Wsiołkowski he received Małopolska Voievodship Award in 2015. In 2007 he participated in the workshops for art curators – Crosskick Academie, Berlin organised by AdKV. In 2007/2008 he received a doctoral scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In 2008 he received a residence scholarship in Ateliers Höherweg 271 in Düsseldorf. He is also a holder of the Grazella Foundation scholarship. Marcin gave guest lectures at the National College of ART and Design in Dublin (Ireland) and at the University of Ostrava (the Czech Republic). His works can be found in the collection of the National Museum Gdansk, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Krakow, Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola and Chełm (Poland), the Borowik Collection, the Clifford Chance Collection and many other small private collections all over the world. Kowalik is the founder of the ‘Wiara w Malarstwo’ (‘Faith in Painting’) scholarship that is dedicated to the students of the last grades of the secondary school of fine arts in Zamość, which he himself attended. Together with his students and UBS Swiss bank employees, he creates sculpture workshops for children at children's hospitals and then, basing on those works, he paints big scale paintings for the children hospitals. more Selected exhibitions: 2015: Next perspective, Congress Cosmo 2015, Polonia Palace Hotel, Warsaw, Poland River Ride, BWA, Rzeszów, Poland Aktive Betrachtung, Galerie Nielaba, Brno, Switzerland GetNoticed, Galeria Grupa Lasem, Cracow, Poland 5 years of Gazzetta Italia, Endorfina Palac Zamoyskich, Warsaw (awarded in category ´culture´) Marcin Kowalik Painting, Showroom Gallery Stalowa, Zamośc, Poland Gallery Na Lato, Cracow, Poland Marcin Kowalik. Artificial nature, Radna 6/8, Warsaw, Poland 66/33, Stalowa Gallery, Warsaw, Poland GetNoticed, Cracow (individual exhibition), Poland Marcin Kowalik Paintings, Stalowa Schowroom Zamosc, Poland (individual exhibition) Pastuszak & Kowalik, PICTUREpaint, Zamosc, Poland 2013: Mirror Phase, BWA Gallery Zamojska (individual exhibition), Poland Mirror Phase, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin (individual exhibition), Poland Mirror Phase, Gallery Pillar (individual exhibition), Poland 2012: Phase mirrors, Marcin Kowalik, Moray Hillary Agnes Nedregard, Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland The discovery, Warsaw Art Fair box Artsupport , Poland Scope Miami Art Box Faktoria Compass Young Art, Polish Olympic Committee Warsaw, Poland 2011: Kinderspiele, Tank of Culture, Cracow, Poland Wuthering Heights, Ola Narr, Oslo, Finland Berlin Preview box, Program Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2010: The Merger - Rulei, Chicago, USA Kunst im Wohnzimmer, Herford, Germany The Whole Place is dark 3, Cellar Gallery, Cracow, Poland Colorful box on snow, The Polish Olympic Committee, Warsaw (individual exhibition), Poland 2009: Unknown kingdom, National Museum, Cracow (individual exhibition), Poland Revisit, Marcin Kowalik and invited artists from Ateliers Höherweg 271 Düsseldorf, Program Gallery, Warsaw (organizer), Poland FotoMix Marek Gardulski + Emil Zander x Marcin Kowalik, Photo Studio Emil Zander, Düsseldorf (organizer), Germany The whole place is dark and the see, Krakow, Wroclaw (organizer), Poland Fragments, Cologne (organizer), Germany The boundaries of identity, Cologne, Cracow, Poland Christmas palms, Freies Museum Berlin, Germany 2008: Landscape in the box, Artemis Gallery, Cracow (individual exhibition), Poland Space of the Painting, painting, performance, installation, Ateliers Höherweg, Düsseldorf (individual exhibition), Germany Wagnis Wirklichkeit, zeitgenössischer Realismus in der Kunst, 16 Künstlerpositionen Galerie Epicurus, Wuppertal, Germany !artgame! - Marcin Kowalik + Paul Schwer, Club 69, Münster, Germany 2007: 16 things that could not be found, Artpol, Cracow, Poland Hundredth Living Artists (guest of honor), Orleans Crosskick, Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany ARTFAIR 21, Stand gallery Epicurus from Wuppertal, Cologne, Germany Space of Travel, painting, Scarbata Galerie, Leipzig (individual exhibition), Germany 2006: Diplomas 2006 Palace of Arts TPSP, Cracow, Poland Self-portrait contest exhibition - a distinction, The Museum of Stalowa Wola, Krakow, Poland 2005: Dreaming, the Office Rottermund, Hamburg (individual exhibition), Germany 2004: Painting, ING Bank Slaski, Cracow (individual exhibition), Poland.