MARIUSZ WOLNY is a conceptual artist whose practice moves between sculpture, installation and cross-disciplinary experimentation. His works often begin with familiar objects, situations or symbols, brought together in carefully constructed relationships that set their established meanings against one another. Paradox and material transformation allow these contradictions to remain unresolved within a single work.
Wolny’s work focuses on the point at which what appears self-evident becomes unstable, revealing the conventions and systems of value that sustain it. The medium is never fixed in advance, but emerges from the logic of each project, ranging from sculptural objects and installations to participatory works, moving image and interventions in public space.
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Education
2008-2013 MA Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland
2000-2007 MA Underwater Archaeology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Residencies and Symposia
2018 (IX–XI) Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 (VII–IX) STUPIN, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 (VI–XII) Glo’Art, Lanaken, Belgium
2014 (IX) Center of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 “Y”, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka, Poland
Awarded as part of “Fish Eye 8”. Curated by Sebastian Cichocki
2015 “35 Carats Of Pebble”, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Curated by Kaja Werbanowska
2014 “If There Is Anything Hereafter, It Will Be A Measureless Fortune”, 011 Gallery, Toruń, Poland
Curated by Katarzyna Lewandowska
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 “Winter Sculpture Park”, Gallery No.32, London, UK
Curated by Kieran Idle & Meg Stuart
2024 “The Nature of Matter, the Matter of Nature”, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, Poland
Curated by Magda Grzybowska
2019 “Mud, or Intertidal Zone”, STUPIN, Fuzhou Pavilion, Banqiao 435 Arts and Cultural Zone, Taipei, Taiwan
Curated by Kuo I-Chen (郭奕臣)
2017 “Element”, Thames Side Studios, London, UK
Curated by Nikolay Nedev
2017 “A Human Being”, Deptford Cinema, London, UK
Curated by Deptford Life Drawing Collective
2015 “Willy”, Glo’Art Gallery, Lanaken, Belgium
Curated by Zoë Schoonbrood
2015 “Fish Eye 7”, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka, Poland
Curated by Sebastian Cichocki
2014 “More or Less Freedom?”, 7th International Festival of Art on Billboards, Toruń, Poland
Curated by Art Moves
2013 Fish Eye 6 , Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, Poland
Curated by Sebastian Cichocki
2012 “The end of the world” , Teatr Kwadrat, [CHECK CITY], Poland
Curated by Marcel Zamenhof
2012 “Metalfix” , Different Gallery, London, UK
Awards and honours
2015 Honourable Mention, Young Art Biennial “Fish Eye” 8, Słupsk, Poland
2014 Finalist, “Art Moves”, Toruń, Poland
2013 “Inicjatywa Entry” Award, Warsaw, Poland
2013 Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship Award, Young Art Biennial “Fish Eye” 7, Słupsk, Poland
2013 Finalist, “Artistic Journey of Hestia”, Gdańsk, Poland
2012 Finalist, “Presentations”, Poznań, Poland