Łukasz Huculak (b. 1977) painter. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, where he currently runs a painting studio.
Lives and works in Wroclaw and Oborniki Slaskie.
I EDUCATION
2012-2013
Dr Habil.: "Hypothesis and hyposthases. The real and the Ideal in painting"
2008-2009
PhD: “Disappearing of the image”
1997-2002
MA: “The object and space”
I AWARDS AND ARTISTIC DISTINCTIONS
2009
Nominated for The “Arteon” prize
2006
Honourable distinction at Franciszka Eibisch's Competition, Warszawa
2005
1st Prize at 4th International Painting Workshop, Pienkow
Bank BPH Award at 6th Biennale of Small Form in Painting, Torun
Distinction at Festival of Painting "Bielska Jesien", Bielsko-Biala
2004
The President of Częstochowa city Prize at Marian Michalik 2nd Triennal of Painting, Częstochowa
Netia Award at Painting – Continuation Competition, Wroclaw
2003
Honourable distinction at 5th Biennale of the Small Form In Painting, Torun
Bank Millenium Prize at President of Poland Competition for the Best Diploma Work from Polish Academies of Fine Arts, Warszawa
2002
Honourable distinction at 9th Salon of Art Egeria, Ostrow Wielkopolski
Grand Prix at 19th Festival of Contemporary Polish Painting, Szczecin
2001
Distinction at 4th Biennale of Small Form in Painting, Torun
2000
2nd Prize at Miyauchi Foundation Competition “Picture 2000”
I SCHOLARSHIPS
2005
Artistic Scholarship of Bezirk Oberbayern - Europaisches Kunstlerhaus Freising residence
2004
The Minister of Culture Scholarship for the young artists
2003
Bank Millenium Scholarship
2001
Bank Zachodni WBK Award
Kiwanis Klub Wratislavia Scholarship
2000
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship
I COLLECTIONS
Goerlitz Kulturhistorisches Museum zu Goerlitz, Galerie der Moderne, Goerlitz, Germany
Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw
Municipal Art Gallery, Lodz
Regional Museum, Stalowa Wola
City Museum of Wroclaw
Zacheta Regional Society of Fine Arts, Czestochowa
Private Collctions
I INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2016
“Incantations”, County Museum, Nysa
2015
“Details/Spaces”, National Gallery of Art, Sopot
“Bad Women”, Municipal Museum, Zlate Hory, Czech Republik
2014
“Aurora”, Galeria Bruderstrasse, Goerlitz
“Sopra Minerva”, Konduktorownia Gallery, Czestochowa
“Delinquents”, Copper Engraver's House, Wroclaw
2013
“Explosion in the Gallery”, BWA Gallery Krosno
“Unbekannte Raum”, Galerie Drei Eichen, Emern, Germany
2012
“Hypostases and hypotheses Part 2”, ASP, Wroclaw
“Hypostases and hypotheses Part 2”, Municipal Gallery of Art, Lodz
“Hypostases and hypotheses Part 2”, Regional Museum, Stalowa Wola
“Hypostases and hypotheses Part 1”, BWA, Rzeszow
2011
“Q Abstraction”, Socato Gallery, Wroclaw
“Ökonomie der kunst”, Museum der Photography, Goerlitz
“Wiederentdeckte Austellung”, Museum der Photography, Goerlitz
“Picture in Picture”, in the framework of the “Hallo Wrocław 2016”, MDK Zgorzelec
2010
“Imagines agentes”, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw
“Encounters”, Galerie Drei Eichen. Emern
“Interiors”, in the framework of the “Hallo Wrocław 2016”, MDK Zgorzelec
“Psychokinesis exercises”, Gallery Proarte, Zielona Gora
2009
“Disappearing of the image”, ASP Wroclaw
“In addition to the lack of”, Municipal Art Gallery, Czestochowa
“Hygiene”, Simonis Gallery, Warsaw
2007
“Ultima Thule”, Koscielak Gallery, Wroclaw
“The event that was not”, Kersten Gallery, Krakow
2006
“The Gray, Horizon and World”, Gallery 72, Chelm
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“MMVI”, ART Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2005
“Wervardlungen”, Galerie Drei Eichen, Emern
2003
“He choose, arranged secret”, ART Gallery, Warsaw
“Places and Things”, Opus Gallery, Wroclaw
2002
“Subject matter and space”, Municipal Gallery, Wroclaw
2001
“Still Life”, Pokaz Gallery of the Critics, Warsaw
I EXHIBITIONS GROUP (SELECTED)
2015
“Corpus Christi”, CSUiCI ASP, Wroclaw
“Collections”, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice
“System Error”, Muzel de Arta, Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
“Wroclaw Main-Warsaw Central”, The Academy Salon, Warsaw
“Microwave Background”, ASP Wroclaw
2014
Kulturhistorisches Museum zu Goerlitz, Galerie der Moderne, Gcerlitz, Niemcy
“Figurama”, GASK Gallery, Kutna Hora, Czech Republik
2013
“Night”, Konduktorownia Gallery, Czestochowa
“Primavera”, The City Museum of Wroclaw
“Unplagged”, Socato Gallery, Wroclaw
“Volt”, ASP Wroclaw
“Sketch, destruct, non finito” CSU.CU Gallery Wroclaw
“Ambassadors”, ZPAP Gallery, Warsaw
2012
“Zazracne mesto”, Galeria Cvernovka, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Space beetween us”, Kunsthaus, Wiesbaden, Germany
“Is today's art romantic?”, Kobro Gallery, Lodz
2011
“Art Secret", Dos Leoes, Porto
“Picture in picture”, Museum der Photographs, Goerlitz, the “Hallo Wrocław 2016”
“House of Change”, Count Dzieduszycki Residence, Wroclaw
2010
“The structure of emotions, the structure of things, the structure” BWA Gallery, Bydgoszcz
“Limits. Feasibility Study”, B42, Goerlitz, in the framework of “Hallo Wroclaw in 2016!”
2009
“Junge Polnische Malerei - Kunst aus Niederschlesien”, Ostrale, Dresden
2008
“Artifacts”, Municipal Art Gallery, Przemysl
2007
“Pools lente”, Galerie Vlasblom, Arnhem
V Forum of Polish Painting “Nature of Things”, Municipal Gallery, Rzeszow
2006
“Skyscrapers of Wroclaw”, National Museum, Wroclaw
“Figure and structure”, Galeria El, Elblag
“Polish Painting of the XXI century", Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw
2005
“Falsche Erwartung”, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Koblenz, Germany
“Sechs Richtige”, Schafhof Europaische Kunstlerhaus, Freising, Germany
VI. Small Painting Biennale, Wozownia Gallery, Torun (distinction)
Painting Festival “Bielsko Autumn”, Gallery BWA Bielsko-Biala (distinction)
2004
II. Painting Trienniale, Municipal Gallery, Czestochowa (prize)
“Painting c.d”, BWA Gallery, Wroclaw (prize)
2003
“Polish painting”, NevinKelly Gallery, Washington, USA
V. Small Painting Biennale, Wozownia Gallery, Torun (distinction)
ASP Best Diploma, Poster Museum, Wilanów, Warsaw (distinction)
2002
XI. Salon of Fine Arts Egeria, BWA Gallery, Ostrow Wielkopolski (honorable mention)
XIX. Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, BWA Gallery, Szczecin (Grand Prix)
I PUBLICATIONS
“Night”, collective exhibition catalog, ASP Wroclaw, 2013, ISBN 978-83-60-520-92-5
“Titian”, Ar&Business, No. 6/2013 (268)
“The bell jar”, Jan Szczepkowski exhibition catalog, Sanok 2013 ISBN 978-83-63784-05-8
“The meaning of a white square. The origins of empty pctures”, Wroclaw 2013, ISBN 978-83-64419-09-6
“Still Life”, Polish Painting Forum “Nature of Things”, Issue No. 6/2007, ISBN 978-83-231-2078-6
“Architecture of the Sea”, Format Magazin, No. 53, 2008, ISSN 0867-2555
“The operation on an open mind”, a catalog of the exhibition “Drawings / Zeichnungen”, ISBN 978-83-60520-29-1
“Trying to calculate the date based on the shadows”, a catalog of the exhibition “Drawings / Zeichnungen”, ISBN 978-83-60520-29-1
“The meaning of the border”, a catalog of the exhibition, “Connect. Divide”, ASP Wroclaw 2010, ISBN 978-83-60520-38-3
“Sale”, a review of the Wojciech Gilewicz exhibition, www.dwutygodnik.pl
“The chance and the method”, Ar&Business Magazin, No. 6/2011
“The second Creation of the World”, exhibition catalog, ISBN 978-83-62663-16-3
“Unfinished Art”, a catalog of the exhibition, “Walkings and meetings”, ASP Wroclaw 2011,
ISBN 978-83-60-520-51-2