“I draw from the limitless forms and shapes of the surrounding world. Imagination binds them into new beings – familiar and yet not tame. Liquid metal allows time to stop for a while.”
Michał Staszczak (born 1979) – a graduate of sculpture at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław (Poland). Diploma in 2005 in the studio of prof. Leon Podsiadły, an annex from a small sculptural form in the studio of prof. Jacek Dworski. Since 2006, he has been employed at his alma mater, where he currently runs a foundry studio. In 2019, he obtained the title of associate professor. In 2016-2020, head of the Department of Sculpting Techniques at the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. From 2020, Vice-Rector for International Cooperation and Promotion of the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. Founder and co-organizer of the Festival of High Temperatures. He conducts workshops and foundry demonstrations, builds outdoor furnaces for melting bronze, aluminum and cast iron. He creates assemblage sculptures, bas-reliefs and installations which are cast from metal. In the creative process, he also uses 3D design and printing technology. He takes part in numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
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Stills from the movie made during the 13. Festival of High Temperatures (by Xani and 4SoulMedia).
Selected solo exhibitions:
2022: Fauna and Flora, Centrum Nowych Technologii, Gliwice
2021: Size Matters, Wałbrzyska Galeria Sztuki BWA, Wałbrzych
2018: Non-existent Stories, Galeria Neon, Wrocław
2017: Showcase, Witryny wystawiennicze na Placu Nowy Targ, Wrocław
2016: Dream about Forgetting, Galeria Bałucka, Łódź
2016: Defragmentations, Galeria BWA, Sieradz
2015: 10. Resume, Płocka Galeria Sztuki, Płock
2015: Present/absent, Galeria BWA, Sandomierz
2013: Somewhere, Sometime, Muzeum Edyty Stein, Lubliniec
2013: Pressures, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Włocławek
2012: Simultaneously, Galeria Wieża Ciśnień, Konin
2012: Imaginaria – Everyday Metamorphoses, Galeria Postument, ASP Wrocław
2011: Artefacts, Galeria Sztuki w Legnicy, Legnica
2011: Unfinished, Muzeum ASP, Wrocław
2011: Overwritten, Galeria BOK-MCC, Bolesławiec
2010: Multiverses – Galeria Zamek, Wrocław
2010: Imaginaria, Galeria Miejska MpiK, Gliwice
2010: Everyday Metamorphoses, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej (Aneks), Opole
Selected group exhibitions:
2022: Prototyp Festival, Vodojemy Žlutý kopec, Brno, Czech Republic
2022: Einsenkunst ganz heiß, Schloss Wolkenburg, Limbach-Oberfrohna, Germany
2022: WCIAC Juried Exhibition, John A. Day Gallery CFA, Vermillion, SD, USA
2022: Festival současného umění Prostějov 2022, Ogród Botaniczny, Prostějov, Czech Republic
2022: Fer precieux, Galerie Rathaus Johannisthal, Berlin, Germany
2022: Kleine Eisen, Gastro-Norm, Berlin, Germany
2022: Once Upon an Instant, HTW Berlin, Campus Wilhelminenhof, Berlin, Germany
2022: IMPLIKACJE. CYFRA I BRYŁA, Muzeum Architektury, Wrocław
2022: Burning re-collection, Galerie Industra, Brno, Czech Republic
2022: IRON: Translating Territories, Royal Scottish Academy Finlay Room, Edinburgh, Great Britain
2021: The Art of Fire (13. Festival of High Temperatures), Galeria Neon / ASP Wrocław
2021: MASTER5ELECTION Galeire FX Banska Bystrica, Słowacja
2021: Sculpture Exhibition in the Teaching Gallery at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TEXAS, USA
2021: The Proof of Existence, Centrum Nowych Technologii, Politechnika Śląska w Gliwicach
2021: Master5, Galeria G18, Zlin, Czechy
2021: NCCCIAP Biennial Virtual Exhibition 2021, #2 Casting Shed Gallery, North Birmingham, USA
2021: NCCCIAP Biennial Virtual Exhibition 2021, The Boilers Gallery, North Birmingham, USA
2021: Iron Tribe Exhibit 2021, Burris Hall Gallery, New Mexico Highlands University, USA
2021: Ars/Techne, Centrum Nowych Technologii, Politechnika Śląska w Gliwicach.
2021: Between Seclusion and Community Affirmation, Scena Sztuki Intermedialnej / edycja XII / PODWODNY WROCŁAW 2020, Galeria Browar Mieszczański, Wrocław
2020: Situational Invitational 2020, 7th Biennal of The Western Cast Iron Art Alliance, South Dakota, USA
2020: Tagebuch-Covid-19-Daybook, Monchkirche Salzwedel, Hilmsen, Niemcy
2020: FROM_TO, Galeria Promocyjna “Galeria R”, Kraków
2020: Poland – Texas – an International 3D Print Exchange, Galeria Neon, ASP Wrocław
2020: Street Gallery, Szklarska Poręba
2020: Poland – Texas – an International 3D Print Exchange, Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas, USA
2019: The Place of the Beginning, Regionalne Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych w Częstochowie, Częstochowa
2019: Between Relationship and No / Presence, (Podwodny Wrocław), Galeria Browar Mieszczański, Wrocław
2019: It was, is and will be / Lost art, wystawa zbiorowa, III-edycja Międzynarodowego Sympozjum Sztuki Pałac w Morawie
2019: Pictura si Sculptura 100=100, Muzeum Sztuki w Cluj Napoca, Rumunia
2019: Ritual – edycja XVI, (w ramach Industrial Festival), Centrum Sztuki Piekarnia, Wrocław
2019: Arguments, Browar Mieszczański, Wrocław
2019: Politechnika, Politechnika Śląska, Gliwice
2019: Iron Tribe Exhibit, Burris Hall Gallery, New Mexico Highlands University, USA,
2018: Cross-section, Galeria Casa Matei, Kluz-Napoka, Rumunia
2018: Relations, Umeleckie Centrum Up, Olomouc, Czechy
2018: It Was, it is, it will be – vol. 2, wystawa podsumowująca Sympozjum, Pałac w Morawie
2018: Echo, Galeria Stajnia, Wrocław
2018: Ritual XV, Casus Belli (w ramach Industrial Festival), Czasoprzestrzeń, Wrocław
2018: Bienala Naţională de Plastică Mică. Vârsta de bronz,ediţia aV-a, Galeria Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca, Rumunia
2018: O szlachetną wartość dzieła, Galeria Neon, ASP we Wrocławiu
2018: Size Matters, The International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, The Mall at Steamtown, Scranton, USA
2018: Edge, Stara Kopalnia, Wałbrzych
2018: Form hypertrophy, Powiatowa Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Ostrów Wielkopolski
2018: This is we after ESK, Galeria BWA, Wrocław
2017: Varsta de Bronz, Bienala Nationala de plastica mica edita a V-a, Galeria Casa Matei, Cluj-Napoca, Rumunia
2017: It was, it is, it will be, wystawa podsumowująca Sympozjum, Pałac w Morawie
2017: Vicious circle, Leżakownia, Browar Mieszczański, Wrocław
2017: Meeting, Centrum Promocji Mody w Łódzkiej Akademii Sztuk Pięknych, Łódź
2017: Post Ritual w ramach Industrial Festival, Wyspa Tamka, Wrocław
2017: Iron Tribe Exhibit, Burris Hall Gallery, New Mexico Highlands University, USA
2017: Iron Stories – Galeria MD_S, Wrocław
2016: Young at the Museum. The highest level, Muzeum Narodowe, Wrocław
2016: 10 years of cast iron in Wales, Carmarthen School of Art, Walia
2016: Sculpture zone – an exhibition in the series of 70th anniversary of the Academy of Art and Designin Wrocław, Galeria Neon, Wrocław
2016: Unfinished Journey w ramach IX edycji Podwodnego Wrocławia, Dworzec Świebodzki, Wrocław
2016: Ritual #13. Substytuty, Zaklęte Rewiry, Wrocław
2016: Zones, Galeria Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury, Ratusz Staromiejski, Gdańsk
2016: Art Resonances, Narodowe Forum Muzyki, Wrocław
2015: Poland. A Quarter of a Century of Freedom, z cyklu “Sztuka z wrocławskim atestem”, Galeria Test, Warszawa
2015: 5! , Dom Koncepcji, Warszawa
2014: Up to seven times art, Browar Mieszczański, Wrocław
2014: Mutazioni in Alluminio, Spacio Comel, Latina, Włochy, płaskorzeźba
2013 : The three dimensions of the sculpture, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku
2012: Free Space, Rezydencja Piasek, Wrocław
2011: After a hundred – wystawa jubileuszowa ZPAP, Arsenał, Wrocław
2010: Wrocław nie do Poznania, wystawa dydaktyków ASP Wrocław, Galeria Słodownia, Poznań
2010: From the Danube, the Vltava and the Vistula. Medallers and their works. Muzeum Miejskie Wrocławia, Stary Ratusz.
2010: Structure of things. Structure of emotions. Structure., BWA Bydgoszcz.
2010: Radiator Differently – an exhibition of works created during the 3rd Festival of High Temperatures, Galeria EMDES, Wrocław.
2009: Exhibition of works created at the 10th International Symposium of Medals, Plaques and Small Sculptural Forms in Uherskem Hradiste, Slovacke Muzeum, Czechy.
2009: Wroclavsky bronz – Slovacke Museum – Uherske Hradiste.
2008: TWO DIMENSIONS OF THE SCULPTURE wystawa prac pedagogów ASP Wrocław i ASP Gdańsk we Wrocławiu.
2007: Exhibition of works created at the 9th International Symposium of Medals, Plaques and Small Sculptural Forms in Uherskem Hradiste, Slovacke Muzeum, Czechy.