Michal Maka
Kalisz, Poland
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BIO
Born in 1989, in Kalisz, Michal maka is a polish painter that deals with painting, printmaking, photography, street art, painting the outside. He usually work with techniques of hand-cut stencils applied with spray paint.
The paintings are important for the artist to reflections on the human condition and the modern world. The need to protest against double standards, sensationalism, media manipulation - stems from his relationship to the world – he considers himself a pacifist.
Artwork in cities: Kalisz, Poznań, Wrocław, Warszawa, Gdańsk (PL), Berlin, Roma, London, Boston, Worcester (USA), New York, Providence (USA), Bünde (GER).
ART PROJECTS
2016 - 2017 - Art in the window - artistic interventions in the windows, doors, facades of abandoned tenement houses in Kalisz, Poland.
2017 - Summer in the theater – street art. workshops - Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre in Kalisz, Poland.
2017 – Street art workshops - 40th anniversary of the City Art Gallery of Kalisz, Poland.
2017 – Geometry of sound, cycle of murals in Kalisz (PL), Worcester (USA), Boston (USA), New York (USA).
2015 - V Nationwide art contest – POP CULTURE ICONS - portrait of the artist and his legend – First prize, City House of Art, Wrocław, Poland.
2015 - Author of the mural on Adam Mickiewicz University in Kalisz, FESTIVAL OF ART AND SCIENCE in Kalisz, Poland.
EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS
2017 – Traffic in place street installation - Multi Art Festival – Kalisz, Poland.
2017 - POW! WOW! Worcester – international mural festival Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
2017 – Geometry of sound, solo exhibition, City Art Gallery of Kalisz, Poland.
2017 – Accumulation I Kalisz Biennale of Art, City Art Gallery of Kalisz, Poland
2016 – 10. Triennial of Small Painting Forms Wozownia Gallery, Toruń, Poland.
2016 – Salon of the rejected, group exhibition, State Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland.
2016 – City Lights group exhibition, Next Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
2015 – Printmaking workshop, group exhibition, Art University of Minsk, Belarus.
2015 – Dissociation, solo exhibition, Mug and Pencil Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
2015 – Pop Culture icons, post-competition exhibition, City House of Culture Wrocław, Poland.
2015 – Bipolarity, solo exhibition, Think Art Gallery, Poznań, Poland.
2015 – Culminations, festival of the student culture, group exhibition, Adama Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
2014 – Conditions of Dissociation, solo exhibition, Entrance / Exit Gallery, Kalisz, Poland.
2014 – Graphic from the University, City House of Culture Kalisz / City House of Culture Sieradz, Poland.
2014 – Questions of art - Wake Up, Museum of Kalisz, Poland.
2014 – Diplomas, Water Tower Gallery, Kalisz, Poland.
2013 - 2014 - 2015 – Stencil Jam, graffiti festival, Warsaw, Poland.
FAIR BOOTHS
2019 - International Art Fair "Art Thessaloniki", with the exhibitor IAGA Contemporary Art, 21st - 24th November, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2019 - International Art Fair "Art Market Budapest", with the exhibitor IAGA Contemporary Art, 3rd - 6th October, Budapest, Hungary.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2018 - Award of the President of the City of Kalisz for achievements in the field of artistic creation in the 2017/2018 cultural season.
2017- Scholarship of the Marshal of the Wielkopolska Province in the field of culture.
2016 - Nationwide competition for the design and construction of a mural on the building of the Art Department of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn – First place (implementation in 2018), Poland.
2016, 2013 - ARS UNIVERSITATIS - honorary distinction in the 16th plastic art competition, Kalisz, Poland.
2015 - V Nationwide art contest – POP CULTURE ICONS - portrait of the artist and his legend – First prize, City House of Art, Wrocław, Poland.
2015 - Author of the mural on Adam Mickiewicz University in Kalisz, FESTIVAL OF ART AND SCIENCE in Kalisz, Poland.