Mateusz Sadowski
b. 1984. Lives and works in Poznań, Poland.
B.A. Photography (2007) and Intermedia M.A. (2010) graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. PhD at the University of the Arts Poznan. Winner
of the scholarship 'YOUNG POLAND' of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2012. Prize winner of 7th edition of Samsung Art Master Award 2010. Winner of the Chris Frayne
Award for Best Animated Film at 54. Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2016. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland in 2022.
Currently he lectures at the Photography Department at the University of Arts in Poznan. Cooperates with Galeria Stereo.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Cave Carved in the Shape of a Waking Person, Galeria Szczur, Poznań, PL
2023 A Cave Carved in the Shape of a Waking Person, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, PL
2022 Time Settings, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, PL
2019 Indifferent star, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, PL
2019 I have no time, 9/10 Gallery, Poznań, PL
2018 Shape of The Moment, Polonez, Poznań, PL
2017 The Resonance, Online Gallery, The Drawing Center, New York, US
2017 REFLEX WANDER, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, PL
2016 COMPOSITION WITH MISSING WORDS, :SKALA, Poznań, PL
2015 STRES, Realny Obszar Działań, Warsaw, PL
2014 IT TAKES TIME, Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Bialystok, PL
2014 EXHIBITION OF WORKS, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, PL
2014 THE RESONANCE, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, PL
2014 UNPLANNED IMAGES, BWA, Zielona Góra, PL
2013 TURN OF EVENTS, BWA, Katowice, PL
2012 LEAK, Exile, Berlin, DE
2012 I'VE SEEN TOO MUCH, SVIT, Prague, CZ
2011 THERE IS NO SUCH THING, Galeria Stereo, Poznań, PL
2011 ENTWINE, ShowOFF, Krakow Photomonth, Kraków, PL
2009 FIRE, Galeria Stereo, Poznań, PL
SELECTED DUO EXHIBITIONS
2014 across realities, with Wojciech Bruszewski, Fundacja Arton, Warsaw, PL
2011 Walking around the house, with Gizela Mickiewicz, EMDES Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2023 Yambaru Art Festival, Okinawa, JP
2023 Pięć nieczystych zadań, Galeria Skala, Poznań, PL
2022 Minimo Uno. Massimo Due, eastcontemporary, Milan, IT
2022 To See The Stars. Divine Comedy's Landscapes, Adam Mickiewicz's Museum of Literature, Warsaw, PL
2020 I'll be your image, Krupa Gallery, TIFF Festival, Wroclaw, PL
2020 No room collection, on-line exhibition, https://noroomcollection.com
2019 Animation Beyond Cinema, screening, National Gallery of Art, Washington, US
2019 Traps_Simulations_Transmissions. Areas of Post-photography, Arsenał Gallery, Poznan,PL
2018 After the end of photography, PGS, Sopot, PL
2017 Central by East Central, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, PL
2017 Artists' Film International 2016 & 2017, Tromso Kunstforening, Tromso, NO
2017 Volume of Effort, [co-curated with Jakub Czyszczoń], Polonez, Poznań, PL
2017 Expanding Animation, Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, NL
2016 Artists' Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2016 Artists' Film International, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, AR
2016 Artists' Film International, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, PT
2016 The Silence of Sounds, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, PL
2016 Entoptic Screening, Galeria Salon Akademii, Warsaw, PL
2015 Granpalazzo, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zagarolo, Rome, IT
2015 Videonale 15, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE
2015 Collection in Action. Education Space for Kids, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
2015 Katedra, Culture Centre Zamek, Poznan, PL
2014 As You Can See. Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
2014 Das Stille Leben des Sammlers Kempinski, Exile, Berlin, DE
2013 Things in Common, Art Stations Foundation, Poznań, PL
2013 Photography. Reconstructed, Prague Biennale Photo 3, CZ
2012 On Demand 2, tegenboshvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Arbeitdisziplin, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznań, PL
2012 Will Be Fine, Galeria Stereo, Poznań, PL
2011 A Clock That Runs on Mud, Galeria Stereo, Poznań, PL
2011 MIR, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Białystok, PL
2011 Transilvania 2, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznań, PL
2010 Samsung Art Master, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
2010 Transilvania, BWA, Zielona Góra, PL
2010 Transit, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, RU
2010 The Summer of Youth, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
2009 Videonale 12, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE
SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS
2019 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, USA
2018 Animator Film Festival, Poznań, PL
2017 Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, NL
2016 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, USA - Resonance - Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film
2015 Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, NL
2015 SHORTVAWES Short Film Festival Poznań PL, Poznan Open
2014 Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, NL
2014 SHORTVAWES Short Film Festival Poznań PL, International Grand Prix Tour