Viktor Witkowski
Viktor Witkowski, 'Snow Mount', 2012, oil on linen, 30 x 30cm
Viktor Witkowski’s paintings address the representation of history, domestic as well as global conflicts and the impact these have on the individual. At the same time, he asks what the possibilities of painting and film are in the face of unsettling, yet socially relevant topics. Is there a space for poetics when dealing with the darker issues in life?
Viktor is a painter and filmmaker. He was born in Poland and grew up in Germany where he graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (HBK Braunschweig, Germany) with a combined master’s degree in Studio Art, Art History and Art Education in 2006. The same year, he immigrated to the US where he earned an MFA in Visual Arts from Rutgers University in 2010. He currently splits his time between Vermont (US) and Leipzig (DE). When he is not working on paintings and films, he teaches as lecturer in Dartmouth College’s Studio Art Department in New Hampshire.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Housewarming, Klub Portitz, Leipzig, Germany The Summer Disaster Show - Part 2, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY Nadal/Noch immer, Kunsthalle Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany Romantik 3.0, Der Mixer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2023 The Summer Disaster Show, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY 5th Kunstmatinee, Schloss Benkhausen, Espelkamp, Germany
2022 Shelley Odradek, Strange Attractor, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland On Skin, Metal, And Water, Stroboskop, Warsaw, Poland Landfall, 4D Projektort (BBK Leipzig), Leipzig, Germany
2021 Intimate Spectres, Young Space Views, curated by Kate Mothes