Grzegorz Bugaj

I am a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Faculty of Industrial Forms and Graphics. I move in the field of painting, intaglio, drawing and animation. In my work, I am pernamentally pitted against the unconscious. It is a relentless cycle of teasing out the unconscious content into consciousness, and trying to describe it through a visual phenomenon. Very often the visual phenomenon precedes intellectual identification. If I approach the work with an idea, it is based on a hunch, an emotion, something that cannot be named. This hunch is revealed from the experience of everyday life but also from the intellectualization of the problem. Art constantly mixes with my daily rhythm of life. With the help of an image, text or film, I tell about a world that is scary, wild, strange, joyful and beautiful. Intellectually, I address in art problems concerning the ontology of being, aesthetics, ethics and psychoanalysis.

In addition to culture and art, I am passionate about gravity cycling which I have been doing for about 20 years.

In my doctoral project I am combining extreme sports, visual art and literature by means of so-called somatoesthetics in relation to fundamental ethical problems. I will juxtapose my experiments in autoethnographic research with other artists and thinkers who combined their work with movement in nature.

Selected artistic achievements:

2018 ASIFA Poland Award “Where the Sleepe is born”

2019 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

2019 THE 44TH PAINTING BIENNALE BIELSKA JESIEŃ

2019 Final Exhibition Eibish award Warsaw

2020 International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2022 ROC – National Taiwan Museum of fine arts.

2020 First Prize 11. FKA Festival of film art critics Poland – Where the sleepe is born

2020 First Prize Krakow Art Salon – “WheWe 2”

2021 Berlin Sci-fi Fil festival “The Steamites”

2022 International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2022 ROC – National Taiwan Museum of fine arts

Links to sites:

https://www.instagram.com/whitestarfaun/