MAREK JAŚKOWIEC / ARTIST
Biography and work
Biography · Artist statement · Exhibitions · References
Biography
Marek Jaśkowiec is an independent artist with a deeply individual approach. His emotionally charged, expressive work brings together academic tradition and an openness to experimentation. He primarily paints symbolic portraits and symbolic figurative compositions.
Having lived and worked in different countries, he experimented with a range of techniques before developing his own painting method.
In 2004, he held a solo exhibition at the Exhibition and Conference Centre of Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków. The exhibition, “Róże”, was opened by the Castle’s then director, Professor Jan Ostrowski. Jaśkowiec collaborated with Wawel Royal Castle for several years on artistic and exhibition projects. This collaboration was documented in a letter of reference dated 20 December 2007, signed by Deputy Director Danuta Ziernicka.
For more than a decade, he has exhibited mainly in Sweden. His works are held in private collections in Poland and abroad, as well as in the collection of the Museum of Independence, formerly the Regional Museum, in Myślenice.
His work has received references from cultural institutions, local authorities and private collectors, including art dealer Piotr Dmochowski. The painting “Lazarus” has been shown at exhibitions in Venice.
“Wonderful symbolic portraits, full of expression but also beauty; no longer marked by fear, but by grace and painterly excellence.”
Piotr Dmochowski (translated from Polish)
Artist statement
“I am interested in the moment when reality loses its certainty. The body becomes a surface on which history is inscribed, while the surrounding world takes the form of an inner landscape. In my work, the sacred is not tied to religious dogma, but to the experience of fragility, memory, loss and transformation. These paintings attempt to make the invisible visible: emotions, memories, fears and hopes. They tell of a human being confronting mortality, but also of the need to find meaning and light in a world full of uncertainty.
I am inspired by the human being immersed in the cosmos. We move through it at immense speed and are made of the same particles — matter that both is and is not there. Neutrinos. The cosmos is an infinite concept: life and death, our most fundamental mysteries. Searching is an end in itself. Art is a language. I am a traveller. This is how I realise my reality. This subject has always been within me.
The cosmos, movement, energy, the neutrino — how can these be expressed? At every hundred-billionth of a second, neutrinos and as yet unexplored stories pass through me and through the picture plane. I add these particles, this movement, to the painting. In most of my paintings, regardless of technique, there is a movement of particles and energy, a fragment of the cosmos. If not literally, then symbolically, as expression. I paint the cosmos with the cosmos. An equals sign between the micro and the macro. Synthesis.”
Exhibitions and artistic activity
- 2017, 2019–2025 · „JASKOWIEC” — Gallery Gustus, Malmö, Sweden.
- 2022–2023 · „SCANDAL” — La Boutique gallery space, Naestved, Denmark.
- 05.12.2018–11.01.2019 · „CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2018” — ITSLIQUID International Art Show, Misericordia Archives, Venice, Italy.
- 27.09–25.11.2018 · „Spaces / SURFACES” — ITS LIQUID International Art and Architecture Festival, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice, Italy.
- 21–25.08.2018 · The 6th International Degrowth Conference — Malmö, Sweden.
- 26.07–13.09.2018 · „Places / SURFACES” — ITS LIQUID International Art and Architecture Festival, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice, Italy.
- 2006 · „Begegnungen II” — Munich, Germany.
- 2006 · „Marek Jaśkowiec – malarstwo” — Regional Museum in Myślenice.
- 2005 · „Impresje Wielickie”.
- 2005 · „Ziemia Myślenicka w akwareli” — Regional Museum in Myślenice.
- 2005 · „Wieliczka w Japonii, Japan w Wieliczce” — EXPO, Japan.
- 2004 · „Róże” — Exhibition and Conference Centre of Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków. Opened by Professor Jan Ostrowski.
- 2004 · „Autoportret 42×30” — Galeria T, Kraków.
- 2004 · „Wieliczka w akwareli”.
- Participation in Polish Artists’ Auctions in aid of people with leukaemia, Kraków, 2002–2004
- Auction in aid of St Lazarus Hospice, Kraków, 2003
- Collaboration with Wieliczka Town Council, Myślenice Town Council, Wieliczka District Council and the Tourist and Cultural Centre in Wieliczka, the Regional Museum in Myślenice and the Wieliczka Salt Mine
- Running the artist’s own gallery at Wawel
Documentation and references
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