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Michal Kotula - born in Torun in 1981 roku, lives and works in Bytom.

E-mail: kotula.art@gmail.com

Tel kom: +48 0504914391

EDUCATION:

2002 - 2007 Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, faculty of painting

1996 - 2001 Middle School of Arts in Katowice

AWARDS:

September 2011 "III Award" and Audience prize, "Materia medicinalis, materia artificialis" Competition, "The Pharmacy Museum" in Cracow
December 2010 "The I.J Paderewski Foundation" award in "Pictures painted by music" competition, Gallery in Cracow
December 2009 "The Golden Frame" award in "Pictures painted by music" competition, TPSP Gallery in Cracow
December2009 Honorable mention in "International Painting Competition - Quadro Art", "The Association of Polish Art Painters Gallery" in Lodz
January 2009 GRAND PRIX at "International Painting Competition – The picture in a public space", "The Profil" Gallery in Poznan
May 2008 Prize at the "Painting of a year" contest in "Art Nova 2" Gallery in Katowice
November 2007 Audience prize in "Bielska's Autumn" contest in "BWA" Gallery in Bielsko-Biala

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

August 2012 "Building an artist", RONDO SZTUKI Gallery in Katowice
December 2010 "Road Home", solo exhibition in "The Pharmacy Museum" in Cracow
January 2010 "Painting as jealous lover...", solo exhibition in "The Profil" Gallery in Poznan
March 2007 "Room for rent", "KRONIKA" Gallery in Bytom
February 2007 Solo exhibition in "Cafe-Szafe" Gallery in Cracow
May 2006 Solo exhibition in "PrzyTyck" Gallery in Tarnowskie Gory

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

November 2013 "Femme Fatale", "art nova 2" Gallery in Katowice
Oktober 2013 Exhibition with Ewelina Wrona in Ether Gallery in Warsaw
June 2013 Continuation of the project "CRASH", Freies Kunst Territorium Gallery in Bochum, Germany
April 2013 "Visions of the contemporary Metropolis", "ADIart" Gallery in Lodz
April 2013 Project "CRASH", "Szyb Wilson" Gallery in Katowice
November 2012"Halloween unplugged", "Foundation Gallery Hyperion" in Katowice
September 2012 "Mobile Identity", exhibition with Ewelina Wrona in "Re:Medium" Gallery in Lodz
February 2012 "The Unusuals", The Old Town Gallery in Zory
December 2011 "DECADES 1946-2011 Realistic elements in modern art", ZPAP, Exhibition in Katowice's History Museum
August 2011 "Let's Meet" Warsaw 2011, Painting exhibition accompanying "The Warsaw GROUND ART Festival", OW ZPAP, "The Lufcik" Gallery in Warsaw and "The Widzimisie Modern Art Gallery" in Siedlce
March 2011 "Wir wollen nur spielen", exhibition with Lisa Marei Klein and Ralf Kopp, "BestregArts" Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
January 2010 "Junge Malerei aus Polen", Stadtgalerie Neu-Iseburg, Germany
August 2008 "Art SUMMER SHOW", "BestregArts" Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
June 2008 "DIARIES OF THE TAMAGOTCHI GENERATION: A group show of Young Artists", "Bochenska Gallery" in Warsaw
May 2008 "FISH EYE" competition & exhibition, Gallery in Slupsk
July 2007 "Graduation 2007" group exhibition, "Szyb Wilson" Gallery in Katowice
May 2007 "Deaf phone", Group exhibition in "Gornoslaskie Centrum Kultury" in Katowice
May 2006 "12,6m 2", Group exhibition in "Gornoslaskie Centrum Kultury" in Katowice
April 2006 "Painting of a Year 2005 competition", gallery in European Hotel in Warsaw
June 2004 Group exhibition in the Mercedes-Benz Dealer in Sosnowiec

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

June 2013 "Art capacitor" artistic event accompanying the "Induistriada" festival in Katowice
June 2012 "Silesian Pants", Happening in "Szyb Wilson" Gallery in Katowice
May 2012 Happening "WASHMASHINE" - Night of the Museums, Academy of Music in Katowice