About
Szymon Olszowski was born in Katowice/Poland in 1985. Olszowski studied graphic design and media design at the New Design University in St. Pölten. His artistic œuvre encompasses a multimedia field of photography, typography, painting and graphics. He currently lives and works in Vienna.
Olszowski's graphic work oscillates between clear lines, glazed color application and ornate play of forms. The combination of randomly applied dots of color and dynamic compositional patterns create a harmonious interplay of form and color. In the fragmentary paintings, line and color flow sweepingly into one another and dissolve again, creating an uncontrollably growing pictorial space that negates a fixed viewer standpoint.
The factor of chance plays an essential role in Olszowski's works. By means of an open-minded approach to the emergence of the image, his works illustrate an openness to intuitively emerging forms. According to Olszowski, it is only through the "interplay of ongoing change and the unplanned in the drawing process that an organic flow emerges".
Exhibitions
2024 Vivid Visions, Galerie Mana
2024 Visuelle Bespielung Eröffnung Wiener Festwochen
2022 Post-it im post-amt, F23
2022 Red Carpet Showroom Schottentor
2021 dis/comfort, Korsi
2019 Take Festival, Sophienspital
2018 Playground AV Festival, Creau
2017 Fantastic Gondolas, Lech am Arlberg
2017 Take Festival, Alte Post
2017 Vintage Fernseher Installation, Ruby Lilly, München
2017 Digitalanalog, München
2016 LPM, Amsterdam
2017 Digitalanalog, München
2016 To be uncontinued, Hotel Mamacita
2015 Live Cinema Festival, Rome
2015 So eine Sauerei, Ragnarhof, Wien
2014 Cineastic Gondolaz, Lech am Arlberg
2014 Kunstasyl, Wien
2013 Ausstellung ,To Be Uncontinued , Bauernmarkt Wien
2013 Rummel Hummel, Bakalofts, Wien
2012 anderWELT, Ragnarhof Wien
2011 Gruppenausstellung, Ragnarhof Wien