Piotr Kachny was born in Poland where he still lives and works today. His art is imprinted by strong complementary colours, which Piotr Kachny applies to his paintings with an expressive, energetic and almost cubist brushstroke. The contrasting colours contribute to the paintings being becoming alive and as a viewer this draws you. You cannot avoid throwing an extra glance on Piotr Kachny’s expressive paintings and that is only positive: because according to himself the essentials in his paintings are not the first thing you notice. According to Piotr Kachny he makes use of the human being’s face as an excuse to show what is hidden inside the human being, which is why Piotr Kachny explores many kinds of attitudes etc. in his paintings. The fact that Piotr Kachny seeks to express something special with his paintings is also expressed on his website where Piotr Kachny quotes the deceased German artist, Martin Kippenberger: “You can’t stand yourself next to every painting/ picture you paint and explain things. Paintings have to talk for themselves” 

Emilie Juul Thorsteinsson, GALLERI V58

EDUCATION

2006 – 2010
Adam Mickiewicz University, department of fine art and pedagogical, master in fine arts, Poznań, Poland

2010
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019
Solo exhibition, con_FIGURATION, GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Denmark

2018
GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Denmark
Brick Lane Gallery, group exhibition, “Portraits”, London, England

2017
GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Denmark
GALLERI V58 pop up, Skagen, Denmark
Prachtwerk, “Paintings”, Berlin, Germany  

2016
GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Denmark
Tapper – Pompermajer Gallery, “The definitive portrait exhibition of expressive women. Oil paintings by Piotr Kachny”, Teckomatorp, Sweden
Prachtwerk, ”Temples of de Light”, Berlin, Germany

2015
Tapper – Pompermajer Gallery, ”neWsfrOMvENus”, Teckomatorp, Sweden
Hyperion Gallery, ”All the women in one”, Katowice, Poland
Culture store Gallery, ”All the women in one”, Krakow, Poland

2014
Museum w. Prasze, ”in_TEXT_ernal”, Praszka, Poland
Zamostek Art Gallery, ”PER/SON_ic_AL”, Opole, Poland
Dasbuntenhaus Gallery, ”Figures and LandEscapes”, Mönchengladbach, Germany
33 Gallery, ”Re: View”, Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland

2013
Museum Kluczbork, ”STORIES FOR MEN & per process”, Kluczbork, Poland
33 Gallery, ”In Sight s”, Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland

2012
33 Gallery, ”Alternatives 33”, Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland
Museum Jarocin, ”Culture_Out_Delete”, Jarocin, Poland
Lamelli Gallery, ”Mystification”, Krakow, Poland
Kofeina Art Cafe Gallery, Opole, Poland

2011
1. Kulisiewicz graphic and drawing center, ”Multi Art Festival in Gallery”, Kalisz, Poland
Collage Art Cafe, ”30 minutes to enlightment”, Kluczbork, Poland
Bourgeois brewery Gallery, exhibition on the festival ”Underwater Wroclaw”, Wrocław, Poland
Urban and municipal library, ”Made in China”, Kluczbork, Poland
Collage Art Cafe, ”Disagreement of women in the eight of March”, Kluczbork, Poland

2010
BWA Gallery, ”ANimAL attrACTION”, Warszawa, Poland

2009
BWA Gallery, ”A time for painting”, Warszawa, Poland

2008
Locker Room Gallery, ”amNIEboli”, Kalisz, Poland