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Przemysław Pokrywka (b. 1980) is a visual artist and Associate Professor at the Academy of Tarnów, with a postdoctoral (habilitation) dagree in Fine Arts. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Rzeszów and the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.

His primary field of artistic activity is painting, although he also works with drawing, graphic design, and site-specific installations. His works have been featured in numerous solo exhibitions and group shows in Poland and abroad. He is a recipient of awards in the field of painting and a scholarship holder of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Pokrywka’s practice is characterized by a deliberate formal structure and a strong intellectual foundation. In painting, he explores the relationships between science, philosophy, and intuition, using abstraction as a tool to examine elusive concepts. His compositions are based on geometric forms, a restrained and muted color palette, and multilayered symbolic arrangements. Color serves as an emotional medium —cool blues, grays, greens, and browns dominate, lending his works a contemplative tone.

Conceptually, Pokrywka’s art reflects the influences of the work of representatives of non-representational art, who combined the pursuit of abstraction with deep theoretical inquiries. Philosophical inspirations are also evident—from Nietzschean thought to Jan Łukasiewicz’s logic, which Pokrywka interprets as a framework for constructing order and coherence within the pictorial field.

His work is not rooted in spontaneity or expressive gesture; rather, it emerges from a consistent and analytical process in which every element has a specific function. His paintings construct internal narratives—logical yet open to interpretation. Anchored in modernist traditions, his art remains relevant, posing questions about the human condition, the structure of reality, and the limits of knowledge.

Przemysław Pokrywka is a conscious and methodical artist who treats painting as a space for dialogue —with history, the present, and the viewer. His work is reflective but avoids literalism. Through abstraction, he creates a coherent, autonomous visual language where form, meaning, and idea exist in balance.