Andrzej Nowacki

Style: Abstract Art;

Place: Rabka-Zdrój

Born: 1953

Biography:

Andrzej Nowacki is a Polish op art artist who lives and works in Berlin. He was born on 15 October 1953 in Rabka-Zdrój, Poland. He spent his youth in Kraków. His first artistic experience was in interior design and art restoration. In 1977 he left Poland to study Scandinavian languages at the University of Gothenburg and later Art History in Innsbruck, Austria. During the 1980s Nowacki discovered to himself Polish constructivism. Henryk Stazewski's art had an influence on the early works of Nowacki. Since the 1990s Nowacki had collaborated with Heinz Teufel, a collector who owned one of the most prestigious art galleries for concrete art in Europe, located in Cologne and later in Berlin. 1994 Andrzej received a private scholarship in West Orange, New Jersey 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001 he participated in the workshops «Under the sign of Geometry» organized by Polish art critic Bozena Kowalska in Okuninka, Poland 2001 he received a scholarship from the New York Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2005 was his first exhibition in Osaka, Japan. Later, he spent a year in his studio at Anna Maria Island, Florida, USA, where he created reliefs for the Seth Jason Beitler Gallery in Miami 2015 Nowacki moved to a new large-scale studio at the former industrial area in Ostrava Lower Vítkovice, Czech Republic. Here he started to create his multi-part and large-format reliefs.Currently, Andrzej Nowacki lives and creates in Berlin, Germany.