Background
Andrzej Nowacki was born on October 15, 1953 in Rabka, Poland. He spent his early youth in Krakow and left Poland in 1977.
Andrzej Nowacki in his studio in Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2016
Andrzej Nowacki and Zbigniew Buski, the director of the National Gallery of Art in Sopot, Poland, at the opening of the exhibition On the threshold of infinity, March, 23, 2017
Andrzej Nowacki was born on October 15, 1953 in Rabka, Poland. He spent his early youth in Krakow and left Poland in 1977.
Andrzej Nowacki studied Scandinavian languages at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and then German philology and the History of art at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
Andrzej Nowacki came to Berlin in 1984 where he devoted himself to the painting activity. During this period, the artist created many pastel drawings which became the subject of his first personal exhibition at the Galerie Pommersfelde three years after the painter’s arriving at Berlin.
The first debut in Gemany was followed by the show in his native Poland at the Pryzmat Gallery in Krakow in 1992. Two years later, Nowacki demonstrated his works to the public of New York at the Lederman Fine Art Gallery. In the mid-1990s, the artist had two more exhibitions in Berlin. From 1996, he started to name his paintings by the dates of their creation.
In 1999, Andrzej Nowacki began his collaboratin with the Heinz Teufel Gallery in Berlin where the artist explored the works of Max Bill, Josef Albers, Antonio Calderara and Bridget Riley. In the creations of Calderara and Riley, Nowacki found the inspiration for his drawings of 2000.
In five years, the artist came to Osaka, Japan where at the Kssho Fine Art Gallery was organized his exhibition. The most significant shows of 2011 were the exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Sopot, Poland and at the Milan Dobes Museum in Bratislava, Slovakia.
The recent exhibitions where Andrzej Nowacki presented his creations took place at the National Gallery of Art in Sopot on March, 23 and at the Yermilov Center in Ukraine from April, 7 till May, 14, both in 2017.
Nowadays, Andrzej Nowacki lives and works in Berlin as well as in Ostrava, Czech Republic.