Viktor Witkowski
Viktor Witkowski, 'OT 505', 2026, oil on synthetic paper, 60 x 80cm
To identify as painter means that one must ask how to consolidate the need for self-expression with the urgency to respond to contemporary events. At the same time, the O.T. paintings are not just an abnormality within the artist's practice. They refer to landscapes which he has been painting on and off for the past two decades. The O.T. landscapes depict imagined places in transformation: areas open up, collide, collapse, melt and reshape. At the same time, these transformations point to the processes of painting which help to evoke spaces in crisis.
Viktor Witkowski is a painter and filmmaker. He was born in Poland and grew up in Germany where he graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (HBK Braunschweig, Germany) with a combined master’s degree in Studio Art, Art History and Art Education in 2006. The same year, he immigrated to the US where he earned an MFA in Visual Arts from Rutgers University in 2010. He currently splits his time between Vermont (US) and Leipzig (DE).
Selected Exhibitions:
2026
On Purple, Studio Tsukimisou, Kyoto, Japan Exhibition Catalogue release of Tiger Blood and screening of "Which Side Are You On?", Queer Museum, Warsaw, Poland
2025
kraj, Philippuskirche (Lindenow), Leipzig, Germany What’s That Sound/Everybody Look What’s Going Down, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY Tygrysia Krew/Tiger Blood, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
2024
Housewarming, Klub Portitz, Leipzig, Germany Cave, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig, Germany The Summer Disaster Show Part 2, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY Nadal/Noch immer, Kunsthalle Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany Romantik 3.0, Der Mixer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2023
The Summer Disaster Show, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY 5th Kunstmatinee, Schloss Benkhausen, Espelkamp, Germany
2022
On Skin, Metal, And Water, Stroboskop, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) Landfall, 4D Projektort (BBK Leipzig), Leipzig, Germany (solo exhibition)