Bartłomiej Jarmoliński

A graduate of the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (he defended his diploma in 2001 in the Studio of Drawing run by Prof. Roma Hałat within the Department of Visual Education). He is one of the most intensively developing contemporary artists from Łódź, who actively participates in Polish cultural life through taking part in contemporary art competitions (Bielsko Autumn in Bielsko-Biała, Art Biennale in Piotrków Trybunalski, the Triennial of Contemporary Polish Painting in Rzeszów). He participated in many group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, the most significant were the projects at the Zero Gallery in Berlin, Kraków House and Tower in Nuremberg, Kolner Haus in Cologne, The Bike Shed in Inverness, Het Strijkijzer in Hague and Inchmore Gallery in Inverness. Among his Polish exhibitions a few are worth highlighting, for example The Woman of Marble in the Manhattan Gallery, Łódź 2013. In this project he presented his work entitled Gloria Artis which consisted of a photo in large format and a video. The artist presented his own body decorated by a medal which is awarded for outstanding achievements in cultur painted onto his chest. He recalled the definition and the criteria according to which the medal is awarded and made reference to the difficult situation of people who work in cultural institutions and artists who often live on the margins. In this performance for camera he washed off the medal and the only thing which remained on his body was a stinging, unpleasant patch, recalling the name of the outstanding award Gloria Artis. EXHIBITIONS: Jarmoliński participated recently in exhibitions at the Otwarta Pracownia Gallery, Kraków, the PGS, Sopot, 2012,Shoot me, Het Strijkijzer, Hague, 2010, 6 jahre Galerie Zero, Berlin, Eve's rib Masculine potencies / Zamek Książąt Pomorskich,Szczecin, the Studio Gallery, Warsaw, 2009. He had a many individual shows such as: POProgram 2009, Cooltowi 2010, Santo Subito 2011, MAN- RW 2010 , Saint M 2011, Gdzieś jest lecz nie wiadomo gdzie, świat w którym baśń ta dzieje się [Somewhere there is a world where this fairy tale is happening], 2012, Zderzenia [Contrasts] 2013, Stany skupienia [State of aggregation] 2013. It's worth mentioning, that Bartek Jarmoliński, as one of few living artists from Łódź who has his biography included in the Great Encyclopaedia of Polish Painting (ed. Ryszard Kluszczynski, 2011).