He was born in 1981 in Zamosc. A graduate of the local School of Art . In the years 2001 - 2006 he studied at the Faculty of Painting Academy of Fine Arts in prof . Adam Wsiołkowskiego , in 2009, earned a doctoral degree . Kowalik cultivates creativity in painting and installation , object and performance. It works as an organizer , curator and artistic supervisor . He was a scholar of many scholarship programs , including Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2001), Mayor of the City of Zamosc (2002 ) , Crosskick Academie , Berlin ( 2007) , Scholarship Doktoranckieego Academy of Fine Arts (2008), Ateliers Höherweg 271 , Düsseldorf (2008), Scholarship Grazzella (2009) and Creative Scholarship of the President City of Cracow (2011 ) . Lectures: National Colege of ART and Design in Dublin , European Union House - Dublin , University of Ostrava, Depot - Gallery of the University, Maria Curie -Sklodowska University Lublin - Painting by Marcin Kowalik is primarily an intellectual game between the viewer and the image. For many years, consistently building the structure of your painterly imagination. Layer thematic interests Kowalik closes in a few cycles , which continuously performs : Space Travel , Landscape in a box , Unknown kingdom , Back to Basics , Phase mirror. From the formal point of his paintings can be described as spatial , often illusory geometric structures , in which is embedded a very sophisticated color. The image is a source of research. When painting , Kowalik continually examine the impact of picture elements . Putting themselves in a position leads the viewer ongoing , painting a discussion of what is created on the canvas. in / g: http://marcinkowalik.wix.com/ The artist examines and deconstructs images of old masters and their own , interprets them on this basis to create a new quality. Quoting Krzysztof Stanislawski : " Martin seems to believe in the infinite space of a well- painted picture , because analyzes all its details. Not only to know its ultimate meaning , as in the case of a work of art really high-end it is simply impossible to make it in order to prove that one more , this time its variant meanings is possible and that this is based on the true value both prototype and its creative development of new work . " The artist takes part in numerous exhibitions , including : Phase Mirrors , BWA Gallery Zamojska ( solo exhibition ) , Mirror Phase, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin ( solo exhibition ) Phase Mirrors , Gallery pillar ( solo exhibition ) , Phase mirrors, Marcin Kowalik , Moray Hillary , Agnes Nedregard , Jagiellonian University , Krakow, Discovery , Warsaw Art Fair box Artsupport , Scope Miami Art Faktoria box , Compass Young Art , Polish Olympic Committee Warsaw, Kinderspiele , tank Culture , Krakow, Wuthering Heights, Ola Narr , Oslo Berlin Preview, Box Program Gallery in Warsaw, The Merger - to Help Us this one easy Rulei , Chicago Kunst im Wohnzimmer , Herford , The Whole Place is dark 3 , Cellar Gallery Krakow (organizer) , Color box in the snow, painting, Polish Olympic Committee Warsaw ( solo exhibition ) , Unknown kingdom , painting , National Museum , Cracow ( solo exhibition ) , Peak in a box, painting, Artemis Gallery , Krakow ( solo exhibition ) Space of a Painting , painting, painting, performance , installation, Atteliers Höherweg , Düsseldorf ( solo exhibition ) , Wagnis Wirklichkeit , Realismus in der Kunst zeitgenössischen , 1 6 Künstlerpositionen Galleries Epicurus , Wuppertal ! Artgame ! - Marcin Kowalik + Paul Schwer , Club 69 , Münster , 1 6 things you might not find in August , Artpol , Krakow, hundredth Living Artists Orleanskich ( guest of honor ) , Orleans, Crosskick , Kunsthalle Lingen, ARTFAIR 21 , Stand gallery of Epicurus Wuppertal , Cologne, Space of travel, painting, Scarbata Galerie, Leipzig ( solo exhibition ) , Diplomas, 2006 , Palace of Arts TPSP , Krakow, Self-portrait , post-competition exhibition - honorable mention , Wola Steel Museum , Krakow , Lviv, Dreaming , Office of Rottermund , Hamburg ( solo exhibition ) , Painting , ING Bank Slaski , Krakow ( solo exhibition ).