Kornel Janczy (b. 1984), "Epicenter" from the "Maps" series, 2012

Biography
Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. In 2019, he received his doctoral degree from the Faculty of Art at the Pedagogical University of Cracow. He realizes works diverse in terms of the media used, from painting and drawing to installations or site-specific realizations. Janczy's works have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including solo exhibitions: Innocent Geography, ARTzona Gallery, Krakow (2019); Return from the Stars, Dom Krakowski in Nuremberg (2017); Future nostalgia, Aristoi Gallery, Krakow (2016); Superteoria, Spectra Art Space, Warsaw (2015); Epicenter, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow (2014); World, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2014); Naturally, Geppert Apartment Gallery, Wroclaw (2014); And Others, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow (2013) and Unpolska, BWA Sokół Contemporary Art Gallery, Nowy Sacz (2012).
Kornel Janczy has participated in many group exhibitions, including: Force Field, Oficine 800, Venice (2019); Where Widowed Objects Meet Orphaned Ideas, Kunstverein CIAP, Hasselt (2018); Around Sol LeWitt, Lescer Gallery, Zalesie Górne (2018); ROŚL - INNE, ABC Gallery, Poznań (2018); Spectrum of Brocken, BWA Avant-garde Gallery, Wrocław (2018); Cabinet of True Horizons (How far can you see?), Rodriguez Gallery, Poznań (2018); Pets, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Kraków (2018); The Trouble with Value, Onomatopee, Eindhoven (2018); That's What's Not There, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz (2017); Festival of Transformations, Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw (2017); JCE Jeune Création Européenne Biennale, Amarante-Figueres-Como-Cesis-Wroclaw-Hjorring-Montrouge (2016-2017); Polish Forest, Biała Gallery, Lublin (2017); NO PROBLEM, Potencja Gallery, Kyiv (2017); ART WORK, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv (2017); Side Effects, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice (2017); Intermarium, BWA Sokół Contemporary Art Gallery, Nowy Sącz (2016); Resistance to Matter, Widna Gallery, Krakow (2016); Endospory, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow (2015); Artists from Krakow. Generation 1980-1990, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK (2015); Strong footing, Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA in Katowice, Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA in Tarnów (2015); Magic mountain, Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA Sokół, Nowy Sącz (2015); Pure formality, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin (2015); Abstract Hooligans, F.A.I.T. Gallery, Krakow (2014); Borders of Globalization, 4th Mediations Biennale, CK Zamek, Poznan (2014); paint me paint me everywhere, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow (2014); Positive/Negative - XVII Art Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow (2013) and Verbrecher und Dekorateure, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna (2012).
Kornel Janczy was a finalist in competitions such as the Starak Family Foundation Competition (2019), the 11th Eugeniusz Geppert Competition "Attention: painting!" (2013), Grey House Foundation Competition (2013), and winner of the Young Poland (2018) and Culture of Poland in the World (2018) scholarships.