Opening of the exhibition of paintings by Mateusz Pieta “Mystery Dungeon”

Mateusz Pięta (born in 1996 in Kielce) is a graduate of the Faculty of Art at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. In 2023, he defended his master's degree in painting and workshop graphics with distinction. Laureate of the Scholarship of the Minister of Education and Science for significant artistic achievements.

The starting point for his painting is the experience of reality as a space that cannot be known in a total way. The artist is interested in what remains between recognition and ignorance, fragments of places, images of memory, bodily experiences and forms appearing on the border between the real and the imagined. His paintings do not reconstruct specific spaces, but try to capture their influence on man. They are records of momentary contact with reality, which is constantly changing and at the same time changing the observer. Therefore, the forms that appear in them remain unstable: they can resemble a body, a landscape, an organism, architecture, or something that cannot be called unambiguously. In this way, painting becomes a space for the study of transformation, both the world we observe and the way we experience it. The artist works mainly in oil technique, using color, matter and structure of the painting to build ambiguous, psychologically tense spaces.

Awards and distinctions: 2023 — Scholarship of Talenty Świętokrzyskie 2023 — Scholarship of the Minister of Education and Science for significant artistic achievements 2023 — Rector's Award of the UJK for significant artistic achievements 2022/23 — Scholarship of the Rector of the UJK for significant artistic achievements 2022 — The painting was distinguished and selected for the cover of the catalogue and posters promoting the event, Alternative Kilkenny ART Festival in Ireland

Collective exhibitions: 2026 — Kielce, Pre-spring 49, BWA Kielce Gallery 2025 — Kielce, Pre-spring 48, BWA Kielce Gallery (award of the House of Creative Circumstances in Kielce) 2024 — Nowa Słupia, poplener, Galeria Dom Opata 2024 — Busko-Zdrój, Particles Astral, Gallery Willa Polonia 2024 — Kielce, Przedwiośnie 47, Galeria BWA 2024 — Kielce, Art Capital, BWA Gallery 2023 — Kielce, Entropia Galeria Dworzec 2023 — Kielce, Przedwiośnie 46, Galeria BWA 2022 — Kielce, Mirror Sculpture, became part of the permanent exhibition at GeoNatura Park — Botanical Garden, as part of Geo Art Festival 2022 — Radom, Between Picture/Word/Sound, Pentagon Gallery 2022 — Kielce, Introspekcja, Gallery of the Association of Polish Plastic Artists 2022 — Kielce, Young Artists from Kielce. Generation 1990-1998, Voivodship House of Culture 2022 — Warsaw, 10th art auction of the 21st century, Libra Gallery 2021 — Warsaw, Młoda Sztuka, Galeria Desa Unicum 2020 — Gdańsk, Rebellion, Galeria Start

Individual exhibitions: 2026 — Kielce, Mystery Dungeon, Gallery of Contemporary Art Oranżeria 2022 — Ireland, Human Aspect, as part of Alternative Kilkenny ART Festival 2021 — Kielce, Artist's works from the creative period 2019-2021, Grain Base