biography
Rafał Kapica (b. 1980 in Pyskowice) – painter, draftsman, poster artist, and graphic designer. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, where he earned his degree in the studio of Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz.
In his practice, Kapica consistently develops a unique visual language where a figurative approach meets abstraction, seamlessly incorporating design thinking. He perceives painting as an autonomous statement and a field of tension between light, color, movement, and space. His diverse oil paintings on canvas are distinguished by an original technique and mastery of the craft, where color becomes an independent vehicle for emotion.
Although echoes of op-art, impressionism, or expressionism can be traced in his works, the artist develops an individual style, engaging with various themes across his distinct series of paintings. Combining formal discipline with an intuitive gesture, he creates compositions that do not merely represent reality, but rather activate the process of looking and the fluid nature of perception, inviting the viewer to experience the unapparent.
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MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
2026 – Solo exhibition, Bicycles (paintings and fine art prints), DESA Modern, Warsaw
2026 – Solo exhibition, Bicycles (paintings and fine art prints), DESA Modern, Warsaw
2026 – Solo exhibition, Philosophical Ideogram, Victoria Cultural Centre, Gliwice
2025 – Solo painting exhibition, Exhibition Bicycle, SQUART Gallery & EAST Gallery, Bytom
2023 – Solo painting exhibition, Movement, VIP Line Zone, Chopin Airport, Warsaw
2022 – Painting presentation, My Last Sun, 19th Warsaw Art Fair (101 PROJEKT Gallery booth)
2022 – Solo painting exhibition, Sun, 101 PROJEKT Gallery, Warsaw
2021 – Painting presentation, Sunny Diptych, 18th Warsaw Art Fair (101 PROJEKT Gallery booth)
2020 – Solo poster exhibition, It Will Not Be Colorful, Kipisz Personal Improvisation Space, Lodz
2019 – Group exhibition, 30 Years of Freedom in the Posters of Polish Artists (poster: Freedom), Gdansk City Gallery
2016 – Stars (series of paintings), Art Night Festival – Gliwice Night of Open Galleries, Garage Gallery
2007 – Post-competition exhibition, 20th Polish Poster Biennale (poster: Different but Equal), BWA Gallery, Katowice
2006 – Post-competition travelling exhibition, 1st International Biennale of Social and Political Poster (poster: Dictator)
2005 – Graduation exhibition (posters: Dekalog), "Awangarda" BWA Gallery, Wroclaw
2005 – Group exhibition, Confrontations 2005 (self-portrait paintings), Studio BWA Gallery, Wroclaw
2004 – Solo painting exhibition accompanying the premiere of Myth: Kordian (romantic collage), Polish Theatre, Wroclaw
2004 – Solo drawing exhibition, "MM" Municipal Art Gallery, Wroclaw
2003 – Photography exhibition accompanying the OFFensiva Festival, Helios Cinema, Wroclaw
EDUCATION
2005 – graduated from the Faculty of Graphics and Media Art of The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw in the studio of prof. Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz
2003 – artistic scholarship from the city of Wroclaw
2003 – scholarship as a part of an inter-university exchange at the University of Aristotle's Thessaloniki at the Department of Graphic Design and Illustration.
2005 – graduated from the Faculty of Graphics and Media Art of The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw in the studio of prof. Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz
2003 – artistic scholarship from the city of Wroclaw
2003 – scholarship as a part of an inter-university exchange at the University of Aristotle's Thessaloniki at the Department of Graphic Design and Illustration.