Radosław Włodarski
Born in 1977. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He is a lecturer in the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznań, where he earned his doctoral degree in 2022.
For thirty years, he has been actively engaged in the alternative art scene in Poznań. His practice encompasses broadly defined montage in graphics, sound, and text. He is particularly interested in reclaiming, transforming, and discovering new purposes for found objects.
BORDER (2025)
Year: 2025
Technique: photomontage
Dimensions: A4
Venue: Group 404 exhibition Postcard from the Province / exhibition texts: M. Kurak, K. Piskorz / BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra (2025)
The work combines formal simplicity with a critical commentary on contemporary media reality. Within a black frame placed in a white display structure, the artist juxtaposes the graphic inscription STIMULATED AND IMAGINED REALITY with a frame resembling a road barrier or gate. The minimalist aesthetic and the cold, emblematic character of the work reference the language of visual communication, while problematizing the boundary between what is real and what is generated by technology and imagination. The artist highlights the mechanisms of constructing reality in digital culture, where images function both as tools of control and as a field for projecting collective fantasies.
I’M LOVIN’ IT (2023)
Year: 2023
Technique: digital print
Venue: Group 404 exhibition When the Senses Become Theorists. Hommage à Bunt / curator: Lidia Głuchowska / Alma Mater Gallery, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria (2025)
A critical work depicting the symbol of the communist party combined with the McDonald’s logo. The piece references the concept of the “caviar left.”
The Cabaret Turns (2023)
Year: 2023
Technique: collage, digital print
Dimensions: 70 × 100 cm
Venue: HAPPINESS/HOPELESSNESS, exhibition of lecturers from the Department of Graphic Arts, UAP / Curators: Prof. Piotr Szurek, Dr. Maryna Mazur / Galerie Pokusa, Wiesbaden, Germany (2023)
The work presents a collage composed of black-and-white photographs arranged in a quasi-surreal manner. The images reference staged situations, dance, or early 20th-century avant-garde art. The juxtaposed elements create a deliberately conventionalized depiction, while simultaneously offering an ironic commentary on the nature of cabaret, including its artistic dimensions.
Franz K. (2017)
Year: 2017
Technique: collage
Dimensions: 21 × 14.8 cm
Venue: exhibition + , – Hommage à Bunt et Jung Idysz, part of the international project BUNT. NEW EXPRESSIONS / Museum of the City of Łódź
