Born in 1973 in Andrychów, Poland. Lives and works in Krakow, Poland.

1997 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, PL


1997 DAAD-Scholarship at the University of Design in Offenbach, DE

2011 Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE


2013 Artist in Residence, SoART Millstättersee, AT

2023 Movement, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE

2021 Plates, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2018 Parallels, ŻAK I BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin, DE
2017 Silent Utopia, BBK-Galerie, Oldenburg, DE
2014 Figures, ŻAK I BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin, DE
2012 Skulptur-Malerei, Polnisches Institut, Berlin, DE
2010 Poelzig vs. Poelzig, ŻAK I BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin, DE
2009 Silent Utopia, Art Stations Foundation, Stary Browar Gallery, Poznań, PL
2009 Silent Utopia, Art Basel Statement, ŻAK I BRANICKA Gallery, PL
2009 N.N. vs. Artists, Salzburger Kunstverein (Künstlerhaus), Salzburg, AT
2008 Zbiory / Sets, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow, PL
2007 Africanized Honey Bees, ŻAK Gallery, Berlin, DE
2006 KRK, Potocka Gallery, Krakow, PL
2005 1967–1995?, Pies Gallery, Poznań, PL
2005 Speculation, CC Gallery, Graz, AT
2005 The Last Is the Darkest, the Last Is Real, Kunstbüro, Kunsthalle 8, Vienna, AT

2024 Poles Keep Painting, Radvila Palace Art Museum, Vilnius, LT

2023 Mondo cane. World User’s Manual, National Museum, Szczecin, PL
2022 Kunst. Leben. Leidenschaft, Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim bei Wels, Austria, AT
2021 Gesture strategies, Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic, Szczecin, PL
2021 XX + XXI. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Krakow, PL
2019 The Krakow Art Salon, Palace of Art, Krakow, PL
2018 Die Angst, MS44 Gallery, Świnoujście, PL
2018 Adolescent, Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic, Szczecin, PL
2017 L’arte differente: MOCAK al MAXXI, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, IT
2017 Media State of Emergency: SCORES, National Museum, Szczecin, PL
2017 Artists from Krakow: The Generation 1970–1979, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, PL
2017 Kino-Eye. Around Vertov and Constructivism, Arsenal Gallery power station, Białystok, PL
2016 Generationsübergreifend – Polnische Kunst In Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, DE
2016 Bittersüße Zeiten – Barock und Gegenwart, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm, DE
2016 Vom Allmächtigen zum Leibhaftigen, Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, DE
2015 Collecting Artist, Joseph Tang Gallery, Paris, FR
2015 Sammlung Dr. Werner Jerke. Eine Auswahl, Atlas Sztuki, Łódź, PL
2015 Bittersüße Zeiten – Barock und Gegenwart in der Sammlung SØR Rusche Berlin/Oelde, Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg, Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Apolda, DE
2013 Meshes of the Afternoon, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2013 Art is: New Art, Arnold Schönberg Centre, Vienna, AT
2013 Way Back Home, Convent of the Colettine Sisters, Photography Month, Krakow, PL
2012 Flying. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2012 Rodczenko! Yes and No, National Museum, Krakow, PL
2012 Con Amore – Leif Djurhuus Collection, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, DK
2012 The MOCAK Collection III, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, PL
2011 Halleluhwah! Hommage à CAN, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2011 Polish!, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2011 Zwischen Utopie und Atopie, Cream Contemporary, Berlin, DE
2010 (Re)acting Caligari, Brotfabrik Galerie, Berlin, DE
2010 Bacchus, Kunsthalle Krems – Forum Frohner, Krems, AT
2009 Menschenbilder 1620/2009: Zeitgenössische Bildnisse begegnen alten niederländischen Porträts: Werke aus der Sammlung SØR Rusche, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh, DE
2009 Hort Family Collection, New York, USA
2007 Don’t Try This at Home, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
2007 Day After, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznań, PL
2007 Re(co)nnaissance of Painting, GCK, Katowice, PL
2006 New Tendencies in Polish Painting, BWA, Bydgoszcz, PL
2006 Team Colors, f.a.i.t, Krakow, PL
2006 Soleil Noir, Depression and Society, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT
2006 Fauna://hybrid, Charim Gallery, Vienna, AT
2006 Małopolska Collection of Modern Art "Signs of the Times”, Krakow, PL
2005 Longing for Painting, Lubuska Land Museum, Zielona Góra, PL
2005 Beauty or Painterly Effect, BWA, Bielsko-Biała, BWA, Wrocław, PL
2005 BWA, Zielona Góra, PL
2003 1st Prague Biennale, Prague, CZ

2020 Paweł Książek. Paralele / Parallels, ed. by Przemysław Strożek, Scientific Publishing House of the Academy of Art in Szczecin, (bilingual English/Polish)
2010 N.N. vs. Artists – Paweł Książ ek, Salzburger Kunstverein (bilingual English/German)
2008 Zbiory / Sets, exhibition catalogue, ed. by Wojciech Szymański, Bunkier Sztuki Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, (bilingual English/Polish)