SZYMON KOWALCZYK
Cluster Photography & Print Exhibitor | 2025
Szymon Kowalczyk (ALGIDA) was born in 2000 in Warsaw, Poland. Visual artist and director. Fashion and fine art photographer. Student at the National Film School in Łódź, Poland. He collaborates with many artists from the music industry, realizing and directing images for music videos. Co-founder of Sunflower Dreams collective. He publishes in magazines including KMAG, Poptown, Oczy.Mag, HIRO. He took part in group exhibitions during Festival of New Art in Frankfurt Oder, Germany and at Szklarnia Szkoły Filmowej in Łódź, Poland. His first solo exhibition “polished trash” was exhibited two months ago in Warsaw. He also published his own art book “Locus” in cooperation with Snap Collective Paris.
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Education:
- 2022, Student of National Film School in Łódź, Poland
- 2021, Warsaw School of Photography and Graphic Design, Poland
Original Publications:
- 2024 may
Selfpublished Artbook “Locus” by Szymon Kowalczyk,, SnapCollective Paris, France
Exhibitions:
- 2024 ”POLISH-ED TRASH“, Varsophie, Warszawa, Poland
- 2024 “Fluidity”/ MEMO Mediateka , Łódź, Poland
- 2024 “Neon white trash”/ Miejsce Aktywności Lokalnej Kacprowicza 14
Warszawa Poland
- 2024 "Open Space" / Cracow art week / Cracow, Poland
- 2023"CADAVRE EXQUIS" / Centrum Break Academy /Casablanca, Maroco,
- 2023 „about love” / ODA / Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
- 2022 "Labyrinth" / Festival of New Art / Frankfurt Oder, Germany - 2022 "Suitcase" / Szklarnia Szkoły Filmowej / Łódź, Poland
Author's pubication:
- 2023 "Locus"
- 2021 “hectic magazine”
“I mainly work with portrait and fashion photography, though I want to use it as a platform.
I play with it and reveal its new face by deconstructing it. I operate within the aesthetics of camp and trash.
Often, my photoshoots take the form of a performance in front of the camera.
I see photography as a plastic medium of expression and interpret it within the framework of a single work. It’s important for me to play with the viewer in photography, between what they see and what they are looking at.
The main themes in my work are sacredness, queerness, and the mystery that builds drama within the photograph. Contrasts and tensions are equally important to me.”