Jan Baszak
(b. 1994 in Szczecin, Poland)-
Jan Baszak, Hare, 2024 – Wood, PCV, glass eyes, black socks, 85 x 38 x 36 cm (Photo. B. Górka)
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Jan Baszak, Horse, 2022 – Wood, upholstery foam, glass eyes, black socks, 184 x 160 x 70 cm (Photo. B. Górka)
Jan Baszak is a visual artist working between Szczecin, Warsaw, and Berlin. His interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, stage design, textile art, and research-based work.
Baszak’s art explores the intersection of intimacy and melancholy. He works with posthuman and animal-derived materials, along with reclaimed textiles, drawing on queer theory, posthumanism, post-nature, and the vibrancy of matter.
His practice investigates the complex relationships between human and non-human beings, engaging with the mysticism of interspecies gaze exchange. He envisions models of community grounded in a kind of Halloween egalitarianism — spaces that embrace non-binary, non-linear forms of thinking.
Through layered sculptural installations, Baszak creates immersive worlds that revolve around fantasy, the affirmation of otherness, and the aesthetics of the abject.
Education:
2025-now Academy of Art in Szczecin (PL) – Art in Practice; PhD
2024–25 Soho Fellowship Program, Creative Future Collective; Soho House, Berlin (DE)
2021-22 Polish-Japanese Academy of IT in Warsaw, Specialization Art Direction – Postgraduate Studies 2017-19 Academy of Art in Szczecin (PL), Faculty of Painting and New Media – MA
2014-17 University of Fine Arts in Poznań (PL), Faculty of Sculpture and Space Activity – BA
Selected Awards:
2024 Visegrad Fund Scholarship for Artist Residency, Budapest (HU)
2023 Award for Best Stage Design, The Discomfort of Evening, Divine Comedy Festival, Kraków (PL)
2021 Award for Exhibition 1.90 m, Project Room, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw 2020 Artistic Scholarships of the City of Szczecin Art Award, TRAFO, Szczecin (PL)
2018 Art Scholarship, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw 2014 Artistic Scholarships of the City of Szczecin (PL)
Selected Exhibitions:
Play, curator: Kamil Mizgala, as a part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Szczur Gallery, Poznań; Warsaw Viennacontemporary, Art Fair, WHOISPOLA, Vien (AT)
Letztraum, curatorial team: Jagna Domżalska, Kamil Mizgala, ZAMEK Culture Centre, Poznań (SOLO) Trap to Live Within, curator: Kuba Stępień, New Fears, Berlin
Skinned and Spinned, as a part of Constellation Festival, WHOISPOLA; Muzeum Wolnej Białorusi, Warsaw
Free Range, curator: Andrzej Staniek, Galeria Szczur, Poznań
A Wet Towel Will Dry You To, curator: Jagna Domżalska, MOS, Gorzów Oniryczna rzeczywistość, curator: Olga Mzhelskaya, Emi Art, Warszawa
2021
Whatever you come up with about yourself, curator: Stanisław Ruksza, TRAFO, Szczecin
2020
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