Lukasz HUCULAK (b. 1977), Numerous Temptations, 2020

tempera, paper on board, 68 x 37 cm, framed: 72 x 41 cm, signed p.d.: Huculak 20

painter, curator, author of texts on current and past art. He courses freely across epochal caesuras. Sometimes his paintings resemble relics of ancient cultures, archaeological finds or museum destructs. His current interests include curios, kunstkamera, roots and cosmos.

He is a member of the Warsaw Association of Art Historians, the Lower Silesian Encouragement of Fine Arts, the Academy of Young Scientists and Artists and the editorial committee of the Silesian Art Yearbooks. He cooperates with the art and science magazine of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz "Powidoki".

He has held artistic residencies in Knoxville, Paris, Palermo, Munich, Saxony's Schloss Konigshein, Kunststation Kleinsassen near Fulda and Java.

A professor, he runs a painting studio at the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw.

His works can be found in private collections as well as those of PKO BP Bank, the National Museum in Gdansk, the National Museum in Wroclaw, the City Museum of Wroclaw, the Kunshistorisches Museum zu Goerlitz, the Museum of Contemporary Wroclaw, the Luciano Benetton Collection and the Museo regionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Palermo.

They are currently on view in a solo show at the Residenzschloss in Dresden, as well as at the National Museum in Gdansk, the NFM in Wroclaw and the Center for Nature Education at Jagiellonian University.

Recipient of scholarships from the Ministry of Culture, the Government of Bavaria and NGOs. Winner of the Best Diplomas at the Academy of Fine Arts, the Painting Festival in Szczecin and the Bielska Jesień Painting Festival.