Oil painting ”Meat Scrap II”, oil on canvas, 95x144cm , from the series ”Meat Scrap”. It is a clash between organic form and industrial structure. ”It is essentially about spirituality and corporeality in the face of age-old motifs representing the power of mechanism and the tenacity of matter”.
Jacek Sztuka. Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracovv (1996 2001) in the Department of Painting, in the studio of Professor Jacek Waltoś and in the drawing studio of Professor Teresa Kotkowska-Rzepecka. Scholarship at Akademie der Bildende Künste in Nuremberg in the painting studio of Professor Johannes Grützke in 1999/2000. Diploma cum laude in the studio of Professor Stanisław Rodziński in 2001. Since 2012 associate professor in the Department of Management of Częstochowa University of Technology, Doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 2006, Postdoctoral degree in 2012. Since 2019 he has been teaching visual communication in the field of Design and Project Management at the Faculty of Management of the Czestochowa University of Technology. Member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, BVBK, AA . Jacek Sztukals works are to be found in Polish museums and private art collections in Poland and abroad. The artist took part in 120 collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad and in 22 individual exhibitions.
Selected scholarships and awards:
2004- Distinction in the Marian Michalik
Il National Picture Contest for Young Painters
2005- Art Scholarship granted by the Mayor of Częstochowa
2006 - Grand Prix Homo Quadratus Ostroviensis 2006,
Ostrowiec Swiętokrzyski
Main Prize of the Mayor of Radom in the V Self Portrait Triennial in Radom
2007 -Art Scholarship granted by the Mayor of Częstochowa Prize awarded by the Director of the Municipal Art Gallery in the Marian Michalik III National Picture Contest for Young Painters, Częstochowa Municipal Art Gallery
2009 - Grand Prix in the XXII Festival of Polish
Contemporary Painting, Szczecin 2008, Szczecin
Young Artist of 2008 Prize awarded by the
Governor of Silesia Province
Selected solo exhibitions:
2005 - Schloss Herzberg, Herzberg
2006 - Pałac Sztuki, Kraków
2006/07 - MGS, Częstochowa, together with J. F. Sztuka
2009 - Freies Museum Berlin
2010 - Książnica Pomorska, Szczecin
2011 - Galerie M, Potsdam, with Klaus D. Fahlbusch
2012 - Gallery ASP, Cracow
2017 - Palace in Nakle Śląskim
2018 - Palace of Art, Kraków
2021 – MGS, Częstochowa

Selected group exhibitions:
2001 - Dezember Salon, Galerie Taube, Berlin
2003 - Stipendistenausstellung, Akademie der Bildende Kuenste, Nuremberg
2005 - Exhibition of the 2nd M. Michalik Painting Competition for Young Painters, Stockholm
2007 - First Auction of Contemporary Polish Art, New York
2009 - Reliquaries of Empires Dust, Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin
2009 - 8th Festival Junge Kunst, Volkenroda
2009 - Meeting Begegnung, Gaude Mater, Czestochowa, Pforzheim
2010 - Neumitglieder 2010 |BVBK, Produzentgalerie M, Potsdam
2012 - Uczta u mistrzów, Pałac Sztuki, Kraków
2014 - Nord Art, 2014, Buedelsdorf
2017 - V zahrade, Galerie 9, Prague
2020/21 - Galerie Sonia Monti, Paris
2021 - Borders Art Fair Venice 2021, Fragmented Identities, Venice
2021 - London Contemporary Art Fair 2021, London