Department of Visual Arts and Visual Art Education Invites Students to Lectures and Printmaking Workshops
The Department of Visual Arts and Visual Art Education invites all interested students to attend lectures and printmaking workshops conducted by visiting professors Krzysztof Szymanowicz, Krzysztof Rukasz, and Karol Pomykała from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin, Poland.
The programme will take place on 10 and 11 November 2026 at Nikole Tesle Street 12, 2nd Floor, according to the schedule shown on the poster.
Venues:
- Tuesday, 10 November – Room 3.05
- Wednesday, 11 November – Room 3.01
We look forward to your participation!
Prof. Krzysztof Szymanowicz
As part of the programme “EDITION – Polish Printmaking at UMAS”, Prof. Krzysztof Szymanowicz will deliver a lecture on the development of linocut in contemporary Polish printmaking and conduct a workshop on preparing printmaking templates using the stippling technique. The programme also includes a screening of a film about his artistic practice.
Lecture: Tuesday, 10 November, 11:00–12:00
Film Screening: Tuesday, 10 November, 12:00–13:00
Workshop: Wednesday, 11 November, 10:00–12:00
Krzysztof Szymanowicz (born 1960, Lublin, Poland) is a printmaker, painter, and educator. He graduated from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin in 1989, where he has been teaching at the Faculty of Arts since 1997. He earned his PhD in 2000 and was awarded the title of Professor by the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2017. He is currently Professor at UMCS and Head of the Department of Linocut Printmaking Techniques.
His artistic practice focuses primarily on linocut, while also encompassing painting and drawing. He has held 27 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 280 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
Among numerous international awards and distinctions, he received the Grand Prix of the International Biennial of Small Graphic Forms in Seoul (1996), the Grand Prix of the Gielniak Print Competition in Poland (2003), the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Caixanova International Printmaking Biennial in Spain (2004), the First Prize at the Kulisiewicz International Print Triennial in Warsaw (2011), and the First Prize at the Cantabria International Miniature Print Competition in Spain (2023).
He has been a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers since 1990 and has served as President of its Lublin Branch since 2002.
Dr. Karol Pomykała
As part of the programme “EDITION – Polish Printmaking at UMAS”, Dr. Karol Pomykała will give an online presentation and lecture discussing his artistic practice and contemporary approaches to printmaking.
Online Meeting and Lecture: Tuesday, 10 November, 13:00–15:00
Karol Pomykała (born 1985, Zamość, Poland) is a printmaker, educator, and designer. He received his PhD from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin in 2020, defending a dissertation entitled Personal Space. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Printmaking at the same university and lives and works in Warsaw.
His artistic work focuses primarily on linocut, creating complex compositions composed of thousands of hand-carved dots and lines. Thematically, he explores personal space, memory, and the relationship between individuals and their environment.
He has received numerous international awards, including the Grand Prix of the Kraków International Print Triennial (2018), the Second Prize at the Megalo International Print Prize in Australia (2019), and the Bronze Prize at the Ulsan International Woodcut Biennale in South Korea (2019). He is also a recipient of scholarships awarded by the Young Poland Programme (2021) and the City of Warsaw (2023). His work has been exhibited at numerous international exhibitions, including printmaking biennials in China and Taiwan.
In Warsaw, he runs Pomykała STUDIO, where he combines artistic practice, education, and the development of specialised printmaking tools. Among these is the DOT TOOL, designed specifically for creating linocuts using the stippling technique.
Dr. Krzysztof Rukasz
As part of the programme “EDITION – Polish Printmaking at UMAS”, Dr. Krzysztof Rukasz will conduct the workshop “The Application of the Airbrush Technique in Artistic Printmaking.”
Workshop: Wednesday, 11 November, 12:00–14:00
Krzysztof Rukasz was born in 1968 in Lublin, Poland. He graduated from the Józef Chełmoński State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Nałęczów. From 1990 to 1995, he studied at the Institute of Artistic Education of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Since 1996, he has been teaching in the Department of Graphic Design and Lithography at UMCS under the supervision of Prof. Piotr Lech. He earned a Doctorate in Fine Arts in 2007 and completed his habilitation in 2019. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Graphic Design and Flat Printing under the supervision of Prof. Jan Ferenc. He is Head of the Lithography Studio, where he teaches experimental printmaking and graduate-level courses.
His artistic practice focuses mainly on lithography, exploring ways of combining traditional and contemporary printmaking processes. He is particularly recognised for developing his own technique of applying the airbrush on lithographic stone and for experimenting with different methods of matrix preparation and printing.
He has held 28 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 70 group exhibitions in Poland and internationally. As a lecturer and workshop leader, he has been invited to numerous European art academies, including the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (2017), the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (2019), the Berlin University of the Arts, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, among others.
He actively promotes international printmaking collaboration as a curator and initiator of exhibition projects. Among his significant contributions is the establishment of the 1st International Lithography Symposium in Lublin in 2018.
This activity is co-financed by the European Union through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NextGenerationEU) as part of the institutional research project Contact: Art in the Community (KUZ), IP-UNIST-56 of the Arts Academy of the University of Split
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