About

Michał Bohdankiewicz approaches painting as an act of sustained discovery rather than execution. His works unfold in the charged space between intention and surrender, where control yields to presence and attentiveness. Rooted in the fundamental qualities of painting — material, color, gesture — his canvases resist linguistic closure and conceptual categorization. Instead of illustrating ideas, they generate experiences that are immediate and visceral, remaining open fields of encounter rather than predetermined statements.

(an excerpt from the Clipper Cuts presentation curated by Stan Van Steendam, 2026)


Michał Bohdankiewicz’s practice centers on painting as a space of presence, attention, and trace. He approaches the
canvas as a field of synthesis where opposing qualities can coexist: form and dissolution,
corporeality and transience, control and chance. He is interested in how painting can hold these
contradictions, not by resolving them, but by allowing them to resonate together.
His ongoing Spoor series (from the word meaning “the trace left by a wild animal”) continues this
exploration, treating painting as a trace of presence – open, resonant, and suspended between
form and dissolution.’

(an excerpt from exhibition at Emanuele Catellani Contemporary, Italy, 2025)


Contact - [email protected]
instagram - @michal.bohdankiewicz


b.1990, Poland, lives and works in Wrocław, Poland

Exhibitions:
2026 - Clipper Cuts with Dimitra Charamandas, David Hanes and Tomoya Matsuzaki. Online presentation curated by Stan Van Steendam
2025 - ECCProjects #29 , Emanuele Catellani Contemporary, Chieri (TO), Italy
2022 - One Hot Summer with Bram Braam, Nunzio de Martino, Frans Kasl Projects, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2018 - The Bleeding Hearts and Artists with Claire Robert, Grace Metzler, NEOCHROME, Turin, Italy
2018 - Survival 16, Wallenberg-Pachaly Palace, Wrocław, Poland
2017 - Miart, NEOCHROME, Milan, Italy
2016 - Face to Face, Palazzo Fruscione, curated by Eugenio Viola, Salerno, Italy
2015 - Officielle, Ana Cristea Gallery, Paris, France
2015 - Lavori, NEOCHROME, Turin, Italy
2015 - Ray Bull, Grant Foster, Michal Bohdankiewicz, Ana Cristea Gallery, Chicago, USA
2015 - Works, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, USA


Education:
MA Fine Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, 2015
BA Visual Communication, University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Wroclaw, 2013