BIOGRAPHY
Rafał Górczyński (b. 1980 in Szamotuły) is a visual artist and professor at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań, working within the Faculty of Sculpture and Spatial Activities. He graduated from the Poznań art university, where he earned his doctorate in 2011 and his habilitation degree in 2019. He specializes in creating objects, spatial installations, and exhibition projects developed in collaboration with museums and cultural institutions. His works have been presented in numerous exhibitions in Poland and internationally, including Germany, France, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Lithuania, China, and Thailand. In his academic and public activities, he actively addresses issues of artistic agency and authorship in public space.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My artistic practice stems from the experience of "being in between" and the exploration of space treated as an active field of tensions, weight, and balance. The central focus of my work is the moment when an image ceases to be merely a flat surface and begins to function as a body. I am interested in the liminal state—a point of suspension between painting, sculpture, object, and architecture, in which form refuses full stabilization within a single order. I introduce the concept of hybridity not as a simple fusion of media, but as a sustained state of irresolution and balancing on the boundary of their conceptual logics.
Form becomes a record of a critical moment: a suspension between rising and falling, construction and collapse. My realizations are nei sculptures—they are structures of transition.
An important role in my work is also played by reflection on the relationship between humanity and nature, migratory processes, and the socio-emotional fractures of contemporary life. I treat exhibition-making as a consciously constructed installation and a critical-therapeutic tool—a space of confrontation in which the viewer, through their own body and perception, activates the experience of border states, tension, and transformation.
rafalgoorka@gmail.com + 48 605 584 891