Piotr Sobiesiak
& Gallery is proud to present polish artist Piotr Sobiesiak as our first artist in residence at the & Art Motel. This will be followed by an exhibition in our Sorrento Gallery.
8 November - 30 November 2025
Interdisciplinary artist successful in many artistic fields: sculpture, painting, drawing, video art, stage design, interior design, photography, and artistic education.
His activities are focused on physical, cultural and intellectual aspects of the complex relationship between the human and the space. He implements postulates of sculpture that restores human senses, art that is a window to expanding consciousness and a culture that focuses on nature.
He graduated with honours from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. He studied in the studios of dr Krzysztof M. Bednarski and prof. Romuald Woźniak. His graduate work was presented at the prestigious UpComing exhibition (Palace Czapskich, Warsaw, 2021).
Co-founder of the Warsaw student gallery Pawilon5 (2018). Finalist of the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award in 2021 (as the third Polish artist in the history of the Italian Biennale; after Paweł Althamer and Dominik Ritszel). Winner of the Golden Palette Award (2023), awarded by the Paleta Contemporary Art Foundation. Winner of a grant program EKOczynni of the PGNiG Foundation Ignacego Łukasiewicza (2022). Nominated for the prestigious Karol Stryjeński Award (2021). Winner of numerous competitions, and participant in many exhibitions, his works are in private collections around the world, including the USA, Australia and Spain.
In 2022, his work Nubita from the Nubes formales series was purchased by the National Museum in Warsaw as a part of the celebration of the museum's 160th anniversary. His work Nubita III is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
Participant of the artistic residency of the Krakow gallery 2 Światy (2022). He has been leading the Space Composition Studio at W. Gerson's School of Art in Warsaw since 2022. He created scenography for many brands including Dior, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Roger Vivier, and Aspesi.
Nubita II
alabaster plaster, steel
55 x 30 x 26cm