My work emerges from the spaces between concrete and static—where rigid geometries collide with digital artifacts. Having grown up navigating repetitive, compartmentalized landscapes, I’ve developed an obsessive eye for the hidden patterns and occulted systems that structure our perception of reality.
This practice is ultimately an exorcism of control. While my neurotic self craves perfect systems, the work allows for collaboration with materials—to actively listen to the noise they emit, to let them guide me. Through painting, drawing and interactive installations, I construct personal cosmologies that map psychic terrains and this fundamental tension between human intention and material agency. What begins as systematic mark-making transforms into a dialogue with the unseen.
Paint, code and repurposed electronics become alchemical vessels in this transformation. The resulting works—fractured cartographies hovering between glitch and glyph—invite viewers to navigate that unstable boundary where the architectures we inhabit begin to inhabit us in return, revealing the spirits hidden in plain sight.
Mikołaj Stojanowicz
mikolaj@stojanowicz.com
Curriculum Vitae
WORK
Stojanowicz / Freelance Practice
AUGUST 2017 – PRESENT, ROTTERDAM
Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam / Nestbouwer
FEBRUARY 2023 – PRESENT, ROTTERDAM
Exhibitions
2025 – The Way the Wind Blows – Stormslag / KABUL a GOGO, Utrecht
2025 – Troubled Waters – Werkwarenhuis, Den Bosch
2024 – Forever Young – Boterhal, Hoorn
2024 – INCUBATOR – Kunstkerk, Dordtrecht
2024 – Dungeon (solo exhibition) – De Nijverheid, Utrecht
2023 – De Nestbouwers – Natuurhistorisch Museum, Rotterdam
2023 – IMPAKT Festival – Stadsklooster, Utrecht
2023 – Graduation Show – Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
2023 – IN PROGRESS; IN SITU – Baanhof, Rotterdam
2023 – Gouwe Kinderen (duo exhibition) – Galerie Nieuw Charlois, Rotterdam
2023 – Re-build – De Hillevliet, Rotterdam
2023 – MOMO Festival – Arminius church, Rotterdam
2023 – (Im)material Ruins – Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
2022 – Crisiskunst 010 – Galerie Niffo, Rotterdam
2022 – Radio Ruins – Time is The New Space / Operator Radio, Rotterdam
2022 – Unfolding Spaces – Westwerk Gallery / Fluctoplasma Festival, Hamburg
2022 – Trash in The Yard – Arboretum Trompenburg, Rotterdam
2022 – Kunstprijs Charlois – Karel de Stouteplein, Rotterdam
2022 – Heart Work Heroes – Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam
2022 – Eigen Domein – LOU Oudenoord, Utrecht
2022 – Place to Be – Galerie Pouloeuff, Naarden
2021 – House Peace – Hotel Mokum, Amsterdam
2021 – Dit is Culture – Red Floor Gallery, Rotterdam
2021 – Nextile – Ijzerblok, Rotterdam
2021 – Filling The Void – Wibar, Leiden
2019 – Hectobar 3.0 – Neck of the Woods, Rotterdam
2019 – 50 Ways – Red Floor Gallery, Rotterdam
2018 – Kunstprijs Charlois – Cultuurwerkplaats Tarwewijk, Rotterdam
IN COLLECTIONS
2022 – Gemeente Rotterdam – Timmerhuis, Rotterdam
2018 – Delftse Poort, Rotterdam
Residencies
Station Rotterdam Centraal / Cross Comix Festival
September 2024, ROTTERDAM
De Kleine Aarde / ‘Rethinking the Artist Economy’
SEPTEMBER 2023, JANUARY 2024, BOXTEL
European Cultural Academy / ‘Water Everywhere’ Field Lab
OCTOBER 2021, VENICE
Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab (RASL) / Summer Studio
JULY 2021, ROTTERDAM
Grants
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie / Digital Culture (preliminary research)
NOV 2023 – FEB 2024, ROTTERDAM
Awards
Zomerondernemer / Best Corporate Movie 2019
NOVEMBER 2019, UTRECHT
Selected clients
Winsor & Newton, Liquitex, The Fine Art Collective, Heart Work Heroes, Pubblik & Vos, Motel Mozaique, Gemeente Rotterdam, Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam.
Education
Master Institute of Visual Cultures / MA Fine Arts
SEP 2023 – PRESENT, ‘S HERTOGENBOSCH
Willem de Kooning Academie / BA Illustration
SEP 2019 – JUL 2023, ROTTERDAM
Stephan Bontje / Artist Apprentice
FEBRUARY 2022 – JUNE 2022, ROTTERDAM
Robert Rost / Artist Apprentice
AUGUST 2018 – JULY 2019, ROTTERDAM
Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam / Mediavormgeving
SEP 2016 – JUL 2019, ROTTERDAM