exhibitions,awards and prizes,critics notes|Polish art|maciejwoltman.art

Works by Maciej Woltman have been presented in Poland and abroad, the artist has participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1984 - The Royal Gate, BWA, Szczecin,Poland
1988 - Salon "Dessa", Szczecin,Poland
1989 - Painting and poster exhibition, BWA, Szczecin,Poland
1990 - Painting and drawing exhibition, Polish-Swedish Society
1991 - Painting exhibition, Esbjerg, Denmark
1993 - Painting exhibition, MPik Club, Szczecin,Poland
1994 - Exhibition of paintings and graphics, Morlock Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1995 - Painting exhibition, 13 Muz Club, Szczecin,Poland
1996 - Lithographs and painting, (Schloss) Wolfsburg Castle, Germany
1996 - Painting exhibition, Radisson SAS Hotel, Szczecin
1997 - Painting exhibition, Porschehutte Gallery, Wolfsburg, Germany
1998 - Painting exhibition, Kunstverein Wesseling / Bonn, Germany
1998 - Creative workshops (lithography), Castle, Wolfsburg, Germany
1998 - Painting exhibition, Radisson SAS Hotel, Szczecin
2000 - Exhibition of paintings and drawings, ZINGST Gallery, West Germany
2001 - Painting exhibition, ROM-ART Gallery, Braunschweig, Germany
2002 - Painting exhibition, Goerz Galery of Fine Art, Luxemburg
2003 - Painting exhibition, Goerz Galery of Fine Art, Luxemburg
2004 - Painting exhibition, Klatka Gallery, Szczecin
2004 - Painting exhibition, Na Pięwię Gallery, Koszalin
2005 - Painting exhibition, Tow. Development of Western Pomerania, Szczecin
2006 - Painting exhibition, Piramida Gallery, Szczecin
2007 - Painting exhibition, Polish House, Berlin, Germany
2008 - Painting exhibition, Za Szafą Gallery, Szczecin
2009 - Painting exhibition, Gallery 111, Szczecin
2009 - Painting and drawing exhibition "Myelopathic Drawings", Trystero Gallery, Szczecin
2010 - "Rund um den Menschen", DER ORT Gallery, Berlin
2011 - Painting and drawing exhibition "Drugi man", Maszewo near Szczecin,
2011 - Painting and drawing exhibition, Regional Museum, Szczecinek,Poland
2012 - Painting Exhibition "Balusttrady", Gallery 111, Szczecin
2018 - Painting and drawing exhibition, Business Club Szczecin
2019 - Painting and drawing exhibition, Stara Rzeźnia Szczecin
2019 - Painting and drawing exhibition, Business Club Szczecin
2020 - Painting and drawing exhibition, Business Club Szczecin
2022 - Painting and drawing exhibition, Pekao Szczecin Open
2022 - Painting and drawing exhibition, "The Views and the Nudes", Mo Gallery, Poznań
2023 - Painting exhibition "Works on Maps" at the Maritime Science Center in Szczecin.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

1983 - "The Master and His Students" - poster exhibition, BWA, Koszalin
1984 - Autumn Salon, BWA, Szczecin
1985 - Poster exhibition, Paris
1986 - 1st Drawing Triennial, BWA, Kalisz
1988 - Poster exhibition, Kuba
1988 - Poster exhibition, Mexico
1990 - Young Artists of Szczecin - National Museum, Szczecin
1991 - Studio A-1, Malmo, Sweden
1993 - Painting exhibition, Radisson SAS Hotel, Szczecin
1995 - Painting exhibition, Gallery "Dr. Nitsche" Wolfsburg, Germany
1995 - Exhibition of Polish painting, Hannover, Germany
1997 - Lithographs post-competition exhibition (Kunstpreis 97), Stuttgart, Germany
2000 - Post-competition exhibition "Digit 1/2000" Paris, France
2005 - Exhibition of Polish and German contemporary artis, Aagaard Gallery, Berlin
2010 - Exhibition of Szczecin contemporary art, Kapitańska Gallery, Szczecin
2011 - Post-plein-air exhibition "Szczecin between us", Galeria Kapitańska, Szczecin
2013 - painting gallery Zamek, Szczecinek

1986- "The Hollywood Reporter" award for the movie poster "Ballad of Narayama"

2007 - The Artistic Award of the City of Szczecin

2013 - Distinction "The most beautiful book of the year", Warsaw, for the graphic design and illustrations of the poetry of Barbara Janas Dudek "Zaklad Pracy chronionej"

"Maciej Woltman is above all a graphic designer. The love for paintings and posters permeates almost all of his works. It is a strong line, or curve - they build mystery and provoke reflection. If we look more closely, we notice that Woltman neither copies reality nor faithfully represents reality, but rather suggests and presumes. In his works , he reaches deeper in his observations for dreams , desires, fears, experiences and turns them into a picture. Sometimes in a form of a poster, the other time, painting, drawing or mixed but always sensual, just Body and color. "

Dr. Michael Küenne

Stadt Stolzenau Germany

"For several decades, Woltman has been cultivating painting focused on human and their body. The meaning of this long-term, even obsessive struggle with the body and its image remains ambiguous. Sometimes it is closer to a formal play, the aim of which is the perfectionism of the technique and flirtation with the most canonical works of the genre. Sometimes it focuses on erotic aura and desire, the sensual nature of life and the search for physical beauty. More often, however, it reveals the limitations and the fragility of human existence, contrasting phantasmatic, perfect bodies and icons of the collective imagination such as Venus de Milo with the bodies subjected to time pressures, pain and loneliness.

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Woltman's imaginative paiting, regardless of the temperature of his artistic expression - the frantic vibrations of the poster, the erotic or dramatic aura of images or the contemplative nature of the illustrations, seems to constantly and tirelessly attempt to grasp some universal knowledge about ourselves by searching for the truth about the human body as an indispensable way we express ourselves in the world.

Magda Lewoc

Maciej Woltman -

visual artist, painter, poster artist. Born February 5th 1952 in Szczecin, Poland. In 1982, he graduated from the State College of Fine Arts in Poznań. He obtained his diploma in the fields of poster and book illustration in the studio of prof. W. Świerzy and painting in the studio of prof. J. Świtka. Maciej Woltman is referred to as a representative of the world-famous Polish School od Posters. For the film poster "The Ballad of Narayama" he was awarded the third prize by The Hollywood reporter in 1983.