Technical Specifications: Piotr Kolanko Not Anymore Performance, video, object Duration: 20 minutes Not Anymore is part of a series of projects aimed at integrating the self and confronting the traumas of growing up with ADHD, high sensitivity, a sense of otherness, and social misfit. In his work, the artist often explores themes of exclusion, rejection, […]

Technical Specifications:Snake dimensions: 3×3 m, height 1.5 m, weight 40kg all of tougher, oiled steel, profile 4×4.Concrete blocks and bricks symbolize residential construction. The three snake figures represent the most primitive and primal force of unconsciousness. As aptly noted by Juan Eduardo Cirlot, due to its origin, physiognomy, and habits, the snake may correspond to […]

Moloch is another environment entirely designed and created by myself. I have been designing and producing fair stands booths for years. I traveled to the world’s largest trade shows and consumption festivals, observing how much money and natural resources were being wasted. The Moloch installation was my response, allowing me to mock the world of […]

Piotr Kolanko explores the phenomenon of the painterly trace, perceiving it as a kind of sign that does not have to be a readable symbol. Unlike the creators at the beginning of the 20th century, Kolanko does not appropriate the heritage of distant non-European cultures. His field of archaeological search is different, a specific archive – it is an attempt to capture states of his own unconsciousness, to which the only possible insight is given by dream analysis, experimentation, or introspection. Already biographically experienced with the inevitability of death, the artist nurtures élan vital, collecting transgressive events and experiences.