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Grzegorz Wełnicki (born in 1986 in Poland) is a photographer and visual artist. His practice focuses on human experience, relationships, presence, and transience. He is interested in the boundaries between the material and immaterial, intimacy and absence, and in the ways images can preserve traces of experience, emotion, and memory.

Working across photography, moving image, sound, and objects, he uses both analogue and digital processes. Light, colour, and the material qualities of the photographic medium function not only as tools for creating images, but also as carriers of meaning.

Member of the Archive of Public Protests (A-P-P)
and the Institute of Good Death (Instytut Dobrej Śmierci).

EDUCATION

2013
MA in Photography with distinction, Leon Schiller National Film School, Łódź, Poland

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
as part of the Archive of Public Protests

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026
EDEN, Institute of Photography Fort, Warsaw, Poland
EDEN, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, Poland

2024
NO’AM, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
NO’AM, Fotofestiwal, Szklarnia Gallery, Łódź, Poland

2019
Eternal, Pop Up Gallery, Łódź, Poland

2018
Eternal, W ramach Sopotu Festival, Sopot, Poland

2014
Eli, Eli, Pauza Gallery, Kraków, Poland

2013
Eli, Eli, Faktyczny Dom Kultury, Warsaw, Poland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
NO’AM, Wystaw się w CSW, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, Poland

2024
Archive of Public Protests, Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece

2021
It’s Going to Be Fine, We Just Need to Change Everything, Archive of Public Protests and Chris Niedenthal, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
Who Will Write the History of Tears, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

2015
Eli, Eli, Fondo Internazionale per la Fotografia Festival, Italy

2014
Eli, Eli, Opole Photography Festival, Museum of Opole Silesia, Opole, Poland
TRIBUTE TO POLISH FASHION, Lookout Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

SCREENINGS

2020
Us, PHOTO IS:RAEL Festival, Israel
Us, Verzasca Foto Festival, Switzerland

PERFORMANCE

2021
Border, Warsaw, Poland

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

2025
Director’s Prize, Wystaw się w CSW, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, Poland — for NO’AM

2021
Paszporty Polityki, Visual Arts — nomination with the Archive of Public Protests
Spojrzenia 2021, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland — laureate with the Archive of Public Protests

2020
Photographic Museum of Humanity Grant — US, shortlisted
Life Framer, Human Body — US, shortlisted

2018
Photographic Museum of Humanity Grant — Eternal, shortlisted

2017
International Photographer of the Year — Eternal, 3rd Prize, Portrait category

2014
MediaTory — Eli, Eli, nomination in the ProwokaTOR Roku category

2012
BZ WBK Press Photo — 2nd Prize, Portrait category

2009
Newsweek Poland Photo Contest — 1st Prize, People category

BOOKS

2013
Eli, Eli, written by Wojciech Tochman, Wydawnictwo Czarne

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

EIKON
British Journal of Photography
Frieze
Life Framer
Magazyn Szum
DOC! Photo Magazine
GUP Magazine
Internazionale
Zone Magazine
Newonce Paper
Gazeta Wyborcza
Duży Format
Przekrój
Wysokie Obcasy
Vogue Polska
Kwartalnik FOTOGRAFIA

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