I am Wojciech J. Walkowicz, a self-taught Polish artist, filmmaker and writer based between Oxford and London.
I work instinctively. Very often, painting becomes a physical act for me, a way of releasing something before it becomes language. I am interested in turbulence, silence, memory, identity, social masks and the subconscious. Some works begin as emotional therapy, some as fragments of cinema, some as poetry, and some as something I do not fully understand until much later.
My work is not only about communication. I see it more as an instrument of evolution, self-recognition and emotional survival. Across painting, photography, film, drawing and writing, I try to understand what happens between the self and the world — between what we show, what we hide, and what remains underneath.
I think of my practice as a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk — a total work of art — where different mediums do not exist separately, but speak to each other. A painting can become a film. A photograph can become a poem. A sentence can hold the same emotional weight as a colour.
A lot of my work begins from personal experience, but I do not want it to stay only personal. I am interested in the moment where something private becomes recognisable to someone else. Where a colour, a face, a gesture, a wound, a room, or a silence can carry emotion without needing to explain itself.
For me, making work is a way of returning to myself.
Wojciech J. Walkowicz
Wojciech J. Walkowicz | Artist CV
Born 21 October 1994
Polish self-taught artist, filmmaker and writer
Based in Oxford / London, United Kingdom
Practice
Painting, Photography, Film, Writing, Drawing, Visual storytelling, Installation concepts
Selected Exhibitions
2026, EXPO STRASBOURG, Parc des Expositions, Strasbourg, France
2026, Galerie Le Chien d’Or, Quebec City, Canada
2026, Nicoleta Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022, Clio Art Fair, Group Show, New York, NY, USA
2020, Last time at Szczodrem - Solo Exhibition, Wroclaw, Poland
2019–present
Featured across international art and photography platforms including Saatchi Art and PhotoVogue.
Filmography & Media
Le truc avec les angoisses — 2021, Director, Screenwriter
MULTIBALANCE: rhythm, movement and time (art installation visualisation) — 2016, Director
Un peu de mémoire — 2016, Director
Étude Spectrum Universum Mundi — 2014, Director, Screenwriter, Actor
Selected Photography / Visual Series
Phantom
A visual exploration of identity, memory and ghost-like forms, developed through abstract shapes and futuristic references.
Under The Sea
A black-and-white series using aquatic imagery as a metaphor for diving into the psyche.
À mon avis
A photographic series exploring the space between reality and abstraction through minimal, high-contrast imagery.
Literary Work
Artist Poem
A collection of introspective writing and poetry exploring loneliness, emotional masks, social performance and the hidden self.