Mikołaj Sobczak was born in 1989 in Poznań. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw ( degree in the Spatial Activities). He also studied at the Kunstakademie Münster in Germany and received a scholarship from the Universität der Künste in Berlin. He is currently a fellow at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2021, he became a finalist of the 10th edition of the Spojrzenia competition. Winner of the POLITYKA Passport 2021 in the category of Visual Arts; ex aequo with Jana Shostak; winner of the ING Polish Art Foundation Award granted during the Warsaw Gallery Weekend (2019).
He works with video art, painting and performance.
Solo exhibitions: “Metamorphoses” (2021), “New Kingdom” (2019) at the Polana Institute in Warsaw. Group exhibitions, including “Illiberal Arts” at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (2021), “In the Beginning Was the Deed!” at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok (2021), “Battlefield” at Galeria Bielska BWA in Bielsko-Biala (2020), “Warsaw under Construction: Something Common” at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020), “Artists’ Film International” at Whitechapel Gallery in London (2018), “Transcorporealities” at Museum Ludwig in Cologne (2019).