Was born in Wrocław in 1975. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Technology in Wrocław (1994–1994); also studied at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (1995–2000): Nearly 20 solo exhibitions, the latest include:
Olaf Brzeski – 'Wish', Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała (2023); 'Przygoda', Galeria Raster, Warsaw (2020); 'Once Upon A Time In Iran', KAAF Institute, Tehran, Iran (2019); 'Przedsionek', Polnisches Institut, Berlin, Germany (2015); 'Megalomania', Galeria Raster, Warsaw (2015); 'Tender Look', Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (2015); 'Samolub', CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2013).
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and projects at home and abroad. Olaf Brzeski’s most recent realisation from 2022 is the monumental sculpture 'Wanderer', over three and a half metres high and formed from steel pipes, located in the Sculpture Garden at the back of the Raster Gallery building at ulica Wspólna 63 in Warsaw. 'Wanderer' is also the protagonist of Olaf Brzeski’s original film 'Point of Confluence'.
In 2009 he was nominated for the Spojrzenia – Deutsche Bank Foundation Award; in 2013 he was nominated for the Polityka Passports. He has created numerous sculptures, installations and films. He lives and works in Wrocław, and is closely associated with the gallery Raster.
Olaf Brzeski reinterprets the tradition and possibilities of sculpture with extraordinary imagination. He is interested in its material dimension - weight, mass, facture – as well as its pure potentiality; the possibility or impossibility of describing phenomena or history by means of concrete matter. A number of the artist's works also refer directly to the human figure, describing, however, not so much its physical as its emotional dimension. Brzeski’s sculptural bodies teem with the uncanny, the unusual, the unnatural and the overscaled. The source of these fantastic and surprising forms is unfailingly, thought, and then drawing - as the simplest metaphor of the act of creation.
(info: Raster Gallery)