Jan Gostynski, artist, sculptor born in 1994 in Warsaw, Poland. He lives and works in Warsaw. He studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and later at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where
he graduated in 2019.
he graduated in 2019.
He is the author of the Non–Humans installation, presented in the urban space in front of the Masovian Institute of Culture in Warsaw (2021–2025), and later exhibited in the gardens of the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace in Wilanów (2025). In 2022, he received the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Award in the visual arts category. In 2023, during an international sculpture symposium at the Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko, he created two monumental works from the Deconstruction of Survival series. In 2025, he held a solo exhibition at the Museum in Wilanów.
In my artwork, I am interested in informel — an open, unfinished form. It reflects a need for what is incomplete and imperfect; a state that exists halfway between destruction and rebirth. For me, matter — its force and biological nature — has the ability to create, but also to destroy and deconstruct. Its constant emergence and transformation into a new, different world is the most important driving force behind creativity; it embodies both life and death, an apocalyptic vision of the world.
In my works, I strive to connect worlds that seem contradictory. These hybrid forms are the result of a collision between the universally familiar — the biological, the animal, the human — and a reality that is distinct, unrecognizable, and unconscious. They are nameless entities, defined by both fragility and an intense will to survive. The "Non-Humans" exist in a space between destruction and rebirth.
A particularly important element in my creative process is daydreaming, the moment when the dream world comes into contact with the real one. My forms exist in the balance between sleep and wakefulness, abstraction and figuration.
Jan Gostyński