Bartholomew KIE£BOWICZ, Putin

29.7x42, framed: 40x50,watercolor and ink on paper, 2022

Visual artist, graduate of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He creates paintings, drawings, videos, murals and installations. He is an observer of everyday life, which he regularly comments on in his drawing diaries and activist actions. Since the beginning of the war, he has been acting and organizing actions in favor of Ukraine, such as "Trample Putin," fake labels for Leroy Merlin. His portrait of President Zelensky and the image of Putin behind bars have been reproduced in thousands of pieces at many demonstrations. He was also one of the initiators of the "Busy" action in defense of Zacheta. He runs a drawing studio at the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His works have been presented in many individual and group exhibitions, including at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, the Biała Gallery in Lublin and the Labyrinth Gallery in Lublin, as well as during the Drawing Triennale at the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw.