BIOGRAPHY
Jakub Leniart (b. 1998) is a painter based in Wrocław, Poland, and an assistant in the Painting Studio at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. His artistic practice focuses on figurative painting, exploring the relationships between the individual and their surroundings, sensory overload, perception, and the ways in which experience is structured. He is interested in the tension between the need for belonging and isolation, as well as the search for shelter in the face of the pressures of the contemporary world. Drawing on the traditions of Japanese woodblock prints and the expressive visual language of manga and animation, he juxtaposes fantastical references with everyday, intimate situations.
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A graduate of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, where he completed his degree in Painting in 2023.
He was a finalist in the 45th and 46th editions of the Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale (2021, 2023), received the aTAK Gallery Award in the New Image / New Perspective competition (2026), and was nominated for the WARTO Award (2024).
He also received second prize in the Postawy IX competition and an honourable mention in the Eibisch Award (2021).
He participated in the 23rd SURVIVAL Art Review and has exhibited in Tokyo and Mino, Japan.
STATEMENT
My painting explores themes of sensory overload, social exhaustion, and the search for shelter. I am interested in the moment when refuge becomes an ambivalent space – offering respite while also leading to a gradual sense of disappearance. Drawing on inspirations from Japanese woodblock prints and the expressive visual language of manga and animation, I create fictional worlds in which the fantastical intersects with the everyday.
