jakub glinski

Jakub Gliński (b. 1985, Rzeszów, Poland) is a Warsaw-based contemporary artist working across painting, performance, and audiovisual media. His multidisciplinary practice engages with themes of destruction, decay, and the visual culture of contemporary civilisation, often drawing on the aesthetics of waste, erosion, and cultural fragmentation.

Gliński’s work is defined by a raw and expressive visual language rooted in what he describes as the aesthetics of “trash and error.” His paintings feature layered, distressed surfaces created through airbrush techniques and a muted grey-blue palette, evoking scratched walls, urban residue, and the physical traces of human activity. References to graffiti, pop culture, tattoos, and childlike imagery are embedded within his compositions, forming a complex visual language that reflects both personal and collective experience.

Performance is central to his practice, with works that operate as highly charged, theatrical actions. These performances often push physical and psychological limits, confronting audiences with intensity and immediacy while exploring the relationship between body, environment, and contemporary existence.

Working intuitively, Gliński responds directly to the stimuli of his surroundings, producing work that feels immediate, reactive, and resistant to fixed categorisation. His practice extends beyond the studio into a range of experimental and collaborative projects, including SUPER AIDS, Galeria Śmierć Frajerom, Jesus Is A Noise Commander, and BOOM FOR GABBA, situating him within a broader network of underground and interdisciplinary artistic activity.

Gliński made his international debut in London with the solo exhibition at Sarah Kravitz gallery 

Waste of Civilisation (2018), curated by Kamil II, director of Death of Man Gallery.