Mikołaj Malesza

A painter, theater designer, sometimes a sculptor. A graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he received a diploma with distinction at the Faculty of Interior Design. He paints landscapes, collective portraits and genre scenes. The world he presents is situated on the borderlines of the grotesque, the fantastical and reality. His achievements include over 80 stage designs, including for most of the performances of the Wierszalin Theater. He has also collaborated with the Universal Theater and the Rozmaitości Theater in Warsaw, the Old Theater in Krakow, the Polish Theater in Wrocław and the Wybrzeże Theater in Gdańsk. He is the winner of many stage design awards; together with the Wierszalin Theater he has received the Fringe First award three times at the largest European Theater Festival in Edinburgh. In 2010 he received the Silver Medal "Merited to Culture Gloria Artis" awarded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for achievements in the field of theater. He has presented his works many times at individual and collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including Germany, France, the Netherlands, the USA and Japan.In 2020 he had a personal exhibition in galeria "Delfiny" in Warsaw.