Piotr Bury Łakomy’s artistic practice explores the complex relationship between the human body, architecture, and the environment. His work is characterised by a synthesis of organic and industrial materials, challenging conventional boundaries between the natural and the manufactured.

Piotr Bury Łakomy (b. 1983 in Poland) lives and works in Poznań, Poland.

Education

He graduated with an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, Zielona Góra, in 2008.

Exhibitions

Selected solo and duo exhibitions include Super Super Markt, Berlin (2026); CAC Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2025); Stereo, Warsaw (2024); The Vault, Galeria Fran Haus, Palma de Mallorca (2023); The Sunday Painter, London; ECHO, Stereo, Cologne; ECC Emanuele Catellani Contemporary, Turin (all 2022); Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk; Galerie Opdahl, Stavanger (both 2021); Simian, Copenhagen (2020); Avant-Garde Institute, Warsaw (2019); Art Basel Statements, Stereo, Basel (2016); Hester, New York (2015 with K.R.M. Mooney); BWA, Zielona Góra (2015); and Galeria Arsenał, Białystok (2012).

Łakomy’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Marcelle Alix, Paris (2026); Galeria Promocyjna, Staromiejski Dom Kultury (Old House of Culture), Warsaw; Stravanger Art Museum (both 2023); Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź (2022); Kunstverein Braunschweig (2021); BRAUNSFELDER, Cologne (2020); SALTS, Basel; Fondation Cartier, Paris (both 2019); BOZAR, Brussels; The Sunday Painter, London; Stereo, Warsaw (all 2018); Museum of Sculpture, Warsaw; Arsenal Contemporary, New York (both 2017); Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2016); Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2015); and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2014); Chopin Museum, Warsaw (2013); and Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań (2012).

Collections

Piotr Bury Łakomy’s work is part of public collections. These include the Arsenal Gallery, Białystok; Art Collection Telekom; Collezione Agovino, Napoli; Filiep Libeert Collection; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Stavanger Art Museum, Norway; and Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.

2021

NON PLACES
émergent magazine, interview by Inês Mena Silva, 2021

To Hold a Door in One’s Arms: Piotr Łakomy
Mousse Magazine, Kristian Vistrup Madsen, 2021

2019

Piotr Lakomy
Artforum, Nuit Banai, 2019

2017

Piotr Łakomy
FRIEZE, Krzysztof Kościuczuk, 2017

2016

Piotr Lakomy: Room Temperature
thisistomorrow, Joseph Constable, 2016