Bartosz Sikorski works at the intersection of painting, object, moving image, sound and installation.
His practice often begins with systems: colour models, pixel structures, musical intervals, repeated gestures, scores or technical constraints. Rather than treating these systems as closed conceptual frameworks, he follows them into material, spatial and sonic situations.
Painting is central, but it rarely remains only a surface. It can become a tool, a residue, an object, a screen, a sound source, a fragment of a score or a spatial marker. In many works, structures that appear controlled begin to drift, fail or transform.
Sound is not added as background or atmosphere. It functions as a structural layer: a way of organizing space, rhythm, interval and listening. Speakers, exciters, cables, projectors and supports often remain visible, becoming part of the work’s physical anatomy.
Across different media, the work asks how a system can become a body — through colour, material resistance, sound, repetition, calibration, error and the viewer’s movement through space.
Publications / Texts
Christina Natlacen
Weiss auf Schwarz / White on Black, 2014
Catalogue text and interview, Atelier Suterena, Vienna
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Gabriel Hubmann
Bartosz Sikorski: Works from 2007 to 2012. An Introduction
Essay with work documentation
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Christian Bazant-Hegemark
Beyond Mimesis [recursions]: Bartosz Sikorski, 2014
Text on CMYK / pixel-based paintings and objects Read original text
Stanisław Ruksza
Reboot Cyfrozaura / The Reboot of the Digisaur, 2020/2021
Curatorial / exhibition text
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