About
My work begins with experience.
Travel, encounters and the memory of places become the starting point for a process of transformation rather than documentation. I am interested in the moment when reality ceases to be an event and becomes an image—when culture, landscape, and lived experience are distilled into colour, rhythm, gesture, and space.
My work begins with experience.
Travel, encounters with people, and the memory of places become the starting point for a process of ransformation rather than documentation. I am interested in the moment whenreality ceases to be an event and becomes an image—when culture, landscape, and livedexperience are distilled into colour, rhythm, gesture, and space. Although my work is abstract, it remains deeply rooted in the physical world. I do not seek to represent places or events, but to preserve the invisible traces they leave behind. Memory, distance, presence, absence, movement, and stillness become the fundamental elementsthrough which each work is constructed. Long-term bodies of work inspired by Iran, Australia, La Gomera, and the Corrida originatefrom specific journeys and encounters, yet gradually move beyond their geographical and cultural origins. They become reflections on memory, identity, transformation, and the waysin which human experience is shaped, remembered, and continually reinterpreted. In recent years, my practice has expanded beyond painting to include sculpture, installation, and public art. Increasingly, I am interested in the relationship between the individual and collective memory, between freedom and structure, and between the visible form of a workand the invisible ideas that sustain it. For me, art is not a record of reality. It is a way of revealing what remains after experiencehas passed.
Andrzej Lichota is a visual artist working across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and interdisciplinary practice. Large-scale painting forms the foundation of his work, extending naturally into sculpture and spatial installations. His practice explores memory, distance, cultural encounter, identity, and the ways in which lived experience is transformed into visual language.
For more than two decades, Lichota has developed long-term bodies of work rooted in direct encounters with places, cultures, and people. Extensive travels across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, the United States, and South America have become an essential part of his artistic research. Rather than documenting reality, he transforms experience into abstract visual structures that preserve what remains when experience becomes memory.
His major series—including Iran, Australia, La Gomera, and Corrida—originate from specific journeys and lived experiences while gradually moving beyond their geographical and cultural contexts. Through abstraction, these projects investigate memory, perception, cultural identity, transformation, and the human condition. Each series is conceived not as documentation of a place, but as an exploration of the invisible traces left by encounters, landscapes, and cultural experience.
In recent years, his practice has expanded beyond painting to include sculpture, installation, photography, and sound-based works. These projects continue his investigation into the relationship between individual experience and broader social, cultural, and institutional structures. Works such as A World Without Art, Near / Distant / Variable, the Toro objects, and the Hommage à Picasso series reflect an increasing interest in artistic freedom, cultural memory, and the dialogue between personal experience and collective consciousness.
Lichota has exhibited widely in Poland and internationally, including exhibitions in the United States and South America. Alongside his artistic practice, he has worked in film, animation, publishing, and cultural initiatives, experiences that continue to shape the interdisciplinary nature of his work and its dialogue with narrative, memory, and contemporary visual culture.
In 2024, the publishing house BoSz released two monographs dedicated to his work, published in both Polish and English. His work has also been featured in international publications and private collections. He is currently developing international projects that integrate painting, sculpture, photography, sound, and site-specific installation, continuing his exploration of how experience is transformed into memory, and memory into visual form.
MEMORY
The traces of lived experience transformed into visual form.
DISTANCE
The space between people, places, and experience.
CULTURAL ENCOUNTER
A dialogue between different perspectives and ways of understanding the world.
HUMAN EXPERIENCE
The personal and the universal dimensions of lived experience.
TRANSFORMATION
A continuous process of change, perception, and becoming.
- Explore the Studios
I see the studio as a place where the world is set in motion again.
It is not about explaining reality, but intensifying it.
It is also my point of resistance.
A painting does not justify its existence; it establishes a field of its own. Through the process of creation, at a certain moment, it simply becomes present…