Jan Domicz

Biography

Born in 1990 in Poland. Lives and works in Warsaw.

Education:
2012 – 2015 – Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt
2009 – 2012 – University of Arts in Poznań

 

Jan Domicz engages with video, objects, and installation, exploring the narrative potential of space and its socio-political implications. Working at the intersection of private and shared environments, he constructs systems that do not resolve tensions but instead produce them, allowing problems to generate narrative and narrative to shape the meaning of space. 

Central to his practice is the act of displacement. By fabricating, reproducing, and relocating architectural elements and everyday objects, Domicz shifts them out of their original context, creating a sense of estrangement between function and form. His works often operate between use and representation, where familiar structures become unstable and open to reinterpretation. Engaging with seriality and repetition, his work examines how the multiplication of forms detaches them from their origins while increasing their symbolic value. Within these systems, meaning emerges less from individual elements than from their position within a broader network, where narrative, space, and perception remain in constant negotiation.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026
Residential Potential of Foksal Gallery, Foksal, Warsaw

2025
Two works with a vertical structure, The Black Box, Warsaw
Towards a placebo art, Stooge, Berlin
Transmisja, JIL, Warsaw
Villa Nada Warsaw (with Galeria Wschód)

2024
Sunday, Sunday, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw
The gate bigger than the fence, MOS, Gorzów

2023
Plotters I, ECHO Cologne

2021
Enfilade Enfilade, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw
Development, DOMIE, Poznań

2019
1070 – Apholbox, Significant Other, Vienna
Temporary intervention at Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut, Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna
Inland Empire, Pracownia portretu, Lodz

2018
Domicz, Domicz, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw

2017
Dream Fair London (with Daniel Koniusz)
Bnb, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw

2016
Display displacement, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole

2015
Reverse time Your eyes will lie, with Jasmin Werner, SPREEZ, Munich

2014
Fight 2014, with Max Ruf, CENTER Gallery, Berlin

2013
National Geographic, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole
Vacations, Atelier WRO Art Center, Wrocław
Here & Now, IDA Gallery, Prague

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
Sunday Morning, Radar, Milan

2025
Home Staging. Za Żelazną Bramą, Przechodnia 2, Warsaw
Houses Without Eyebrows, Turnus, Warsaw
Why not here?, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw

2024
It just has to wear out, Wschód New York
Kinetic Mugger, Stooge, Charlottenburg, Berlin

2023
The Anthropocene, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław
Positions, Salon 75, Copenhagen
Retrowersje: sobie mieszkania, miastu starówkę, Centrum Sztuki Galeria EL, Elbląg
Benefis Atrium, Zodiak Pavilion, Warsaw

2022
Everything is big, sometimes monstrous, and really intense, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw
Whismies, NEUE ESSENER KUNSTVEREIN, Essen

2021
Eight works from 2013, 2019, 2009, 1998, 2019, 2003, 2018, 1998, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw

2020
Rewriting our imaginations, Liste, Basel
Paternoster, Zahorian & Van Espen, Prague
Proposals for a show, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw

2019
Art Düsseldorf (shared Friend of a Friend booth), Düsseldorf
Spoilage: Narrating what remains, SALTS, Basel
Air presentation, KulturKontakt, Vienna
The Thaw, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw

2018
LOW TEXT Intructions, Flutgraben Berlin

2017
Functional-Utility Program For Wschód Warsaw
The Fetish, UAP Poznań Gallery, Poznań
All The Time At Work, BWA Tarnów, Tarnów
All The Time At Work, Labirynt, Lublin

2016
Stich In Time Saves Nine, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw
Drawers vol. 2, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw
All The Time At Work, BWA Tarnów, Tarnów

2015
Parked Like Serious Oysters, MMK, Frankfurt am Main
Variation 2015, Art2M, Paris
Test Exposure, Biennale WRO 2015, National Museum, Wrocław
Moglichkeiteraume, Frankfurt am Main
Rundgang 2015, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main

2014
Is It Art Or Is It Just, BWA Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra
Honky Dory, Karlin Studios, Prague
On Dinh Dong Mobile Academy (Vietnam /Germany), Berlin

2013
AAAkupunktura, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw

2011
Samsung Art Master 2011, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw

2010
IDEOZY, Avant-gade Institute, Warsaw

 

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
Henkel Art Award, 1. prize
Szpilman Award 2011, Best Six
Samsung Art Master, nomination