Roman Lipski is a Polish born painter who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1989. The artist’s childhood in Post-War Poland imprinted upon him an early fascination with vast landscapes and the natural world in opposition to the human nature. He became recognized for his familiar yet unsettling landscapes, portraits and architectures—realistic yet detached from reality, always leaving the viewer with an enigmatic blank space to fill. In 2016 he started the journey that led to the creation of “Artificial Muse,” an algorithm-based digital entity that allowed him to experiment freely with the expressive possibilities of painting to move from figuration to abstraction.

Since 2019 he started working on Quantum Blur with IBM Research Europe. Roman Lipski is one of the pioneers in the domain of quantum art, in particular in using Quantum Blur, a technique for manipulating images, using quantum operations. By experimenting with technology in this way Lipski emphasizes the creative interplay of art and science, resulting in new forms of creativity and discovery. As he has noted, he is intrigued by the “painterly potential, the painterly in the digital” and therefore continues to explore the ambiguous and shifting boundaries between physical and digital image creation. Lipski’s work challenges the conventions of painting while simultaneously engaging its tradition and legacy.

Lipski’s work has been included in international exhibitions at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Japan, the National Art Museum of China or the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art in Istanbul, among others. His work is represented in public and private collections internationally, including the Julia Stoschek Foundation, the Marx Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Alex Katz Foundation in New York, and the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.