EXPLORING
THE PAINTERLY IN THE DIGITAL
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.
EXHIBITIONS [SELECTED]
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This Permanent Other Landscape (solo show)
Julia Stoschek Foundation, BerlinQuantum | Art, Creative Expressions of the Infamously Counterintuitive
Microscope Gallery, New York -
Living In The Present Future - A Danish/Polish Contemporary Art Exhibition
National Museum in Szczecin, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland -
Living In The Present Future - A Danish/Polish Contemporary Art Exhibition
Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Gudhjem, Denmark5th Arts and Science International Exhibition and Symposium (TASIES 2019)
National Museum of China and Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaAI for Good Global Summit
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland -
A.I.R. - Sophisticated Art
Munich, GermanySpannungsfelder
Futurium, Berlin, GermanyNahtstellen
Kunstverein Kärnten, Kaernten, AustriaBeyond Festival
Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany -
Landschaften aus dem Netz
The Ballery, Berlin, Germany50 Contemporary Artists by Enter Art Foundation
Multipolster, Berlin, Germany -
Erections & Elusive Spaces
The Ballery, Berlin, GermanyAIR Artificial Muse with YQP - TEDx Münster, Muenster, Germany
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An Artist's Gift: Acquisitions from the Alex Katz Foundation
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, USAOtwarta kolekcja Nationalmuseum
Nationalmuseum Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland -
Roman Lipski. Malarstwo
Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej, Szczecin, PolandRoman Lipski Malerei
Kraszewski-Museum, Dresden, GermanyRoman Lipski in der Deutschen Botschaft Warszaw
Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Warszawa, Poland -
Roman Lipski: Malerei
Polnisches Institut Berlin, Berlin, GermanyOn Alienation/Estrangement
Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, TurkeySchöne Landschaft - Bedrohte Natur
Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrueck, GermanyAndratx Open III
CCA - Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain -
Roman Lipski. Malerei
Polnisches Institut, Duesseldorf, GermanyInterior Visions: Selections from the Collection by Alex Katz
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, USAA Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney
Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, USAMyth and Melancholy
MWW - Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PolandSammlung Marx. Eine Auswahl [STETTIN]
Muzeum Narodowe, Szczecinie, Poland -
Roman Lipski im Schloss Genshagen
Stiftung Genshagen Berlin-Brandenburgisches Institut, Ludwigsfelde, GermanyKunstraum ARS
Akademie für Recht, Steuern & Wirtschaft, Vienna, AustriaKolekcja Marxa. Wybór Sammlung Marx. Eine Auswahl
Atlas Sztuki, Łódź, PolandPolish! Contemporary Art from Poland
Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, Berlin, GermanyThe Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Publications
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Roman Lipski - Superpositions
Human, Machine, PaintingPublisher: Distanz Verlag Berlin
Language: English, German