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]

  • This Permanent Other Landscape (solo show)
    Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin

    Quantum | 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, Denmark

    5th Arts and Science International Exhibition and Symposium (TASIES 2019)
    National Museum of China and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    AI for Good Global Summit
    United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland​

  • A.I.R. - Sophisticated Art
    Munich, Germany

    Spannungsfelder
    Futurium, Berlin, Germany

    Nahtstellen
    Kunstverein Kärnten, Kaernten, Austria

    Beyond Festival
    Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Landschaften aus dem Netz
    The Ballery, Berlin, Germany

    50 Contemporary Artists by Enter Art Foundation
    Multipolster, Berlin, Germany

  • Erections & Elusive Spaces
    The Ballery, Berlin, Germany

    AIR Artificial Muse with YQP - TEDx Münster, Muenster, Germany

  • An Artist's Gift: Acquisitions from the Alex Katz Foundation
    Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, USA

    Otwarta kolekcja Nationalmuseum
    Nationalmuseum Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland 

  • Roman Lipski. Malarstwo
    Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej, Szczecin, Poland

    Roman Lipski Malerei
    Kraszewski-Museum, Dresden, Germany 

    Roman Lipski in der Deutschen Botschaft Warszaw
    Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Warszawa, Poland

  • Roman Lipski: Malerei
    Polnisches Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    On Alienation/Estrangement
    Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey

    Schöne Landschaft - Bedrohte Natur
    Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrueck, Germany

    Andratx Open III
    CCA - Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

  • Roman Lipski. Malerei
    Polnisches Institut, Duesseldorf, Germany

    Interior Visions: Selections from the Collection by Alex Katz
    Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, USA

    A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney
    Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, USA

    Myth and Melancholy
    MWW - Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland

    Sammlung Marx. Eine Auswahl [STETTIN]
    Muzeum Narodowe, Szczecinie, Poland 

  • Roman Lipski im Schloss Genshagen
    Stiftung Genshagen Berlin-Brandenburgisches Institut, Ludwigsfelde, Germany

    Kunstraum ARS
    Akademie für Recht, Steuern & Wirtschaft, Vienna, Austria

    Kolekcja Marxa. Wybór Sammlung Marx. Eine Auswahl
    Atlas Sztuki, Łódź, Poland

    Polish! Contemporary Art from Poland
    Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, Berlin, Germany

    The Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

Publications

  • Roman Lipski - Superpositions
    Human, Machine, Painting

    Publisher: Distanz Verlag Berlin

    Language: English, German

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