Krzysztof Strzelecki

Abundance of botanical forms and monumental paintings reflects optimism at San Francisco’s Fog Design+Art fair

Highlights of this materially rich cohort include fresh ceramic works like Krzysztof Strzelecki’s urinal painted with homoerotic imagery. -Tara Anne Dalbow

“Queer art feels like world-building:” A conversation with Davy Pittoors about Queeriosities 2025

...while I was aware of Krzysztof Strzelecki’s work, I saw them in person for the first time at his recent show at at Anat Ebgi in New York, where his apartment pieces and urinal sculptures really expanded how I was thinking about queer world-building.  – Emma Cieslik

All That’s Missing From Krzysztof Strzelecki’s “Rendezvous” at Anat Ebgi Is the Smell of Urinal Cake

A triggered bladder aching for release is the perfect physical response to 'Rendezvous', a tribute to toilet love through a ceramic men’s-only bacchanalia of fucking, sucking, yanking, ass-licking, and, yes, enthusiastically drenching (and drenched) golden showers. Happy Pride!  –Emily Colucci

10 Questions With Krzysztof Strzelecki

In the world of Krzysztof Strzelecki, the plain white walls of public bathrooms shimmer with erotic remnants, stained by encounters like a queer Shroud of Turin...His miniature apartment buildings overflow with depictions of men finding themselves with each other. It’s a world in which design follows desire, where remarkable craftsmanship doesn’t take itself too seriously. – Jesse Dorris

10 Artists Tell Us About Their Pride | Alannah Farrell and Krzysztof Strzelecki

"The essence of pride and the spontaneous expression of liberation risk being overshadowed by corporate gestures of support, Pride walks becoming regulated by institutions, rainbow flags adorning company logos, etc. It's a time to march, not just to celebrate, but also to honor the sacrifices of those who paved the way for the freedoms we enjoy today. Nevertheless, for me, Pride remains a moment of jubilation, a time to rejoice in our identity, embrace our freedoms, and celebrate life on our terms, with joy, freedom, and unabashed self-expression—a testament to the resilience and vitality of the LGBTQ+ community."  —Krzysztof Strzelecki

Interview with Krzystof Strzelecki

"Despite my expectations about learning and experimenting during my residency, I encountered unexpected events which obliged a change of plan. Although frustrating, this experience reminded me that clay has its own life. It forced me to view my art from a different perspective. When a piece exploded in the kiln, I was ready to discard it but, instead, I tried something new, and it paid off. This experience taught me to maintain distance and always be open to new ideas. Sometimes they work, and at other times they don’t – it’s all about the experience and outcomes." —Krzysztof Strzelecki

Best Booths at the 2024 Dallas Art Fair | Anat Ebgi

Krzysztof Strzelecki’s Muscle Worship – Big Pecs (2023) and Tammi Campbell’s Homage to the Square with Bubble Wrap and Packing Tape (2023) couldn’t be more different but have so much in common it’s a treat to see them in dialogue. The former, a gleaming pair of boxing gloves made from glazed ceramic and gold lustre, screams with the intensity of a title bout. In Campbell’s work, colorful squares are overlaid on a canvas surrounded in protective “bubble wrap,” which isn’t bubble wrap at all, but rather hard acrylic the artist made with molds. Despite the radically different subjects the two works both play with tactility, of hard versus soft material, and share the ability to draw in a viewer then confound their sense of tactile reality. —Daniel Cassady

The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023

After exhibiting other sections of Art Basel prior, Anat Ebgi’s first foray into the main gallery sector of the fair showcases its stunning roster of artists. The gallery’s booth spans Faith Wilding’s Leaf Series: Red Tongue (1976–78), to Krzysztof Strzelecki’s Gods on the Beach (2023), presenting a diverse and compelling mix of historical significance and contemporary innovation. —Maxwell Rabb

Anat Ebgi is Opening in Tribeca

Anat Ebgi, a gallerist with three spaces in Los Angeles, is opening in New York. The move to a historic block in Tribeca will be “amazing for many of our artists, who have not had a show in New York”, Ebgi says. Her gallery will have two floors and a mezzanine level across about 5,000 sq ft — bigger than any of her spaces in LA.

Krzysztof Strzelecki

Ceramics offers a never-ending range of possibilities, but requires time and intense focus. So much can go awry in the process of firing and glazing, but he does not view ‘mistakes’ as errors but as a means to tell the unique story of every piece.

Krzysztof Strzelecki Cruising Vases

You can see this nimble approach to art-based communication in his work; Strzelecki often works through ideas through several modalities. However, he has spent recent years focusing on vases. — Isaac Crown Manesis

Krzysztof Strzelecki

Strzelecki’s process involves making collages combining photos he takes of muscle-clad sculptures in the Vatican with pornography stills. The result is a rambunctious sex bacchanal referencing classical imagery, all rendered through delicate craft — Strzelecki’s own personal garden reverie. —Tyler Akers

Interview: Krzysztof Strzelecki

"So, for example, I enjoy re-interpreting the paintings of Henri Matisse or Georges Seurat to include gay and coloured men, thus subverting a heteronormative version of life." —Krzysztof Strzelecki

Krzysztof Strzelecki invites us into his “dream world” of queer cruising spots

"I feel strongly connected to the earth, the colours of nature calm me. Browns, beiges, whites, blacks, yellows, in fact, all shades of human skin, can be found in the soil." —Krzysztof Strzelecki

Review: It’s Much Louder Than Before at Anat Ebgi

It’s Much Louder Than Before, organized by James Bartolacci and Stefano di Paola, inexplicably lies at the taut deliberations between the adaptability and reconciliation of a party world of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. — Ricky Amadour

International Isolation Interview with Krzysztof Strzelecki

"What inspired me to work with clay was the possibilities of this medium, you can paint, carve, making sculpture, furniture, dishes - just everything. The big influence was the fact I like to feel the material that I work with under my fingers and control the process of creating with my hands. Leaving a mark of me on every piece." —Krzysztof Strzelecki

Krzysztof Strzelecki, Seam Agency X The Artists Contemporary

"Most of my vases are based on erotic dreams, porn videos and conversations with random strangers about their sexual fantasies. I try to envision a gay paradise; but there is no exact plan and, at times, also use my own photographs for the vases." —Krzysztof Strzelecki

KRZYSZTOF STRZELECKI

Krzysztof Strzelecki’s ceramics combine a variety of photographic techniques and coloured glazes to achieve the final result. Ceramics is his primary medium today as it combines different aspects of painting, photography and sculpture. —Pineapple