I thought that using shapes and colors was a natural process of seeing. Recently my impression is that painting is a sort of addiction to passion;
through the painting I want to express emotions and to show subjects that I can’t explain with other languages.
I think that every image is mysterious because when the viewer looks at the painting he has a lot of suggestion but he’s not sure that he’s right.
When I was ten I found the instructions for Zen meditation in a karate book, and I practiced them. I fell into a trance, as if I was running through a tunnel and at the end finding a source of bright light. In the same way, painting is a sort of tunnel where the ideas are born and become material. Each painting always has to have an idea, but in my works the meaning is often ambiguous. The images originate from a private mythology that comes from atypical fascination and visual experimentation. I have no
formal principles; I follow my intuition; It’s like an angel guiding a boy’s hand to paint religious icons.
— Pawel Ksiazek

Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Polish Institute, Stockholm; 2002: Zderzak, Krakow; 2000: Baltic Gallery of Art, Ustka.
Selected group exhibitions: 2001: Formidable Brushes, Królikarnia, Warsaw; 2000: Young Art from Krakow, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt.