Krzysztof Ostrowski collects in his work forgotten and sometimes
marginal gadgets of youth culture: from the nostalgic memory of toy
soldiers to the cartoon characters and American science-fiction film heroes. As a leader of the famous new music group, Cool Kids of Death, an author of music videos for the songs of this band, as well as illustrator of Dorota Maslowska’s Polish-Soviet War (the most oustanding literary voice of the youngest generation), Ostrowski directly participates in the birth of a cult — an amazing expolsion of the most intense moment of a generation which has been described in the lyrics of CKOD’s songs as “Generation Nothing.” As such, Ostrowski’s work, situated on the edge between fashion design, music, cartoons, and graphic art, can be identified with the new quality of a revolt: not of the blokes with no future, but of young frustrated intellectuals, criticizing a poorly constructed social
structure.

Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Anatomy of moments, Polish Graphic Arts as an Expanded Field, Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, Sweden; 2002: Yach Film 2003, Festival of Polish music videos, Gdansk (Poland),(special award for the best videoclip, Uwazaj, Cool Kids of Death); 2001: International Festival of
Cartoons, Lodz, (Grand Prix); 2000: Orient Man und Kameraden, International
Book Fair, Frankfurt; Prix Alph ­ Art Jeunes Talents, Festival International
De La Bande Dessinee, Angouleme, France; Trois Notre dames, Angouleme,
France; Recommendations. Young Polish Print Art, International Triennale of
Print Art, Krakow; 1998: XIV International Exhibition of Drawings-Comics,
Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Chroatia; Contemporary Polish Cartoon 1991-97, Muzeum Okregowe, Torun; IX Festival of Cartoons, Lodz, (1st Prize); 1997:
Urban Stories, exhibition of cartoos, Dom Kultury Lowicka, Warsaw; 1996: VII
Festival of Cartoons, Lodz, (award for the best colourful cartoon).