Stanisław Brach

Born in 1972 in Gorlice, Poland. Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw since 2010, head at the Studio of Ceramics at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts Faculty of Sculpture. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, class of Prof. Marian Konieczny (2000), and of the School of Ceramics in Łysa Góra (1987-1993). In 2014, he received a post-doctoral degree of doctor habilitatus in fine arts at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. He is a winner of the 2011, 2019 and 2023 Rector’s Award at his alma mater and the 2014, 2020 and 2023 Ministry of Culture and National Heritage grant. In 2016 he received a Recommendation Prize of the Taiwan Ceramics Biennale 2016 and his Flowing With Honey project fetched him a gold medal at the 45thApimondia International Apicultural Congress in Istanbul, Turkey in 2017 and gold medal in 46thApimondia International Apicultural Congress  in Montreal, Canada, 2019.

Stanisław Brach has organised dozens of solo and group shows and participated in a number of plein-air projects and international competitions, for example in Italy, Japan and Taiwan.

His works are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Sculpture of the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, National Museum in Krakow, the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy, the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan, the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv and the Art Palace in Lviv as well as in private collections.