About

Practice

I’m not a chef. I’m a Polish artist and diver living between a few European countries. A lot of time I spent in France, 6 kilometres from Château du Bosc, where Henri Toulouse-Lautrec used to live. When I discovered Henri’s and his friend Momo’s cookbook The Art of Cuisine I decided to cook dishes based on their recipes and in 2014 (the 150th anniversary of Henri’s birthday) I created Cuisine And Art — a zero-waste culinary art project. Soon after I began to find inspiration in other artists’ work.

I love to eat, I love to cook, and I’m addicted to buying cookbooks. But as a typical artist — I read them, I look at them, I admire (or not) the photos, design, typography. And after I do NOT follow the recipes! Never! (OK, almost never.) I use all great recipes only as inspiration. I create my meals using what I find around myself — in my kitchen or pantry, in my small veg garden, or during walks.

English is not my first language, so please forgive me the millions of mistakes that I make. If you want to write to me you can write in Polish, English, Spanish or French. I’ll be happy to reply.

Cuisine And Art

Cuisine And Art is a bilingual (English and Polish) culinary art project. On the blog you will find short stories with recipes inspired by Damien Hirst, Richard Avedon, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Gauguin, Juan Gris, Joseph Beuys and many others. If you want to cook banana-skin chutney, yellow gazpacho inspired by Anish Kapoor, or just know what chocolate mayonnaise is — this is the right place.

The aims are zero waste, local and seasonal as much as possible when living in a few places, organic and sustainable, and plastic-free. Foraging is in my blood. I’m the most creative when the fridge is almost empty.

Education

• 2004 — MA, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (Poland), Faculty of Painting and Graphic (Photography and Multimedia)
• 2002 — Academy of Fine Arts (VŠVU, Bratislava, Slovakia), Faculty of Photography
• 2000 — Schule für Gestaltung in Sankt Gallen (Switzerland), Faculty of Graphic Design

Dossier

• 2021–… — Foto Torroella (The Catalan Association of Photographers, Baix Empordà, Spain)
• 2019 — ZPAP (The Association of Polish Artists)
• 2014 — establishment of the Cuisine And Art blog
• 2010 — establishment of art group Oceano with Jeff Midghall
• 2002 — establishment of photography group hueckelserafin (h/s) with Magda Hueckel

Prizes and awards

• 2024 — finalist, Antoni Vila Casas Sculpture Award, Museum Can Mario, Fundació Vila Casas, Palafrugell, Spain
• 2022 — selected for the 2nd Professional Photography Fair FER FOC, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
• 2017 — shortlisted, Pink Lady Food Photographer
• 2017 — shortlisted, poster competition for San Sebastián Film Festival, Spain
• 2005 — President of Sopot award “Sopot Muse For Young Artists”, Sopot, Poland
• 2003 — President of Gdańsk Grant For Achievements In Studies, Gdańsk, Poland

Selected exhibitions

Individual exhibitions include Remains (Museu de la Mediterrània, Torroella de Montgrí, 2022; Castellón de la Plana, 2023), London 1965 with Jacek Serafin (Espai Cuixart and Museu de la Mediterrània, 2023), Seven at Fotonoviembre, Tenerife (2015), and earlier Morphs and Babydolls exhibitions with hueckelserafin across Poland, Slovakia, Spain, the USA, and Australia.

Cuisine And Art events include Flagn’art (2016), “Dinner For 100 Souls” at Château de Taurines (2017), and “À table au BazArt!” in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val (2017).