page_title: Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski / Biography
context_page_description: Eugeniusz Geno Małkowski was a Polish painter. Małkowski was a professor of contemporary art at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, founder of artistic groups and associations throughout Poland, organizer of modern art exhibitions, and popularizer of art. He was known for his speed painting happenings in which he invited people to paint together. In 2005, in Bełchatów, he beat the Guinness World Record for the 24-hour-long-painting performance.
context_section_description: He was born in Gdynia. After World War II his family moved to Lębork where he spent his childhood. He started artistic education in 1957 at Graphical Secondary School in Wrocław and continued studying at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with the professors Juliusz Studnicki and Artur Nacht-Samborski. In 1969 he founded the artistic group Arka and in 1972 he transformed it into a bigger generational movement (80 creators) known by the name O Poprawę (For the Enhancement) with which he organized 9 group expositions. In the 1980s he co-founded the multidisciplinary art group Świat (World) and organized 18 group expositions. In the 1990s he passed several years in France where he founded the artistic association ARA (Association for Renovation of Art) and organized several group exhibitions of modern Polish art.
  Between 1991 and 2012 worked as a Professor of Art at UWM in Olsztyn.
  Since 1990 he organized many happenings popularizing modern art among non specialized public. He practiced speed and time painting and invited spectators to paint with him at informal places, such as commercial centers or streets. The works created in such a way were later exhibited in art galleries. In 2005 in Belchatow he beat the Guinness World Record for the 24-hour-long-painting. He painted 100 works measuring 80 cm x 100 cm based on previously performed sketches.
  He lived and worked in Warsaw and in Olsztyn. He has had more than 50 solo shows of his works and he has participated in over 200 group exhibitions. His paintings are held by major museums of Poland (i.a. National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Gdańsk, Toruń Regional Museum), as well as by private collectors in Poland and all around the world.
  Małkowski died in hospital in Zamość, Poland on 20 August 2016.
caption: Our Times, from the cycle «The Big World», 1971.
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