Working almost exclusively in wood, BART channels a quietintensity—rendering forms that hover between meditative stillness and visceral physicality. His is nota story of traditional art school lineage but one of lived experience: from the sonic force of fronting aheavy metal band to the tempo of Warsaw’s ad world, each chapter lends a charge to his tactile,deliberate approach to making.
At the heart of BART’s work is an intimate conversation with light—how it bends, reflects, lingers.Through a meticulous, almost devotional act of polishing, wood becomes a vessel of reflection, bothliteral and metaphysical. They are slow-built meditations, shaped by the hand, the grain, and themoment. In this act, echoes of Brâncuși’s purity and Fred Eversley’s optical seduction can be felt,but BART is never derivative. He allows the material to speak, often beginning with cast-offs oroverlooked remnants. What others discard, he reclaims—elevating imperfection into poetics.
His process is fiercely analog, deeply grounded in the vulnerabilities of wood itself—its sensitivities totime, climate, and light. Rather than wrest control, BART surrenders to the material’s temperament,yielding works that pulse with sensuality and elemental restraint.
His Bródno studio—a generational space co-shaped with his father—functions less like a workshopand more like a living archive. Here, past and present interlace: old-world techniques meetcontemporary sensibilities. This ethos extends to o9 Concept Space, the hybrid showroom BARTco-founded with his partner, Kaja Czulewicz. Nestled within the studio, o9 is a curated platform foremergent Polish artists and design voices—offering a stage for practices that disrupt, reframe, andreimagine the familiar.