Krzysztof Syruć (Proembrion)
fot. Mateusz Wołoczko
BIO
Krzysztof Syruć (aka PROEMBRION) - born in 1984 in Olsztyn (Poland), painter, architect, graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology. Creating colourful illusions of abstract spaces, mathematically determined in the process of planned improvisations. Fascinated by colour, he visualizes his discoveries in the field of generative graphics and pure mathematics. His works can be found on the streets of many cities, as well as in public and private interiors. He opened retrospective exhibition in VR Chat game.
My art explores mathematical landscapes, driven by curiosity. I depict discoveries through precise diagrams and intuitive visualizations, which serve as a central theme in my work.
Since my graffiti days in 1996, my work has evolved within self-imposed rules. It has transitioned from geometric letters to vibrant abstract shapes and color sequences, which I call Exuberants. I’ve been arranging them among others into hexagons, cubes, bi-pyramids and the most elegant - hyperbolic plane, on which tiling with them is possible in only one way. Its section, whether with or without red, green, or blue components, is composed of eight equilateral triangles. I shape them freely, now mostly into rectangular decagons. When faced with numerous compositional possibilities, I employ computer coding to randomize them. Each scene unfolds within luminous space, organizing colors across dimensions.
Understanding my theory isn't necessary to appreciate my art, akin to admiring nature without pondering its mathematical underpinnings.
Individual exhibitions in Denver (Ryan Joseph - 2022), Paris (Celal M13 - 2018, 2017), Gdańsk (Artists’ Colony - 2020, S.O.S - 2019), Wrocław (Kolektyf - 2016), Lublin (Brain Damage - 2015), Warsaw (V9 - 2014); collective exhibitions in Denver (Knew Conscious - 2020), Paris (Art Élysées - 2017, Celal M13 - 2016), Moscow (Artmossphere Street-Art Biennale - 2016), Dortmund (44309 - 2013); murals created (among others) in Łódź, Gdynia, Bydgoszcz, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Geneva, Košice and Sofia; constructor of spatial installations; graphic designer using proprietary algorithms; collaborator of the CENTRALA design group, street-art since 1996. Lives in Gdańsk.
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Adimensionalities, Ryan Joseph Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2020 Retrospective, VR Chat – virtual exhibition
2020 Blurve, Zacnie, Poznań
2020 12345678, Colony of Artists, Gdańsk
2019 Hyperhexy, SOS, Gdańsk
2018 3x3x3, Celal M13, Paris
2017 Discretinuum, Celal M13, Paris
2016 Hexuberance, Kolektyf, Wrocław
2015 Reality, Brain Damage, Lublin
2014 Broadly Defined, V9, Warsaw
2014 Exuberance, Pyecka Gallery, Košice, Slovakia
2014 Pixel Pathology, Plażowa, Warsaw
2010 Triaconihepta, Window Theatre, Gdańsk
2007 Tendency 2 Repeat, Papryka, Sopot
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 InMyName, Treviso, Monopoli, Italy
2024 Urban Art Area 4, Warsaw
2023 Dimensional Drift, Muma Gallery, Hamburg
2020 Awakening, Knew Conscious, Denver
2019 Star Dust, SOS, Gdańsk
2018 Nowy Porządek, Centrum Praskie Koneser, Warsaw
2017 Exposition Collective, Galerie Celal M13, Paris
2017 Art Élysées, 8e Avenue Pavilion, Paris
2017 Dialogues, Celal M13, Paris
2016 Writing And Beyond, Celal M13, Paris
2016 Artmossphere II Biennale of Street-art, Moscow
2015 A Major Minority, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco
2014 Postgraffiti & Abstract, Genève
2014 Street Art Live, Kuratorium, Warsaw
2014 Polish Urban Art, Paris, Batumi, Lviv, Kiev, Minsk, Stockholm
2014 Street-art – Jewish Style, Galicia Jewish Museum, Cracow
2014 A Major Minority, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2014 PL Group Show, 44309 Street/Art Gallery, Dortmund
2013 MINDtheGAP, Storefront Gallery, Nowy Jork
2012 Street Art Doping, Warsaw
2012 Cały ten Street Art, Art Agenda Nova, Cracow
2011 Lubelskie Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych , Lublin
2011 Come Inside, Soho Factory, Warsaw
2011 Tuse Wystaw, S.F.I.N.K.S 700, Sopot
2009 Islandea, IS Wyspa, Gdańsk
2008 Panda, Shipyard, Gdańsk
2004 Interakcje, CEiK, Olsztyn
MURALS
2023 Mozaika, Gruca Orthopeadic and Trauma Teaching Hospital, Otwock
2020 Kujawska St, collaboration, Bydgoszcz
2017 Urban Creatures, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 Klimov, collaboration, St Petersburg
2016 Exu-Cube, Ramat Gan, Tel-Aviv
2016 Elements, Royal Wilanów, Warsaw
2015 Hexuberances, CK ZETO, Lodz
2014 Post Graffiti & Abstract, Genève
2014 Cycles, Urban Forms, collaboration, Lodz
2014 Synergy 01, collaboration, Turin
2014 44309 Street/Art Gallery, collaboration, Dortmund
2013 Ogarna 2.0, Gdańsk
2013 Urban Forms, Lodz
2013 SAC, collaboration, Košice
2013 Traffic Design, Gdynia
2013 Central Railway Station, Warsaw
2012 Traffic Design, Gdynia
2012 RAAR, Outer Spaces Festival, collaboration, Poznań
2011 Proembrion & Graphic Surgery, Amsterdam
2011 Tribute to Mehoffer, collaboration, Turek
2011 Atlantic cinema, Street Art Doping, collaboration, Warsaw
2011 40/40, Fort Bema, Warsaw
2011 66e Gallery, Gdańsk
2011 REDłowo, Traffic Design, collaboration, Gdynia
2010 Galeria Wrzeszcz, Traffic Design, Gdańsk
2010 Och Teatr, Street Art Doping, collaboration, Warsaw
2009 Warszawa Powiśle, Warsaw
2009 City2City, Academic Art, collaboration, Bydgoszcz
2009 Ręką Dzieło, Dobre Miasto
2006 Above the Grey, Twożywo, collaboration, Bydgoszcz
2005 Barvy Ulice, collaboration, České Budějovice
INSTALLATIONS
2015 Synchronicity, Bęc Zmiana, Warsaw
2015 Zuzanna Ginczanka, Museum of Literature, collaboration, Warsaw
2015 Oskar Hansen Open Form, Serralves, Porto
2014 Monadology, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2014 Oskar Hansen Open Form, MACBA, Barcelona
2014 Multiplication, Muzeum Regional Museum, Bydgoszcz
2013 Piotrkowska Street Event, Lodz
2013 Satta Outside, Šventoji, Lithuania
2012 Arrangement Łódź Design Festival, Lodz
2009 Bat Yam Street Theater Festival, Bat-Yam, Israel
2009 Two Gardens, Olsztyn-Dortmund, Olsztyn
2008 121 Minutes, Koneser, Warsaw
LECTURES
2019 WBiA PL, Lublin
2018 Młodzi Do Łodzi, Lodz
2015 OSSA, Bydgoszcz
2013 FAMA, Gdańsk
2013 Młodzi Do Łodzi, Lodz
2013 Sztuka Architektury, Warsaw
2012 WAPG, Warsaw
2011 Słoneczniki dla Oruni, Gdańsk
2011 Lato Na Dzielnicy, Gdynia
2010 EUEB, CSW Łaźnia, Gdańsk
2009 Street Theater Festival, Bat Yam, Israel
2005 Youth Congress, Dundee, Scotland
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Architektura i Biznes, cover, Cracow
2018 V. Elka, N. Gzeley, S. Lemoine, J. Vasilin, Graffiti 50..., Hazan, Paris
2018 N. Oxygčne, B. Silhol, Europe, Street Art & Grffiti, Alternatives, Paris
2017 Artension n°147, Paris
2017 Stuart Magazine #6, Paris
2017 V. Elka, Graffiti [Writing] / Expressions Manifestes, Hazan, Paris
2017 SULW. Album, Elita Graffshop, Warsaw
2014 A. Gralińska-Toborek, W. Kazimierska-Jerzyk, „Doświadczenie...”, UF, Lodz
2013 Graffiti Goes East 1990-2012, Concrete / Whole City, Warsaw
2013 Chwała Miasta. Publikacja, Bęc Zmiana, Warsaw
2012 E. Dymna, M. Rutkiewicz, Polski Street Art cz.2, Carta Blanca, Warsaw
2010 T. Sikorski, M. Rutkiewicz, Graffiti w Polsce, Carta Blanca, Warsaw
2011 C. Lewisohn, Abstract Graffiti, Marrel, London - New York
2010 E. Dymna, M. Rutkiewicz, Polski Street Art, Carta Blanca, Warsaw
2010 K. Iosifidis, Mural Art, Vol. 3, Publikat, Germany
2009 K. Rogóz-Namiotko, 15 Lat ..., [S.l.] : [s.n.], Olsztyn
CV
2013-2014 individual design practice
2013 app graphic designer, ExpectAr, Warsaw
2011-2013 co-founder, AR designer, DATAAURA
2007-2020 designer CENTRALA, Warsaw
2011-2012 architect assistant SMZ, Warsaw
2007 architect assistant BJK, Gdynia
2007 architect assistant HJ, Gdynia
2006 architect assistant arch. M. Szafarzyński, Olsztyn
2003-2011 Master of Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology