Michal Szumlas

Michal Szumlas

Michal Szumlas was born in 1998 in Czestochowa (Poland). He graduated with honors from the Jacek Malczewski High School of Fine Arts in Czestochowa, where he specialized in artistic ceramics in the class of prof. Karol Nowakowski and prof. Mariusz Lapinski. In 2017, he began studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw at the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture in the sculpture studio of prof. Grazyna Jaskierska-Albrzykowska.
Michal Szumlas is a young, emerging artist coming from a family with strong artistic traditions: his great-grandfather Antoni Kielar studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and his father Krzysztof Szumlas is a professional interior designer, painter, and conservator of sacral art. His mother, Anna Paleczek-Szumlas, has been running the Municipal Art Gallery in Czestochowa for many years. The other part of his family was talented in mathematics and science. Scientific fascinations are also visible in the artist’s work, e.g., in the Antigravity series – large-format ceramic sculptures referring to the Möbius strip, or in the Progression series, inspired by the energy and its transformations.
As Michal Szumlas says about himself: “I draw inspiration from nature when creating and designing spatial forms. I observe the world and analyze the rules that govern it – the principles of physics, chemistry, and biology. The material world perceived by the eye exists as a collection of three-dimensional forms and shows the relationships between them undergoing constant transformation and evolution. I am close to the mathematical principles of infinity analysis – the interpretation of the Möbius strip and the Fibonacci order. The world that surrounds us is constantly vibrating and expanding according to strictly defined patterns. These rules are a constant creative inspiration for me.”