Tomek Tofilski
@tomek.club
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Tomek Tofilski was born in 1996. He studied at the Łódź film school and currently lives and works in Warsaw. He is interested in the mechanisms that shape and distort our perception of reality.
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Tomek Tofilski
Kukurydza, 2025
varnished pigment print on cardboard, wood, staples
200 × 98 cm
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Tomek Tofilski
Ekspresy do kawy, 2025
varnished pigment print on cardboard, wood, staples
200 × 98 cm

"The thing with liquids is that they find the spot that's easiest for them to fill and they fill it with as much of themselves as they can. Sometimes I think of images as liquids and their mediums as vessels. It's funny because puddles are liquids contained by the rest of the world and photographs are images taken from the world that are later contained within it. I don't know if you can glimpse the fabric of the world in a puddle, but sometimes I get a feeling like that with photographs."

– except from "Picking up Puddles", 2023

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Tomek Tofilski
Serwetki, 2024
varnished pigment print on cardboard, wood, staples
54.5 × 40.5 cm
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Tomek Tofilski
Garnek, 2024
varnished pigment print on cardboard, wood, staples
54.5 × 40.5 cm
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Turnus @ Nada Villa Warsaw
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Tomek Tofilski
gwiazda, 2024
varnished pigment print on cardboard, wood, staples
79 × 60 cm
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Tomek Tofilski
beza, 2024
varnished pigment print on cardboard, wood, staples
79 × 63.5 cm
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Tomek Tofilski
noga, 2024
varnished pigment print on cardboard, wood, staples
70 × 60 cm
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First indication exhibition view
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Tomek Tofilski
muszle, 2024
varnished pigment print on cardboard, wood, staples
100 × 130 cm
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Tomek Tofilski
Suze, 2023
print on paper on board
133×110
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Tomek Tofilski
Binders, 2023
print on paper on board
98×69
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Tomek Tofilski
Untitled, 2023
print on paper on board
64×50

“I see my practice as centred around aberrations that mediate our experiences. In my works the varnish, glue, and staples distort the image while simultaneously supporting it, much like the models, mechanisms or ideas that enable us to perceive and interact with art—and, by extension, the world itself. I usually picture views that bring to my mind the very mechanisms and models through which we attempt to subordinate reality.”

Tomek Tofilski

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Picking up puddles exhibition view, 2023
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Picking up puddles
Warsaw, PL
Puddles too
Austin Art Space, Munich, DE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Mine Eyes Bees Deceive
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
2024
Basel Social Club
with Turnus Gallery, Basel, CH
Crash Club
Warsaw, PL
Hotel Warszawa Art Fair
with Warsaw Turnus Gallery, PL
Accidentally on purpose
Turnus Gallery, Warsaw, PL
First indication
Turnus Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2021
8304
Kraków Photomonth, Kraków, PL
Jeszcze jeden turnus Krzywego Koła
Turnus Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Bezkres
Łódź Fotofestiwal, Łódź, PL
2020
#LASRZECZY
Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION
2023
Master of Photography,Łódź Film School
Łódź, PL