September – October 2025, 2025
Residency Unlimited program

October 24 – November 23
Exhibition: Ghosts and Roots
Fierman Gallery
19 Pike St, New York, NY 10002

Friday, October 24 at 6:00 PM
Opening reception: Ghosts and Roots
Fierman Gallery
19 Pike St, New York, NY 10002

Marcin Janusz is an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited through October 31, 2025. In October, he presents a new body of work in his solo exhibition “Korzenie / Roots” at Fireman Gallery, featuring new large-format paintings, glass sculptures, and stained-glass works, partially developed during his Residency Unlimited program. Rooted in environmental humanities, Janusz’s work blends myth, ecology, and materiality. Drawing on Slavic folklore and storytelling traditions, he reinterprets legends through a contemporary lens, connecting intuitive and scientific approaches. His visually rich, poetic compositions reflect on the shifting relationship between humans and nature.

Marcin tells stories rooted in environmental humanism, combining the humanities and natural sciences. In the series of paintings, he draws on both scientific research related to geology and biology, as well as ancient beliefs, fairy tales and legends – relating them to the present, examining the structure of the myth and blurring the boundaries between the rational and the intuitive. Janusz’s artworks are stories through which he highlights current social, political and ecological issues. Each work is full of symbols and metaphors, reflecting a post-humanist vision of a world in which people, made of earth, are an integral part of the natural environment. The images, which are landscapes, transcend traditional painting. He combines elements of the image with added materials such as soil, sand, sugar and resin. This makes the image a relief or diorama depicting scenes with figures representing us, humans.

Janusz’s solo exhibitions include Milky Flesh, LETO, Warsaw, PL (2024); Once Upon a Time… Life, Szara Kamienica Gallery, Kraków, PL (2024); Only Lovers Left Alive, Widna Gallery, Kraków, PL (2020); 27 Elements and Others, Shefter Gallery, Kraków, PL (2018). He has participated in group exhibitions such as Let me tell you about myself / about us, National Museum in Gdańsk, PL (2025); Nostalgia. Seekers of Fading Stars, MOCAK, Kraków, PL (2025); One Hundred Ghosts, Manggha, Kraków, PL (2025); Borderland of Worlds IV. The Empire of Chlorophyll, CEP UJ, Kraków, PL (2025); South of the Border, West of the Sun, Laze Mike Gallery, Seul, KR (2024); Arcadius. Great passions. Confrontations – Central Museum of Textile, Łódź, PL (2024); From the Ashes, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, PL (2024); Cosmos, Cricoteka, Kraków, PL (2023); 13th. edition of Geppert competition, BWA Wrocław, PL (2020).

Janusz’s work has been collected by mBank Collection Warsaw, Dela.art Collection, Warsaw, and PURO Hotel Collection, Warsaw. 

Lead image: Marcin Janusz Topielec (The Drowned Man), 2025 oil paint, earth, resin on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Photos by Chris Herity. Courtesy of the artist

Artist Name: Marcin Janusz
Residency Dates: September – October 2025
Born: 1991
Hometown: Przeworsk, Poland
Lives & Works: Kraków, Poland
URL: marcinjanusz.com.pl | Instagram @marcinjanusz_
Gallery: LETO Gallery 
Education: 
2023 – PhD, Faculty of Painting, The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, PL
2018 – MA, Faculty of Painting, The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, PL
2013 – BA, Health Sciences in Medical Rescue, Jagiellonian University Medical College, PL

Marcin Janusz’s residency is made possible with support from the Polish Cultural Institute New York, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, National Centre for Culture NCK, LETO Gallery, and FIERMAN Gallery.