A graduate of the printmaking department of the State School of Fine Arts in Łódź (1983). He has been a designer or worked on the costumes for many films, including Kanclerz [The Chancellor] and Iron Hand (dir. Ryszard Ber), Boris Godunov, La note bleue and Chamanka (dir. Andrzej Żuławski), Szwadron [Squadron] and Kiler [Hitman] (dir. Juliusz Machulski), Oczy niebieskie [Blue Eyes] (dir. Waldemar Szarek). He also designed the costumes for the following films: Jerzy Hoffman’s With Fire and Sword and The Old Fairy Tale, Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Quo Vadis, Andrzej Wajda’s Pan Tadeusz, Jerzy Antczak’s Chopin: Desire for Love, Jerzy Wójcik’s The Gateway of Europe.

   He has created costumes for drama, opera and ballet theatres as well as television theatre. Among other projects, he worked with Krzysztof Nazar on his productions of The Wedding (Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw) and Father Mark (Polish Television Theatre), and with Andrzej Seweryn on his version of Richard II (Teatr Narodowy). Together with Magda Tesławska he designed the costumes for opera productions directed by Mariusz Treliński: Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly in Warsaw, Washington, St. Petersburg and Tel Aviv, Karol Szymanowski’s King Roger and Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello in Warsaw, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades in Berlin and Warsaw, and Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier at Poznań’s Teatr Wielki, the Polish National Opera and the Washington Opera. His projects for the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera include the stage design for Aleksandra Gryka’s ballet Alpha Kryonia Xe choreographed by Jacek Przybyłowicz (2006), for the ballet evening Szymanowski and Dance (2006) – including Harnasie choreographed by Emil Wesołowski, Symphony No. 3 “Song of the Night” choreographed by Jacek Przybyłowicz and Stabat Mater choreographed by Ewa Wycichowska (2006), and for the opera evening Two Words with Stanisław Moniuszko’s Verbum nobile and Aleksander Tansman’s The Solemn Oath (2009). He also designed the costumes for the ballets Cain and Abel and Six Wings of Angels (2012).

   For the Roma Musical Theatre in Warsaw, he designed the costumes for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera directed by Wojciech Kępczyński. At the Kraków Opera, he created the costumes for Krzysztof Penderecki’s The Devils of Loudun directed by Laco Adamik (2008), the ballet show Glances choreographed by Nina Diatchenko (2009), and Stanisław Moniuszko’s Halka directed by Waldemar Zawodziński (2011). At the Wrocław Opera, he worked on a production of Stanisław Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor directed by Laco Adamik. He was also the stage designer for one of two parts of Emil Wesołowski’s ballet show Chopinart+ at the Baltic Opera (2012). His graphics have been exhibited in Poland and internationally, including in France, Spain, Japan and the United States.

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