Mikołaj Sobczak is an artist based in Düsseldorf whose practice spans painting, video, and performance. His work draws from queer activism and alternative historiographies, being an effect of a close collaboration with historians and theorists. He studied in Warsaw, Berlin, and Münster, and was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam from 2021 to 2023, as well as at the Art Explora residency in Paris (2023-2024). He has exhibited internationally at Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2023), Kunsthalle Münster (2022–2023), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2021), MUDAM, Luxembourg (2021), and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2020), with works in collections including LACMA, Moderna Museet, and Kunstsammlung NRW. In 2021, he received the Paszport Polityki - Poland’s most prestigious art prize.
