Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski

Eugeniusz Geno Makowski is a Polish artist and painter, professor of UWM in Olsztyn, founder of artistic groups and associations, modern art exhibition organizer and art popularizer. He is known for his speed painting happenings and actions in which he invites people to paint together. In 2005 in Belchatow he beat the Guinness World Record for the 24hourlongpainting performance.

He was born in Gdynia. After World War II his family moved to Lbork where he spent his childhood. He started artistic education in 1957 at Graphical Secondary School in Wrocaw and continued studying at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with the professors Juliusz Studnicki and Artur NachtSamborski. In 1969 he founded the artistic group Arka and in 1972 he transformed it into a bigger generational movement known by the name O Popraw with which he organizedgroup expositions. In the 1980s he cofounded the multidisciplinary art group wiat and organizedgroup expositions. In the 1990s he passed several years in France where he founded the artistic association ARA and organized several group exhibitions of modern Polish art.

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