PRESS RELEASE
ANDRZEJ URBANSKI | SHIFT - the weight of order
Nov 5 – Nov 28, 2026
ANDRZEJ URBANSKI
SHIFT - the weight of order
Andrzej Urbanski is an established Cape Town-based artist prized for his immaculate hard-edged abstract art. The precise
forms defining Urbanski’s practice belie its relationship to memory, sensory and spatial encounters, emotions and psychic
states, which are channelled most often into overlapping colourful geometric shapes.
Through the colour shards of his structural forms, Urbanski investigates how complexity can be held within order. Drawing
on the recursive logic of fractals – forms that repeat and evolve across scale – his paintings become blueprints of dynamic
structure. Through precision and intentional layering, Urbanski constructs visual systems where geometry and gesture
converge. Each composition is a study in balance: not static, but alive with tension and movement. These works mirror the
underlying architecture of nature and consciousness, where the fragment reflects the whole and pattern becomes a
language of presence.
Urbanski has participated in numerous exhibitions around the world since graduating with a Masters in Fine Art from the
ECAL University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2012. He was born in Poznan, Poland in 1983 and settled in
Berlin, Germany, with his parents in 1989. He first experimented with spray-paint as a graffiti artist before applying this
medium in a fine art context. After exhibiting in shows in his then-hometown of Berlin, Georgia USA, Canada and
Switzerland, a Cape Town residency brought him to South African shores in 2012, where he settled permanently.
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