Cezary Poniatowski (*1987, Olsztyn, Poland) is an interdisciplinary artist based between Warsaw and Crete who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He began with printmaking, transitioned to painting, and now primarily explores installation, sculpture, and site-specific interventions, employing various forms of expression. This shift to three-dimensional work has enabled him to delve into the intersection of meticulous craft, design, and unconstrained creative freedom.

Poniatowski’s artistic practice navigates between the familiar and the unsettling, often exploring the materiality, identity, and memories associated with objects. He transforms everyday materials and historical references in order to evoke ambiguity, discomfort, and thought-provoking associations. His work draws inspiration from cinematic nostalgia, retrotopia, tribalism, and the polarization of contemporary societies, reflecting on introversion in an age of emotional externalization.