I TELL YOU NOTHING! A solo exhibition by Jacek Kröle

Artist: Jacek Kröle
Artistic supervision of the exhibition: Filip Kopeć
Exhibition producer: Wiktoria Głowacka

Opening: Thursday 12 February 2026, 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition open until: Friday 27 March 2026

ArtBrut Gallery
& Studio for Socio-Cultural Inclusions
Wrocław, 46A Ruska Street

Jacek Kröle, an artist associated with the ArtBrut Gallery & Studio since 2016, is primarily a painter and colourist, an artist with an extraordinary sense of colour and a surprising approach to the forms he depicts. He uses various techniques and means of expression – he mainly creates drawings, paintings, and collages, but he also has objects and installations in his portfolio. He feels equally at home in both representational and abstract painting, and in both cases, it is colour that determines the ultimate form of the composition. Since 2021, he has been collaborating with art brut artist Krzysztof Tarnowski on joint comic book projects. Working on comics such as Dragon, Ghost and King Oedipus has brought him closer to the subject of comics as an artistic medium.

The artist has taken part in many collective exhibitions organised by the ArtBrut Gallery & Studio, including:
● OCCUPATION / 5TH BIENNALE OF URBAN ART – OUT OF STH. BWA Awangarda, Wrocław 2017;
● Series of exhibitions BEYOND TABOO the ArtBrut Gallery & Studio 2017–2025;
● ARTBRUT / Retroperspektywy Festival 2018; Art Incubator – Fabryka Sztuki, Łódź 2018;
● LIFE ISN’T A FAIRY TALE, A joint exhibition of Jacek Kröle & Krzysztof Tarnowski, ArtBrut Gallery & Studio, Wrocław 2021;
● ‘A MIRROR WITH SILENT MEMORY’, an exhibition relating to photographic works in art brut and outsider art, ArtBrut Gallery & Studio, Wrocław 2024;
● ‘K T H Ł’ – ARTBRUT IN THE BOULEVARDS and ARTBRUT DESIGN, Boulevards, Wrocław 2024;
● ‘ARTBRUTEX. NEW WORLD ORDER’, ArtBrut Gallery & Studio, Wrocław 2025.

Jacek Kröle filled the gallery spaces with charades, presenting them in two parts: the first one related to the artist's current practice, serving as a starting point for the retrospective part. Besides its independent meaning, it is also supposed to act as a lens, tuning the eye to perceive the retrospective part. This lens comprises symbols, called war signs by the artist himself – thanks to their open, rhythmic form, they can evoke associations ranging from musical notation through codes to ancient glyphs or automatic writing. Formulas resembling spells or mantras appear on the surface of the work, creating formations. It is difficult to determine their nature, which encourages thorough research, but on the other hand, they attract possible speculation. Somewhere between the lines lies the essence.

Paintings are dominated by landscapes in which the artist synthesises his point of view. They make up the most formally open collection among those presented at the exhibition. Through the illustrative nature, which the artist abandons in the remaining cycles, he shows the versatility of his artistic language.

In collages – clippings, components of works – can be interpreted as pieces of a puzzle which, when properly combined and configured, can reveal a new perspective. Solutions to puzzles. They manifest the artist's visual way of thinking, which is clear in his later works. Representational photographs will be replaced by mystical-sounding symbols. However, the arrangement remains consistent, albeit adapted to the medium. With a little courage, the focus reflected in the works can be conveyed to the viewer, directing their thoughts to those fragments of reality that we refuse to pay attention to in our daily lives.

Kröle has repeatedly shown his extraordinary sense of rhythm. The metre used by the artist in his work is easy to sense. This feature, the underlying tempo, becomes the indisputable link (key?) of all cycles. Jacek Kröle illustrates rhythms, decodes and encodes various pulses.

Filip Kopeć

Translated by Paweł Granicki