On the last day of Paweł Kowalewski's exhibition “The Defeat of Reason” we invite you to a meeting with the artist and a tour of the author. During the finale, Agata Milewska's documentary film “Genius without a head, that is, everything suits the artist” on the work of Paweł Kowalewski will be presented. In addition to the artist himself, the documentary features: Anda Rottenberg, Kuka Rittersschild, Leon Tarasewicz, Krzysztof M Bednarski, Jarosław Modzelewski, Ryszard Woźniak, Ryszard Grzyb, Jerzy Porębski, Paweł Sosnowski, Zofia Gołubiew and Stefan Gierowski. Paweł Kowalewski (born 1958, Warsaw) — painter, intermediate artist, professor of the Academy of Fine Arts, member and founder of the legendary Gruppa. In the years 1978—1983 he studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he obtained a diploma with honors in the studio of Stefan Gierowski. In 1982 he founded the legendary artistic formation Gruppa, one of the key formations of Polish art of the 1980s. From 1985 to 2023 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Design of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where in 2019 he was awarded the title of professor of the Academy of Fine Arts. His works can be found in many important collections, including the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Krakow, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Jerke Museum in Recklinghausen, the Museum of Art in Łódź, the Regional Museum in Bydgoszcz, the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, as well as the ING Foundation for Polish Art, the Starak Family Foundation and private collections such as Cartier, Isy Brachot. Event partner: Velvet