Andrzej Urbanski (b. 1983 Poznan, Poland) is an established Cape Town-based artist prized for his immaculate hard-edged abstract art. The clean, precise forms defining the work 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.

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The artist was born in Poznan, Poland in 1983 and settled in Berlin, Germany, with his parents in 1989. Growing up in Berlin’s ‘grey zone’ after the fall of the wall in the late eighties when barriers between east and west were eroded activated his participation in street culture. 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. He relocated to this country and enjoyed his first South African solo exhibition, Mindgame, in 2015 at Salon 91 in Cape Town.

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Urbanski has participated in numerous group 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.