Wojciech Bąkowski, who presented himself to the Krakow audience together with his group KOT at the last year’s ArtBoom Festival, was awarded with the prestigious Polityka’s Passport award in the category of Visual Arts. “The award for art that combines brutality with lyricism. For giving new, interesting meaning to the notion of “multimedia artist”, decided to award a promising new-generation creator for art that is an original combination of brutality with lyricism.” – the justification reads.

Wojciech Bąkowski, originally from Poznań, a graphic artist, poet, animated film creator, proved himself with his bold projects located in primitive and vulgar urban reality of bleak housing projects or squalid districts. In his projects of unusual distinctiveness and expression he employs audio performance.