ECCPROJECTS #34 Paul Czerlitzki
30 March – 26 April 2026
Open by appointment only
ECC Project Room
Via Martiri della Libertà 2
10023 Chieri TO Italy
Captions of the exhibited artworks:
Paul Czerlitzki, Relay, 2025, acrylic, pigment on canvas, 60 x 50 cm (framed)
Paul Czerlitzki, Relay, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 cm (framed)
Paul Czerlitzki (1986, Gdańsk, Poland) lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Paul Czerlitzki’s practice redefines painting as a dynamic system of transformation, where process, chance, and material conditions take precedence over fixed images. His works emerge through indirect and often subtractive techniques, such as spraying paint through layers of canvas or allowing pigment to accumulate as residue, resulting in compositions that are both controlled and unpredictable.
Central to his approach is the idea of painting as a feedback loop — an “echo” of its own making — where each work is both the result of prior actions and a generator of future ones. Rather than presenting a singular, resolved image, his paintings function as traces of events, revealing processes of transfer, masking, and repetition. The distinction between surface and support, positive and negative, is consistently blurred.
Czerlitzki often works in series, such as Untitled and Relay, which are interconnected through material and temporal relationships. The Untitled works are created through a filtering process, where paint penetrates layered canvases, producing ghost-like impressions. In contrast, the Relay paintings collect excess pigment from the environment, turning by-products into autonomous works.
His practice also extends into space, incorporating architectural elements and exhibition structures, thereby challenging the boundaries between painting, object, and environment. This expanded notion of painting reflects a post-medium condition, where the work is not a static endpoint but part of an ongoing circulation of matter and meaning.
Underlying his work is a tension between accumulation and loss, control and dissolution. Czerlitzki’s paintings resist closure, instead pointing toward a continuous process of becoming — where each image is both presence and disappearance, structure and disorder.