Mat Kubaj is a visual artist, painter, and performer whose creative practice is rooted in mindfulness, gesture, and the experience of presence. His work exists at the intersection of painting, performance, and installation, forming a cohesive artistic language centered on process, relation, and time. Kubaj’s art is not a closed object — it is an event, a trace of a moment, and an invitation to participate.

In his painting, the artist primarily uses Japanese ink, working on paper, canvas, and ceramics. His abstract compositions are built within a restrained, often monochromatic palette, dominated by black and white, enriched with organic tones obtained, among other methods, by staining the surface with tea leaf essence. Each work is a record of an intuitive gesture — a trace of concentration, breath, and decision made in the present moment. Kubaj’s practice reveals influences of Zen aesthetics, shodō calligraphy, and the idea of balance between expression and silence.

An essential part of his practice is performance, treated as an autonomous artistic medium, but also as an extension of painting in space and time. Mat Kubaj’s performative actions often take on a ritualistic character — based on simple gestures, repetition, bodily engagement, and direct contact with the viewer. The audience is not a passive observer but becomes involved in the creative process, co-creating the meaning and unfolding of the event.

In performances such as “White Robe,” “Christmas Eve: 12 Dishes,” “In Full,” and in actions carried out within the “Tanabata” project, Mat Kubaj expands the field of painting into a bodily, relational, and ritual dimension. The image ceases to function as an autonomous object and becomes a process and a shared experience.

The artist engages with themes of community, solitude, memory, and transformation, drawing on gestures rooted in tradition as well as personal experience. Painterly actions are transferred onto the body, fabric, or a shared table, where the boundary between artwork and participation dissolves.

Movement is often a key medium in this practice — dance understood as a form of mindfulness and liberation. Performance becomes a space of encounter: with another person, with identity, and with oneself.

Mat Kubaj’s work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland, including galleries and contemporary art institutions in Warsaw, Kraków, and Poznań. His works exist both within exhibition contexts and in private collections. Regardless of the medium, his practice is united by a consistent focus on process, relation, and the experience of the “here and now.”

Kubaj’s art is an invitation to pause, to become attentive, and to enter into dialogue — between gesture and silence, form and emotion, artist and viewer.