Leszek Mądzik

Leszek Mądzik (born 1945) – stage designer and theatre director, painter, photographer, born in Bartoszowiny in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. He studied at the Institute of Art History at the Catholic University of Lublin, he obtained his master’s degree at the Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Białystok. In 1969, he founded the Visual Stage of the Catholic University of Lublin, where he made 21 author’s performances. His theatre has participated in numerous international festivals and has been awarded many times. Author of many set designs in Polish, Portuguese, French and German theatres; also, a lecturer at several art schools, professor of the Faculty of Set Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Catholic University of Lublin; member of ZPAP and ZPAF. In 1986, he founded the Art Gallery of the Visual Stage of the Catholic University of Lublin, where many exhibitions of eminent creators of Polish culture took place. Designer of the Museum of Contemporary Sacred Art in Kielce, author of numerous posters and artwork for books; he also holds the post of the artistic director of the Stage Design and Costume Design Festival in Lublin. Currently, he is a professor at the Department of Stage Design for Theatre and Opera at Faculty of Stage Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
The roots of his theatre are existential in nature, referring to the deepest senses of existence, the place of man in the universe, with his eternal sense of ending, leaving, passing and failing.