ABOUT | Prot Jarnuszkiewicz

Prot Jarnuszkiewicz (b. 1977 in Warsaw)

Professor of arts, visual artist, photographer, lighting designer, and educator.

He studied at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź, at the Faculty of Cinematography and Television Production, majoring in Film, Television and Photography Image Production (full-time studies). He was taught by, among others, Prof. Ewa Braun, Prof. Mieczysław Jahoda, Prof. Andrzej Jaroszewicz, Prof. Witold Sobociński, and Prof. Jerzy Wójcik.

He holds the title of Full Professor of Fine Arts.

From 2016 to 2020, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Media Arts, and from 2020 to 2024, as Vice-Rector for External Relations and Promotion at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

He currently leads the Visual Relations Studio, whose graduates have four times been awarded the title of Best Diploma of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw as well as Best Artistic Diploma among all Polish Academies of Fine Arts.

He is also a lecturer at the Warsaw Film School, where he runs a diploma studio in Photographic Narration.

For his contributions to the academic and educational development of the Academy, he has been honored five times with the Rector’s Award, including the highest distinction – the Pegasus Award.

His creative work unfolds along two main lines:

1. Artistic photography and video art

Parallel to developing his teaching practice, he has consistently pursued an active artistic career. He has created numerous original photographic projects, among the most significant of which are Family Portrait, The Persistence of Space, Absence, Hommage to Piotr Łazarkiewicz, Perfectly Happy People, For a Moment I Had Everything, and In the Meantime.

He has organized dozens of exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

Selected solo shows include:

2008 Photographs, Gallery of the Union of Photographers, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 Unseen Memories, Gallery B&B, Bielsko-Biała
2013 Photographs, Test Gallery, Warsaw
2015 Traces, Patricia & Philip Frost Museum, Miami, USA
2020 For a Moment I Had Everything, Foto-Gen, Wrocław
2024 In the Meantime, Aula Gallery, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław
2025 Harmless Enough, Palace Gallery, Sanniki

Selected group exhibitions:

2012 The Third Room, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2012 The Third Room, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013 Artists of the Warsaw Academy Circle, Municipal Gallery, Dresden, Germany
2014 Accommodation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk
2015 Farewell to the Homeland, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
2015 Line, Dot, Enter, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2021 Personal Horizons, Suwon Photo Gallery, Suwon, South Korea
2021 Unobvious, Fotografia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

He is the author of numerous publications, including three monographs, such as Past and Present (2015) and For a Moment I Had Everything (2020).

His works are held in dozens of private collections and museums in Poland and abroad.

2. Lighting and video direction for theatre productions

Since 2007, he has collaborated with such theatres as TR Warszawa, the National Opera, and the National Theatre in Warsaw, the New Theatre in Poznań, and the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków. Over more than a decade of work in this field, he has created nearly 70 lighting designs, working with directors including Izabela Cywińska, Grzegorz Bral, Zbigniew Brzoza, Andrzej Domalik, Robert Drobniuch, Natalia Korczakowska, and Bogusław Linda.

Selected theatre productions:

2024 The Chronicles of Narnia, dir. Gabriel Gietzky, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Jan Dorman Children’s Theatre, Będzin
2024 Sensus, dir. Agata Puszcz, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Theatre Institute, Warsaw
2024 The Rat and the Tree, dir. Robert Drobniuch, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Central Artistic Pool, Warsaw
2022 Ballads and Romances, dir. Jerzy Jan Połoński & Marta Wiśniewska, lighting & video design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Jan Dorman Children’s Theatre, Będzin
2020 Einstein’s Planet, dir. Robert Drobniuch, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Theatre of Animation, Poznań
2018 Fanny and Alexander, dir. Justyna Celeda, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Contemporary Theatre, Szczecin
2018 The Nest, dir. Robert Drobniuch, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Kubuś Puppet Theatre, Kielce
2017 King Oedipus, dir. Rudolf Zioło, lighting & video design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Contemporary Theatre, Szczecin
2017 Water Story, dir. Robert Drobniuch, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Pleciuga Puppet Theatre, Szczecin
2015 The Peasants and the Highlanders, dir. Małgorzata Zajączkowska, lighting & video design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – National Opera, Warsaw
2014 Head Circumference, dir. Zbigniew Brzoza, lighting & video design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – New Theatre, Poznań
2013 The Cherry Orchard, dir. Izabela Cywińska, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – New Theatre, Poznań
2012 August, dir. Grzegorz Bral, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Studio Theatre, Warsaw
2011 New Don Quixote, dir. Natalia Kozłowska, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Polish Theatre, Warsaw
2011 I Served the King of England, dir. Piotr Cieślak, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – New Theatre, Poznań
2009 Homework, dir. Marcin Jarnuszkiewicz, lighting & video design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Theatre Academy, Warsaw
2008 Nelly, dir. Natalia Korczakowska, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Szaniawski Theatre, Wałbrzych
2007 The King and the Sea, dir. Marcin Jarnuszkiewicz, lighting design: Prot Jarnuszkiewicz – Theatre of Animation, Poznań

In addition, Prot Jarnuszkiewicz is a tutor in the Gaude Polonia program.

From 2017 to 2018, he was a member of the expert team for the evaluation of research project results at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Since 2019, he has served as an expert of the Polish Accreditation Committee.

For his contributions to Polish culture, he has been awarded the Bronze and Silver Gloria Artis Medals.