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🧛🏻‍♀️ Maciej Ratajski is a Polish multidisciplinary artist born in 1985 in Warsaw. His work spans across disciplines including video, sound, installation, photography, works on paper, prints, design, digital art, performance, education, and others. He is best known for his typographic, text-based, and conceptual work that often focuses on wordplay and issues surrounding language, meaning, and the relationship between words and images. As a member of the Grupa ETC collective, he has worked with the artistic tradition of Fluxus, the neo-avant-garde, and experimental music. He has given lectures, and talks, conducted workshops, and wrote texts on subjects ranging from aesthetics, art criticism, philosophy, and the politics of art, to music theory, design, and coding.

Ratajski's work has been featured in multiple exhibitions, books (including one by Diane Keaton), and magazines. It has been shared on Tumblr blogs with hundreds of thousands of notes, and served as examples of post-modern poetry in literature handbooks. Ratajski participated in 15. SURVIVAL Art Review, and Festiwal Młodej Poezji Mikrofestiwal in Wrocław, Interwencja Artystyczna Osiedle Młodych in Poznań, and The Urban Resort Warsaw: The Social Swimming Pool in Warsaw, exhibited in Kasia Michalski Gallery, Galeria V9 and Stroboskop Art Space in Warsaw among others.

Ratajski's graphic design work including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein book cover, and various exhibition posters, has been featured in PRINT magazine, Print Control: best printed matter from Poland, by AIGA, and others. His WARSAW T-shirt design has gained huge popularity and has even been copied by souvenir manufacturers, thus becoming one of the most recognisable souvenirs from Warsaw. For graphic design inquiries visit: Studio Maciej Ratajski.

In 2023, Ratajski released his debut music album, THIS IS ALL WRONG under the moniker 111R. He performed live at venues such as Chmury in Warsaw, Ignorantka in Łódź, and Galeria Szczur in Poznań.