Stanislaw Trzebinski (b. 1992, Mombasa) is a multidisciplinary artist whose sculptural practice has evolved from figurative bronze works into a genre-defying language of ecological future myth-making and cosmic inquiry.

 

Now based in Cape Town, Trzebinski draws from his Kenyan upbringing, a childhood steeped in the rawness of Indian Ocean rock pools, volcanic landscapes, and a deep spiritual connection to the natural world. His work traces a journey from the personal to the planetary and from intimate explorations of grief and memory to speculative futures shaped by climate anxiety, transformation, and childhood wonder.

 

Initially known for his figurative bronzes, Trzebinski’s earlier works centred on the human body as a vessel entwined and at one with nature. In recent years, a decisive shift has occurred: the body has dissolved, supplanted by alien organisms, Turing patterns, and otherworldly structures. In Solastalgia (2022), he imagines a post-Anthropocene world rebuilding itself in the aftermath of environmental 

collapse, while in Exogenesis (2024), his focus turns outward — to the possibility of life seeded from the stars, and the mirrored architectures of the microscopic and cosmic.

 

Trzebinski’s sculptures emerge from a synthesis of ancient and contemporary processes: lost-wax casting, digital fabrication, and chemical patination. His surfaces pulse with organic intricacy, echoing natural systems of entropy, emergence, and adaptation. Etched copper panels, patinated bronze tendrils, and hand-blown glass forms conjure environments both primordial and futuristic — spaces where science fiction merges with deep ecological memory.

 

This evolution in form and theme has been matched by growing critical recognition. Trzebinski has exhibited internationally at Design Miami/Los Angeles, PAD London, Intersect Aspen, and Intersect Chicago. In South Africa, he has presented acclaimed solo exhibitions with The Melrose Gallery (Ortus), Southern Guild (Solastalgia, In the Absence of Light), and EBONY/CURATED (Exogenesis, Pantheism), as well as a solo booth at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair.  He has also participated in group shows at Design Miami and numerous other group exhibitions.

 

At its core, Trzebinski’s practice grapples with dissociation — the severance of humankind from nature, and of the artist from his father, whose death when Trzebinski was nine years old remains a quiet pulse in the work. In his father’s absence, something else was lost: his childhood. That sense of wonder, safety, and imaginative innocence was cut short. What began as a deeply personal act of remembering has evolved into an ongoing search for belonging within larger systems — planetary, biological, and spiritual. Through each piece, Trzebinski attempts to recover that lost feeling: a childlike awe, a flicker of magic, a world still intact — and to share it with others. His work becomes a way to offer this memory, not just for himself, but for those who may have lost it too.

 

By refusing the boundaries of figurative work, Trzebinski opens portals into imagined ecologies and elemental truths. His work is not just a response to crisis, but a call to reimagine our place within the web of life — neither above it nor apart from it, but indivisible from its mysteries.