Stanislaw Trzebinski

© Hayden Phipps/Southern Guild.

© Hayden Phipps/Southern Guild.
Stanislaw Trzebinski (b. 1992, Mombasa) is a multidisciplinary artist whose sculptural practicehas evolved from figurative bronze works into a genre-defying language of ecological futuremyth-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 organicintricacy, echoing natural systems of entropy, emergence, and adaptation.

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.

Exhibitions
2025

Solo booth, Investec Cape Town Art Fair – Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa (works continuing on view at Southern Guild Gallery)
Expo Chicago – EBONY/CURATED, Chicago, USA
2024
EXOGENESIS – EBONY/CURATED, Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa
A Very Loop Street Summer – EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
Aspen Art Fair – Southern Guild, Aspen, USA
Design Miami / Los Angeles – Southern
Guild, Los Angeles, USA
Investec Cape Town Art Fair – EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
2023
Design Miami – Southern Guild, Miami, Florida, USA
On Lines And Lineage – Southern Guild, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Expo Chicago – Southern Guild, Chicago, USA
Investec Cape Town Art Fair – EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
2022
SOLASTALGIA – Southern Guild Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Design Miami – Southern Guild, Miami, USA
2021
In [the] Loop – EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
2020
Pantheism – EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
Solace – Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa
Intersect Chicago Virtual Art Fair – EBONY/CURATED, Chicago, USA
Intersect Aspen Virtual Art Fair – Southern Guild, Aspen, USA
Investec Cape Town Art Fair – EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
2019
In the Absence of Light – Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa
PAD Art + Design – Southern Guild, London, United Kingdom
2018
Design Miami – Southern Guild, Miami, USA
SculptX – The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Foundry Proof – Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa
Extraordinary – Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa
Staple – The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Parallax Art Fair – Nadia Arnold Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2017
ORTUS (Johannesburg Edition) – The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
ORTUS – Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Divergent Tides – Eclectica Design and Art, Cape Town, South Africa
SculptX – The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Pan Africa – Objekt Design Art, Franschhoek, South Africa
Visceral – Equus Gallery, Cavalli Estate, Cape Town, South Africa
Transformation – Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa
2016
Natural Selection – Southern Guild, Johannesburg, South Africa
Multilayered – Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Focus – Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
Beneath the Surface – Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Homer Sapiens – Objekt Design Art, Franschhoek, South Africa
Woodwork – Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa
Young Guns – Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2014
Young Blood Gallery – Cape Town, South Africa
Kingdom – Equus Gallery, Cavalli Estate, Cape Town, South Africa

Stanislaw's Objects

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In the Swamp of Stillborn Gods
In the Swamp of Stillborn Gods
In the Swamp of Stillborn Gods
In the Wake of Symmetry
In the Wake of Symmetry
In the Wake of Symmetry
When the Centre Could Not Hold
When the Centre Could Not Hold
When the Centre Could Not Hold
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