Stanislaw Trzebinski is a Kenyan-born, Cape Town-based multidisciplinary artist whose bronze sculptures evoke speculative futures, ancestral memory, and ecological grief. Largely self-taught, his practice spans lost-wax casting, digital 3D printing, and patina alchemy, blending ancient technique with contemporary technology to conjure worlds at once primeval and post-human. Drawing deeply from the biogeography of his upbringing along the Kenyan coast, Trzebinski’s work explores the fragile interdependence between humanity and the natural world. His childhood memories, peering into tide pools while his father surfed the reef breaks, became formative moments of wonder, curiosity, and belonging. Following his father’s untimely death, these once-pristine inner landscapes fractured, leaving behind a yearning that anchors his artistic inquiry. Grief becomes ecological, the personal loss mirroring a planetary one.

At the heart of his work lies an attempt to reconstruct memory through material form. Human figures dissolve into tendrils of coral, fungal outgrowths, and mineral architectures. Inspired by natural systems and mathematical phenomena such as Turing patterns, Trzebinski reimagines lifeforms capable of enduring climate collapse. His sculptures suggest a world beyond the Anthropocene, where sentient matter reclaims agency, and survival becomes an act of radical transformation. Patina, oxidation, and environmental responsiveness are intrinsic to the work, echoing the constant flux of the ecosystems that inspire them. Glass bulbs, mottled like microbial blooms, pulse with interior light, while surfaces shimmer with textures recalling bone, bark, and reef. His female figures invoke a mythological femininity: Mother Nature not as allegory, but as sovereign architect. Trzebinski’s work is marked by emotional sincerity and technical virtuosity. He invites viewers to slow down, to look closely, to rediscover a sense of awe. His practice is ultimately a form of resistance, to forgetting, to disconnection, to despair. In the imagined ruins of human dominion, he offers beauty as a form of remembrance and the wild possibility of renewal.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
Solo Exhibition, Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa

2024
'EXOGENESIS', EBONY/CURATED, Franschhoek, South Africa

2022
‘SOLASTALGIA’, Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa

2020
‘Pantheism’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2019
‘In the Absence of Light’, Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa

2017
‘ORTUS’, Johannesburg Edition, The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
‘ORTUS’, Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2015
‘Beneath the Surface’, Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
EXPO Chicago, EBONY/CURATED, Chicago, United States of America

2024
'A Very Loop Street Summer III', EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
'A Place For Us', 74tharts, Southern Guild, Aspen, United States of America
The Aspen Art Fair, Southern Guild, Aspen, United States of America
'Mother Tongue', Southern Guild, Los Angeles, United States of America
Design Miami/LA, Southern Guild, Miami, United States of America
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2023
Design Miami, Southern Guild, Miami, United States of America
‘On Lines and Lineage’, Southern Guild in collaboration with Cavalli Estate, Somerset West, South Africa
EXPO Chicago, Southern Guild, Chicago, United States of America
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2022
Design Miami, Southern Guild Gallery, Miami, United States of America
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa

2021
‘In [the] Loop’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2020
'Solace’, Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa
Intersect Chicago (online edition), EBONY/CURATED, Chicago, United States of America
Intersect Aspen (online edition), Southern Guild, Aspen, United States of America
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2019
PAD Art + Design, Southern Guild, London, United Kingdom
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa

2018
Design Miami, Southern Guild, Miami, United States of America
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Eclectica Print Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
‘SculptX’, The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
‘Foundry Proof’, Southern Guild Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Extraordinary’, Southern Guild gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Staple’, The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Parallax Art Fair, Nadia Arnold Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2017
‘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 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2016
‘Natural Selection’, Southern Guild Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
‘Multilayered’, Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Focus’, Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2015
‘Homer Sapiens’, Objekt Design Art, Franschhoek, South Africa
‘Woodwork’, Southern Guild Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Young Guns’, Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2014
Young Blood Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
‘Kingdom’, Equus Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa