🧛🏻‍♀️ Maciej Ratajski is a Polish multidisciplinary artist born in 1985 in Warsaw. Their work spans across disciplines including video, sound, installation, photography, works on paper, prints, design, digital art, performance, education, and others.

They are best known for their typographic, text-based, and conceptual work that often focuses on wordplay and issues surrounding language, meaning, and the relationship between words and images.

Ratajski's work has been featured in multiple books (including one by Diane Keaton), and magazines. It has inspired articles, research papers, and master theses in the USA, Spain, Portugal, and others, and has been published among the works of artists such as Stefan Brüggeman or Jenny Holzer. Their sound work has been played on radio broadcasts including one in Belgian Musiq'3. Ratajski's work has served as elements of theater set designs, and as album covers. It has illustrated a chapter on postmodern poetry in a literature textbook in South Africa, and has been used in publications by the German Institute for Human Rights, the Dutch branch of the International Association of Art Critics, and others. It has also been shared with hundreds of thousands of notes on multiple Tumblr blogs including MoMA Teens, and Visual Poetry by Anatol Knotek, and has influenced artists such as Eszter Magyar known for her Makeupbrutalism project.

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.

As a member of the Grupa ETC collective, they have worked with the artistic tradition of Fluxus, the neo-avant-garde, and experimental music. They have 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 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. Their Star Wars-inspired 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.

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