Mikołaj MaleszaMikołaj Malesza was born in 1954 in Krynki. After graduating from the State secondary school of fine arts in Supraśl, he studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts at the Interior Design Faculty. He received his diploma with honors in 1979 and has been involved in painting, stage design and exhibitions.
He has had about 40 solo exhibitions of paintings, and participated in dozens of exhibitions of Polish painting at home and abroad, including in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Czechoslovakia, Austria, USA, Japan, Bulgaria, Italy, France, Lithuania and Ukraine. He has won numerous awards and prizes in the field.
He is also the author of some 80 stage designs. In 1991-2003 he was the stage designer of the "Wierszalin Society" theater, with which he was a three-time winner of the Fringe First award at Europe's largest theater festival in Edinburgh.
For many years he has worked with puppet and drama theaters throughout Poland. He has won many individual awards in the field of stage design.
In 2010, he received the Silver Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and in 2013, he received the "Henry" award from the Association of Polish Stage Artists (ZASP).