asthma (Mateusz Wardyński) International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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Rapper, actor, performer, and lyricist, he made his debut in 2021  with the album manifest, and in the same year received the Lech  Polish Hip-Hop Music Awards prize in the Discovery of the Year category. In 2023 he released his second album, nowe życie(New  Life), and a few months later appeared in the third season of  the television series Belfer. In 2024, nowe życie was nominated  for an O!Lśnienia Award in the Popular Music category.

Alongside his musical career, he has developed projects in other  artistic disciplines. In 2024 he made his debut as a performer in  Katarzyna Krakowiak-Bałka’s projects Cleaning Zachęta (Zachęta  – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw) and Keeping Flowers Alive.  Acoustic Ikebana(Sogetsu Foundation, Tokyo). In the following  years he also cooperated with the painter Inga Wójcik, creating  music together with producer Wuja HZG for her works presented  at international exhibitions in Berlin and Vienna.

 The year 2025 marked a period of intensive creative work for  asthma. In the spring he released his third album, ASTHMA, produced by Wuja HZG, SHDØW, Kuba Więcek, and Kuba Karaś.  That same year he was selected for the prestigious Apple Music  Up Next programme, which highlights the world’s most promising emerging artists. Throughout his career he has cooperated  notably with KRS-One, HAŁASTRA, Miętha, Szczyl, Kacha, and  Rosalie, with whom he cowrote lyrics for the projects Motherlode  and NIE CIERPIE NIE.

In January 2026, the ASTHMA project was brought to completion  with the release of its full version, ALWAYS SEEK THE HIGHEST  MIND ALIVE. He is currently working on new musical material.