He graduated from the Puppetry Faculty of the Wrocław Branch  of the Ludwik Solski State Theatre School in Cracow. He has  worked with the Polish Theatre in Wrocław, neTTheatre in  Lublin, Jerzy Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, and Krzysztof  Kieślowski Film School at the University of Silesia in Katowice.  From 2015 to 2024, he was an actor with the Aleksander Smolka  Opole Puppet and Actor Theatre. Since 2024, he has worked with  Guliwer Puppet Theatre in Warsaw.

Since making his debut in 2013, he has created roles in twentyone theatre premieres and taken part in twenty-six staged  readings. In 2016, he appeared in the first unabridged staging  of Adam Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve at the Polish Theatre in  Wrocław, directed by Michał Zadara.

In 2016, he was nominated for the Opole Province Marshal’s  Golden Mask Artistic Award for the role of Rollison in [ˈdʑadɨ],  directed by Paweł Passini, and for the City of Opole Award for  achievement in culture. In 2018, he received a distinction in  the competition for the most promising young-generation puppeteer, awarded by the Polish Centre of UNIMA. Productions featuring Kowalczyk have appeared at numerous festivals and received  many awards and distinctions. These include Michał Zadara’s  Forefathers’ Eve (Parts I, II, and IV) at the Beijing People’s Art  Theatre International Festival (2015); the Grand Prix for the creators and performers of Paweł Passini’s The Lost Boy at the Katowice Children’s Puppet Theatre Festival (2018); appearances at  the Divine Comedy festival in Cracow; an ensemble award for  collective acting in Paweł Aigner’s Zorroat the Meetings International Puppet Theatre Festival in Toruń (2019); and 1st Prize for  The Lost Boy at the National Festival of Puppet Theatres in Opole  (2019). Productions he helped create have also enjoyed success in  the National Competition for the Staging of a Polish Contemporary Play and at the Opole Living Classics Theatre Confrontations,  including Konrad Dworakowski’s Balladyna in 2022.

A central strand of Kowalczyk’s artistic practice is his work with  children and young people. Both the projects in which he takes part and the workshops he leads focus on theatre education for  young audiences, introducing them to the theatrical world and, in  particular, promoting puppetry, object theatre, visual form, and  movement.