Paweł Althamer (born 12 May 1967, Warsaw) is a Polish contemporary sculptor, performer, collaborative artist and creator of installations, and video art.

His longest-running collaboration is with the Nowolipie Group, an organisation in Warsaw for adults with mental or physical disabilities, to whom he has been teaching a Friday night ceramics class since the early 1990s.

Althamer was part of the so-called Kowalski Studio at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, along with many of today’s leading generation of Polish artists, including Artur Żmijewski and Katarzyna Kozyra.

All without using words.’ Althamer's large series of works "The Venetians" was exhibited in the arsenale section of the 2013 Venice Biennale.

In 2015, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for his artistic achievements.