PAWEŁ ALTHAMER, *1967, PL
lives and works in Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION:
1988–93 Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITONS:
2022 Paweł Althamer. Lovis-Corinth-Preis 2022, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg, DE; 2022 Polish Sculpture, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US; 2021 Szczeliny rzeczywistości (with Przemysław Matecki), Galeria BWA, Zielona Gora, PL; 2020 Pawel Althamer. Cosmic Order, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, AT; 2020 Unerwartet, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2020 Familie (with Przemysław Matecki), Museum Jerke, Recklinghausen, DE; 2020 The Ultimate Song, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków, PL; 2019 Pawel Althamer: I (am), Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, FI; 2018 Ochse, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2017 Rokeya, Samdani Art Foundation, Sylhet, BD; 2016 Uskrzydleni (with Nowolipie Group), State Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL; 2016 MAMA, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2014 The Secret of the Phaistos Disc, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Hydra, GR; 2014 Pawel Althamer, UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, CN; 2014 Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors, New Museum, New York, US; 2013 Polyethylene. In the Darkness, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL; 2012 Pawel Althamer: 6 Sculptures, Galeri Manâ, Istanbul, TR; 2012 Polyethylene, Museion museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano, Bolzano, IT; 2012 Pawel Althamer, Goetz Collection, Munich, DE; 2011 Almech, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, DE; 2010 Mezalia (with Jacek Taszakowski), Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2010 Mezalia (with Jacek Taszakowski), neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2010 Pawel Althamer, Kunstpreis Aachen, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, DE; 2009 Pawel Althamer und Andere, Secession, Vienna, AT; 2009 Frühling, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE; 2007 Black market, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2007 One of Many, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Palazzina Appiani and Arena Civica, Milan, IT; 2007 In the Centre Pompidou, Espace 315, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; 2006 Paweł Althamer zachęca (Paweł Althamer Incites), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL; 2005 Pawel and Vincent, The Vincent Van Gogh Bi-annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Maastricht, NL; 2004 Spacer z Fundacja Galerii Foksal po Pradze (Walk with Foksal Gallery Foundation in Praga district), Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2003 Pawel Althamer, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2003 Chiesa di San Matteo, Lucca, IT; 2003 The Wrong Gallery, New York, US; 2003 So genannte Wellen und andere Phänomene des Geistes (with Artur Zmijewski), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, DE; 2002 The Fancy-dress Ball, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL; 2002 Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, IT; 2002 Prisoners, Kunstverein Münster, Munster, DE; 2002 Le cinema itinerant / De rondreizende cinema, various locations, BE; 2001 House on the Tree, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2001 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US; 2001 DAAD artist-in-residency, Berlin, DE; 2000 Galeria BWA, Zielona Gora, PL; 1999 Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 1999 Artist in-residency, Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, DE; 1998 Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL; 1997 Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH; 1997 Bródno, Cinema Tecza, Warsaw, PL; 1997 Kosmonauta, Galeria a.r.t., Plock, PL; 1996 Life after Death, Galeria Kronika, Bytom, PL; 1996 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL;1995 Miejsce Gallery, Cieszyn, PL; 1994 Fairy-tale, Galeria WOK, Warsaw, PL; 1993 Studies from Nature, Galeria a.r.t, Plock, PL; 1993 Diploma, Galeria a.r.t, Plock, PL; 1992 Galeria a.r.t., Plock, PL; 1991 Academy of Fine Arts’ Museum (with Jacek Adamas), Warsaw, PL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2022 Future Bodies from a Recent Past – Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE; 2021 documenta. Politik und Kunst, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, DE; 2020 Au rendez-vous des amis. Klassische Moderne im Dialog mit Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Goetz, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE; 2019 Fly me to the moon, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, CH; 2018 CONDO Warsaw. Paweł Althamer, Monika Sosnowska, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2017 ISelf Collection: Self-portrait as the Billy Goat, Whitechapel Gallery, London, GB; 2016 presently, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2015 Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US; 2014 Broken. Slapstick, Comedy und schwarzer Humor – Sammlung Goetz at Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE; 2013 EXPO 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York, US; 2011 Rearview Mirror. New Art from Central & Eastern Europe, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA; 2010 Skin Fruit, Fruit, Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection curated by Jeff Koons, New Museum, New York, US; 2009 SCHISM. Polish Art of the 1990, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL; 2008 Eyes Wide Open - New to The Stedelijk & The Monique Zaife Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL; 2007 Kunstmaschinen–Maschinenkunst, Schirn Kunsthallle, Frankfurt/Main, DE; 2006 Von Mäusen und Menschen / Of Mice and Men, 4. Berlin Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE; 2005 Kollektive Kreativität, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE; 2004 Artists' Favourites. Act I, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Gallery, London, GB; 2003 Dreams and Conflicts. The Viewer's Dictatorship, La Biennale di Venezia, 50. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, IT; 2002 The Collective Unconsciousness, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH; 2001 Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE; 2000 In Freiheit/endlich. Polnische Kunst nach 1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, DE; 1999 Fauna, Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw, PL; 1998 Passport: Exchange, (Ex)change, Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw, PL; 1997 Documenta X, Kassel, DE; 1996 Germinations 8, European Biennale for Young Artists, Academie St. Joost/ Hogeschool West-Brabant, Breda, BE; 1994 Germinations 8, Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw, PL; 1993 Unvollkommen, Museum Bochum, Bochum, DE; 1992 Die andere Seite, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, DE.
AWARDS:2013 KAIROS Prize, Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, DE; 2010 Art Prize Aachen, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, DE; 2004 The Vincent van Gogh Bi-Annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL
BARBARA FALENDER *1947, PL
She lives and works in Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION:
Studied in the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Prof. Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz.
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2020 Barbara Falender, Galeria Opera, Warsaw, PL; 2016 Solo show, Salon ASP, Warsaw, PL; 2007 Barbara Falender. Sculpture, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej Orońsko; PL; 1998 Sculpture and Drawings, The Kościuszko Foundation, New York, US; 1997 Sculpture, BWA Awangarda, Wrocław, PL; 1990 Sculpture, pensée en dessins, Polish Institute Paris, FR; 1986 Sculptures, Galeria Studio, Warsaw, PL; 1981 Sculpture, BWA Arsenał, Poznań, PL; 1979 Dance érotique, Galerii Krytyków Pokaz, Warsaw, PL; 1975 Sculpture, Drawings, Photograms, Athenaeum Gallery, Copenhagen, DK.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Seeing with the Body. Studio Collection, OP ENHEIM, Wrocław, PL; 2022 Materia(l)nie. Alicja Bielawska Barbara Falender, Galeria Studio, Warsaw, PL; 2019 Krzysztof Jung Zeichnungen, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE; 2010 Ars Homo Erotica, National Museum, Warsaw, PL; 2009 Gender Check. Feminity and Masculinity In the Art of Eastern Europe, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, AT; 2007 Contemporary Art from Grażyna Kulczyk Collection, Stary Browar, Poznań, PL; 2005 Kolekcja 13, Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom, PL; 2004 Powinność i bunt, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2000 Grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui 2000, Espace Eiffel - Brandy, Paris, FR.
TERESA GIERZYŃSKA, *1947 PL
lives and works in Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION:
1965–1971 Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts (Prof. Tadeusz Łodziana’s sculpture studio and Prof. Oskar Hansen’s Solids and Planes design studio), Warsaw. PL.
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Women Live for Love, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL; 2021 Pause, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2019 FOAF 2019: Teresa Gierzyńska & Isabelle Fein, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL; 2018 Left-handed, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL; 2014 Touch, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL; 2009 About Her. Photographs from 1967–2008, Arton Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2008 The Essence of Things, Czarna Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2004 Four Pictures, Mala Galeria ZPAF, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL; 1993 T.G., Galeria ZPAF, Cracow, PL; 1991 Shadows and covered the body ..., Mała Galeria ZPAF, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL; 1990 About Her. Black, White and Green, Galeria FF, Łódź, PL; SHE IT ME, Galeria Ściana Wschodnia, Warsaw, PL; 1981 She it me, Ściana Wschodnia Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 1976 Graphics (Memories), Dom Artysty Plastyka, Warsaw, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US; 2022 Gloss, Matt, Color, The Museum of Warsaw, PL; 2022 Kinds of Love, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2022 Cartographies of Sublime Feelings, BWA Zielona Góra, PL; 2021 My mother, my daughter, BWA Krosno, PL; 2021 Self-Portrait with Blues. Hasior and New Art, Władysław Hasior Gallery, (Tatra Museum), Zakopane, PL; 2021 Tender Attention. Urszula Czartoryska and Photography, Fotofestiwal 2021, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, PL; 2021 Instant Archives. Instant and Instax in Poland, National Museum in Gdańsk, PL; 2021 With Pleasure, Galeria Szara, Katowice; Krupa Gallery, Wrocław, PL; 2020 &I<3U2, Galeria Studio, Warsaw, PL; 2019 Metamorphosis, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL; Photography collection, Gallery 10, The Art Institute of Chicago, US; 2018 From the collection of Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; 2014 By the River that Isn't, BWA Sokół‚ Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nowy Sącz, PL; 2013 Implicit in Sex. From the collection of Joanna and Krzysztof Madelski, BWA Olsztyn, PL; 2009 SIEGesIKONen transFORM, Humboldt Umspannwerk, Berlin, DE; 2007 Time Saved 1977-2006, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL; 2006 Icons of Victory, Łódź Art Center, PL; 1992 Europa unden Rammer, Aarhus Festuge, Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK;1990 Looking East, Aarhus Festuge, Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK; 1990 Collection of Contemporary Technological Art, Vicerrectorado de Universitaria, Cuenca, ES; 1989 Looks / Impressions from the collection of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, PL; 1988 Collezione, Autori del Fondo Fotografico della Circoscrizione, Centro Civico di San Miniato, Siena, IT; 1989 II Bienal Internacional de Electrografia y Copy Art, Valencia, ES; 1989 Polish Perceptions / 10 Contemporary Photographers 1977-88, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, UK; 1988 L’Immagine delle Donne, Rassegna Fotografica Europea, Buonconvento, Siena, IT; 1986 IX British International Print Biennale, Bradford, UK; 1979 Polsk Kunst, Kobenhavns Radhus, DK; 1978 International Trennial of Drawing, Wrocław, PL; 1970 Young Polish Sculpture in Plein-Air, Legnica, PL; 1969 Drawing-Interior (with Edward Dwurnik and Przemyslaw Kwiek), Galeria Klubu Medyk, Warsaw, PL.
AWARDS:
2019 Maria Anto & Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Art Prize, edition 2019, Miejsce Sztuki Foundation, Warsaw
KAMI MIERZVVINSK,*1993 PL
lives and works in Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION:
2014-2020 Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw, PL; 2019 Exchange programme Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PL; 2009-2013 Secondary School of Fine Arts in Wrocław, PL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Edges of the Worlds, B93, Enschede, NL; 2020 Life isn’t everything, Contemporary Art Gallery MD_S, Wroclaw, PL; 2013 Commencement, industrial storage space in Wroclaw, PL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2022 Listasyning, Skrufan, Eyrarbakki, IS; 2022 My problem is a woman’s problem: voices of the younger generation, Centrala Spaces, Birmingham, UK; 2021 Milky Way, MIA Gallery, Wroclaw, PL; 2021 Ewa Partum, Galeria Adres. Place, Situation, Occasion, Offer presenting the achievements of Adres Gallery/ My problem is a woman’s problem, W Y Gallery and New Culture and Education Association, Fabryka Sztuki, Łódź, PL; 2021 Tolerance(s), ArtiFactory, Eos Gallery, Athens, GR; 2021 National Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2020, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdansk, PL; 2020 International Student’s Drawing Triennial, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, PL; 2020 Drawing Connection, Lower Rowe Gallery Department of Art & Art History, Charlotte, US; 2019 Third International Student Biennale, Lauba, Zagreb, HR; 2019 XI Small Painting Forms Triennial, Gallery Wozownia, Torun, PL; 2019 7th International Pastel Biennale, BWA Sokół Contemporary Art Gallery, Nowy Sącz, PL; 2019 Homography / Homography Festival, ArtSpace México, Mexico City; Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Querétaro, MX; 2019 Homography / Homography Festival, Saint Géry Place, Brussels, BE; 2019 Extending Reality, Amart Gallery, Vienna, AT; 2018 Auditorium Comicum, Museum of the University of Wroclaw, PL; 2018 Night on Earth, Contemporary Art Gallery MD_S, Wroclaw, PL; 2017 How is it?, Gallery Labyrinth, Lublin, PL; 2016 NOTO, Gallery of the New Art Foundation, Krakow, PL.
RESIDENCY:
2023 ARE Holland, Enschede, NL; 2022 SAGA residency, Eyrarbakki, IS
AWARD AND DISTINCTIONS:
2023 Nomination to Strabag Artaward International 2023, Vienna, AT; 2021 Honorable Mention in the National Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2020, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdansk, PL; 2021 Main Prize for the Best Diploma of the 2020 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, PL; 2020 Honorable Mention in the International Student’s Drawing Triennial, Katowice, PL; 2019 Finalist of the Third International Student Biennale, Lauba, Zagreb, HR; 2019 Artistic Scholarship of the Mayor of Wroclaw, PL; 2019 Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship in Poland; 2019 Main Prize of the International Young Art Competition Extending Reality, Amart Gallery, Vienna, AT
CHLOE PIENE, *1972, US
lives and works in New York, US and Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION:
1993 Columbia University, New York, US; 1997 Goldsmiths College, London, UK
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Wear The Gown, Fondation Maria Anto, Warsaw, PL; 2022 Dress The Wound, Fondation Maria Anto, Warsaw, PL; 2017 SURGERY, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE; 2016 At Ciú Cach Ro Genair / I See All Who Are Born/ Empress, Galerie Heike Curtze & Petra Seiser, Salzburg, AT; 2015 Valkyrie, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, US; 2013 Zeichnungskammer, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., New York, US; 2012 Eiserne Frau, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE; 2012 MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, BE; 2011 Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, US; 2011 D‘Amelio Terras, (with Roland Flexner), New York, US; 2011 Malpertuis, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, BE; 2010 Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, US; 2010 Lithographic Print Edition, Highpoint Press, Minneapolis, US; 2010 See how the outer sun/ Hungers für the inner one, Rotwand Gallery, Zürich, CH; 2010 Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL; 2009 Barbara Thumm Gallery, Artforum Berlin, Berlin, DE; 2008 Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, US; 2008 Chloe Piene and Hans Bellmer, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR; 2007 Chloe Piene, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE; 2007 Chloe Piene, Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes, FR; 2007 Chloe Piene, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL; 2007 Bodies of Desire: Works on Paper by Willem de Kooning and Chloe Piene, Locks Gallery, curated by Klaus Ottman, Philadelphia, US; 2007 Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL; 2006 Lower East Side Print Shop, Benefit Etching edition of 75, New York, US; 2005 Part I. Drawings, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, US; 2005 Part II. Video, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, US; 2005 Fade to White, Vita Kuben, curated by Annee Olofsson, Umea, SE; 2005 Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR; 2005 Mario Diacono, Boston, US; 2004 Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, US; 2004 Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH; 2003 Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, US; 2001 Profounders Gallery, Helsinki, FI; 2000 Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FI; 2001Magazin4, Bregenz, AT; 2001 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, US.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2022 Someone Else. Die Fremdheit der Kinder, Museum Für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, DE; 2022 Exposition Prix Gueralin, FIAC, Paris, FR; 2021 FIGURE/S: Drawing After Bellmer, The Drawing Room, London, UK; 2020 Works from the Permanent Collection: Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, US; 2019/2020 A PASSION FOR DRAWING: The Guerlain Collection from the Centre Pompidou, Albetina Museum, Vienna, AT; 2018 EGON SCHIELE - Die Jubiläumsschau RELOADED, Leopold Museum, Vienna, AT; 2017 Todestanz, Museum Villa Stuck, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Munich, DE; 2015 Drawing Now, curated by Elsy Lahner, Albertina, Vienna, AT; 2014/2015 QUEENSIZE – Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, me Collections Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, DE; 2013 Liebe, Tod und Teufel, Kunsthalle des Von der Heydt- Museum, Wuppertal-Barmen, DE; 2012 Highpoint Editions: Decade One, curated by Tom Rassieur, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, US; 2011 Compass, MOMA, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE; 2010 Compass in Hand, Drawing in Contemporary Art Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US; 2009 Elles@centrepompidou. Women artists in the collections of the National Modern Art Museum Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; 2008 The Florence & Daniel Guerlain Collection: Select drawings, Cultural Services of the French Emb. Picardie, Amiens, FR; 2007 Between the Two Deaths, curated by Felix Ensslin and Ellen Blumenstein, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE; 2006 Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL; 2005 Masculinities, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE; 2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US; 2003 Video Topiques, MAMCS, Strasbourg, FR; 2002 Videodrome, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US; 2001 Legitimate Theatre, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US; 2000 New Video, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, DE.
CYRYL POLACZEK, *1989; PL
Lives and works in Kraków, PL
Together with Karolina Jabłońska and Tomasz Kręcicki, he co-founded the artistic group Potencja.
EDUCATION:
2008-2010 Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, PL2013 Universität der Künste, Berlin, DE2010-2014 Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO-EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Little Tears, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL; 2021 James Fuentes Online, James Fuentes, Nowy Jork, US; 2021 There used to be sea here, Galeria Potencja, Kraków, PL (with Martyna Kielesińska); 2020 Dicke Brummer, Good Job!, Lipsk, DE (with Martyna Kielesińska); 2020 Through Quarantine I Developed My Passions, Galeria Dobro, Olsztyn, PL; 2020 Little Inconvenience, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL; 2018 Floundering, Potencja, Kraków, PL; 2016 Intermediate Forms, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, PL; 2014 Any Resemblance, Aacollection Gallery, Vienna, AT (with Tomasz Kręcicki); 2012 Ouueaooo, Fundacja Promocji Sztuki Współczesnej, Warsaw, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 Clouds of Lead, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk, PL; 2023 Reconciling Apparent Contradictions, Esther Schipper, Berlin, DE; 2023 Backyard, Galeria SKALA, Poznań, PL; 2023 Transition States, Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL; 2022 A Season in Hell, Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL, 2022 The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL; 2022 Visibility, NOWA Art Space, Nowa Ruda, PL; 2022 Swamp/Sponge, Galeria Szaber, Cracow, PL; 2022 Potencja – Humoral Theory: Quattro stagioni, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL; 2022 MEGAWONSZ9, Kościół Nihilistów, Wrocław, PL; 2021 Potencja – Humoral Theory, BWA Zielona Góra, PL; 2021 Z (Don’t Panic, Kiss Me), Studio BWA, Wrocław, PL; 2021 Guilty Pleasure, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL; 2021 Pokrzepiająca moc kserówki, Galeria Skala, Poznań, PL; 2020 Time and Foam, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL; 2020 All of Poland, BWA Wrocław, PL; 2019 NADA Projects Miami, Potencja, Miami, US; 2019 The Artist as Muse, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, US; 2019 Funny Games, Gussglashalle, Berlin, DE; 2019 44th Biennial of Painting Bielska Jesień, BWA Bielsko Biała, PL; 2019 Potencja: Soundcheck, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL; 2019 Małposzczur, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL; 2019 Force Field, Fundacja Rodziny Staraków, Oficine 800, Venice, IT; 2018 New Perspectives. Leipzig meets Cracow, Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig, DE; 2018 Komunikacja ze wszystkim co jest, Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw, PL; 2018 Ozimina, Galeria Widna, Kraków, PL; 2018 LifeHack, Jedna Dva Tri Gallery, Prague, CZ; 2017 Szwung, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, DE; 2017 No problem, Potencja, Kraków, PL; 2017 XY New Generation Polish-Hungarian Painting, MODEM, Debrecen, HU; 2017 Seans, Galeria Szara, Katowice, PL; 2017 Potency, Raster, Warsaw, PL; 2017 Future Perfect, Potencja, Cracow, PL; 2016 Ojciec szklarz, matka szyba, Henryk Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2016 Interstelaż, Potencja, Kraków, PL; 2016 Apteka leków gotowych, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, PL; 2015 42nd Biennial of Painting Bielska Jesień, BWA Bielsko Biała, PL; 2014 From Dusk Till Dawn, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, PL; 2013 Parade of Progress, West Germany, Berlin, DE.
AWARDS:
2012 Main Prize of the 11th edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey competition, Hestia Artistic Journey Foundation, Warsaw, PL.
FILIP RYBKOWSKI, *1991, PL
lives and works in Kraków, PL
EDUCATION:
2019 - 2022 PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts (Painting Department) in Kraków, PL
2010 - 2015 MA at the Academy of Fine Arts (Painting Department) in Kraków PL.
SELECTED SOLO and DUO EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS:
2023 LISTE Art Fair Basel, presentation at the fair with Wanda gallery, Basel CH; 2023 With Displacement, wanda gallery Warsaw, PL; 2023 Warsaw Spring, presentation at the fair, wanda gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2022 Bufer Zones, Piana Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2020 Balm. Entire Paris in a blue haze, like in spirit (duo exhibition) Krupa Gallery, Wroclaw, PL; 2020 Innocent Eyes, Week Arm (duo exhibition) Sopa Gallery, Košice, SK; 2019 Mirage Travel (duo exhibition) Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, PL; 2019 Primal Fantasies (duo exhibition), BWA Katowice, PL; 2018 Déjà vu (duo exhibition), Henryk Gallery, Kraków, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 Aurora temporis novum, BWA Tarnów, PL; 2023 Echo, BWA Tarnów, PL; 2023 Out of space vol.2, Piana Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2022 The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2019 Dry Crust and Oceans of Liquid Matter, Horse & Pony, Berlin, DE; 2018 Domestic Animal, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków, PL; 2018 Scattered Rhymes, XY Gallery, Olomouc, CZ; 2018 24H, Krakauer House, Nuremberg, DE; 2017 What About This Abstraction, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, PL.
JUSTYNA SMOLEŃ, *1988, PL
lives and works in Kraków, PL
EDUCATION:
2013 Faculty of Painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL.
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Wyrd Road (with Radek Szlęzak) Rooter Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2022 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (with Paweł Olszewski), Piana Gallery Foundation, Kraków, PL; 2020 Read the forms, solo exhibition, Grey House Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2016 SOON_30, Widnokręgi, Spectra Art Space, Warsaw, PL; 2016 Widnokręgi, BWA Sokół Gallery, Nowy Sacz, PL; 2015 Lack, solo exhibition, BWA Sanok Gallery, Sanok, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 CALLART 2 The Overview Effect, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL; 2023 Powrót do ceramiki, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, PL; 2023 Treibstoff, MODULGALERIE, Nuremberg, PL; 2022 A river once flowed there, Piana Gallery Foundation, Kraków, PL; 2022 INNY/ OBCY / TEN SAM, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, PL; 2022 Young Art Biennale Fisheye 10, Centre for Creative Activitites, Ustka, PL; 2022 IS IT REAL? The power of imagination, OFF Festival, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, PL; 2022 Interior, Katowice BWA Gallery, PL; 2021 Super Heros, KunstRaum, Weissenohe, DE; 2021 Without lashes, with Nina Paszkowski and Olga Holzschuh, Kraków Art Week KRAKERS, Dietla 7, Kraków, PL; 2020 Kadenowka Foundation Opening - with Małgorzata Markiewicz / Marcin Janusz, Kadenowka Residence House Rabka Zdrój, PL; 2019 Changing views, Halle WERFT 77, Dusseldorf, Germany, PL; 2019 Weltschmerz, BWA Wroclaw, PL; 2019 Nature in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, PL; 2018 Deal, Potencja Gallery, WGW, Warsaw, PL; 2017 XY- XY - Újgenerációs lengyel-magyar festészet, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debreczyn, HU; 2017 Triangel, Polish Institute in Dusseldorf, SITTart Galerie Dusseldorf, Kulturforum Alte Post Neuss, DE; 2016 Morze, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, PL; 2016 Polish start. Art Capital 2016, Ferenczy Múzeumi Centrum, Szentendre, HU; 2016 PMS Świeża Krew, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL; 2013 The 41st Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2013, BWA Bielsko-Biala, PL. AWARDS:2017 Artistic Scholarship of Kraków City, PL; 2015 Scholarship of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, PL; 2015 honorary mention, 2th International Art Competition, Contemporary Landscape, CZ; 2014 Grand Prix, IV Art Contest Świeża Krew, Socato Gallery, Wroclaw, PL; 2009 Grand Prix, Zdarzenia, X -Józef Szajna International Festival, Tczew, PL.
ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW, *1926, Kalisz, PL; +1973, Praz-Coutant, FR
EDUCATION:
1945-1946 Studio Otokar Velímsky, Prague, CZ; 1946-1947 Artistic Industrial College of Studio Josef Wagner, Prague, CZ: 1948-1950 École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR.
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Sculptures, photographs and photosculptures, Galerie Loevenbruck Paris, FR; 2020 To Exalt the Ephemeral: Alina Szapocznikow, 1962 – 1972, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK; 2019 To Exalt the Ephemeral: Alina Szapocznikow, 1962 – 1972, Hauser & Wirth, New York NY , US; 2018 Alina Szapocznikow, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, DE; 2017 Alina Szapocznikow. Human Landscapes, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK; 2016 Paysage(s) humain(s) / Human Landscape(s), Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR; 2015 Alina Szapocznikow, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York NY; 2015 Alina Szapocznikow, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK; 2014 Alina Szapocznikow. Body Traces, Museum of Art Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, IL; 2013 Oeuvres lumineuses / Luminous Works, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR; 2013 Alina Szapocznikow. Du dessin à la sculpture, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, FR; 2012 Alina Szapocznikow. Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972, MoMA Museum of Modern Art New York NY, US; (Travelling Exhibition) Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH, US; (Travelling Exhibition); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, US; (Travelling Exhibition) 2011 WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels, BE; (Travelling Exhibition); 2011 Alina Szapocznikow (Dessins), Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR; Alina Szapocznikow. Drawings, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin, DE; 2010 Alina Szapocznikow. My American Dream, Broadway 1602, New York NY, US; 2010 Out of My Mouth: The "Photosculptures" of Alina Szapocznikow, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK; 2010 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen von Alina Szapocznikow, Kunstparterre, Munich, DE; 2009 Alina Szapocznikow. Drawings and Sculptures 1959-1971, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin, DE; 2007 Alina Szapocznikow, Broadway 1602, New York NY, US; 2007 Alina Szapocznikow, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, DE; 2004 Alina Szapocznikow. Zatryzmac zycie Capturing Life, IRSA Fine Art Gallery Warsaw, PL; 2000 Alina Szapocznikow, Czech Museum of Art, Prague, CZ; 1999 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, National Museum Wrocław, PL; 1999 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, PL; 1998 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, National Museum Kraków, PL; 1998 Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973) Retrospective Exhibition, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL; 1990 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Musée Adam Mickiewicz, bibliothèque polonaise, Paris, FR; 1989 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Galeria Sztuki Sceny Plastycznej KUL, Lublin, PL; 1978 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Muzeum Okregów Ziemi Kaliskiej, Kalisz, PL; 1998 Alina Szapocznikow, Fotorzezby, 1971, Galeria Foto Medium Art, Wrocław, PL; 1977 Alina Szapocznikow, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, SE; 1976 Alina Szapocznikow, Salon BWA Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Poznan, PL; 1976 Alina Szapocznikow, Pałac Sztuki i Galeria Pryzmat, Kraków, PL; 1976 Alina Szapocznikow, MN Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk, PL; 1975 Retrospektive, MS Muzeum Sztuki, Lódž, PL; 1975 Alina Szapocznikow, MN Muzuem Narodowe, Warsaw, PL; 1975 Alina Szapocznikow, Dessins, MN Muzuem Narodowe Geneva, CH; 1974 Alina Szapocznikow, 1926–1973. Rysunki, Galeria Współczesna, Warsaw, PL; 1973 Alina Szapocznikow, Tumeurs, Herbier, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; 1970 Envahissement de Tumeurs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL; 1969 Alina Szapocznikow, Port-Barcarès, Musée des Sables, Le Bacarès, FR; 1961 Alina Szapocznikow, Galeria Kordegarda, Warsaw, PL; 1961 Alina Szapocznikow, Galeriji Likovnih Umjetnosti, Rijeka, HR; 1960 Alina Szapocznikow. Dessins, Galerie Falsetti Prato, IT; 1960 Alina Szapocznikow. Rzežba, BWA Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, XIII Festiwal Sztuk Plastycznych, Sopot, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 Avant l’ Orage, Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection Paris, FR; 2022 Future Bodies from a Recent Past-Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE; 2021 Mother!, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, DE; 2020 How to Survive. Art as Survival Strategy, curated by Carina Plath, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE; 2019 A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, Muzeum Susch, Susch, CH; 2018 Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and The Body (1300–Now), The Met Breuer, New York NY, US; 2017 documenta 14, Neue Galerie Kassel, DE; 2017 Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, US; 2016 Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, The Met Breuer, New York NY, US; 2015 Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, The Menil Collection, Houston TX, US; 2014 Shirts VS. Skins, Neue Galerie, New York NY, US; 2013 Formes biographiqéééues, construction d'une mythologie individuelle, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES; 2012 Menschenzellen | Human Capsules, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH; 2011 Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions,1940s to Now, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY; 2009 Awkward Objects. Alina Szapocznikow and Maria Bartušova, Pauline Boty, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Paulina Ołowska, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw, PL; 2008 Three Woman Sculptors, Jonouskova, Kmentova, Szapocznikow, The Royal Summer Palace Castle, Prague, CZ; 2007 Documenta XII, Documenta, Kassel, DE; 2007 Don't cry baby – work!, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin, DE; 2005 Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded. Contemporary Images of Artists, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 2004 Flesh at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH; 2002 Paris, Capital of the Arts 1900-1968, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK; 2000 Aspekte / Positionen. 50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa 1949-1999, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, AT; 1999 Miedzy ekspresja a metafora Kolekcja sztuki wspotczesnej, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1998 Figura w rzezbie polskiej XIX i XX wieku, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1997 Polish Art 1945-1996, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest, HU; 1996 Sztuka około 1956, Muzuem Narodowe, Poznan, PL; 1995 Muzeum Rzezby Współczesnej, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko, PL; 1994 Ars Erotica, MNW Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warsaw, PL; 1993 Rzezba polska lat szescdziesiatch, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko, PL; 1992 Artystki polskie, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, US; 1991 Kolekcje szutki XX wieku, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw, PL; 1989 Portrait of War in the Works of Contemporary Polish Artists, Polish Cultural Institute, London, UK; 1984 Rzezba polska, 1944-1980, BWA Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Arsenal, Poznan, PL; 1983 Présences polonaises. L'art vivant autour du musée de Łódź, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR;1980 Sculptures polonaises contemporaines, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; 1979 Udziat w grupowej, Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, PL; 1979 Sztuka i kultura za murami, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, PL;1978 Chemins de la Création. Dessins de Peintres – Dessings de Sculptures, Chateau d'Ancy-le-Franc, Yonne, FR; 1977 L'espirit romantique dans l'art polonais XIX-XX siècles, Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris, FR; 1976 Trait pour trait. 50 Autoportraits, Galerie Jean Briance, Paris, FR; 1975 Les Artistes et l'Année Internationale de la Femme, Siedziba UNESCO, Paris, FR; 1974 L'homme et son empreinte, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; 1973 Hommage à Alina Szapocznikow, Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, FR; 1972 XXIV Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardins de l'Unesco, Centre Jeanne Hachette, Ivry-sur-Seine, FR; 1971 Monumentalplastik, Neue Berliner Galerie, Berlin, DE; 1970 Contemporary Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, JP; 1969 Il Trienale Slovenskeho Socharstawa: Socha pieštanských parkov 69, Pieštany, Kupelny Ostrow, SK; 1968 Vision '68, Château de Fontainbleau, Fontainebleau, FR; 1968 I Miedzynarodowa Wystawa Rysunku, Moderna Galerija, Rijeka, HR; 1967 IX Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris, FR; 1967 18ème Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris, Paris, FR; 1966 XVIII Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Place de Vosges, Paris, FR; 1965 XXI Salon de Mai, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; 1965 XX Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, FR; 1964 XVI Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris, FR; 1963 Nigdy wiecej, Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, PL; 1962 Alina Szapocznikow, La Biennale di Venezia, Polish Pavilion at the XXXle Biennale di Venezia', Venice, IT; 1962 Exposition internationale du petit bronze, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; 1961 The First Exhibition in America of Contemporary Polish Painting and Sculpture, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC, US; 1961 Rzezba w XV-lecie PRL, Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, PL; 1960 Alina Szapocznikow. Konfrontacje 1960, Galeria Krywe Kolo, Warsaw, PL; 1959 Exhibition of designs submitted to the International Competition for a Monument at Auschwitz, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Rome, IT; 1958 Internationale Beeldenteentonstelling in de Open Lucht, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, NL; 1957 Wystawa prac Aliny Szapocznikow i Jerzego Tchorzewskiego, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1956 Polish Art Exhibition in India 1956, New Delhi, IN; 1956 Exposition Internationale de la Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris, FR; 1955 VI Wystawa OW ZPAP, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1954 IV Ogolnopolska Wystawa Plstiky, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1953 IV Wystawa OW ZPAP, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1951 II Ogolnopolska Wystawa Plastyki, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1950 VI Exposition des Artistes Juifs, Paris, FR.
MICHAŁ ZAWADA, *1985, PL
lives and works in Kraków, PL
EDUCATION:
2014-2015 Post Doc scholarhip (Stipendium der Stipendienstiftung der Republik Österreich – Stiftung Postdocs), Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, AT2010-2013 PhD in Art 2005–2010 MA-Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, PL 2004–2009 MA-History of Art, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL
Together with Filip Rybkowski and Michał Sroka he established Piana Gallery in Kraków, PL
2021-present, Professor at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (Painting);2020-present, Co-curator at Piana Gallery, Kraków, PL;2017-2021, Adjunct Professor at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, PL2016-2019, Vice-Dean of Painting Faculty, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL; 2012-2020, Assistant at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, PL.
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITONS:
2022 Sea of Honey, Galeria ASP, Kraków, PL; 2018The Course of Line, ZPAF Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2016 AIDACRA, CKiS Wieża Ciśnień, Konin, PL ; 2016 Przecinka, Galeria Widna, Kraków, PL; 2014 Mensur, Galeria ABC, Poznań, PL; 2013 Aritfices, Galeria Szara Kamienica, Kraków, PL; 2013 Transition (with Tomek Baran), Galeria Szara Kamienica, Kraków, PL; 2013 Transition I (with Tomek Baran), Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Tryb., PL; 2012 Transferences (with Witold Stelmachniewicz), Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL; 2012 Transition I (with Tomek Baran), Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Tryb., PL; 2012 Transferences (with Witold Stelmachniewicz), Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL; 2011 Years of Education, Art Agenda Nova, Kraków, PL; 2010 Za-skoczenie, photography exhibition, Jewish Community Centre, Kraków, PL; 2009 Cienie (Shadows), Art Agenda Nova, Kraków, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 Letters to R., II Klinika Chorób Wewnętrznych, Kraków, PL; 2023 […] orbis coelestium, De Revolutionibus, Kraków, PL; 2023 69 g, Art Industry Standard, Kraków, PL; 2022 A River Used to Flow Here, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2022 Share Your Anger, Galeria ASP, Kraków, PL; 2021 One Day I Saw the Sunset Twelve Times, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2020 Herbarium novum. Efflorescentiae, BWA Bydgoszcz, PL; 2020 Między-czas, Cricoteka, Kraków, PL; 2019 Dry Crust and Oceans of Liquid Matter, Horse & Pony Fine Arts, Berlin, DE; 2019 Flogiston, Galeria Malarstwa, ASP Kraków, PL; 2019 Honey, As Long As You’re Happy, I’m Happy, Akademia w Bronowicach, Kraków, PL; 2018 Scattered Rhymes, Galerie XY, Olomouc, CZ; 2018 Utopia. Non-place, High 5, Krakow, PL; 2017 Sztuka w sztuce / Art in Art, Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej MOCAK, Kraków, PL; 2017 No Problem, Galeria Potencja, Kraków, PL; 2016 Stan jak na zdjęciach, Galeria Malarstwa, ASP, Kraków, PL; 2015 Artists from Krakow. The Generation 1980-1990 / Artyści z Krakowa. Generacja 1980-1990, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków MOCAK, Kraców, PL; 2014 Silver, Browar Lubicz, Kraków, PL; 2013 Chance and Order, Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, Kraków, PL; 2012 Transition II, Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Tryb., PL; 2011 Renovation. The Flat Repainted, Kraków, PL; 2010 Sommerreise/Winterreise, with Hanna Śliwińska], Gallery Bestregarts, Frankfurt am Main, DE; 2009 Exhibition of the Class of Prof. A.Bednarczyka, TCK, Tarnowskie Góry, PL,; New Art Summer, Art Agenda Nova, Kraków, PL; 2008 Półmetek, Gallery Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków, PL; Poligon, Miejskie Centrum Kultury, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, PL.
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2022 A River Used to Flow Here, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL ; 2022 Michał Maliński, Melted Teeth, Galeria Szaber, Kraków, PL; 2022 Patryk Staruch, Mateusz Woźniak, It Lokked Somewhat Different, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2022 Filip Rybkowski, Buffer Zones, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2022 Agata Jarosławiec, Tonic Immobility, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2022 Paweł Olszewski, Justyna Smoleń, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2021 Alicja Pakosz, Kissing the Mirror, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2020 Time and Foam, Galeria ASP, Kraków, PL; 2018 Emilia Kina, Filip Rybkowski, Deja vu, Henryk Gallery, Kraków, PL.
SELECTED CONFERENCES:
2020 Conference Czy badania artystyczne? (about Artistic Research), ASP in Wrocław, PL; 2018 Conference Dydaktyka, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL; 2012 International conference: Politics of Erasure (Polityka Wymazywania. Pamięć, etos, reprezentacja oraz tyrania widzialności), Instytut Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego; PL; 2010 International conference: Metoda, metodologia i terminologia grafiki i rysunku, Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego; PL; 2009 Conference Pogranicza Chrześcijaństwa, Institute of Art. History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL.
lives and works in Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION:
1988–93 Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITONS:
2022 Paweł Althamer. Lovis-Corinth-Preis 2022, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg, DE; 2022 Polish Sculpture, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US; 2021 Szczeliny rzeczywistości (with Przemysław Matecki), Galeria BWA, Zielona Gora, PL; 2020 Pawel Althamer. Cosmic Order, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, AT; 2020 Unerwartet, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2020 Familie (with Przemysław Matecki), Museum Jerke, Recklinghausen, DE; 2020 The Ultimate Song, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków, PL; 2019 Pawel Althamer: I (am), Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, FI; 2018 Ochse, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2017 Rokeya, Samdani Art Foundation, Sylhet, BD; 2016 Uskrzydleni (with Nowolipie Group), State Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL; 2016 MAMA, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2014 The Secret of the Phaistos Disc, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Hydra, GR; 2014 Pawel Althamer, UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, CN; 2014 Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors, New Museum, New York, US; 2013 Polyethylene. In the Darkness, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL; 2012 Pawel Althamer: 6 Sculptures, Galeri Manâ, Istanbul, TR; 2012 Polyethylene, Museion museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano, Bolzano, IT; 2012 Pawel Althamer, Goetz Collection, Munich, DE; 2011 Almech, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, DE; 2010 Mezalia (with Jacek Taszakowski), Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2010 Mezalia (with Jacek Taszakowski), neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2010 Pawel Althamer, Kunstpreis Aachen, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, DE; 2009 Pawel Althamer und Andere, Secession, Vienna, AT; 2009 Frühling, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE; 2007 Black market, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2007 One of Many, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Palazzina Appiani and Arena Civica, Milan, IT; 2007 In the Centre Pompidou, Espace 315, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; 2006 Paweł Althamer zachęca (Paweł Althamer Incites), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL; 2005 Pawel and Vincent, The Vincent Van Gogh Bi-annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Maastricht, NL; 2004 Spacer z Fundacja Galerii Foksal po Pradze (Walk with Foksal Gallery Foundation in Praga district), Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2003 Pawel Althamer, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2003 Chiesa di San Matteo, Lucca, IT; 2003 The Wrong Gallery, New York, US; 2003 So genannte Wellen und andere Phänomene des Geistes (with Artur Zmijewski), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, DE; 2002 The Fancy-dress Ball, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL; 2002 Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, IT; 2002 Prisoners, Kunstverein Münster, Munster, DE; 2002 Le cinema itinerant / De rondreizende cinema, various locations, BE; 2001 House on the Tree, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2001 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US; 2001 DAAD artist-in-residency, Berlin, DE; 2000 Galeria BWA, Zielona Gora, PL; 1999 Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 1999 Artist in-residency, Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, DE; 1998 Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL; 1997 Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH; 1997 Bródno, Cinema Tecza, Warsaw, PL; 1997 Kosmonauta, Galeria a.r.t., Plock, PL; 1996 Life after Death, Galeria Kronika, Bytom, PL; 1996 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL;1995 Miejsce Gallery, Cieszyn, PL; 1994 Fairy-tale, Galeria WOK, Warsaw, PL; 1993 Studies from Nature, Galeria a.r.t, Plock, PL; 1993 Diploma, Galeria a.r.t, Plock, PL; 1992 Galeria a.r.t., Plock, PL; 1991 Academy of Fine Arts’ Museum (with Jacek Adamas), Warsaw, PL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2022 Future Bodies from a Recent Past – Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE; 2021 documenta. Politik und Kunst, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, DE; 2020 Au rendez-vous des amis. Klassische Moderne im Dialog mit Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Goetz, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE; 2019 Fly me to the moon, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, CH; 2018 CONDO Warsaw. Paweł Althamer, Monika Sosnowska, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2017 ISelf Collection: Self-portrait as the Billy Goat, Whitechapel Gallery, London, GB; 2016 presently, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE; 2015 Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US; 2014 Broken. Slapstick, Comedy und schwarzer Humor – Sammlung Goetz at Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE; 2013 EXPO 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York, US; 2011 Rearview Mirror. New Art from Central & Eastern Europe, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA; 2010 Skin Fruit, Fruit, Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection curated by Jeff Koons, New Museum, New York, US; 2009 SCHISM. Polish Art of the 1990, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL; 2008 Eyes Wide Open - New to The Stedelijk & The Monique Zaife Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL; 2007 Kunstmaschinen–Maschinenkunst, Schirn Kunsthallle, Frankfurt/Main, DE; 2006 Von Mäusen und Menschen / Of Mice and Men, 4. Berlin Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE; 2005 Kollektive Kreativität, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE; 2004 Artists' Favourites. Act I, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Gallery, London, GB; 2003 Dreams and Conflicts. The Viewer's Dictatorship, La Biennale di Venezia, 50. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, IT; 2002 The Collective Unconsciousness, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH; 2001 Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE; 2000 In Freiheit/endlich. Polnische Kunst nach 1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, DE; 1999 Fauna, Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw, PL; 1998 Passport: Exchange, (Ex)change, Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw, PL; 1997 Documenta X, Kassel, DE; 1996 Germinations 8, European Biennale for Young Artists, Academie St. Joost/ Hogeschool West-Brabant, Breda, BE; 1994 Germinations 8, Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw, PL; 1993 Unvollkommen, Museum Bochum, Bochum, DE; 1992 Die andere Seite, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, DE.
AWARDS:2013 KAIROS Prize, Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, DE; 2010 Art Prize Aachen, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, DE; 2004 The Vincent van Gogh Bi-Annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL
BARBARA FALENDER *1947, PL
She lives and works in Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION:
Studied in the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Prof. Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz.
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2020 Barbara Falender, Galeria Opera, Warsaw, PL; 2016 Solo show, Salon ASP, Warsaw, PL; 2007 Barbara Falender. Sculpture, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej Orońsko; PL; 1998 Sculpture and Drawings, The Kościuszko Foundation, New York, US; 1997 Sculpture, BWA Awangarda, Wrocław, PL; 1990 Sculpture, pensée en dessins, Polish Institute Paris, FR; 1986 Sculptures, Galeria Studio, Warsaw, PL; 1981 Sculpture, BWA Arsenał, Poznań, PL; 1979 Dance érotique, Galerii Krytyków Pokaz, Warsaw, PL; 1975 Sculpture, Drawings, Photograms, Athenaeum Gallery, Copenhagen, DK.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Seeing with the Body. Studio Collection, OP ENHEIM, Wrocław, PL; 2022 Materia(l)nie. Alicja Bielawska Barbara Falender, Galeria Studio, Warsaw, PL; 2019 Krzysztof Jung Zeichnungen, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE; 2010 Ars Homo Erotica, National Museum, Warsaw, PL; 2009 Gender Check. Feminity and Masculinity In the Art of Eastern Europe, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, AT; 2007 Contemporary Art from Grażyna Kulczyk Collection, Stary Browar, Poznań, PL; 2005 Kolekcja 13, Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom, PL; 2004 Powinność i bunt, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2000 Grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui 2000, Espace Eiffel - Brandy, Paris, FR.
TERESA GIERZYŃSKA, *1947 PL
lives and works in Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION:
1965–1971 Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts (Prof. Tadeusz Łodziana’s sculpture studio and Prof. Oskar Hansen’s Solids and Planes design studio), Warsaw. PL.
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Women Live for Love, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL; 2021 Pause, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2019 FOAF 2019: Teresa Gierzyńska & Isabelle Fein, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL; 2018 Left-handed, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL; 2014 Touch, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL; 2009 About Her. Photographs from 1967–2008, Arton Foundation, Warsaw, PL; 2008 The Essence of Things, Czarna Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2004 Four Pictures, Mala Galeria ZPAF, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL; 1993 T.G., Galeria ZPAF, Cracow, PL; 1991 Shadows and covered the body ..., Mała Galeria ZPAF, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL; 1990 About Her. Black, White and Green, Galeria FF, Łódź, PL; SHE IT ME, Galeria Ściana Wschodnia, Warsaw, PL; 1981 She it me, Ściana Wschodnia Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 1976 Graphics (Memories), Dom Artysty Plastyka, Warsaw, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US; 2022 Gloss, Matt, Color, The Museum of Warsaw, PL; 2022 Kinds of Love, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2022 Cartographies of Sublime Feelings, BWA Zielona Góra, PL; 2021 My mother, my daughter, BWA Krosno, PL; 2021 Self-Portrait with Blues. Hasior and New Art, Władysław Hasior Gallery, (Tatra Museum), Zakopane, PL; 2021 Tender Attention. Urszula Czartoryska and Photography, Fotofestiwal 2021, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, PL; 2021 Instant Archives. Instant and Instax in Poland, National Museum in Gdańsk, PL; 2021 With Pleasure, Galeria Szara, Katowice; Krupa Gallery, Wrocław, PL; 2020 &I<3U2, Galeria Studio, Warsaw, PL; 2019 Metamorphosis, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL; Photography collection, Gallery 10, The Art Institute of Chicago, US; 2018 From the collection of Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; 2014 By the River that Isn't, BWA Sokół‚ Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nowy Sącz, PL; 2013 Implicit in Sex. From the collection of Joanna and Krzysztof Madelski, BWA Olsztyn, PL; 2009 SIEGesIKONen transFORM, Humboldt Umspannwerk, Berlin, DE; 2007 Time Saved 1977-2006, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL; 2006 Icons of Victory, Łódź Art Center, PL; 1992 Europa unden Rammer, Aarhus Festuge, Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK;1990 Looking East, Aarhus Festuge, Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK; 1990 Collection of Contemporary Technological Art, Vicerrectorado de Universitaria, Cuenca, ES; 1989 Looks / Impressions from the collection of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, PL; 1988 Collezione, Autori del Fondo Fotografico della Circoscrizione, Centro Civico di San Miniato, Siena, IT; 1989 II Bienal Internacional de Electrografia y Copy Art, Valencia, ES; 1989 Polish Perceptions / 10 Contemporary Photographers 1977-88, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, UK; 1988 L’Immagine delle Donne, Rassegna Fotografica Europea, Buonconvento, Siena, IT; 1986 IX British International Print Biennale, Bradford, UK; 1979 Polsk Kunst, Kobenhavns Radhus, DK; 1978 International Trennial of Drawing, Wrocław, PL; 1970 Young Polish Sculpture in Plein-Air, Legnica, PL; 1969 Drawing-Interior (with Edward Dwurnik and Przemyslaw Kwiek), Galeria Klubu Medyk, Warsaw, PL.
AWARDS:
2019 Maria Anto & Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Art Prize, edition 2019, Miejsce Sztuki Foundation, Warsaw
KAMI MIERZVVINSK,*1993 PL
lives and works in Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION:
2014-2020 Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw, PL; 2019 Exchange programme Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PL; 2009-2013 Secondary School of Fine Arts in Wrocław, PL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Edges of the Worlds, B93, Enschede, NL; 2020 Life isn’t everything, Contemporary Art Gallery MD_S, Wroclaw, PL; 2013 Commencement, industrial storage space in Wroclaw, PL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2022 Listasyning, Skrufan, Eyrarbakki, IS; 2022 My problem is a woman’s problem: voices of the younger generation, Centrala Spaces, Birmingham, UK; 2021 Milky Way, MIA Gallery, Wroclaw, PL; 2021 Ewa Partum, Galeria Adres. Place, Situation, Occasion, Offer presenting the achievements of Adres Gallery/ My problem is a woman’s problem, W Y Gallery and New Culture and Education Association, Fabryka Sztuki, Łódź, PL; 2021 Tolerance(s), ArtiFactory, Eos Gallery, Athens, GR; 2021 National Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2020, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdansk, PL; 2020 International Student’s Drawing Triennial, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, PL; 2020 Drawing Connection, Lower Rowe Gallery Department of Art & Art History, Charlotte, US; 2019 Third International Student Biennale, Lauba, Zagreb, HR; 2019 XI Small Painting Forms Triennial, Gallery Wozownia, Torun, PL; 2019 7th International Pastel Biennale, BWA Sokół Contemporary Art Gallery, Nowy Sącz, PL; 2019 Homography / Homography Festival, ArtSpace México, Mexico City; Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Querétaro, MX; 2019 Homography / Homography Festival, Saint Géry Place, Brussels, BE; 2019 Extending Reality, Amart Gallery, Vienna, AT; 2018 Auditorium Comicum, Museum of the University of Wroclaw, PL; 2018 Night on Earth, Contemporary Art Gallery MD_S, Wroclaw, PL; 2017 How is it?, Gallery Labyrinth, Lublin, PL; 2016 NOTO, Gallery of the New Art Foundation, Krakow, PL.
RESIDENCY:
2023 ARE Holland, Enschede, NL; 2022 SAGA residency, Eyrarbakki, IS
AWARD AND DISTINCTIONS:
2023 Nomination to Strabag Artaward International 2023, Vienna, AT; 2021 Honorable Mention in the National Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2020, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdansk, PL; 2021 Main Prize for the Best Diploma of the 2020 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, PL; 2020 Honorable Mention in the International Student’s Drawing Triennial, Katowice, PL; 2019 Finalist of the Third International Student Biennale, Lauba, Zagreb, HR; 2019 Artistic Scholarship of the Mayor of Wroclaw, PL; 2019 Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship in Poland; 2019 Main Prize of the International Young Art Competition Extending Reality, Amart Gallery, Vienna, AT
CHLOE PIENE, *1972, US
lives and works in New York, US and Warsaw, PL
EDUCATION:
1993 Columbia University, New York, US; 1997 Goldsmiths College, London, UK
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Wear The Gown, Fondation Maria Anto, Warsaw, PL; 2022 Dress The Wound, Fondation Maria Anto, Warsaw, PL; 2017 SURGERY, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE; 2016 At Ciú Cach Ro Genair / I See All Who Are Born/ Empress, Galerie Heike Curtze & Petra Seiser, Salzburg, AT; 2015 Valkyrie, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, US; 2013 Zeichnungskammer, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., New York, US; 2012 Eiserne Frau, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE; 2012 MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, BE; 2011 Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, US; 2011 D‘Amelio Terras, (with Roland Flexner), New York, US; 2011 Malpertuis, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, BE; 2010 Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, US; 2010 Lithographic Print Edition, Highpoint Press, Minneapolis, US; 2010 See how the outer sun/ Hungers für the inner one, Rotwand Gallery, Zürich, CH; 2010 Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL; 2009 Barbara Thumm Gallery, Artforum Berlin, Berlin, DE; 2008 Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, US; 2008 Chloe Piene and Hans Bellmer, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR; 2007 Chloe Piene, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE; 2007 Chloe Piene, Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes, FR; 2007 Chloe Piene, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL; 2007 Bodies of Desire: Works on Paper by Willem de Kooning and Chloe Piene, Locks Gallery, curated by Klaus Ottman, Philadelphia, US; 2007 Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL; 2006 Lower East Side Print Shop, Benefit Etching edition of 75, New York, US; 2005 Part I. Drawings, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, US; 2005 Part II. Video, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, US; 2005 Fade to White, Vita Kuben, curated by Annee Olofsson, Umea, SE; 2005 Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR; 2005 Mario Diacono, Boston, US; 2004 Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, US; 2004 Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH; 2003 Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, US; 2001 Profounders Gallery, Helsinki, FI; 2000 Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FI; 2001Magazin4, Bregenz, AT; 2001 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, US.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2022 Someone Else. Die Fremdheit der Kinder, Museum Für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, DE; 2022 Exposition Prix Gueralin, FIAC, Paris, FR; 2021 FIGURE/S: Drawing After Bellmer, The Drawing Room, London, UK; 2020 Works from the Permanent Collection: Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, US; 2019/2020 A PASSION FOR DRAWING: The Guerlain Collection from the Centre Pompidou, Albetina Museum, Vienna, AT; 2018 EGON SCHIELE - Die Jubiläumsschau RELOADED, Leopold Museum, Vienna, AT; 2017 Todestanz, Museum Villa Stuck, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Munich, DE; 2015 Drawing Now, curated by Elsy Lahner, Albertina, Vienna, AT; 2014/2015 QUEENSIZE – Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, me Collections Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, DE; 2013 Liebe, Tod und Teufel, Kunsthalle des Von der Heydt- Museum, Wuppertal-Barmen, DE; 2012 Highpoint Editions: Decade One, curated by Tom Rassieur, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, US; 2011 Compass, MOMA, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE; 2010 Compass in Hand, Drawing in Contemporary Art Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US; 2009 Elles@centrepompidou. Women artists in the collections of the National Modern Art Museum Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; 2008 The Florence & Daniel Guerlain Collection: Select drawings, Cultural Services of the French Emb. Picardie, Amiens, FR; 2007 Between the Two Deaths, curated by Felix Ensslin and Ellen Blumenstein, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE; 2006 Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL; 2005 Masculinities, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE; 2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US; 2003 Video Topiques, MAMCS, Strasbourg, FR; 2002 Videodrome, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US; 2001 Legitimate Theatre, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US; 2000 New Video, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, DE.
CYRYL POLACZEK, *1989; PL
Lives and works in Kraków, PL
Together with Karolina Jabłońska and Tomasz Kręcicki, he co-founded the artistic group Potencja.
EDUCATION:
2008-2010 Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, PL2013 Universität der Künste, Berlin, DE2010-2014 Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO-EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Little Tears, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL; 2021 James Fuentes Online, James Fuentes, Nowy Jork, US; 2021 There used to be sea here, Galeria Potencja, Kraków, PL (with Martyna Kielesińska); 2020 Dicke Brummer, Good Job!, Lipsk, DE (with Martyna Kielesińska); 2020 Through Quarantine I Developed My Passions, Galeria Dobro, Olsztyn, PL; 2020 Little Inconvenience, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, PL; 2018 Floundering, Potencja, Kraków, PL; 2016 Intermediate Forms, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, PL; 2014 Any Resemblance, Aacollection Gallery, Vienna, AT (with Tomasz Kręcicki); 2012 Ouueaooo, Fundacja Promocji Sztuki Współczesnej, Warsaw, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 Clouds of Lead, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk, PL; 2023 Reconciling Apparent Contradictions, Esther Schipper, Berlin, DE; 2023 Backyard, Galeria SKALA, Poznań, PL; 2023 Transition States, Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL; 2022 A Season in Hell, Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL, 2022 The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL; 2022 Visibility, NOWA Art Space, Nowa Ruda, PL; 2022 Swamp/Sponge, Galeria Szaber, Cracow, PL; 2022 Potencja – Humoral Theory: Quattro stagioni, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL; 2022 MEGAWONSZ9, Kościół Nihilistów, Wrocław, PL; 2021 Potencja – Humoral Theory, BWA Zielona Góra, PL; 2021 Z (Don’t Panic, Kiss Me), Studio BWA, Wrocław, PL; 2021 Guilty Pleasure, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL; 2021 Pokrzepiająca moc kserówki, Galeria Skala, Poznań, PL; 2020 Time and Foam, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL; 2020 All of Poland, BWA Wrocław, PL; 2019 NADA Projects Miami, Potencja, Miami, US; 2019 The Artist as Muse, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, US; 2019 Funny Games, Gussglashalle, Berlin, DE; 2019 44th Biennial of Painting Bielska Jesień, BWA Bielsko Biała, PL; 2019 Potencja: Soundcheck, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL; 2019 Małposzczur, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL; 2019 Force Field, Fundacja Rodziny Staraków, Oficine 800, Venice, IT; 2018 New Perspectives. Leipzig meets Cracow, Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig, DE; 2018 Komunikacja ze wszystkim co jest, Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw, PL; 2018 Ozimina, Galeria Widna, Kraków, PL; 2018 LifeHack, Jedna Dva Tri Gallery, Prague, CZ; 2017 Szwung, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, DE; 2017 No problem, Potencja, Kraków, PL; 2017 XY New Generation Polish-Hungarian Painting, MODEM, Debrecen, HU; 2017 Seans, Galeria Szara, Katowice, PL; 2017 Potency, Raster, Warsaw, PL; 2017 Future Perfect, Potencja, Cracow, PL; 2016 Ojciec szklarz, matka szyba, Henryk Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2016 Interstelaż, Potencja, Kraków, PL; 2016 Apteka leków gotowych, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, PL; 2015 42nd Biennial of Painting Bielska Jesień, BWA Bielsko Biała, PL; 2014 From Dusk Till Dawn, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, PL; 2013 Parade of Progress, West Germany, Berlin, DE.
AWARDS:
2012 Main Prize of the 11th edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey competition, Hestia Artistic Journey Foundation, Warsaw, PL.
FILIP RYBKOWSKI, *1991, PL
lives and works in Kraków, PL
EDUCATION:
2019 - 2022 PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts (Painting Department) in Kraków, PL
2010 - 2015 MA at the Academy of Fine Arts (Painting Department) in Kraków PL.
SELECTED SOLO and DUO EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS:
2023 LISTE Art Fair Basel, presentation at the fair with Wanda gallery, Basel CH; 2023 With Displacement, wanda gallery Warsaw, PL; 2023 Warsaw Spring, presentation at the fair, wanda gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2022 Bufer Zones, Piana Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2020 Balm. Entire Paris in a blue haze, like in spirit (duo exhibition) Krupa Gallery, Wroclaw, PL; 2020 Innocent Eyes, Week Arm (duo exhibition) Sopa Gallery, Košice, SK; 2019 Mirage Travel (duo exhibition) Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, PL; 2019 Primal Fantasies (duo exhibition), BWA Katowice, PL; 2018 Déjà vu (duo exhibition), Henryk Gallery, Kraków, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 Aurora temporis novum, BWA Tarnów, PL; 2023 Echo, BWA Tarnów, PL; 2023 Out of space vol.2, Piana Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2022 The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, PL; 2019 Dry Crust and Oceans of Liquid Matter, Horse & Pony, Berlin, DE; 2018 Domestic Animal, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków, PL; 2018 Scattered Rhymes, XY Gallery, Olomouc, CZ; 2018 24H, Krakauer House, Nuremberg, DE; 2017 What About This Abstraction, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, PL.
JUSTYNA SMOLEŃ, *1988, PL
lives and works in Kraków, PL
EDUCATION:
2013 Faculty of Painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL.
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Wyrd Road (with Radek Szlęzak) Rooter Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2022 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (with Paweł Olszewski), Piana Gallery Foundation, Kraków, PL; 2020 Read the forms, solo exhibition, Grey House Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2016 SOON_30, Widnokręgi, Spectra Art Space, Warsaw, PL; 2016 Widnokręgi, BWA Sokół Gallery, Nowy Sacz, PL; 2015 Lack, solo exhibition, BWA Sanok Gallery, Sanok, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 CALLART 2 The Overview Effect, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL; 2023 Powrót do ceramiki, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, PL; 2023 Treibstoff, MODULGALERIE, Nuremberg, PL; 2022 A river once flowed there, Piana Gallery Foundation, Kraków, PL; 2022 INNY/ OBCY / TEN SAM, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, PL; 2022 Young Art Biennale Fisheye 10, Centre for Creative Activitites, Ustka, PL; 2022 IS IT REAL? The power of imagination, OFF Festival, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, PL; 2022 Interior, Katowice BWA Gallery, PL; 2021 Super Heros, KunstRaum, Weissenohe, DE; 2021 Without lashes, with Nina Paszkowski and Olga Holzschuh, Kraków Art Week KRAKERS, Dietla 7, Kraków, PL; 2020 Kadenowka Foundation Opening - with Małgorzata Markiewicz / Marcin Janusz, Kadenowka Residence House Rabka Zdrój, PL; 2019 Changing views, Halle WERFT 77, Dusseldorf, Germany, PL; 2019 Weltschmerz, BWA Wroclaw, PL; 2019 Nature in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, PL; 2018 Deal, Potencja Gallery, WGW, Warsaw, PL; 2017 XY- XY - Újgenerációs lengyel-magyar festészet, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debreczyn, HU; 2017 Triangel, Polish Institute in Dusseldorf, SITTart Galerie Dusseldorf, Kulturforum Alte Post Neuss, DE; 2016 Morze, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, PL; 2016 Polish start. Art Capital 2016, Ferenczy Múzeumi Centrum, Szentendre, HU; 2016 PMS Świeża Krew, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL; 2013 The 41st Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2013, BWA Bielsko-Biala, PL. AWARDS:2017 Artistic Scholarship of Kraków City, PL; 2015 Scholarship of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, PL; 2015 honorary mention, 2th International Art Competition, Contemporary Landscape, CZ; 2014 Grand Prix, IV Art Contest Świeża Krew, Socato Gallery, Wroclaw, PL; 2009 Grand Prix, Zdarzenia, X -Józef Szajna International Festival, Tczew, PL.
ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW, *1926, Kalisz, PL; +1973, Praz-Coutant, FR
EDUCATION:
1945-1946 Studio Otokar Velímsky, Prague, CZ; 1946-1947 Artistic Industrial College of Studio Josef Wagner, Prague, CZ: 1948-1950 École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR.
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Sculptures, photographs and photosculptures, Galerie Loevenbruck Paris, FR; 2020 To Exalt the Ephemeral: Alina Szapocznikow, 1962 – 1972, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK; 2019 To Exalt the Ephemeral: Alina Szapocznikow, 1962 – 1972, Hauser & Wirth, New York NY , US; 2018 Alina Szapocznikow, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, DE; 2017 Alina Szapocznikow. Human Landscapes, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK; 2016 Paysage(s) humain(s) / Human Landscape(s), Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR; 2015 Alina Szapocznikow, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York NY; 2015 Alina Szapocznikow, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK; 2014 Alina Szapocznikow. Body Traces, Museum of Art Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, IL; 2013 Oeuvres lumineuses / Luminous Works, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR; 2013 Alina Szapocznikow. Du dessin à la sculpture, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, FR; 2012 Alina Szapocznikow. Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972, MoMA Museum of Modern Art New York NY, US; (Travelling Exhibition) Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH, US; (Travelling Exhibition); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, US; (Travelling Exhibition) 2011 WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels, BE; (Travelling Exhibition); 2011 Alina Szapocznikow (Dessins), Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR; Alina Szapocznikow. Drawings, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin, DE; 2010 Alina Szapocznikow. My American Dream, Broadway 1602, New York NY, US; 2010 Out of My Mouth: The "Photosculptures" of Alina Szapocznikow, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK; 2010 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen von Alina Szapocznikow, Kunstparterre, Munich, DE; 2009 Alina Szapocznikow. Drawings and Sculptures 1959-1971, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin, DE; 2007 Alina Szapocznikow, Broadway 1602, New York NY, US; 2007 Alina Szapocznikow, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, DE; 2004 Alina Szapocznikow. Zatryzmac zycie Capturing Life, IRSA Fine Art Gallery Warsaw, PL; 2000 Alina Szapocznikow, Czech Museum of Art, Prague, CZ; 1999 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, National Museum Wrocław, PL; 1999 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, PL; 1998 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, National Museum Kraków, PL; 1998 Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973) Retrospective Exhibition, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL; 1990 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Musée Adam Mickiewicz, bibliothèque polonaise, Paris, FR; 1989 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Galeria Sztuki Sceny Plastycznej KUL, Lublin, PL; 1978 Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Muzeum Okregów Ziemi Kaliskiej, Kalisz, PL; 1998 Alina Szapocznikow, Fotorzezby, 1971, Galeria Foto Medium Art, Wrocław, PL; 1977 Alina Szapocznikow, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, SE; 1976 Alina Szapocznikow, Salon BWA Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Poznan, PL; 1976 Alina Szapocznikow, Pałac Sztuki i Galeria Pryzmat, Kraków, PL; 1976 Alina Szapocznikow, MN Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk, PL; 1975 Retrospektive, MS Muzeum Sztuki, Lódž, PL; 1975 Alina Szapocznikow, MN Muzuem Narodowe, Warsaw, PL; 1975 Alina Szapocznikow, Dessins, MN Muzuem Narodowe Geneva, CH; 1974 Alina Szapocznikow, 1926–1973. Rysunki, Galeria Współczesna, Warsaw, PL; 1973 Alina Szapocznikow, Tumeurs, Herbier, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; 1970 Envahissement de Tumeurs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL; 1969 Alina Szapocznikow, Port-Barcarès, Musée des Sables, Le Bacarès, FR; 1961 Alina Szapocznikow, Galeria Kordegarda, Warsaw, PL; 1961 Alina Szapocznikow, Galeriji Likovnih Umjetnosti, Rijeka, HR; 1960 Alina Szapocznikow. Dessins, Galerie Falsetti Prato, IT; 1960 Alina Szapocznikow. Rzežba, BWA Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, XIII Festiwal Sztuk Plastycznych, Sopot, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 Avant l’ Orage, Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection Paris, FR; 2022 Future Bodies from a Recent Past-Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE; 2021 Mother!, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, DE; 2020 How to Survive. Art as Survival Strategy, curated by Carina Plath, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE; 2019 A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, Muzeum Susch, Susch, CH; 2018 Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and The Body (1300–Now), The Met Breuer, New York NY, US; 2017 documenta 14, Neue Galerie Kassel, DE; 2017 Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, US; 2016 Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, The Met Breuer, New York NY, US; 2015 Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, The Menil Collection, Houston TX, US; 2014 Shirts VS. Skins, Neue Galerie, New York NY, US; 2013 Formes biographiqéééues, construction d'une mythologie individuelle, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES; 2012 Menschenzellen | Human Capsules, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH; 2011 Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions,1940s to Now, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY; 2009 Awkward Objects. Alina Szapocznikow and Maria Bartušova, Pauline Boty, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Paulina Ołowska, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw, PL; 2008 Three Woman Sculptors, Jonouskova, Kmentova, Szapocznikow, The Royal Summer Palace Castle, Prague, CZ; 2007 Documenta XII, Documenta, Kassel, DE; 2007 Don't cry baby – work!, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin, DE; 2005 Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded. Contemporary Images of Artists, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 2004 Flesh at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH; 2002 Paris, Capital of the Arts 1900-1968, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK; 2000 Aspekte / Positionen. 50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa 1949-1999, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, AT; 1999 Miedzy ekspresja a metafora Kolekcja sztuki wspotczesnej, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1998 Figura w rzezbie polskiej XIX i XX wieku, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1997 Polish Art 1945-1996, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest, HU; 1996 Sztuka około 1956, Muzuem Narodowe, Poznan, PL; 1995 Muzeum Rzezby Współczesnej, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko, PL; 1994 Ars Erotica, MNW Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warsaw, PL; 1993 Rzezba polska lat szescdziesiatch, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko, PL; 1992 Artystki polskie, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, US; 1991 Kolekcje szutki XX wieku, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw, PL; 1989 Portrait of War in the Works of Contemporary Polish Artists, Polish Cultural Institute, London, UK; 1984 Rzezba polska, 1944-1980, BWA Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Arsenal, Poznan, PL; 1983 Présences polonaises. L'art vivant autour du musée de Łódź, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR;1980 Sculptures polonaises contemporaines, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; 1979 Udziat w grupowej, Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, PL; 1979 Sztuka i kultura za murami, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, PL;1978 Chemins de la Création. Dessins de Peintres – Dessings de Sculptures, Chateau d'Ancy-le-Franc, Yonne, FR; 1977 L'espirit romantique dans l'art polonais XIX-XX siècles, Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris, FR; 1976 Trait pour trait. 50 Autoportraits, Galerie Jean Briance, Paris, FR; 1975 Les Artistes et l'Année Internationale de la Femme, Siedziba UNESCO, Paris, FR; 1974 L'homme et son empreinte, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; 1973 Hommage à Alina Szapocznikow, Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, FR; 1972 XXIV Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardins de l'Unesco, Centre Jeanne Hachette, Ivry-sur-Seine, FR; 1971 Monumentalplastik, Neue Berliner Galerie, Berlin, DE; 1970 Contemporary Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, JP; 1969 Il Trienale Slovenskeho Socharstawa: Socha pieštanských parkov 69, Pieštany, Kupelny Ostrow, SK; 1968 Vision '68, Château de Fontainbleau, Fontainebleau, FR; 1968 I Miedzynarodowa Wystawa Rysunku, Moderna Galerija, Rijeka, HR; 1967 IX Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris, FR; 1967 18ème Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris, Paris, FR; 1966 XVIII Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Place de Vosges, Paris, FR; 1965 XXI Salon de Mai, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; 1965 XX Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, FR; 1964 XVI Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris, FR; 1963 Nigdy wiecej, Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, PL; 1962 Alina Szapocznikow, La Biennale di Venezia, Polish Pavilion at the XXXle Biennale di Venezia', Venice, IT; 1962 Exposition internationale du petit bronze, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR; 1961 The First Exhibition in America of Contemporary Polish Painting and Sculpture, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC, US; 1961 Rzezba w XV-lecie PRL, Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, PL; 1960 Alina Szapocznikow. Konfrontacje 1960, Galeria Krywe Kolo, Warsaw, PL; 1959 Exhibition of designs submitted to the International Competition for a Monument at Auschwitz, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Rome, IT; 1958 Internationale Beeldenteentonstelling in de Open Lucht, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, NL; 1957 Wystawa prac Aliny Szapocznikow i Jerzego Tchorzewskiego, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1956 Polish Art Exhibition in India 1956, New Delhi, IN; 1956 Exposition Internationale de la Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris, FR; 1955 VI Wystawa OW ZPAP, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1954 IV Ogolnopolska Wystawa Plstiky, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1953 IV Wystawa OW ZPAP, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1951 II Ogolnopolska Wystawa Plastyki, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, PL; 1950 VI Exposition des Artistes Juifs, Paris, FR.
MICHAŁ ZAWADA, *1985, PL
lives and works in Kraków, PL
EDUCATION:
2014-2015 Post Doc scholarhip (Stipendium der Stipendienstiftung der Republik Österreich – Stiftung Postdocs), Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, AT2010-2013 PhD in Art 2005–2010 MA-Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, PL 2004–2009 MA-History of Art, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL
Together with Filip Rybkowski and Michał Sroka he established Piana Gallery in Kraków, PL
2021-present, Professor at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (Painting);2020-present, Co-curator at Piana Gallery, Kraków, PL;2017-2021, Adjunct Professor at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, PL2016-2019, Vice-Dean of Painting Faculty, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL; 2012-2020, Assistant at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, PL.
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITONS:
2022 Sea of Honey, Galeria ASP, Kraków, PL; 2018The Course of Line, ZPAF Gallery, Kraków, PL; 2016 AIDACRA, CKiS Wieża Ciśnień, Konin, PL ; 2016 Przecinka, Galeria Widna, Kraków, PL; 2014 Mensur, Galeria ABC, Poznań, PL; 2013 Aritfices, Galeria Szara Kamienica, Kraków, PL; 2013 Transition (with Tomek Baran), Galeria Szara Kamienica, Kraków, PL; 2013 Transition I (with Tomek Baran), Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Tryb., PL; 2012 Transferences (with Witold Stelmachniewicz), Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL; 2012 Transition I (with Tomek Baran), Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Tryb., PL; 2012 Transferences (with Witold Stelmachniewicz), Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL; 2011 Years of Education, Art Agenda Nova, Kraków, PL; 2010 Za-skoczenie, photography exhibition, Jewish Community Centre, Kraków, PL; 2009 Cienie (Shadows), Art Agenda Nova, Kraków, PL.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE; 2023 Letters to R., II Klinika Chorób Wewnętrznych, Kraków, PL; 2023 […] orbis coelestium, De Revolutionibus, Kraków, PL; 2023 69 g, Art Industry Standard, Kraków, PL; 2022 A River Used to Flow Here, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2022 Share Your Anger, Galeria ASP, Kraków, PL; 2021 One Day I Saw the Sunset Twelve Times, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2020 Herbarium novum. Efflorescentiae, BWA Bydgoszcz, PL; 2020 Między-czas, Cricoteka, Kraków, PL; 2019 Dry Crust and Oceans of Liquid Matter, Horse & Pony Fine Arts, Berlin, DE; 2019 Flogiston, Galeria Malarstwa, ASP Kraków, PL; 2019 Honey, As Long As You’re Happy, I’m Happy, Akademia w Bronowicach, Kraków, PL; 2018 Scattered Rhymes, Galerie XY, Olomouc, CZ; 2018 Utopia. Non-place, High 5, Krakow, PL; 2017 Sztuka w sztuce / Art in Art, Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej MOCAK, Kraków, PL; 2017 No Problem, Galeria Potencja, Kraków, PL; 2016 Stan jak na zdjęciach, Galeria Malarstwa, ASP, Kraków, PL; 2015 Artists from Krakow. The Generation 1980-1990 / Artyści z Krakowa. Generacja 1980-1990, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków MOCAK, Kraców, PL; 2014 Silver, Browar Lubicz, Kraków, PL; 2013 Chance and Order, Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, Kraków, PL; 2012 Transition II, Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Tryb., PL; 2011 Renovation. The Flat Repainted, Kraków, PL; 2010 Sommerreise/Winterreise, with Hanna Śliwińska], Gallery Bestregarts, Frankfurt am Main, DE; 2009 Exhibition of the Class of Prof. A.Bednarczyka, TCK, Tarnowskie Góry, PL,; New Art Summer, Art Agenda Nova, Kraków, PL; 2008 Półmetek, Gallery Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków, PL; Poligon, Miejskie Centrum Kultury, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, PL.
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2022 A River Used to Flow Here, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL ; 2022 Michał Maliński, Melted Teeth, Galeria Szaber, Kraków, PL; 2022 Patryk Staruch, Mateusz Woźniak, It Lokked Somewhat Different, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2022 Filip Rybkowski, Buffer Zones, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2022 Agata Jarosławiec, Tonic Immobility, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2022 Paweł Olszewski, Justyna Smoleń, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2021 Alicja Pakosz, Kissing the Mirror, Galeria Piana, Kraków, PL; 2020 Time and Foam, Galeria ASP, Kraków, PL; 2018 Emilia Kina, Filip Rybkowski, Deja vu, Henryk Gallery, Kraków, PL.
SELECTED CONFERENCES:
2020 Conference Czy badania artystyczne? (about Artistic Research), ASP in Wrocław, PL; 2018 Conference Dydaktyka, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL; 2012 International conference: Politics of Erasure (Polityka Wymazywania. Pamięć, etos, reprezentacja oraz tyrania widzialności), Instytut Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego; PL; 2010 International conference: Metoda, metodologia i terminologia grafiki i rysunku, Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego; PL; 2009 Conference Pogranicza Chrześcijaństwa, Institute of Art. History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL.
