Artur Żmijewski (video artist)

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Artur Żmijewski (born May 26, 1966 in Radzymin , Poland ) is a Polish artist who uses the media and stylistic devices photography , video and action art . He is the artistic editor of " Krytyka Polityczna ".

biography

From 1990 to 1995 Artur Żmijewski studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts with Professor Grzegorz Kowalski. Both the banalities and extreme marginal phenomena of everyday life can be found in his works and are thematized - sometimes drastically. "Normal" is repeatedly questioned artistically by him.

His work also deals with human disabilities and their perception. A work by Artur Żmijewski is his two-part project "Singing Lesson" with deaf and hard of hearing young people. During this event Artur Żmijewski practiced a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach and a Kyrie by Jan Maklakiewicz with these young people in Warsaw and Leipzig and performed them publicly.

Another work by Artur Żmijewski is the photo series “ An Eye for an Eye” , created between 1998 and 2000 . The photos show people with physical disabilities, to whom “healthy” people “borrow” missing limbs and body parts.

In 2005 Artur Żmijewski represented Poland at the 51st Venice Art Biennale. In 2007 he was invited as a participating artist to documenta 12 in Kassel .

Artur Żmijewski curated the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2012).

His video Berek from 2001, which shows a group of naked people playing catch in the gas chamber of a former concentration camp, was removed from an exhibition in 2011. The video was repeatedly negatively received by the media and condemned by Jewish groups.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • documenta 14 , Kassel
  • 2006 “YOU WON'T FEEL A THING”, Kunsthaus Dresden / KULTURZONE 06, Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main / The Impossible Theater, Kunsthalle Wien / “The Impossible Theater”; Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw / "A Short History of Performance IV", Whitechapel Art Gallery , London / "VON DER ABSENHEIT DES LAGERS", Kunsthaus Dresden / "The Impossible Theater", Barbican Center, London / "The New Reality of Europe" , Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
  • 2005 "Positioning", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art / "IRREDUCIBLE Bronx Museum of the Arts", New York / "KunstFilmBiennale Cologne 2005", Art Film Biennale Cologne / "WAR IS OVER", Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bergamo / "NOT A DROP BUT THE FALL ", Künstlerhaus Bremen /" October Art Salon Belgrade 2005 ", Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade /" EGOCENTRIC, IMMORAL, OUTMODED ", Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw /" Positioning National Museum of Art ", Osaka, Japan /" The Impossible Theater ”, Kunsthalle Wien /“ Irreducible ”, Miami Art Central /“ Panopticon ”, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw /“ 51. Venice Biennale 2005 "Venice Biennale /" Prague Biennale ", Prague Biennale /" COLLECTIVE CREATIVITY " Kunsthalle Fridericianum , Kassel /" ARRIVALS: Poland ", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford /" Decoding Poland "/ Film Screening International Foundation Manifesta, Amsterdam / “Transmediale.05” Transmediale Berlin / “SCHAUSPIEL WITHOUT RAMP” Shedhalle Zurich / “ACADEMY. Teaching Art, Learning Art "Kunstverein Hamburg /" Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video "CCA Wattis, San Francisco /" INSTANT EUROPE "Villa Manin, Codroipo
  • 2004 "artparis" 2004 Art Paris / "EU positive - art from the new Europe", Academy of Arts, Berlin / "Memoirs of a Time of Immaturity", Passage de Retz, Paris / "Privatizations - contemporary art from Eastern Europe", KW Berlin / "Videodreams", Kunsthaus Graz / "Under the White and Red Flag", Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
  • 2003 "Sound Systems" Kunstverein Salzburg
  • 2002 " Manifesta 4 Frankfurt 2002" International Foundation Manifesta, Amsterdam / "Dangerous liaisons", Arsenal City Gallery, Posen
  • 2001 "Abbild / steirischer herbst", steirischer herbst, Graz / "IN FREEDOM \ FINALLY - POLISH ART AFTER 1989", Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
  • 1999 “After the Wall”, Moderna Museet Stockholm

Movie

  • 2010: Blindly : Six blind people paint under Żmijewski's guidance, describe what they do and talk about their lives.
  • 2009: Sculpture Plein-air - Swiecie
  • 2004: 80064

Honor

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The 7th Berlin Biennale Archive: Game of Tag, Artur Żmijewski . Accessed December 1, 2017
  2. ↑ Die Welt: Naked Game in the Gas Chamber - Censored? Accessed December 1, 2017
  3. ^ The Daily Mail: Video of NAKED men and women playing tag in a Nazi death camp GAS CHAMBER sparks outrage . Accessed December 1, 2017
  4. ↑ The Independent: Artwork showing naked people playing tag in Nazi gas chamber condemned by Jewish groups. Accessed December 1, 2017
  5. ↑ Today: Naked playing in the Nazi gas chamber Catch Accessed on December 1, 2017
  6. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on September 1, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Żmijewski, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Radzymin , Poland