Krzysztof Jung

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Krzysztof Jung, 1983

Krzysztof Jung (born July 11, 1951 in Warsaw ; † October 5, 1998 there ) was a Polish performance artist, graphic artist , painter and educator .

life and work

Krzysztof Jung studied interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1971 to 1976 . He then worked for the Repassage gallery until it was closed in 1981 , which he managed himself from 1978 to 1979 (under the name Repassage 2 ). There he initiated his own performances and took part in performances by other artists from the gallery environment, including by Grzegorz Kowalski . In 1983 - after a stay in Paris , where he met the painter and writer Józef Czapski - he turned to painting under his influence. From 1988 he published portraits of Polish writers in the literary magazine Zeszyty Literackie , among others by Józef Czapski, Zbigniew Herbert , Konstanty Jeleński and Joseph Brodsky . In the 1990s he worked as a teacher at a Warsaw high school.

Even if Jung defended himself against the label "gay art" at the time, today he is considered a pioneer of "gay art" like Jean Cocteau , Robert Mapplethorpe , Francis Bacon and David Hockney . Like few other Polish works of art of their time, his works reflect an artist's fascination for the male body. They can be read as reflections on the mutual relationships between men who desire one another, who rebel against social oppression and who point out the not so utopian possibility of a self-determined sexual identity. At a time when the artistic representation of male bodies was an absolute taboo in Poland, Jung's pictures and performances ushered in a new era of sensitive masculinity. Krzysztof Jung died at the age of 47 as a result of an asthma attack.

Exhibitions

Selected collective exhibitions:

Selected solo exhibitions:

bibliography

  • Sitkowska, Maryla (eds.): Sigma, Galeria Repassage, Repassage 2, Rerepassage , Galeria Zachęta, Warszawa 1993. (exhibition catalog)
  • Sitkowska, Maryla (ed.): Krzysztof Jung (1951-1998) , Muzeum im. Xawerego Dunikowskiego w Królikarni - Oddział Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie, Warszawa 2001. (Exhibition catalog)
  • Leszkowicz, Paweł: ART PRIDE. Gay Art from Poland , Abiekt.pl, Warszawa 2010.
  • Wolfert, Raimund: "I am certainly a flame". Krzysztof Jung, pioneer of Polish "Gay Art" (PDF; 11.1 MB), in: Lambda Nachrichten 2010 (Vol. 32), No. 5, pp. 30–33.
  • Krzysztof Jung. The male nude , Schwules Museum, Berlin 2019 (texts by Wolfgang Theis , Raimund Wolfert , Dorota Krawczyk-Janisch; editors Wojciech Karpiński , Mikołaj Nowak-Rogoziński)

References

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maryla Sitkowska, Sylwetki. Sztuki wizualne. Krzysztof Jung ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.culture.pl
  2. ↑ Raimund Wolfert, "I am certainly a flame." Krzysztof Jung, pioneer of Polish "Gay Art" (PDF; 11.1 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Krzysztof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish performance artist, graphic artist, painter and educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1998
Place of death Warsaw