KwieKulik

KwieKulik is a Polish artist duo consisting of Zofia Kulik (* 1947 in Wrocław ) and Przemyslaw Kwiek (* 1945). Together they were active from 1971 to 1987 and are considered one of the most important phenomena in Polish post-war art. In addition to working on the sculpture , they mainly devoted themselves to performance and conceptual art and documented them in an extensive archive of photographs and videos.

Career and work

Przemysław Kwiek and Zofia Kulik met at the Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych), where both studied in the late 1960s to early 1970s. As a student of the architect Oskar Hansen at the academy, they were the first artists to transfer his theory of open form into politics, thus combining the artistic with the political. They used the connection between art and politics according to the motto that the private is political extensively to express their criticism of totalitarian Soviet communism and to advocate basic values of democratic socialism such as self-organization and solidarity in public life. Since they were rejected by the Polish government and the neo-avant-garde currents in Poland, they set up their own apartment archive in their apartment with the title Studio of Activities, Documentation and Propagation (PDDiU) . The small apartment was a studio, gallery, archive and living space in one.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

2016: The Monument Without a Passport , Galerie Żak | Branicka, Berlin, DE
2009: BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wrocław, PL
1999: Galeria Miejska, Poznań, PL
1987: Franklin Furnace, New York, USA
1983: Moltkerei workshop, Cologne, DE
1981: Free International University , Düsseldorf, DE
1978: Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL
1971: Współczesna Gallery, Warsaw, PL

Group exhibitions

2015: Me, You, Us and Them. Exercises on Collectivity , Kyiv Biennial 2015, Kiev, UA
2014: Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module , New Museum , New York, USA
2013: Better Hommes , Sculpture Center, New York, USA
2012: Untimely Stories , Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi , Lodz, PL
2011: The International , Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona , Barcelona, ES
2009: Istanbul Biennale , Istanbul, TR
2007: Documenta 12 , Kassel, DE
1999: Gray in Color 1956–1970 , Galeria Zachęta , Warsaw, PL
1985: Contemporary Art from Poland , Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, CA
1975: 7 Young Poles , Kunsthalle Malmö , SE
1971: The Dreamer's Convent , El Gallery, Elblag, PL

Web links

Literature by and about KwieKulik in the catalog of the German National Library
KwieKulik on kunstaspekte.de
KwieKulik at the Żak | gallery Branicka
Videos from KwieKulik on the homepage of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Individual evidence

↑ Karen Archey: Daily Equations . In: Spike Magazine . No. 38 , 2013, p. 69-79 .
↑ Georg Schöllhammer, Łukasz Ronduda: Form is a fact of society . Ed .: BWA Wrocław - Galleries of Contemporary Art. Wrocław 2009, ISBN 978-83-8930858-0 , p. 7 .

[1] Karen Archey: Daily Equations . In: Spike Magazine . No. 38 , 2013, p. 69-79 .

[2] Georg Schöllhammer, Łukasz Ronduda: Form is a fact of society . Ed .: BWA Wrocław - Galleries of Contemporary Art. Wrocław 2009, ISBN 978-83-8930858-0 , p. 7 .