Piotr Uklański

Uklanski Piotr (2007)

Piotr Uklanski - Untitled (Fist)

Piotr Uklański (* 1968 in Warsaw ) is a Polish photographer , video and installation artist .

life and work

Piotr Uklański studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and from 1990 photography at the Cooper Union . He was part of the New York art scene in the mid-1990s.

Uklański is known for the projects Untitled (Dance Floor) (1996), Untitled (The Nazis) (1998), The Joy of Photography (1997-2007), Untitled (John Paul II) , Polmart (2007) and Real Nazis (2017) ). His main themes are the body, sexuality, politics, and pop culture . He is the writer and director of the film Summer Love (2006).

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 2004: Piotr Uklański - Earth, Wind and Fire , Kunsthalle Basel , Basel
• 2007: A Retrospective , Wiener Secession , Vienna
• 2011: Discharge! , Gagosian Gallery , New York
• 2012: Forty and Four Galeria Zachęta , Warsaw

Group exhibitions

• 1998: Manifesta 2, Luxembourg
• 2003: Biennale di Venezia , Venezia
• 2004: São Paulo Biennale , São Paulo
• 2008: 5th Berlin Biennale , Berlin
• 2010: Whitney Biennial , New York
• 2017: documenta 14 , Kassel and Athens

literature

• Piotr Uklański: Real Nazis. Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-906803-52-4 .

Web links

• Piotr Uklański in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• culture Piotr Uklański (English)
• documenta 14, daybook Piotr Uklański
• The mirror face to face with real Nazis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frieze A Tale of Two Cities , accessed on July 26, 2019. (English)
2. ↑ Gagosian Piotr Uklański , accessed on July 26, 2019. (English)
3. ↑ artnet Piotr Uklański , accessed July 26, 2019. (English)