Wilhelm Sasnal

Wilhelm Sasnal, 2009

Wilhelm Sasnal (born December 29, 1972 in Tarnów , Poland ) is a Polish painter , filmmaker and comic artist .

life and work

Wilhelm Sasnal studied architecture at the Technical University of Cracow (1992–1994) and then painting at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts . He graduated in 1999. From 1996 to 2001 he was active in the artists' association Grupa Ładnie in Krakow. Various presentations of his paintings outside Poland, especially in the Kunsthalle Basel and at the Basel art fair list , he helped around 2002 international breakthrough.

In his oil paintings, Sasnal uses images from private and public, cultural and political contexts, such as current press photographs and historical photographs (often from history books), sketches of everyday observations and family photos, comics and films. The picture elements are reproduced in a realistic way of painting. Topics that Sasnal frequently deals with are the Holocaust and the history of Poland since World War II .

Since 1997 films have been made in collaboration with his wife Anka Sasnal. Their joint film Z daleka widok jest piękny / It Looks Pretty from a Distance (2011) has been invited to various film festivals, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the International Film Festival Rotterdam . Her film Huba (Parasite) (2014, 66 min.) Was shown at the Berlinale 2014 in Berlin.

In 2006, Sasnal won the Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe . His international exhibitions include a. the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2006), the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf (2009), the Center for Contemporary Art in Málaga (2010), the London Whitechapel Gallery (2011), the Haus der Kunst Munich (2012).

Works in public collections

Belgium

• Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst , Antwerp

Germany

• Boros Collection , Berlin
• Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt / Main
• MARTa Herford , Herford
• Städel Museum , Frankfurt / Main

France

• Center Pompidou , Paris

Italy

• Punta della Dogana - Francois Pinault Foundation , Venice

Austria

• EVN Collection , Maria Enzersdorf

Poland

• Bunkier Sztuki , Krakow
• Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski , Warsaw

Switzerland

• Beyeler Foundation , Riehen

United Kingdom

• The Saatchi Gallery , London (England)
• Tate Britain , London (England)

literature

• Achim Borchardt-Hume: Wilhelm Sasnal , exhib.-cat. Whitechapel Gallery, London, October 14, 2011 - January 1, 2012 (2011), ISBN 978-0-85488-199-4
• Dominic Eichler, Andrzej Przywara, Joerg Heiser: Wilhelm Sasnal , Phaidon Press Ltd (2011), ISBN 978-0-7148-6079-4
• Wilhelm Sasnal: Wilhelm Sasnal: Paintings & Films , Veenman Publishers (2006), ISBN 90-8690-004-6
• Michael Zeeman: The Vincent Van Gogh Award for Contemporary Art in Europe , Veenman Publishers (2006), ISBN 90-8690-031-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karol Sienkiewicz: Ładnie Group . In: Culture.pl . December 2007 ( culture.pl [accessed June 1, 2018]).
2. ↑ Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal: Huba (Parasite), 2014 . In: Berlinale 2014. Program . Berlin 2014, p. 208 ( berlinale.de [PDF]).
3. ↑ Berlinale: Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal on their film "Huba": "In the film world we are lost children in the fog". Monopol - Magazin für Kunst und Leben, February 12, 2014, accessed June 1, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Haus der Kunst, Munich ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 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. , accessed January 8. 
5. ↑ https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/de/person/sasnal-wilhelm , accessed on December 17, 2017

Web links

• Wilhelm Sasnal on kunstaspekte.de
• 2004 exhibit, culture.pl website
• Wilhelm Sasnal at www.raster.art.pl (English)
• Wilhelm Sasnal is the Polish Roy Lichtenstein , Welt am Sonntag , April 25, 2004