Artur Żmijewski
Artur Żmijewski was born in Warsaw in 1966. He studied at the local Academy of Fine Arts’ Faculty of Sculpture from 1990 – 1995, when he obtained his diploma at the studio of Professor Grzegorz Kowalski. Until today he creates installations, photographs' objects, photographs, video realisations and films. In 1995 he was a bursar of Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. On the exhibition "Guarene Arte 2000" he was given Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte Prize for the work "An eye for an eye". In 2005 his “Repetition” was shown in the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and two years later his film “Them” was shown on the documenta in Kassel. From 2007-2008 he was a bursar of DAAD Artists in Residence in Berlin, were he prepared his project ‘Democracies’. Zmijewski was an editor of "Czereja" magazine and also works as an art critic and curator. In 2010 Artur Żmijewski has received the Ordway Prize, administered by the New Museum in New York and Creative Link for the Arts. He has directed the 7th Berlin Biennale.
1966 born in Warsaw
1990-95 studies at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
1995 diploma in the studio of Professor Grzegorz Kowalski
1999 studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam
2000 first prize (Premio Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte) for the video film An Eye for an Eye, during the exhibition Guarene Arte 2000, Guarene d’Alba
2005 first prize for the video Repetition at KunstFilmBiennale 2005 Cologne
2007- 2008 DAAD Artists in Residence in Berlin
2010 The Ordway Prize administered by the New Museum in New York and Creative Link for the Arts
2011-2012 Curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale
1966 urodzony w Warszawie
1990-95 studia na Wydziale Rzeźby Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie
1995 dyplom w pracowni profesora Grzegorza Kowalskiego
1999 studia w Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2000 główna nagroda (Premio Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte) na wystawie Guarene Arte 2000 za film Oko za oko, Guarene d’Alba
2005 główna nagroda za film Powtórzenie na festiwalu KunstFilmBiennale 2005 w Kolonii
2007- 2008 DAAD Artists in Residence, Berlin
2010 Ordway Prize przyznana przez New Museum w Nowym Jorku i Creative Link for the Arts
2011-2012 Kurator siódmego Berlin Biennale
Upcoming group exhibitions:
The Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde, January 2014
Worlds in Collision, Adelaide International, February 2014
1814 REVISITED. The Past is Still Present, Akershus Art Center, Lillestrom, May 2014
Solo Exhibitions / Wystawy indywidualne
2012
Artur Żmijewski, Centre for Contemporary Art in Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Artur Żmijewski: Democracies, HMKV – Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
2011
Artur Żmijewski. Them, MOCCA Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Artur Żmijewski, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Democracies, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
Artur Zmijewski, Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (CCBNB), Fortaleza, Brasil
2010
Artur Żmijewski. Democracies, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland
Artur Zmijewski, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
Democracies, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Artur Żmijewski, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
Following Bauhaus, A Foundation, Liverpool, UK
Artur Żmijewski, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Artur Żmijewski, Politics of Art, Fundaçao Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
2009
Artur Żmijewski, X Initiative, New York, USA
Artur Żmijewski, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Two Monuments & Democracies, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Artur Żmijewski, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Democracies, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Democracies: Artur Żmijewski, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2008
Artur Żmijewski, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau City, New Zealand
Artur Żmijewski: The Social Studio, Basis voor Actuele Kunst BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
Artur Zmijewski, IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Artur Żmijewski, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
Artur Żmijewski, Trafo – Kortars Muveszetek Haza, Budapest, Hungary
Artur Żmijewski, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2007
Artur Żmijewski. Ausgewählte arbeiten, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Gemrany
Plug In # 24. Artur Żmijewski (Plug In. De collectie anders / Plug In. Re-imagining The collection), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2006
Artur Żmijewski. Wybrane prace, Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdańsk, Poland
Artur Żmijewski, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
2005
Artur Zmijewski: Repetition”, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, USA
Einmal ist Keinmal, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Powtórzenie (Repetition), the Polish Pavilion at the LI International Biennale of Venice, Italy
Arrivals: Poland. Artur Zmijewski and Pawel Althamer, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford; Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2004
The Singing Lesson, Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finnland
Artur Zmijewski, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, Franace
Our Songbook, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
transmediale.salon, Klub im Podewil, Berlin, Germany
Lekcja śpiewu. Filmy i fotografie z lat 1997–2003 (The Singing Lesson. Films and Photos from 1997–2003), BWA Gallery, Jelenia Góra, Poland
Artur Żmijewski. Selected Works, 1998–2003, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachussets, USA
2003
Lekcja śpiewu (The Singing Lesson), Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
An Eye for an Eye, MUCA Roma, Mexico City, Mexico
(with Paweł Althamer) So genannte Wellen und andere Phänomene des Geistes, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lekcja śpiewu (The Singing Lesson), Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland
Restar y Sumar. Artur Żmijewski, ITESO, Clavigero de Guadalajara, Mexico
The Singing Lesson, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Artur Żmijewski, Baltycka Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej , Slupsk, Poland
Lekcja śpiewu 1 / Lekcja śpiewu 2 (The Singing Lesson 1 / The Singing Lesson 2), Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
The Singing Lesson 2, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2002
An Eye for an Eye, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
The Singing Lesson, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2001
Na spacer (Out for a Walk), Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
KR WP, a.r.t. Gallery, Płock, Poland
2000
Berek (The Game of Tag), a.r.t. Gallery, Płock, Poland
1999
Ausgewählte Arbeiten, Gallery & Foundation Wyspa Progress, Gdańsk, Poland
1998
Oko za oko (An Eye for an Eye), Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Polish Institute, Budapest, Hungary
1996
Śpiew sardynek (Sardines Song), a.r.t. Gallery, Płock, Poland
1995
Tożsamość dzidzi (The Babe’s Identity), A.R. Friends Gallery (Tęcza Cinema-Theatre), Warsaw, Poland
1994
Akty (Nudes), a.r.t. Gallery, Płock, Poland
Selected Group Exhibitions / Wystawy zbiorowe
2013
Presentation of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art curated by Arthur Zmijewski, Artget Gallery, Belgrade
British British Polish Polish: Art from Europe’s Edges in the Long 90s and Today, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Loud!. Works by the Most Important Representatives of Video Art, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice
The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
Art Basel Parcours, Basel
The Encyclopaedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale
Disabled by Normality, DOX CCA, Prague
Freedom, Kunstpalais, Erlangen
Pin sharp – Tattoo in Art, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot
Without Reality There is No Utopia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
His Master’s Voice, Harware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
2012
One Sixth of the Earth, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
7th Berlin Biennale fur zeitgenossische Kunst. Forget Fear, Berlin, Germany
On Apology, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Moving forward, counting backwards, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico
Cantemus. Choirs. The Sublime and the Exegesis of Being, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
2011
The Power of Fantazy. Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland. BOZAR. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Alternativa 2011-2012, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland
History in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), Krakow, Poland
Sin realidad no hay utopía, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla, Spain
Sharjah Biennial 10, Plot for a Biennial-Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Models For Taking Part, Presentation House Gallery, PHG, North Vancouver, Canada
Freibeuter der Utopie, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2010
XIV Biennale Internazionale Scultura di Carrara, Italy
Workers Leaving the Workplace, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland
Territorien des In/Humanen, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Indefinite Destinations, Sofia Version, The Red House, Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
Transitland, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
Bodies of Dispersion: Mechanisms of Distention, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
Katolicy w Kronice, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland
Let’s Talk About Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Architecture and its Discontents, Kaleidoscope, Milan, Italy
Early Years, Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Listen to your eyes-49 Nord 6 Est, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
… on the eastern front │video art from central and eastern europe 1989–2009, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Monument to Transformation, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia
Indefinite Destinations, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
This is not a game, HDLU, Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb, Croatia
2009
SCHISM. Polish Art of the 1990s, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
11th International İstanbul Biennial, International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Transitland, The Red House. Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video, ICA Boston, Boston, USA
Knast sind immer die anderen, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
Wouldn't be easier for the government to dissolve the people and elect another, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia
Oppositions & Dialogues, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Take a Look at Me Now, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
Invasion of Sound. Music and the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art Zachęta, Warsaw, Poland
Assume Nothing: New Social Practice, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Living Together, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spanish
VacuumNoise, Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Getting Even - Oppositions + Dialogues in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video 1986/2008, LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA
Soft Manipulation - who is afraid of the new now?, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Blind Spots, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria
2008
Gating Even-Oppositions + Dialogues in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Camp, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
The Impossible Prison, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Chosen/Wybrańcy, Digital Art Lab, Holon -Tel Aviv; Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk, Poland
Non Knowledge, Project arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Das Gelände, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Friction and conflict, Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Average, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, Switzerland
Lost Paradise – Der Blick des Engels, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
YOUPrison. Riflessioni sulla limitazione dello spazio e della libertà, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
God & Goods, Villa Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo (UD), Italy
Vertrautes Terrain – Aktuelle Kunst in und über Deutschland, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
After Nature, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY, USA
Translate: The Impossible Collection, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA
LIAF 08, Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær, Norway
Shifting Identities – (Schweizer) Kunst heute, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Monument to transformatio 7, Monument to Transformation, Prague, Czech Republic
Die lucky Bush, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Du Dialogue Social, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Bare Life, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Italia Italie Italien Italy Włochy, ARCOS – Museo di Arte Contemporanea dei Sannio, Benevento, Italy
History Will Repeat Itself – Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art, Center for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
Double Agent, ICA – Institute of Contemporary arts London, London; Mead Gallery - Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK; BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Under the Skin: New Video from Poland, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Transmediale 08: Conspire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Mimétisme, Extra City – Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Netherlands
2007
27th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Lubljana, Slowenia
There is no border…, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
10. Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany
documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Silenzio. Una mostra da ascoltare, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
L’œil-écran ou la nouvelle image. 100 vidéos pour repenser le monde, Casino Luxembourg – Fourum d’art contemorain, Luxembourg
Lessons in Learning, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2006
1,2,3…Awangarda. Eksperyment/Film/Sztuka/Archiwum / 1,2,3…Avant-Garde, Experiment/Film/Art/Archive, Center for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
Personal Affairs. Neue Formen der Intimität, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
In Search of the Lost Time, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York, USA
Policja / Police, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
Höhepunkte der KunstFilmBiennale, KW Kunszt-Werke Berlin e.V., Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
YOU WON’T FEEL A THING. On Panic, Obsession, Anesthesia and Rituality, Kunsthaus Dresden, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Dresden, Germany
A Short History of Performance, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
La Monnaie Vivante, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, USA
2005
Between the Furniture and the Building, FR 66, Paris; Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (2006), Franace
wybory.pl / [s] election.pl, Cente for Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
Wizerunek artysty, National Gallery of Art Zachęta, Warsaw, Poland
War is Over. 1945-2005 La Libertà dell’arte, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
Das Heilige und der Leib Schätze aus dem Natinalmuseum Warschau, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany / National Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poalnd
Positioning. In the New Reality of Europe: Art from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (2006), Japan
Das unmögliche Theater, Kunsthalle Wien; Barbican Art Gallery, London (2006), UK