do pobrania - Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg

do pobrania - Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg

KOLEKCJA DZIEŁ SZTUKI
ART COLLECTION
COLLECTION D’ŒUVRES D’ART
LATVIA - LITHUANIA - HUNGARY - POLAND
This brochure is for internal use only.
The catalogue was created for the exhibitions of the Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian and Polish works of art
in the European Parliament in Brussels.
Prepared by Genevieve Fioriti - DG INLO, Emmanuel Phaetos - DG COMM,
Karolina Zielińska & Marcin Sołtys - Assistants to Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Quaestor of the European Parliament.
Printed in the European Parliament in Luxembourg (January 2010).
Cover 1:
ZITMANIS Otto
The room (Istaba)
2003
80 x 96 cm
MARCINKEVIČIUS Vilmantas
Tired man
1998
180 x 208 cm
BRAUN András
Tak-tak-tak
2008
35 x 35 cm
BAUMGART Anna
Wall (5 sculptures) Hypothesis of
the Stolen Image
2008
120 cm each
Wstęp
W Unii Europejskiej jesteśmy dumni z naszej różnorodności kulturowej. Przywiązujemy
wielką wagę to tego, by idea pluralizmu stanowiła istotę jej strategii. Traktaty, na których od
dziesięcioleci opiera się integracja europejska, zawsze przypisywały ważną rolę poszanowaniu
kultur. To zostało również wyartykułowane w nowym traktacie lizbońskim, w którego
preambule podkreślono, że Europa czerpie z kulturowego, religijnego i humanistycznego
dziedzictwa swoich narodów.
Parlament Europejski podziela ten etos i zachęca do wszelkich działań mających na celu
wspieranie poszanowania różnorodności kulturowej we wszelkich jej przejawach.
Nawiązując do niedawnych obchodów 20. rocznicy demokratycznych przemian w Europie
Środkowej i Wschodniej Parlament Europejski pragnie uhonorować dzieła sztuki pochodzące
z kilku państw, które przystąpiły do Unii Europejskiej w 2004 r., po dziesięcioleciach izolacji
za żelazną kurtyną. Niniejszy katalog pozwoli Państwu odkryć i zapoznać się z wieloma dziełami wiele dzieł sztuki z Łotwy,
Litwy, Węgier i Polski.
Po wystawie dzieł sztuki z Łotwy, Litwy i Węgier, która miała miejsce w 2009 r., jest mi niezmiernie miło zaprosić Państwa na
kolejną, złożoną z polskich dzieł sztuki nabytych niedawno przez Parlament Europejski. Jestem przekonany, że te wyjątkowe
eksponaty pochodzące z mojej ojczyzny wzbogacą kolekcję sztuki współczesnej w Parlamencie.
Jerzy Buzek
Przewodniczący Parlamentu Europejskiego
Preface
The European Union is proud of the cultural diversity it embodies and places great importance on integrating the idea
of plurality into the very core of its policies. The various Treaties that have underpinned European integration over recent
decades have always given a prominent role to respect for cultures. This political will is indeed reinforced yet again in the new
Treaty of Lisbon, which in its preamble emphasises that Europe draws inspiration from the cultural, religious and humanist
inheritance of its peoples.
The European Parliament shares this ethos and encourages all actions aimed at promoting respect for cultural diversity
in all its forms.
Not long after the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of democratic change in Central and Eastern Europe, the
European Parliament is honouring the artistic works from a number of countries that joined the European Union in 2004,
after having been behind the Iron Curtain for decades. Consequently, in this brochure you will discover many works of art
from Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary and Poland.
After the presentation in 2009 of Latvian, Lithuanian and Hungarian works of art, I am now delighted to invite you to visit
the exhibition that contains the Polish works of art most recently acquired by the European Parliament. These unique pieces
coming from my home country, I am convinced will enhance Parliament’s modern art collection.
Jerzy Buzek
President of the European Parliament
Préface
L’Union européenne, fière de la diversité culturelle qui la caractérise, attache une grande importance à intégrer cette
notion de pluralité au cœur même de ses politiques. Les différents traités qui ont jalonné l’intégration européenne au cours
de ces dernières décennies ont toujours réservé une place primordiale au respect des cultures. Une volonté politique bel
et bien reconfirmée avec force dans le nouveau traité de Lisbonne qui souligne, dans son préambule, combien l’Europe
s’inspire des héritages culturels, religieux et humanistes de ses peuples.
Le Parlement européen fait sienne cette philosophie et soutient toutes les actions visant à promouvoir le respect de la
diversité culturelle sous toutes ses formes.
Peu après les célébrations commémorant le vingtième anniversaire du changement démocratique en Europe centrale et
orientale, le Parlement européen rend hommage à des artistes de plusieurs pays devenus membres de l’Union européenne
en 2004, après avoir été relégués derrière le rideau de fer pendant des décennies. Vous découvrirez donc dans cette brochure
de nombreuses œuvres d’art de Lettonie, de Lituanie, de Hongrie et de Pologne.
Après la présentation en 2009 d’œuvres d’art lettones, lituaniennes et hongroises, j’ai aujourd’hui le plaisir de vous inviter
à visiter l’exposition qui rassemble les œuvres d’art polonaises les plus récemment acquises par le Parlement européen. Ces
pièces uniques venant de mon pays d’origine enrichiront, j’en suis convaincu, la collection d’art moderne du Parlement.
Jerzy Buzek
President of the European Parliament
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Przedmowa
Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg
Członek Prezydium Parlamentu Europejskiego (PE)
Kwestor odpowiedzialna za działania artystyczne w PE
Przewodnicząca Komitetu Artystycznego PE
Szanowni Państwo,
Ludwig van Beethoven, wielki kompozytor, któremu jako obywatele Unii Europejskiej zawdzięczamy także hymn
Zjednoczonej Europy, powiedział kiedyś: «Prawdziwy artysta widzi, iż sztuka nie ma granic, czuje jednak , że sam wciąż daleki
jest od swego celu, i podczas gdy inni podziwiają go, on sam boleje nad tym, że nie dotarł jeszcze do tego punktu, który
ukazuje mu się ciągle odległy jak światło słońca». Kiedyś słowa, iż „wszyscy ludzie będą braćmi” także brzmiały jak nierealne
marzenia, dziś Zjednoczona Europa może być dumna z postępów, jakie przez ostatnie lata poczyniła w sztuce integracji.
Chociaż przed europejską rodziną wciąż stoją poważne wyzwania i nie osiągnęliśmy jeszcze wszystkich celów, dziś możemy
z podziwem spoglądać na wspólny dorobek. Okazję do tego stanowi choćby kolejna wystawa dzieł sztuki stworzonych
przez współczesnych artystów wywodzących się z nowych państw członkowskich Unii Europejskiej. Jest to już trzecie, po
wielkim rozszerzeniu Unii w 2004 roku, przedsięwzięcie - tym razem prezentujące prace z Polski, które wzbogacają cenną
kolekcję sztuki Parlamentu Europejskiego.
Prezentowane dzieła zostały pierwotnie wytypowane za pośrednictwem Biura Informacyjnego Parlamentu Europejskiego
w Warszawie przez grono polskich ekspertów w składzie:
- Zofia Gołubiew, dyrektor Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie
- Agnieszka Morawińska, dyrektor Galerii Narodowej Zachęta w Warszawie
- Paweł Potoroczyn, dyrektor Instytutu Adama Mickiewicza
- Jarosław Suchan, dyrektor Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi
Ostatecznego wyboru 10 prac spośród 45 propozycji ekspertów dokonał zaś - na szczeblu Parlamentu Europejskiego Komitet Artystyczny oraz Przewodniczący PE. Eksponowane prace zostały zakupione przez Parlament Europejski na mocy
decyzji Prezydium z 11 grudnia 2006 r. W katalogu, który trzymają Państwo w rękach, można obejrzeć także prace z Litwy,
Łotwy i Węgier - pokazane w Parlamencie Europejskim 15 kwietnia 2009 r. Obecnie kolekcja sztuki autorstwa artystów z
nowych państw członkowskich obejmuje już 59 eksponatów, a w 2010 r. powiększy się jeszcze o obrazy i rzeźby z Malty,
Słowenii oraz Słowacji.
Tradycja nabywania i prezentowania współczesnych dzieł europejskich - w celu promocji kulturalnego dorobku państw
członkowskich UE – została zapoczątkowana przez, wybraną w pierwszych wyborach bezpośrednich, przewodniczącą
Parlamentu Europejskiego Simone Veil. Przedkładając tę ideę Kolegium Kwestorów w 1980 r., przewodnicząca pragnęła
zaszczepić na gruncie europejskim piękny zwyczaj eksponowania wybitnych dzieł sztuki, kultywowany od lat przez
parlamenty narodowe. Pierwszy plan zakupu eksponatów zrealizowano w latach 1982-1989, a drugi - w okresie 19891993. Wraz z przyjęciem trzeciego planu w 1997 r. zakończono proces nabywania prac ze wszystkich krajów ówczesnej
«Piętnastki».
Bogata kolekcja Parlamentu Europejskiego, łącznie z dziełami zakupionymi w ostatnich latach, liczy łącznie 363 obrazy i
rzeźby, które prezentowane są w trzech jego siedzibach - w Brukseli, Strasburgu i Luksemburgu - oraz w krajowych Biurach
Informacyjnych PE.
Życząc Państwu niezapomnianych wrażeń,
Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg
Kwestor Parlamentu Europejskiego
Bruksela, 25 stycznia 2010 r.
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Foreword
Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg
Member of the European Parliament’s (EP) Bureau
Quaestor with responsibility for artistic events in the European Parliament
Chairwoman of the Artistic Committee in the European Parliament
The great composer Ludwig van Beethoven, to whom we citizens of a united Europe owe among other things our anthem,
once wrote: ‘The real artist sees that art has no limits. He is dimly aware of how far he is from his goal and although he may
be admired by others, he laments the fact that he has not yet reached that place where his better genius shines like a distant
sun’. In the past, the prospect of ‘all men becoming brothers’ also seemed an impossible dream, but today’s united Europe
can be proud of the progress it has made in recent years towards integration. Although our European family is still faced with
a number of serious challenges and we have yet to attain all of our goals, today we can stand back and admire all that we
have achieved together. The latest exhibition of works by contemporary artists from the new EU Member States provides us
with an opportunity to do so. This exhibition which is the third since the 2004 enlargement of the Union, focuses on works
from Poland and will further enrich the European Parliament’s already fine collection of artworks.
The works on display were chosen from a shortlist drawn up, under the supervision of the Parliament’s information office
in Warsaw, by a panel of experts comprising:
- Zofia Gołubiew, director of the National Museum in Kraków
- Agnieszka Morawińska, director of the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw
- Paweł Potoroczyn, director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
- Jarosław Suchan, director of the Łódź Museum of Art
The final choice of 10 works from among the 45 put forward by the panel was made by the Parliament’s Artistic Committee
and the EP President. The Parliament then purchased the works after its Bureau had given its approval on 11 December 2006.
The catalogue includes also works from Hungary, Latvia and Lithuania that were presented at the European Parliament on
15 April 2009. In 2010, the Parliament’s collection of works by artists from the new Member States, which already comprises
59 items, will be swelled by paintings and sculptures from Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia.
The tradition of purchasing and displaying contemporary artworks with a view to promote the cultural output of the EU
Member States, was started by the President of the first directly elected European Parliament, Simone Veil. On a proposal
from the College of Quaestors in 1980, she sought to emulate national parliaments’ long-standing practice of displaying
outstanding works of art. The first programme for the purchase of artworks ran from 1982 to 1989, and the second from 1989
to 1993. A third programme in 1997, brought the campaign of purchases from the then 15 Member States, to a close.
With the purchases made over recent years, the European Parliament’s collection now comprises a total of 363 paintings
and sculptures. This collection is on display at the Parliament’s three places of work in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg
and in its national information offices.
I very much hope that the exhibition will leave a lasting impression on you as it has on me.
Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg
European Parliament Quaestor
Brussels, 25 January 2010
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Préface
Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg
Membre du Bureau du Parlement européen
Questeur responsable des activités artistiques au sein du Parlement européen
Présidente du comité artistique du Parlement européen
Mesdames, Messieurs,
Ludwig van Beethoven, grand compositeur à qui les citoyens de l’Union européenne doivent notamment l’hymne de
l’Europe réunifiée, a déclaré un jour: «L’artiste véritable sait que l’art n’a pas de limites; il sent obscurément combien il est
éloigné du but et, tandis qu’il est peut-être admiré par d’autres, il déplore de n’être encore parvenu que là où le meilleur de
son génie ne brille que comme un lointain soleil». Autrefois, les paroles «tous les hommes sont frères» semblaient être aussi
un rêve irréel. Aujourd’hui, l’Europe réunifiée peut être fière des progrès qu’elle a accomplis au cours de ces dernières années
dans le processus d’intégration. Bien que la famille européenne soit encore confrontée à de sérieux défis et que nous n’ayons
pas encore atteint la totalité de nos objectifs, nous pouvons prendre un peu de recul et admirer tout ce que nous avons réalisé
ensemble. L’occasion nous en a notamment été offerte lors de la dernière exposition de travaux d’artistes contemporains
originaires des nouveaux États membres de l’Union européenne. Depuis l’élargissement de l’Union européenne de 2004,
cette exposition est déjà la troisième initiative de ce type, présentant cette fois-ci des œuvres polonaises qui viennent enrichir
la collection d’art de grande valeur du Parlement européen.
Les œuvres présentées ont tout d’abord été sélectionnées par l’intermédiaire du bureau d’information du Parlement
européen à Varsovie par un groupe d’experts polonais composé des personnes suivantes:
- Zofia Gołubiew, directrice du Musée National de Cracovie
- Agnieszka Morawińska, directrice de la Galerie Nationale Zachęta à Varsovie
- Paweł Potoroczyn, directeur de l’Institut Adam Mickiewicz.
- Jarosław Suchan, directeur du Musée d’Art de Łódź
La sélection finale de 10 œuvres sur les 45 proposées a été réalisée au niveau du Parlement européen par le comité
artistique et le président du Parlement. Les travaux exposés ont été acquis par le Parlement sur décision du Bureau du
11 décembre 2006. Le présent catalogue permet également d’admirer des œuvres lettonnes, lituaniennes, et hongroises
exposées au Parlement européen le 15 avril 2009.
La collection d’œuvres d’artistes originaires des nouveaux États membres comprend déjà 59 pièces et elle sera complétée
en 2010 par des tableaux et des sculptures de Malte, de Slovénie et de Slovaquie.
La tradition consistant à acquérir et exposer des œuvres européennes d’art contemporain en vue de promouvoir
le patrimoine culturel des États membres de l’Union européenne, a été initiée par Simone Veil, première présidente
du Parlement européen élue au suffrage universel direct. En présentant cette idée au collège des questeurs en 1980, la
présidente souhaitait implanter sur le sol européen la tradition d’exposer des œuvres d’art majeures, tradition cultivée depuis
de nombreuses années par les parlements nationaux. Le premier programme d’acquisition a été réalisé entre 1982 et 1989
et le second entre 1989 et 1993. L’adoption, en 1997, du troisième programme a permis d’achever le processus d’acquisition
d’œuvres en provenance de l’ensemble des pays de l’Union européenne des Quinze.
En comptant les œuvres acquises au cours de ces dernières années, la riche collection du Parlement européen compte au
total 363 tableaux et sculptures qui sont exposés sur les trois lieux de travail du Parlement européen à Bruxelles, à Strasbourg
et au Luxembourg, ainsi que dans ses bureaux d’information nationaux.
En souhaitant que cette exposition vous laisse un souvenir inoubliable,
Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg
Questeur du Parlement européen
Bruxelles, le 25 janvier 2010
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MĀKSLAS DARBU KOLEKCIJA
ART COLLECTION
COLLECTION D’ŒUVRES D’ART
LATVIA
Kristaps ĢELZIS
Vineta KAULAČA
Aleksejs NAUMOVS
Līga PURMALE
Otto ZITMANIS
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Kristaps ĢELZIS
Ticks - 2007
155 x 280 cm
Born in 1962 in Riga (Latvia).
Graphic. Works on paper, drawings, watercolours. Field of activities: graphics, video installations, book illustration.
Education
1986:
He is graduated from Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Graphics
1987:
Prize of the Latvian Ministry of Culture at the 18th Exhibition of the Republican Young Artists’ Works
1994:
Prize of the International Jury for the installation «Dream Journey» at the 1st Annual SCCA-Riga exhibition «Zoom
factor»
Career
1997:
Lector in the Academy of Art, Department of Graphic Design
1998:
Curator of the 6th Annual SCCA-Riga Exhibition «Ventspils Transit Terminal»
Solo exhibition «Laika laukums» (Time Square) at the Riga Gallery in 2000, digital photo prints, searching for opposite and
common elements in American and Latvian contexts
1996:
He participated in exhibitions «Personal Time» in Warsaw and St Petersburg
2003:
Gallery Project «Masks» at the 7th International Contemporary Art Exhibition in Moscow
His works are found namely in the collections of contemporary Art Museum Kiasma in Helsinki, Latvian National Museum of
Art, Museum of the Artists’ Union of Latvia.
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Vineta KAULAČA
Visual memory - 2004
16 x 13 x 10.5 cm
Born in 1971 in Riga.
Her work is mostly about perception: the way we look at the world, building up an image of the whole from different
fragments. It involves comparing the different perceptions of time bound to the specific spaces.
Education
2002:
MA, Art Academy of Latvia
1999-2000: Berlin Art University
1990-1997: Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Monumental Painting
1995-1996: Humboldt State University, USA
Career
Since 2000, Vineta Kaulača is member of the Artists’ Union of Latvia.
She presented her work during numerous exhibitions in Latvian contemporary art centres (from 1990 to nowadays) and
abroad, in Paris (Cité Internationale des Arts, 2002 and 2003), The Hague (2006), Brussels (2004), Los Angeles (2005), New York
(2004), London (Studio 1.1 Gallery in 2004 and APT Gallery in 2007), Oxfordshire (Braziers International Artists’ Workshop),
Dublin (2003), Helsinki (1997), Turku (1994), Prague (1997), Bremen (2001, 2002,1999), Tartu (2003) and Kaunas in Lithuania
(2002).
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Aleksejs NAUMOVS
Burano (European village)
- 2008
130 x 110 cm
Born in 1955 in Riga. Painter.
Education
He is a renowned curator who achieved his Phd in 1983 and attended «L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris», Sorbonne,
Arts Plastiques in 1987 and 1988. Since 1997 he came back several times to Latvia and occupies the position of Vice Rector
of the Art Academy of Latvia.
Career
He has a wide international experience as curator in art pedagogics, in one man show exhibition as well as in group
exhibitions. In 2007 he prepared the exhibition «Saint-Etienne à Riga», Workshops of ESAD Strasbourg in the frame of the
festival «Printemps Français», presented «Landscapes» in the gallery M-ART’ in Brussels (2007) and participated in the UNESCO
exhibition hall in Beirut (2006).
Award of the Italian president» Oride al merito della Repubblica Italiana. Comendatore» in 2004 and First Prize in Frescopainting Biennale «Golden griffon», Dozza, in 1995.
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Līga PURMALE
Garden I (Berries) - 2002
140 x 100 cm
Born in 1948 in Latvian. Painter.
She currently lives and works in Riga.
Education
At a young age she moved to Riga from the Latvian countryside to study painting, first at the Jānis Rozentāls Art High School
and then at the Latvian Academy of Art.
Career
In the 1970s she and Miervaldis Polis started a new trend of photorealism in Latvian painting. Although painting is the
primary field of the artist’s creative activity; she has practiced also graphics and stage design. Līga Purmalewas was stage
designer for Petr Tchaikovsky’s ballet «Swan Lake» (2002) and Adolphe Adam’s ballet «Le Corsaire» (2003) at the Latvian
National Opera.
Līga Purmale’s works are included in the collections of the State Museum of Art (Riga), the Artists’ Union of Latvia Museum
(Riga), the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the KIāvs Sīpoliņš Foundation (Canada), Ainars Gulbis privat collection and
other private collections in Latvia and abroad, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (USA).
Exhibitions: «Variation on a theme», «A diary of a passer-by», «One summer»
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Otto ZITMANIS
The room (Istaba)
- 2003
80 x 96 cm
Born in July in 1980. Otto Zitmanis belongs to the youngest generation of Latvian painters.
Education
Master at the Latvian Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting.
Career
Since 2000 he has been participating to some photo exhibitions mostly in Riga but also in St. Petersburg for the «KF KM State
Photography Center» (Sept. 2002).
Morevover, he also exposed his collection of painting «Heart’s Full» in September 2005 in Germany (Lippstadt) which was,
the previous year, presented at the Art Gallery «Bastejs» in Riga.
He received the Latvian Artists’ Association prize for «Professionally convincing new artists’ performance» at the exhibition
«Fall 2000».
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MENO KOLEKCIJA
ART COLLECTION
COLLECTION D’ŒUVRES D’ART
LITHUANIA
Jonas GASIŪNAS
Kęstutis GRIGALIŪNAS
Algis GRIŠKEVIČIUS
Rūta KATILIŪTĖ
Vilmantas MARCINKEVIČIUS
Remigijus TREIGYS
Birutė ZOKAITYTĖ
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Jonas GASIŪNAS
I haven’t been, I’m not,
but I will wait for you
- 2007
255 x 250 cm
Born in 1954 in Tiumenceve in Altai, Russia.
Education
He studied in Pedagogical Institute of Šiauliai, as well as in Kaunas Applied Art Co1lege, and in State Art Institute in Vilnius.
He is currently teaching in Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. He participates in the exhibitions since 1985; he is a member of the
artists group «Angis».
Career
The artist’s provocative artistic ideas are inspired by a dehumanized space of existence negatively affected by modern
technologies.
He was awarded twice the First Prize in Vilnius Painting Triennial (1993, 1997). He also received the First Prize in «Youth ‘88»
Young Baltic Artists’ Triennial in 1988.
Among his solo exhibitions, ´´Edward’s trajectory´´, at Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema in Vilnius was the most recent.
Also, he has been active participant in the group exhibitions of which the latest include «Contemporary Lithuanian Art
ANEW» in Bydgoszcz and Katowice in Poland (2008); «Urgentum praecifitatum sulfur» in Vilnius, and KOVIKAVI project in Art
Museum of Estonia (KUMU) in Tallinn (2008).
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Kęstutis GRIGALIŪNAS
Findings (No. 202) - 2004
140 x 110 cm
Born in 1957 in Kaunas. Graphic.
Education
Having graduated from the Art Institute, the Chair of Graphic Art in 1982, he started his artistic career from book illustrations,
woodcuts and etchings. Since then he has tried to expand in all possible direction and not limit himself only with the
possibilities offered by the graphic genre.
He has received several grants and scholarships from the governmental and private associations, including the PollockKrasner Grant (2001), Ministre Van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Frans Maserel Graphic Center (1995, 2004 and 2005) and
Lithuanian state stipend (2001-2003, 2006-2008).
Career
He has arranged around thirty solo exhibitions that have travelled in several European countries. The most recent of them
are «A Form of Si1ence - Steady Sence of Identity» (2008) in Gallery Akademija in Vilnius, «Simultaneous Vision» (2008) in
Kaunas M.K.Čiurlionis National Museum of Art. In addition, Grigaliūnas has participated in numerous group exhibitions. In
2008 his works were presented in International Graphic Art Biennial «Now Art Now Future» (Lithuania), as well as during the
IV International Graphic art Triennial in Kaliningrad (Russia).
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Algis GRIŠKEVIČIUS
Before sunrise
- 2008
100 x 150 cm
Born in 1954 in Vilnius.
Education
After finishing school in 1973 and serving in the army, he worked as artist’s assistant in Opera and Ballet House for four years.
In 1980 he entered Vilnius Art Institute (now Academy) where he studied until 1985. During his studies and after graduating
he worked as senior artist - scene painter in Vilnius Youth Theatre.
Career
From 1990 he is working as a freelance artist. Besides painting he has worked in the fields of poster art, book illustration, set
design, sculpture and photography.
He is participating in exhibitions from 1986. He has since arranged 47 personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, as well
as has exhibited his work in more than 50 group exhibitions. The latest displays featuring Griškevičius ’works were his solo
exhibitions in 2008 in Ireland, ‘Photo and objects’, ‘Miracles of Mikaliskes Village’ (photography) in Vilnius Prospekto’ gallery,
and 2008 Beijing International Art Biennale and «Festimage» International Image Festiva in Portugal in the same year.
His many awards include Lithuanian Artists Association’s Golden Badge for the best exhibitions in 2007, Lithuanian Artists
Association premium for creative continuation of Lithuanian tradition in the annual exhibition of Lithuanian painters (1997),
and the most recent, second position in International Caroun Photo Club (CPC) competition in Vancouver (2009).
Griškevičius is a member of Lithuanian Artists Association.
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Rūta KATILIŪTĖ
Changing nebulosity I - 1999
114 x 146 cm
Changing nebulosity II - 2002
114 x 146 cm
Born in 1944 in Marijampole.
The development of Lithuanian abstract art is closely associated with her name.
Education
After her studies at the Lithuanian Art Institute in Vilnius in 1962 - 1968, she almost immediately began to interest herself in
the problems of pure plastics - to analyze the power of the colour and painterly expression irrespective of the story or motif
which frequent1y captures them. Today Katiliūtė is a prominent painter in blue colour. This colour presents the main object
of her studies, and has been dominating throughout the whole period of the artist’s creation.
Career
Her first sole exhibition took place in 1977 in Vilnius and since that time her works have been presented in numerous
galleries and art centres all around the world. Her paintings can be found in many public and private collections in Lithuania
(Lithuanian Art Museum, National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum) and abroad, including Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, as well
as private collections in Germany, Finland, USA, United Kingdom, France, Turkey, and others.
Besides her solo exhibitions, Katiliūtė is often represented in various group exhibitions.
In 1994 she received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
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Vilmantas MARCINKEVIČIUS
Tired man - 1998
180 x 208 cm
Born in 1969 in Kaunas. Painter.
Education
He studied in St. Žukas Technical Art College in the Painting Restoration Department in Kaunas (1985-1989) and later in the
Painting Department of Vilnius Art Academy (1989-1995) where he formed his personal style.
Career
Marcinkevicius creates figure painting and colour drawings. He arranges several solo exhibitions a year and is one of the
most prolific Lithuanian young painters who take an active part in creative life. The artist’s favourite themes are various
mythological subjects. He interprets them in a non-traditional way with a big enough dose of irony and humour.
The painter has held thirty personal exhibitions in Lithuania, Denmark, France, Sweden and the Faroe Islands. The artist
participated in the Copenhagen, Cologne and tribal art fairs.
He believes that artworks shall move from galleries and exhibition halls into urbanistic environment, bringing art closer to
people. Marcinkevicius initiated an art project, where Lithuanian and international artists for the first time created paintings
in extremely huge size in open public spaces: streets, parks, and squares.
He has been voted for four times artist of the year in Lithuania (2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005). His latest solo exhibition ‘Identity’’
took place in 2008 in Denmark. The same year he also participated in” I Baltic Biennial» in The Central Exhibition Hall of StPetersburg «Manege» (Russia)
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Remigijus TREIGYS
Vilnius Picture 1 Lietus - 2008
29 x 51,5 cm
Vilnius Picture 3 Medis - 2008
29 x 51,5 cm
Born in 1961 in Kaunas (Lithuania)
Art Photographer. Magic realism.
Education
In 1982-1987, he studied at Lithuanian Art Institute, presently Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts.
Career
Since 1985 he has started participated in selected groups exhibitions, namely in Lithuania, Germany, Sweden and in New
York (Nailya Alexander Gallery).
In 1988, he became a member of Union of Lithuanian Art Photographers.
In 1988, he got the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture Award.
In 1992, he received a grant for young artists from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
In 2000 - artist in residence PROARTIBUS Centre in Finland.
In 2003-2004 state grant of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
In 2004 - artist in residence at Robert Bosch Culture Foundation Berlin.
In 2005 - CEC Arts Link, independent project wards, New York, USA.
In 2005-2007 state grant of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
In 2006, got the Union of Lithuanian Art photographers award.
In 2008, artists in residence Raum Sylt Quelle, Germany.
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Birutė ZOKAITYTĖ
Exercise 2008
60 x 100 cm
Landscape - 2008
60 x 100 cm
Born in 1968 in Vilnius. Graphic, painter.
She lives and works in Vilnius.
Education
1987-1995: Studied at Vilnius Academy of Arts, graphic art
1996:
State Grant for Young Artists
1996:
International Biennial of small forms (Vilnius) - Grand Prize
1999:
International Festival of Baltic Book - Diploma
2000-2002: Art Scholarship to F. Mazarelly Graphic Center in Beigium
Career
In 1997, she joined the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.
Since 1996, she started participating in solo exhibitions in Vilnius and also in New York (Graphic Exhibition at the Lithuanian
General Consulate in 2002 and in 2005) and in group exhibitions, namely also in Sweden, Russia, Argentina, Japan, Poland,
Scotland and France.
In 1997, she joined the Lithuanian Artists’ Association.
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MŰGYŰJTEMÉNY
ART COLLECTION
COLLECTION D’ŒUVRES D’ART
HUNGARY
Csaba BALOGH
Ákos BÁNKI
András BRAUN
József BURKUS
Károly ELEKES
Gyöngyi GALLUSZ
Gyöngyi LANTOS
Péter SZARKA
Attila SZŰCS
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Csaba BALOGH
Paprika - 2008
153 x 122 cm
Born in 1964 in Székelyudvarhely. Painter, graphic.
Education
1979-83:
Music and Arts Liceum, Marosvásárhely
1985-90:
Ion Andrescu Arts College
1993:
Master course, Arts College, Budapest
1990:
Moved to Hungary
Member of RÓZSA-group in Kolozsvár and of MAMÜ.
Career
Participated in several individual and group exhibitions:
1986: RÓZSA-group
1996 and 1998: MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest
1998: XII C Gallery, Kolozsvár
2004: Fixed idea, Budapest Gallery, Europe-frieze/Missionart line
2006: Plug, MissionArt Gallery stand, Arts hall
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Ákos BÁNKI
Without title - 2006
150 x 150 cm
Born in 1982 in Kazincbarcika. Painter.
Education
2000-2006: Hungarian Arts University, painter and teacher faculty
2002:
Erasmus scholarship, London
Prizes awarded:
2005: International Youth Film Festival, Miskolc, special prize
2004:
Europe Table, 2nd prize
Career
2008: Art manager of 52 contemporary projects, Wam Art Project, organizer of contemporary exhibition of Miskolc
Montmartre Festival
2006: Founder of mű-Vèsz pince group, MAOE membership
2005: Open Workshop Association
2004: C.A.V. Performance Group
2003: Member of Colourtone Workshop
Since 2001, participated in several individual and group exhibitions:
2004: VI Performance Festival, Szentendre
2005: M1O Miskolc Gallery, Winter Exhibition Miskolc
2006:
House of Arts, Miskolc, A.P.A. Gallery Budapest with Orsolya Drozdik
2007: Hommage a Sándor Molnár, mű-Vèsz pince Budapest
2008: mű-Vész pince, H-26, Budapest with Ágnes Verebics
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András BRAUN
Tak-tak-tak - 2008
35 x 35 cm
Born in 1967 in Miskolc.
Lives and works in Budapest.
Education
1989-1995: Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Painting Department
1995-1997: Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, postgraduate studies
Awards and Scholarships:
1995:
Ludwig Foundation, 1st Prize
1998: Scholarship of the Soros Foundation
Artist Residence, Gasworks Gallery, London
1999:
Magyar Aszfalt Award, 2nd Prize
Gyula Derkovits Scholarship
2000:
Scholarshipof the Budapest Gallery in Franknut
Career
Since 1991, he participated in selected solo exhibitions, namely in 2007 the exhibition «Cronos and Co.», acb Gallery; in 2003
«Recto -Verso», Irokéz Gallery in Szombathely (with Zoltán Ádám); in 2001 «FireDeluge», City Gallery in Tiszaújváros and in
2000 «Diana and Hubertus», Gallery of Szombathely.
He also participated since 1997 in several selected Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs, namely in 2006 in Budapest «Ten years of
the Strabag Painting Prize», Museum of Contemporary Art in Ludwig Museum; in 2005, exhibition in Achille Piotti Gallery in
Geneva and in the ViennAfair (abc Gallery) in Wien; in 2003, Latest Works, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle in Budapest.
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120 x 120 Budapest legend - 2007
120 x 120 cm
Handful - 2007
200 x 200 cm
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József BURKUS
Satellite foto II - 2008
130 x 150 cm
Remains - 2008
180 x 90 cm
Born in 1957 in Bükkszentlászló.
Education
1973: Free School Zebegény
1982: Degree in Nyíregyháza as a teacher of Art and Biology
Career
1990-1994: Participation in exhibitions in banks in Hungary and Switzerland
Exhibitions in the Klein Art Gallery in Zurich and in Kunsthalle (St Moritz)
1996: Settled in Florida; contracts with the Addison Gallery (USA) and then moved to New York where he became
member of the famous Gallery called «Ward Nasse Gallery» (Soho)
2000:
Back to Budapest, became member of Association of the Hungarian Artists
2002: Exhibition in Urwelt-Museum Hauff (Germany)
2005: National exhibition «Instead of Terrorism for a Better World» for handicapped artists and their supporters
(Orosháza)
2008: Exhibition in the European Parliament
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Károly ELEKES
Blue pine - 1999/2002
230 x 136 cm
Born in 1951 in Székelykeresztúr (Romania). Settled in Hungary in 1984.
Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.
Education
1966-1977: Lyceum of Music and Fine Art, Marosvásárhely (RO)
1971-1975: Academy of Fine Art, Department of Graphic, Kolozsvár (RO)
Career
Memberships:
1979-1984: Founder and organiser of the Workshop MAMŰ, Marosvásárhely (RO)
1984: Member of the Hungarian National Association Creative Artists, the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied
Artists, the Studio of Young Artists Association and the Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists
1990-1993: Worked in the PANTENON Group
1991: Member of the reorganized MAMŰ Society
He received several prices namely in 1986 the Award of the Budapest Municipal Government at the Annual Exhibition of the
Studio. In 1994, the Award of the Studio of Young Artist at the Annual Exhibition of the Studio (Budapest) and in 1998, the
Munkácsy Award (National Award of artists) in Budapest.
From 1986 till now, he participated in several selected solo exhibitions in Hungary, Austria and Romania.
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Gyöngyi GALLUSZ
Changes of the rules in extra dimensions I - 2007
Changes of the rules
in extra dimensions II - 2008
150 x 80 cm
150 x 80 cm
Born in Budapest in 1962.
Education
She completed her postgraduate degree in 1996 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. Gallusz is one of the most skilled and
inventive artists of the contemporary Hungarian graphic art. The paintings, graphics, photos at the exhibition deal with the
relation to the plane and dimension, the harmony and the differences of the projection of the spatial forms on the plane.
Career
Specialized in graphic art, Gallusz´s work has been featured in many exhibitions. In 2000, she held an exhibition under the
aegis of the Millenial Festival of Films on Fine Art in Bzolnok. Her exhibition Transmission into the Shadow World was also
featured Budapest in 2004. In 2008 her exhibition «Creeping Moves» was featured in Galéria IX in Budapest.
In 2006, she won the Csehország Honorary Certificate of the Highest Quality. She also won the Award of the Ministry of
Education and Culture in 2008. Furthermore, she is a member of both the National Association of Hungarian Creative Artists
and the Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists.
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Gyöngyi LANTOS
Nike - 2004
33cm
Born in 1953 in Hódmezővásárhely.
Education
She completed her studies at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts in 1976.
Career
During her career, she has been awarded the First Prize at the Dante Biennale in Ravenna in 1987, Gold Medal of the city
of Rome, also at the Dante Biennale two years later (1989). Among others, she has received Golden Cross of the Hungarian
Republic in 2002 and Károly Róbert Gold Medal in 2004.
Her artistic works include sculptures, statuettes, and leaden-glass windows.
Her works have been featured in exhibitions in Hungary and abroad, including Germany, Austria, Belgium, Canada and
USA.
Lantos is a member of both the Art Found and the Federation of Hungarian Fine and Applied Arts Society. She often works
together with another renowned Hungarian sculptor, István Mate.
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Gyöngyi LANTOS
Beatrice - 2005
30 cm
Angel - 2005
30 cm
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Péter SZARKA
Secret company
- 2007
100 x 150 cm
Born in 1964 in Kőszeg.
He currently lives and works in Budapest.
Education
He studied painting in Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (1985-1992).
Career
Szarka has held more than 10 personal exhibitions in Hungary, as well as participated in numerous group exhibitions in
Brazil, Hungary, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. The artist participated in the Bologna, Vienna, Budapest
and Cologne art fairs.
He has received the Gyula Derkovits Scholarship in Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (1994-1997), scholarships of the town of
Frankfurt in 1997, a scholarship of Budapest Gallery to Salzburg in 2004. In 1991 he won the First Prize in XXV. Internationale
Malerwochen in der Steiermark; Graz , as well as participated in Sub Voce, the First Hungarian Video Installation Exhibition
in the same year.
He was a member of the Újlak Group from 1989 to 1995.
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Attila SZŰCS
Swimming woman with stripes
of light - 2008
190 x 140 cm
Born in 1967 in Miskolc.
The artist lives and works in Budapest.
Education
After finishing his studies in High school of Fine Art and Applied Art in Budapest, he continued in the field of art in the
Painting Department of Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (1985-1990). He continued post-graduate studies at the mural
department of the same institution (1990-1993).
Attila Szûcs considers himself a realist, as he says he is «making a reality search.» Apart from this, he is a metaphysical painter,
who is searching for a meaning beyond the perceived world’s own optical projection
Career
He has arranged numerous individual exhibitions in Hungary and abroad of which the latest include ´´A place to die´´, Irokéz
Gallery, in Szombathely (2009). His 2008 exhibitions include ´´Paintings´´, Lada Project, in Berlin, as well as ´´Something about
light´´, Emmanuel Walderdorff Gallery in Cologne 2008. The most recent group exhibitions that featured Szűcs´works were
held in 2009 in Belgium (Lineart 2009, Gallery Zuid, Flanders Expo, Ghent), the USA ( Selection of forty years of Hungarian
art from the Nancy G Brinker collection, Sherman Gallery, Boston), and in Latvia «Eccentric paths II. Central European
Contemporary Art», Riga).
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KOLEKCJA DZIEŁ SZTUKI
ART COLLECTION
COLLECTION D’ŒUVRES D’ART
POLAND
Anna BAUMGART
Tomasz CIECIERSKI
Aneta GRZESZYKOWSKA
Ryszard GRZYB
Stefan GIEROWSKI
Zofia KULIK
Włodzimierz PAWLAK
Zbigniew ROGALSKI
Henryk STAŻEWSKI
Tomasz TATARCZYK
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Anna BAUMGART
Wall (5 sculptures)
Hypothesis of the
Stolen Image - 2008
120 cm each
Born in 1966 in Wrocław, lives and works in Warsaw.
Sculptor, author of installations and video. Her work deals with cultural and social clichés as well as the role and position of
contemporary artist. Recently she has been interested in the impact of media on collective consciousness.
Education
1989-1994: Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department, Gdańsk, Poland
Career
2010:
La révolution n’est pas un diner, lokal_30_warszawa_london, London
Falstad Art Project, Falstad, Norway
2009:
(…), outdoor project, Chłodna Street, Warsaw (in cooperation with Agnieszka Kurant)
2008:
Hypothesis of the Stolen Image, Żak/Branicka Galerie, Berlin
2007:
B9 / Natascha Kampusch, lokal_30, Warsaw
2006:
Weronika. AP / Common Terror, lokal_30 / Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw
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Tomasz CIECIERSKI
Untitled 1994/1995
130 x 290 cm
Born in 1945 in Cracow.
Education
1971:
Graduated from the Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he was a lecturer in the
years 1972-1986
Career
1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2002: Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam
1985, 1986, 1988, 1992, 2002, 2005: Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
1990:
Museum of Art, Łódź
1991:
Galerie des Arènes, Carré d’Art, Musée d‘Art Contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes
1992, 1993: Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf
1993:
Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań
1993, 1998: Arsenał BWA Gallery, Białystok
1994:
Drawings, National Gallery of Art Zacheta, Warsaw
1996:
Muzeum Górnośląskie, Bytom
2000:
Das flache Land, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus
2001:
Festészet, Platán Galéria Lengyel Intézet, Budapest
2003:
Pakt z malarstwem, Bunker National Gallery of Art, Kraków
2004:
Unphotographed paintings, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw
2007:
Obrazy i prace na papierze 1972-2007, National Museum, Poznań
2008:
Fitzcarraldo, the lost horizon and other, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw
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Stefan GIEROWSKI
DCXCIX -1996
92 x 73 cm
Born in 1925 in Częstochowa.
Education & career
1945-1948: Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, class of Władysław Jarocki, Karol Frycz and Zbigniew Pronaszko,
and history of art at the Jagiellonian University
1957-1960: Along with Marian Bogusz he run the ”Krzywe Koło” art gallery in Warsaw
1961-1997: Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
1975-1981: Dean of the Painting Department in Warsaw
1983:
Elected as the provost by the Academy’s senate
1986:
Given the title of professor
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Aneta GRZESZYKOWSKA
Plan N° 10
- 2003
292 x 124 cm
Born in 1974 in Warsaw, lives in Warsaw. Since 1999 artistic cooperation with Jan Smaga.
Education
1994-1999: Studies at the Graphic Arts Department of the Warsaw Fine Arts Academy
Career
The primary medium in which Aneta Grzeszykowska works is photography. However, she treats it instrumentally, as a tool
for the realization of advanced, artistic and ontological exercises. The artist is interested in the role photography plays in
creating and documenting a personal identity. Therefore, in her film projects or doll sculptures, the human figure acquires
the shape and aura of a marionette. One of the main topics of Grzeszykowska’s works is her own identity, with which she
plays on many levels: by erasing her own figure from a family collection of photographs (Album, 2005), or by impersonating
Cindy Sherman in her classic cycle Untitled Film Stills (2006). Some projects by Grzeszykowska - like the cycle of illusionist
portraits of non-existent people (Untitled, 2006) - take advantage of the possibilities offered by digital image manipulation,
while others use photography and film in a classic way by emphasizing the performative dimension of the artist’s activities.
The motifs which she obsessively returns to in her works are absence, invisibility, disappearing, and the confrontation of
body and thought with non-existence.
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Ryszard GRZYB
Rhino and butterflies 1991
220 x 230 cm
Born in 1956 in Sosnowiec. He lives and works in Warsaw.
Education
1976:
Graduated from the State College of Arts in Katowice
1976-1979: Studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, at the studio of Prof. Zbigniew Karpiński
1979-1981: Studies at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Art in Warsaw. He was awarded a graduating diploma at the
studio of Prof. Rajmund Ziemski
Career
1980:
Publishes sets of poems in «Nowy Wyraz»
1981:
Publishes sets of poems in «Miesięcznik Literacki»
1981-1983: Assistant at the Studio of Painting and Drawing at the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Warsaw Academy
of Art
1982-1992: Member of the Gruppa in whose exhibitions and activities he participated
1986:
Together with Ryszard Woźniak he received a scholarship to West Berlin.
1989:
Publishes sets of poems and texts in a publication “Sztuka Najnowsza: Co słychać?” edited by M. Sitkowska,
Warsaw 1989
1995:
Scholarship in Lamspringe
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Zofia KULIK
Holbein’s Pavement - 2006
120 x 120 cm
Born in 1947 in Wrocław.
Education
1971:
Graduated from the Sculpture Department at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Between 1970 and 1971 she
completed her diploma piece, which presentation involved a simultaneous display on three screens of about
500 photographic slides.
Career
1971-1987: Working together with Przemysław Kwiek as KwieKulik, she ran a private Studio of Activities, Documentation and
Propagation (PDDiU) and was involved in documenting artistic activities of both Polish and foreign artists. Her
achievements of that time encompass objects, films, documentary and theoretical works, actions, interventions,
performances, as well as activities associated with mail art.
Since 1987: working individually, creating chiefly multiple-exposure photographs, along with installations, objects and
video films.
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Włodzimierz PAWLAK
Protective glove - 1987
130 x 150 cm
Born in 1957 in Korytów near Żyrardów.
Education
1980-1985: studies at the Painting Department at Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts, in the studio of Rajmund Ziemski.
Career
1982-1992: Member of an independent artists’ group «Gruppa» (Paweł Kowalewski, Ryszard Grzyb, Jarosław Modzelewski,
Marek Sobczyk and Ryszard Woźniak), co-editor of «Oj dobrze już» [Oh, It’s All Right Now] periodical
Since 1986: Lecturing at the Painting Department of the Industrial Design Faculty at Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts
Since 1988: Creating a cycle «Dzienniki», as well as his creations «Notatki o sztuce» and «Obrazy o sztuce» [Paintings on Art]
He focuses on painting, sculpting, poetry and prose
1990:
Won the Grand Prix at the Painting Festival in Cagnes-sur-Mer.
2008:
Retrospective exhibition in the Zachęta National Art Gallery in Warsaw
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Zbigniew ROGALSKI
Globes - 2008
150 x 215 cm
Born in 1974.
Education
1999:
Graduated from the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department. Lives and works in Warsaw.
Career
Zbigniew Rogalski is a painter, or rather a director of paintings, as he moves with great ease both in the regions of painting
and photography, mixing them and taking advantage of both disciplines. Reflexes, after-images, film stills and photographs
all overlap the image of reality, as if in a specially constructed optic machine which retains on the surface of the canvas the
emotions and meanings which normally are no more permanent than a drawing on a steamed-up glass. A number of his
works allude to the classic genres of painting, such as portrait or landscape. However, by interweaving different clichés and
conventions of representation, Rogalski is led to surprisingly essential painterly solutions which make the tradition of this
medium interesting again.
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Henryk STAŻEWSKI
Composition N°35 - 1977
63.8 x 63.8 x 3.3 cm
Born in 1894 in Warsaw, died in 1988.
Stażewski was the pioneer of the classical Avant-garde of the 20s and 30s; representative of the Constructivist movement;
co-creator of the Geometric Abstract art movement of the 60s, 70s, and 80s; creator of reliefs, designer of interiors, stage
scenery, and posters.
Education
1913-1919:
Studies under Professor Stanisław Lentz at Warsaw’s Szkoła Sztuk Pięknych (School of Fine Arts)
Career
1917:
Joins the first-ever Polish avant-garde group created, which was initially referred to as the Polish Expressionists
and renamed itself the Formists in 1919
1920:
Debut, showing his works with the Formists at the Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych (Society for the
Encouragement of the Fine Arts) in Warsaw
1923:
Participation in the Exhibition of New Art in Vilnius and the International Exhibition of New Art in Łódź
1924-1926: Founding member of the Grupa Kubistów, Konstruktywistów i Suprematystów «Blok» (Block Group of Cubists,
Constructivists, and Suprematists)
Beginning in 1924: Traveled frequently to Paris, where he developed close relationships with Piet Mondrian and Michel
Seuphor
1926:
Participation in the international Exhibition of Theatrical Art in Paris
1927:
Participation in the Machine Age Exposition in New York
1929:
Member of the Paris-based international groups Cercle et Carré
1931:
Member of the group Abstraction-Création
1937:
Participation in the Konstruktivisten Exhibition in Basel
1965:
Joined with Wiesław Borowski, Anka Ptaszkowska, and Mariusz Tchorek in creating the Galeria Foksal (Foksal
Gallery)
The artist presented his works at numerous exhibitions of Polish contemporary art abroad, including shows in Paris (Musée
d’Art Moderne, 1977, 1982; Centre Georges Pompidou, 1983), Stockholm, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Geneva (1959), Venice
(1959, 1966, 1986), New York (Museum of Modern Art, 1976), Oslo (1961), Essen (1962, 1973), Stuttgart (1962), Chicago (1964,
1966, 1967, 1972), Bochum (1964), Tel-Aviv (1965), Tokyo (1966), London (Royal Academy, 1970; 1984), Strasburg (1970),
Düsseldorf (1974, 1981, 1982), Milan (1974, 1986), Zurich (1974, 1975), Hamburg (1975), Madrid, Berlin, and Cologne (1977),
Rome (1979), and Los Angeles (1981).
1966:
Received an honorable mention at the 33rd Biennale of Art in Venice.
Source: Irena Kossowska, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Science.
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Tomasz TATARCZYK
Step by Step XII - 2008
130 x 170 cm
Born in 1947 in Katowice.
Education
1966-1972: Studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Warsaw
1976-1981: Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, diploma in Painting with prof. Jan Tarasin
Career
1980-1986: Assistant to the chair of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
1987-1988: Scholarship at the Kościuszko Foundation in New York
1995:
ArtsLink Batory Foundation grant in USA
1998:
Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship, Bellagio, Italy
1999:
Grand Prix, First International Drawing Competition, Wrocław, Poland.
2009:
Jan Cybis Prize, Warsaw, Poland.
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