I remember
that my first artistic fascination was painting. However, during my studies at
UAP, I started searching for a new way of depicting the third dimension in my
works. This search resulted in my diploma work, which was a three dimensional
painting installation dedicated to a specific space. Back then, I also become interested in
technology and so called “new media”. I started using various sources of light in my works - projectors
“releasing” images, heaters, pumps, motors,
controllers, as well as various sensors, movement detectors and thermostats
which controlled those elements. I also
started using images in my work - analogue slides and short videos at the
beginning. The technological progress that I witnessed, made it certainly much
easier for artists to realise some projects, which used to be either
technologically demanding or too expansive in the past. Many of them are structural
hybrids, combining various (now available) media and technologies. This is also
my case - I am trying to use this recent opportunity in a possibly creative
way. I had many solo exhibitions and featured in a broad
range of group exhibitions and art projects in Poland and abroad. I have been working at the University
of Arts in Poznan since 1987.
Selected
solo exhibitions and projects:
1991
The Skys Full of Stars, The
Banff Centre for The Arts, Canada 1992 Four o'clock, Gallery Laboratorium,
Ujazdowski Castle, The Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw 1993
Four
o'clock, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands Chronology, Gallery Stara
BWA, Lublin 1994 Cloudy skies, State College of Fine
Arts, Poznan Cloudy sky, Art Activity
Centre, Wroclaw Indecent
Proposal, 550 W, Gallery Awangarda BWA, Wroclaw Eclipse,
Galerie Quartair, The Hague, Netherlands 1995 Light Spheres, State Art Gallery, Sopot 1996 Lumenophobias, Gallery AT, Poznan Aberrations, Statens
Kunstakademi, Oslo, Norway Closed,
Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia 1997 Circulations, Stadtgalerie, Bern,
Switzerland. Dark rooms, Ujazdowski
Castle, The Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw 1998
Illumination
II, Nearly 500 Questions about the Truth or 70 Litres of Uncertainty, Spike
Island, Bristol, UK Circulations, Pulsations, Glows,
Gallery Arsenal, Poznan 1999 Either-Or, Gallery Labirynt 2,Lublin Reconstructions, The Academy of
Fine Arts Gallery, Poznan Zones,
State Art Gallery, Wozownia, Torun Reconstructions,
Gallery Arsenał, Bialystok 2000 Gestures and Poses, BWA Gallery Kameralna, Slupsk 2002 Enchantments, Gallery AT, Poznan 2003 Cocoons, Gallery ON, Poznan 2009 Three Colors, State Art Gallery Wozownia, Torun 2010 Flags,
Gallery XXI, Warsaw 2014 Western
wind, Aula Gallery, UAP, Poznan. 2017 ILLUMINATION 3, interactive light
installation, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun 2018 UNCERTAINTY, 12-channel video
installation, National Museum, Poznan
Art residences / fellowships and stipends: The Banff Centre for the
Arts, Banff, Canada, Nordic Institute for
Contemporary Arts, Helsinki, Finland, Kultursekretariat
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany, Ministry of Culture and
National Heritage, Republic of Poland.