Artur Żmijewski (born 26 May 1966 in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

) is a Polish visual artist, filmmaker and photographer. During the years of 1990–1995 he studied at

Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw () is a public university of visual, visual arts and applied arts located in the Poland, Polish Warsaw, capital. The academy traces its history back to the Department of Arts founded at the Warsaw University in the ...

. He is an author of short video movies and photography exhibitions, which were shown all over the world. Since 2006 he is artistic editor of the "

Krytyka Polityczna ''Krytyka Polityczna'' (; "The Political Critique") is a network of Polish left-wing intellectuals. The network is based around a journal of the same name founded by Sławomir Sierakowski in 2002, but is open to voices from across the political s ...

". His solo show ''If It Happened Only Once It's As If It Never Happened'' was at "

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" in 2005, the same year in which he represented Poland at the 51st Venice Biennale. He has shown in Documenta 12 (2007), and Manifesta 4 (2002); Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2012, 2005); National Gallery of Art Zacheta, Warsaw (2005); Kunstwerke, Berlin (2004); CAC, Vilnius (2004); "

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", Stockholm (1999). Earlier this year he presented Democracies at " Foksal Gallery Foundation", Warsaw; and is making new work for The Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in New York as part of their ''Projects’ Series'' in September 2009. "

Cornerhouse Cornerhouse was a cinema and contemporary visual arts centre next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, from 1985 to 2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a bookshop, bar and café. Cornerhouse was ...

", Manchester, presented the first major UK survey of Zmijewski's work, spanning his practice from 2003 to the present day, from November 2009 – January 2010. He was the curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale in 2012 – of which he opened the curatorial process as a collaboration. ''Berek'' (''The Game of Tag''), 1999 has repeatedly brought controversy. The piece depicts nude adults playing tag in the gas chamber of the

Stutthof concentration camp Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German-an ...

Notable works

Movies

''Note: Titles in brackets are non-official English titles.'' * ''Ja i AIDS'' (''Me and AIDS''), 1996 * ''Ogród botaniczny ZOO'' (''ZOO, The Botanic Garden''), 1997 * ''Oko za Oko'' (''An Eye for an Eye''), 1998 * ''Berek'' (''The Game of Tag''), 1999 * ''KR WP'', 2000 * ''Sztuka kochania'' (''An Art of Love''), 2000 * ''Karolina'' (''Caroline''), 2001 * ''Na spacer'' (''Out for a Walk''), 2001 * ''Lekcja śpiewu 1'' (''Singing Lesson 1''), 2001 * ''Lekcja śpiewu 2'' (''Singing Lesson 2''), 2003 * ''Pielgrzymka'' (''Pilgrimage''), 2003 * ''Nasz śpiewnik'' (''Our Songbook''), 2003 * ''Itzik'', 2003 * ''Lisa'', 2003 * ''80064'', 2004 * ''Rendez-vous'', 2004 * ''Powtórzenie'' (''Repetition''), 2005 * ''Wybory.pl'', 2005 * ''Them'', 2007 * ''Democracies'', 2009 * ''Blindly'', 2013 (Biennale di Venezia) * ''Realism'', 2017 * ''Compassion'', 2022

Photographies

* ''40 Szuflad'' (''40 Drawers''), 1995 * ''Gestures,'' 2019 * ''Refugees/Cardboards'', 2022

Solo exhibitions

* ''Tożsamość Dzidzi'', 1995, Galeria Przyjaciół A.R.,

, Poland * ''Śpiew sardynek'', 1996, Galeria a.r.t.,

Płock Płock (pronounced ), officially the Ducal Capital City of Płock, is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by Central Statistical Office (Poland), GUS on 31 December 2021, the ...

, Poland * ''Oko za oko'', 1998, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland * ''Ausgewahlte Arbeiten'', 1999, Galeria Wyspa,

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, Poland * ''Berek'', 2000, Galeria a.r.t., Płock, Poland * ''Na Spacer'', 2001, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland * ''Lekcja śpiewu 1'' / ''Lekcja śpiewu 2'', 2003, Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw, Poland * ''Singing lesson 2'', 2003,

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig The Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (GfZK) (English language, English: Gallery for Contemporary Art) is an exhibition center for contemporary art and a museum for art post 1945 in Leipzig, Germany, in a beautiful location opposite Joh ...

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, Germany * ''Singing lesson'', 2003, Wilkinson Gallery, London, Great Britain * ''Artur Żmijewski. Selected Works 1998–2003'', 2004, MIT

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, US * ''Artur Żmijewski'', 2004, Centre d'art Contemporain de Bretigny,

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, France * ''Powtórzenie'', 2005, Polski Pawilon na LI Międzynarodowym Biennale w Wenecji,

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, Italy * ''Artur Żmijewski'', 2005,

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, Switzerland * ''Artur Żmijewski'', 2009,

, Manchester, United Kingdom * ''Artur Żmijewski'', 2010, Trade (gallery),

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, United Kingdom * ''Artur Żmijewski - When Fear Eats the Soul'', 2022
PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
Milan, Italy

Group exhibitions

* ''Documenta'' 2007,

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, Germany * ''Double Agent'' 2008,

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, London,

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* ''11th International Istanbul Biennial'' 2009,

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References

External links

Artur Żmijewski
at culture.pl
Artur Żmijewski profile at Biografie Genealogia Polska

On Artur Żmijewski, spike art quarterly
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