Artur Żmijewski (born 26 May 1966 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...

) 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 ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie) is a public university of visual arts and applied arts located in the Polish capital. The Academy traces its history back to the Department of Arts founded at the Warsaw U ...

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

Kunsthalle Basel Kunsthalle Basel is a contemporary art gallery in Basel, Switzerland. As Switzerland's oldest and still most active institution for contemporary art, Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel's cultural centre and is located next to the city's ...

" 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); "

Moderna Museet Moderna Museet ("the Museum of Modern Art"), Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009, the museum opened a new branch in Malmö i ...

", Stockholm (1999). Earlier this year he presented Democracies at "

Foksal Gallery Foundation The Foksal Gallery or Galeria Foksal is a non-commercial gallery space in Warsaw, Poland established in 1966, that shows works by contemporary avant-garde artists. History The Foksal Gallery was founded in 1966 by a group of Polish art critics and ...

", 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 centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts, located next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, which was active from 1985–2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a booksho ...

", 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 Germa ...

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.,

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, 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,

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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,

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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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, Gateshead,

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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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