Adam Szymczyk (Polish pronunciation: ; born in 1970 in

Piotrków Trybunalski Piotrków Trybunalski (; also known by alternative names), often simplified to Piotrków, is a city in central Poland with 71,252 inhabitants (2021). It is the second-largest city situated in the Łódź Voivodeship. Previously, it was the capita ...

), is a Polish

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and

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and editor. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Between 2003–2014, he was the director and chief curator at

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. Between 2013 and 2017, he was the artistic director at

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. He is curator at large at the

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

. In 2016, he was ranked second on the list of the most influential people in the

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world compiled by the ''

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'' magazine.

Biography

He was born in 1970 in

in central Poland and moved to

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...

at the age of four. He frequently visited the

Museum of Art in Łódź Muzeum Sztuki, or the Museum of Art in Łódź, is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Łódź, Poland, whose main goal is to research and display avant-garde art, as well as progressive artistic interventions. The institution is housed in ...

and became interested in art. He obtained his master's degree in

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at the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

. In 1996 he completed the curatorial training program at

De Appel De Appel is a contemporary arts centre, located in Amsterdam. Since it was founded in 1975 by , the goal of De Appel is to function as a stage for research and presentation of visual arts. Exhibitions, publications and discursive events are the m ...

contemporary art center in Amsterdam . After moving back to Poland, he co-founded the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw in 1997 together with

Joanna Mytkowska Joanna Mytkowska (1970) is a Polish curator and art critic. She has been the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw since 2007. She is the co-founder of the Foksal Gallery Foundation, which since 2001 has been operating independently from ...

and Andrzej Przywara and worked there as curator until 2003. He was director and chief curator at

from 2003 to 2014. In 2008, he co-curated with Elena Filipovic the 5th

Berlin Biennale The Berlin Biennale (full name: Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art) is a contemporary art exhibition, which has been held at various locations in Berlin, Germany, every two to three years since 1998. T ...

for Contemporary Art, ''When Things Cast No Shadow''. In 2013, he was appointed Artistic Director of

, which took place in Athens and Kassel in 2017.

Curator

Selected exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel

2014:

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, ''Prisoners of Shotik Itihash'';

Vivian Suter Vivian Suter (born 1949) is a Swiss-Argentinian painter. Early life Suter was born in Buenos Aires. Her mother, Elisabeth Wild, was a noted collage artist. At the age of 12, Suter moved to Basel, Switzerland with her family. Career In the 1970 ...

, ''intrépida,'' featuring Elisabeth Wild ''Fantasias 2''; Ross Birrell and David Harding, ''Winter Line'' 2013: Mandla Reuter, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, ''Songs for a Mad King''; Adrian Melis, ''The Value of Absence''; Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat, ''Journal'' 2012: Hannah Weinberger, ''When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think That You’re Walking In''; Craigie Horsefield, ''Slow Time and the Present'';

Paul Sietsema Paul Sietsema (born 1968) is a Los Angeles-based American artist who works primarily in film, painting and drawing. His work addresses the production, consumption, and proliferation of cultural objects, reflecting his interest in the possibility of ...

; Adriana Lara, ''S.S.O.R.''; Pamela Rosenkranz, ''Feeding, Fleeing, Fighting, Reproduction'' 2011:

Sung Hwan Kim Sung Hwan Kim (born 1975 in Seoul, South Korea) is a contemporary artist who grew up in South Korea and is currently based in New York. He also worked in the Netherlands for four years serving as a fellow at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunste ...

, ''Line Wall''; ''How to Work'' and ''How to Work (More for Less)''; R.H. Quaytman, ''Spine, Chapter 20''; Danai Anesiadou, ''Damnesia Vu'';

Yael Davids Jael or Yael ( he, יָעֵל ''Yāʿēl'') is the name of the heroine who delivered Israel from the army of King Jabin of Canaan in the Book of Judges of the Hebrew Bible. After Barak demurred at the behest of the prophetess Deborah, God turned ...

, ''Ending with Glass'' 2010:

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Jos de Gruyter Jos is a city in the north central region of Nigeria. The city has a population of about 900,000 residents based on the 2006 census. Popularly called "J-Town", it is the administrative capital and largest city of Plateau State. During Britis ...

, ''Projekt 13''; ''After Architects'' (

Latifa Echakhch Latifa Echakhch ( ar, لطيفة الشخش; born 1974 in El-Khnansa, Morocco) is a Moroccan- French visual artist working in Switzerland who creates installations. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011 and won the Marcel Duchamp Prize ...

David Jablonowsky David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

Charlotte Moth Charlotte Moth (born 1978 in Carshalton) is a British artist who uses principally the mediums of photography, video and sculpture, often using these works to create sculptural or architectural installations. She lives and works in Paris. Work ...

, John Smith,

James Welling James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American artist, photographer and educator living in New York City. He attended Carnegie-Mellon University where he studied drawing with Gandy Brodie and at the University of Pittsburgh wher ...

Haegue Yang Haegue Yang (, Hanja: 梁慧圭; born December 12, 1971) is a South Korean artist primarily working in sculpture and installation. After receiving her B.F.A from Seoul National University in 1994, Yang received an M.A. from Städelschule where ...

);

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, ''Obstacles to Renewal''; Lili Reynaud-Dewar, ''Interpretation''; Moyra Davey, ''Speaker Receiver'' 2009:

Goshka Macuga Goshka Macuga (; born 1967 in Warsaw, Poland as Małgorzata Macuga) is an artist based in London. She was one of the four nominees for the 2008 Turner Prize. Life and work Goshka Macuga was born in Poland. A graduate of Central St. Martins Colle ...

, ''I Am Become Death''; Thea Djordjadze, ''endless enclosure'';

Lucy Skaer Lucy Skaer (born 1975) is a contemporary English artist who works with sculpture, film, painting, and drawing. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Skaer is a member of the Henry VIII’s Wives artist collective, and has exhibited a numbe ...

, ''A Boat Used as a Vessel''; Danh Vo, ''When the Lions Are''; ''Report on Probability'' (

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Patricia Esquivias Patricia Esquivias is a Venezuelan-born Spanish artist who works primarily with video. She was born in 1979 in Caracas. Esquivias received her BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in 2001 and her MFA from California ...

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Anna Molska Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) ...

Anna Niesterowicz Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) ...

Corin Sworn Corin Sworn (born 1976) is an artist who lives and works in Glasgow. Her 2012 installation and film ''The Foxes'' was shown at the Scottish Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale. Sworn was the recipient of the fifth edition of the MaxMara Art Priz ...

); Daniel Knorr, ''Led R. Nanirok'' 2008: Peter Friedl, ''Working''; Aleana Egan, ''We sat down where we had sat before'';

Ahmet Öğüt Ahmet Öğüt (born 1981 in Diyarbakır, Turkey) is a conceptual artist living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Berlin, Germany. He works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing and printed media. ...

, ''Mutual Issues, Inventive Acts''; Armando Andrade Tudela, ''Gamblers Die Broke'';

Guido van der Werve Guido van der Werve (born 1977) is a Dutch filmmaker and visual artist. Personal details Van der Werve was born in Papendrecht, the Netherlands and currently lives and works in Finland and Berlin. He pursued studies in industrial design, a ...

, ''On parity of days'';

Alexandra Bachzetsis Alexandra Bachzetsis (born 1974) is a Greek-Swiss choreographer and visual artist Her artistic media include visual arts, dance, performance and theater. Biography Bachzetsis was born Zürich, Switzerland in 1974. She studied in the Zürcher Ku ...

, ''Show'' 2007: Paola Pivi, ''It Just Keeps Getting Better'';

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, ''Chizhevsky Lessons''; Minerva Cuevas, ''Phenomena'';

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, ''Integration'' 2006:

Gustav Metzger Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926, Nuremberg – 1 March 2017, London) was a German artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Ar ...

, ''In Memoriam: New Works''; Ahlam Shibli, ''Trackers''; Diango Hernandez, ''Revolution''; Nairy Baghramian, ''Es ist ausser haus''; Kate Davis, ''STOP!STOP!STOP!''; Lee Lozano, ''WIN FIRST DONT LAST WIN LAST DON'T CARE'' (retrospective exhibition, travelled to Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven); Peter Peri ''Country 10''; ''QUAUHNAUHUAC: The Straight Line Is a Utopia'' (Maria Thereza Alves, Dr. Atl, Ross Birrell & David Harding,

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Jimmie Durham Jimmie Bob Durham (July 10, 1940 – November 17, 2021) was an American sculptor, essayist and poet. He was active in the United States in the civil rights movements of African Americans and Native Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, serving on the ...

, Cisco Jiménez,

Robert Smithson Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and mu ...

Hildegard Spielhöfer Hildegard is a female name derived from the Old High German ''hild'' ('war' or 'battle') and ''gard'' ('enclosure' or 'yard'), and means 'battle enclosure'. Variant spellings include: Hildegarde; the Polish, Portuguese, Slovene and Spanish Hilde ...

) 2005: SUPERFLEX, ''Supershow''; Artur Zmijewski;

Tomma Abts Tomma Abts (born 26 December 1967) is a German-born visual artist known for her abstract oil paintings. Abts won the Turner Prize in 2006.

;

Carl Andre Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures and for the suspected murder of contemporary and wife, Ana Mendieta. His sculptures range from large public artw ...

''Black Wholes, 44 Carbon Copper Triads'';

Christoph Büchel Christoph Büchel (born 1966) is a Swiss artist known for provocative contemporary installations. He received international attention for constructing a mosque in a Venice church and suggesting that prototypes for Donald Trump's wall should be con ...

, ''Hole''; Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane, ''Folk Archive'' 2004:

Piotr Uklański Piotr Uklański (born 1968) is a contemporary Polish-American artist who has produced art since the mid 1990s which have explored themes of spectacle, cliche, and tropes of modern art. Many of his pieces and projects take well-known, overused, ...

, ''Earth, Wind and Fire''; Rosalind Nashashibi, ''Over In''; Damian Ortega 2003:

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, ''Hallimasch: Was tun in 30 Tagen?/What To Do in 30 days''?

Other curated and co-curated exhibitions (selection)

2021: ''Wilhelm Sasnal: Such a Landscape'',

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews ( pl, Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich) is a museum on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. The Hebrew word ''Polin'' in the museum's English name means either "Poland" or "rest here" and relates to a ...

, Warsaw ''Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life'', co-curated with Androniki Gripari, Wrightwood 659, Chicago 2020: ''Elisabeth Wild:'' ''Fantasías'', Karma International, Zurich, featuring Raúl Itamar Lima and Sophie Thun 2019: ''1937-2017: Von Entarteter Kunst zu Enstellter Kunst'', HGB-Galerie, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Buchkunst, Leipzig (with students of the HGB and including Frankfurter Hauptschule,

Henrike Naumann Henrike Naumann (born 1984 in Zwickau) is a German installation artist. Life Naumann studied stage and costume design at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and scenography at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. She lives in Berlin ...

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and Artur Żmijewski) ''Tirana Patience'', National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, co-curated with Nataša Ilić (works from the collection of NGA and featuring Chto Delat,

Anna Daučíková Anna Daučíková (born August 18, 1950) is Slovak visual artist and activist based in Prague and Bratislava. From 1999 to 2011 she was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava and currently teaches at the Academy of Fine A ...

Iman Issa Iman Issa (born 1979) is an Egyptian multi-disciplinary artist whose work looks at the power of display in relation to academic and cultural institutions at large. Issa has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her most notable sh ...

, Doruntina Kastrati, Larion Lozovoy, Ibrahim Mahama, David Maljkovic,

Anri Sala Anri Sala (born 1974) is an Albanian contemporary artist whose primary medium is video. Life and career Sala studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Pari ...

, Gentian Shkurti and Artur Żmijewski) ''Wild Spoerri Rosenstein'', Hotel am Brillantengrund, Vienna (with students of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien and featuring

Elisabeth Wild Elisabeth Wild (6 February 1922 – 12 February 2020) was an Austrian collage artist. Early life and education Born in Europe, Wild emigrated to Argentina with her parents in Franz and Stefanie Pollack in 1938. Wild studied painting at the Acad ...

Daniel Spoerri Daniel Spoerri (born 27 March 1930) is a Swiss artist and writer born in Romania. Spoerri is best known for his "snare-pictures," a type of assemblage or object art, in which he captures a group of objects, such as the remains of meals eaten by in ...

and Erna Rosenstein) 2017:

, Athens and Kassel, various venues. Artistic director: Adam Szymczyk, curators:

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Candice Hopkins Candice Hopkins (born 1977) is a Carcross/Tagish First Nation independent curator, writer, and researcher who predominantly explores areas of indigenous history, and art. Early life and education Candice Hopkins was born 1977 in Whitehorse, Yu ...

, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung,

Hila Peleg Hila Peleg ( he, הילה פלג; born 1976 in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel) is a curator and filmmaker living in Berlin, Germany. Peleg has curated solo shows, large-scale group exhibitions and Interdisciplinary arts, interdisciplinary cultural events a ...

, Paul B. Preciado, Dieter Roelstraete, Monika Szewczyk, and curatorial advisors: Natasha Ginwala, Marina Fokidis, Andrea Linennkohl, Erzen Shkololli, Elena Sorokina, Paolo Thorsen-Nagel, Katerina Tselou. Full documenta 14 team list: 2012: ''Olinka, or Where Movement Is Created'', Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (with Dr. Atl,

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Manuel Rodriguez Lozano Manuel may refer to: People * Manuel (name) * Manuel (Fawlty Towers), a fictional character from the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'' * Charlie Manuel, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies * Manuel I Komnenos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire * Manu ...

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Thea Djordjadze Tea Jorjadze Thea Djordjadze ( ka, თეა ჯორჯაძე; born 1971 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a contemporary artist based in Berlin, Germany. She is best known for sculpture and installation art, but also works in a variety of other media ( ...

Nairy Baghramian Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) is an Iranian-born German visual artist. Since 1984, she has lived and worked in Berlin. When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum selected Baghramian as a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize, they described Baghrami ...

, Paulina Olowska, Tercerunquinto, and Kate Davis, a.o.) 2010: ''Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession)'', co-curated with

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, Istituto Svizzero and Keats-Shelley House, Rome (with Ross Birrell & David Harding, Nancy Davenport,

Moyra Davey Moyra Davey (born 1958) is an artist based in New York City. Davey works across photography, video, and writing. Early life Moyra Davey was born in 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She grew up in Montreal, where she studied photography and re ...

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Cécile Hummel Cécile or Cecile is a female given name or surname. People Given name * Ce'cile (Cecile Charlton, born 1976), Jamaican musician * Severin Cecile Abega (1955–2008), Cameroonian author * Cécile Aubry (1928–2010), retired French film actres ...

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, and Danh Vo) 2010: ''masqué'', Magazin 4, Kunstverein Bregenz (with

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, Tomislav Gotovac,

Ion Grigorescu Ion Grigorescu (born March 15, 1945 in Bucharest) is a Romanian painter who was one of the first Romanian conceptual artists. Grigorescu is the creator of numerous films, photographic series, and actions recorded on film, as well as drawings and ...

Tibor Hajas Tibor is a masculine given name found throughout Europe. There are several explanations for the origin of the name: * from Latin name Tiberius, which means "from Tiber", Tiber being a river in Rome. * in old Slavic languages, Tibor means "sacred pl ...

Edward Krasiński Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sax ...

Katerina Seda Katerina (Greek language, Greek: Κατερίνα, ''Katerína''; Russian language, Russian, Bulgarian language, Bulgarian and Macedonian language, Macedonian: Катерина, ''Katerina'') is a feminine given name. It is a Greek variant of '' ...

, and Artur Żmijewski, a.o.) 2008: ''When Things Cast No Shadow: the 5th berlin biennial of contemporary art'', co-curated with Elena Filipovic, Neue Nationalgalerie, KW-Institute of Contemporary Art, Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Schinkel Pavilion; including the program of over sixty nightly events ''Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours'', various venues 2003: ''Hidden in a Daylight'', co-curated with Joanna Mytkowska and Andrzej Przywara (with

Paweł Althamer Paweł Althamer (born 12 May 1967, Warsaw) is a Polish contemporary sculptor, performer, collaborative artist and creator of installations, and video art. Life and work In the years 1988-1993, he studied sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine ...

Omer Fast Omer Fast (born in Jerusalem 1972) is an Israeli video artist. Early life and education Born and raised in Israel, Fast spent much of his teenage years in Jericho, New York while his father pursued a medical degree in both countries. He receiv ...

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Lucy McKenzie Lucy McKenzie (born 1977) is a British artist based in Brussels. Biography Born in Glasgow, Scotland, McKenzie studied for her BA at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee from 1995–1999 and at Karlsruhe Kunstakademie in Ger ...

Paulina Olowska Paulina Olowska (born 1976, Gdańsk) is a Polish painter and photographer, who also works in the field of performance and video-art, social action and applied art. The areas of her artistic explorations are modernist utopias and research on the w ...

Enrique Metinides Jaralambos Enrique Metinides Tsironides (12 February 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Mexican photographer. He began working with photography as a child when his father gave him a camera. Soon he began taking photos imitating popular action movies a ...

Pierre Huyghe Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French artist who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems. Education Pierre Huyghe (pronounced ''hweeg'') was born in Paris in 1962. He lives ...

, and

Mathilde Rosier Mathilde is an alternative spelling of the names Matilde or Matilda, and could refer to: *Mathilde Dolgopol de Sáez (1901 –1957), Argentinian vertebrate paleontologist * Mathilde, Abbess of Essen (949–1011) * Mathilde Alanic (1864-1948), Fre ...

, a.o.), Era Nowe Horyzonty, Cieszyn, Poland 2002: ''Tadeusz Rolke'', Kunstverein in Hamburg 2001: ''Painters Competition'', City Gallery Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala, Poland 2000: ''Amateur 1900–2000. Variable Research Initiatives'', commissioned by Konstmuseum Göteborg, co-curated with Charles Esche and Mark Kremer (with

Tacita Dean Tacita Charlotte Dean CBE, RA (born 1965) is a British / German visual artist who works primarily in film. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. ...

Maria Eichhorn Maria Eichhorn (born November 19, 1962, in Bamberg) is a German artist based in Berlin. She is best known for site-specific works and installations that investigate political and economic systems, often revealing their intrinsic absurdity or the ...

Job Koelewijn Jacob Rutger (Job) Koelewijn (born Spakenburg, February 15, 1962) is a Dutch artist, who works as conceptual artist, sculptor, installation artist, performance artist, and photographer.

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Borre Saethre Borre may refer to: Places * Borre, Norway, a former municipality and village ** The Borre mound cemetery **Borre Golfbane, a golf course **Borre IF, multi-sports club * Borre, Nord, a commune of the Nord ''département'', France * Borre, Denmark ...

, among others, and including works from various museum collections in Göteborg) 2000: ''Piotr Uklanski: The Nazis'', Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw 1998: ''Guy Debord: ad vocem'', Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw 1998: ''Roundabout'', Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw (with

Olafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson ( is, Ólafur Elíasson; born 5 February 1967) is an Icelandic–Danish artist known for sculptured and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer's ...

Henrik Håkansson Henrik is a male given name of Germanic origin, primarily used in Scandinavia, Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia. In Poland, the name is spelt Henryk but pronounced similarly. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Heiki (Estonian), ...

Twan Janssen Twan is a Dutch masculine given name that is a diminutive form of Antonius, Anton, Antoon, Anthonis, Anthoon, Antonie and Antonis used in Belgium, Netherlands, South Africa, Namibia, Indonesia and Suriname. It is a phonetic spelling of "T ...

, Claudia & Julia Müller,

Manfred Pernice ''Manfred: A dramatic poem'' is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Gothic fiction. By ...

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Tobias Rehberger Tobias Rehberger (born June 2, 1966) is a German sculptor, born in Esslingen am Neckar. He studied under Thomas Bayrle and Martin Kippenberger at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt am Main, where he now teaches. Work Rehberger works in the wider ...

Marijke van Warmerdam Marijke van Warmerdam (born 12 March 1959, Nieuwer-Amstel) is a Dutch artist. Biography Marijke van Warmerdam has been developing a characteristic body of work including film, photography, paintings and sculptures since the 1990’s. She is ...

, Richard Wright) 1996: ''Hans Bellmer: Kattowitz 1905–Paris 1975'', co-curated with Andrzej Przywara,

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, Katowice 1996: ''Crapshoot'', De Appel, Amsterdam, graduate show co-curated with the participants of the Curatorial Training Program (with

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, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, among others)

Teaching

Seminar "1937-2017: Von Entarteter Kunst zu Entstellter Kunst" at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Buchkunst, Leipzig, 2019/2020 Seminars "Principle of Equality" and "Undoing Landscape" at

Akademie der Bildenden Künste The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. History The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di Sa ...

, Vienna, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 Seminar "What Is an Exhibition?" at the department of Art History,

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universitie ...

, 2012/2013

Other activities

Member of the Board of th
Museum of Modern Art
in Warsaw Member of the Art Advisory Committee o
Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation
in Vienna Member of the Scientific Committee
MUDAM
in Luxembourg

Prizes

* 2011 –

Walter Hopps Walter "Chico" Hopps (May 3, 1932 – March 20, 2005) was an American museum director, gallerist, and curator of contemporary art. Hopps helped bring Los Angeles post-war artists to prominence during the 1960s, and later went on to redefine pra ...

Award for Curatorial Achievement, Menil Foundation, Houston.

References

External links

* * 1970 births Living people Polish curators Polish art historians {{Poland-artist-stub