Paweł Althamer (born 12 May 1967,

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) is a

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contemporary

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, collaborative artist and creator of installations, and

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Life and work

In the years 1988-1993, he studied sculpture at the

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 ...

. Since the mid-1990s, he has been collaborating with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw. In 2000, he participated in

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3 in

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. In 2004, he won the Vincent Award from the Broere Charitable Foundation in the

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. In 2007, he presented the exhibition ''One of many'' with the Nicola Trussardi Foundation. His longest-running collaboration is with the Nowolipie Group, an organisation in

for adults with mental or physical disabilities, to whom he has been teaching a Friday night

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class since the early 1990s. In 2008 Althamer arranged for the group to wear matching overalls and take a trip on a biplane, which became the subject of a short film by Althamer’s frequent collaborator, Artur Żmijewski (Winged, 2008). Althamer was part of the so-called Kowalski Studio at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, along with many of today’s leading generation of Polish artists, including Artur Żmijewski and

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. Under the working title ‘Common Space—Private Space’, Kowalski foregrounded the work of art as an effect of complex

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performed by artists in interaction with each other, neutralising

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: ‘each of the participants had at his/her disposal “a space of their own” �� where they could build elements of their own

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, and the “common space” open to everyone, where they could conduct simultaneous dialogues with the other participants. All without using words.’ Althamer's large series of works "The Venetians" was exhibited in the arsenale section of the 2013

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. In 2015, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the

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for his artistic achievements. He is represented by Neugerriemschneider, Berlin and Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw. His solo exhibitions include Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht,

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, London, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Musée National d’Art Moderne,

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, Paris

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, New York, and Helsinki Art Museum.

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Paweł Althamer
at Culture.pl
Pawel Althamer at Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Althamer, Pawel 1967 births Living people Polish contemporary artists Polish sculptors Polish male sculptors Artists from Warsaw

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