Karolina Breguła (born 1979) a Polish multimedia artist; creates installations, happenings, video,

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1 Karolina Breguła (born 1979) a Polish multimedia artist; creates installations, happenings, video, photography. She graduated from the National Film Television and Theatre School in Łódź where she is now working on her Phd. She has performed and exhibited in places such as the 55th Venice Biennale (Italy); Jewish Museum, New York (USA) and National Museum in Warsaw (Poland). She has been awarded multiple scholarships and awards such as Views 2013, Samsung Art, the Polish Ministry of Culture Scholarship and Visegrad Fond Scholarship. She is the author of works such as Fire-Followers (2013), Art Translating Agency (2010) and Let Them See Us (2003). In her works she is researching unprofessional art receivers and their relation to modern art. She is looking for the place for art in today`s society and the role the art heritage can play in contemporary world. Building the meanings and auto analysis of culture have became the sense of her latest activity. She lives and works in Warsaw.

2 Solo exhibitions and events 2015 I don t cry over Sculptures, Lokal_30, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) 2015 Histories, Polish Institute Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition) 2014 The Soup, AC Institute, New York, USA (solo exhibition) 2014 Progress, Eastwards Prospectus, Bucharest, Romania (solo exhibition) 2014 The Tower, Warsaw Chamber Opera, Warsaw, Poland (opera performance) 2013 Leaving, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) 2013 Centre of Everything, Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Łódź, Poland (solo exhibition) 2013 Root out, BWA, Katowice (solo exhibition) 2013 Video screenings, Kolonia artystów, Gdańsk, Poland (solo exhibition) 2013 Strange works, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (performative lectures) 2012 Spacial forms in the face of the disaster, EL Gallery, Elbląg, Poland (performative science conference) 2012 Runda med förklaring av offentliga utsmyckningar, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden (performative guiding) 2012 Breakfast on the grass, Euro Art, Łódź, Poland (happening) 2011 Corrective Photographs, Archeology of Photography Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) 2011 Corrective Photographs, Warsaw, Poland (public space installations) 2011 Wschodnia Gallery Archive Reconstruction, Galeria Wschodnia, Łódź, Poland (solo exhibition) 2011 Art Lover, public space, Gdańsk, Poland (solo presentation of one work) 2011 Useful Art: Richard Long - A line made by walking, No Women No Art, Stary Browar Park, Poznań, Poland (performance) 2011 Explaining the Art Exhibition: 13 Muz, Zachęta Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; Centre of Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk, Warsaw, Poland; BWA Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland; Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw (performative gallery guidings) 2010 Good Neighbours, Halo Galeria, Olsztyn, Poland (solo exhibition) 2010 Let them see us, Akademickie Centrum Kultury, Lublin, Poland (solo exhibition) 2010 Good Neighbours, Galeria Szara, Cieszyn, Poland (solo exhibition) 2010 Summer in the middle, Plac Konstytucji, Warszawa, Poland (installation in the public space) 2009 Good Neighbours, Watching tv, Grodno, Belarus (happening) 2009 Good Neighbours, Borrowing salt and sugar, Kaliningrad, Russia (happening) 2009 Lovebook, Galeria Pauza, Cracow, Poland (solo exhibition) 2009 Good Neighbors, Shoping, Lviv, Ukraine (happening) 2008 Artistic emergency service, Galeria XS, Kielce, Poland (happening and a solo exhibition) 2008 The married women (with Ola Buczkowska), Galeria znad Wisły, Vilnius, Lithuania (solo exhibition) 2008 Good Neighbours, Waving hello, Cieszyn, Poland (happening) 2008 Good Neighbours, Overhearing, Zlin, Slovakia (happening) 2007 Lovebook, Galeria 65, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) 2007 The married women (with Ola Buczkowska), Galeria Nowych Mediów, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland (solo exhibition) 2007 Video camera, Galeria Nowych Mediów, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland (solo exhibition) 2007 Good Neighbours, Watering flowers, Vilnius, Lithuania (happening) 2007 Good Neighbours, Having coffee, Berlin, Germany (happening) 2006 All I see is the palace, Polish culture days, Uppsala, Sweden (solo exhibition) 2006 All I see is the palace, Desigh Hu, Budapest, Hungary (solo exhibition) 2006 The married women, (with Ola Buczkowska), Galeria Program, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) 2006 The married women (with Ola Buczkowska), Galeria FF, Łódź, Poland (solo exhibition) 2006 Warsaw, Galeria Kawiarnia, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) 2006 Let them see us, Collegium Polonicum, Słubice, Poland (solo exhibition) 2006 Let them see us, Fachhochschule, Potsdam, Germany (solo exhibition) 2006 Let them see us, Main LIBS, Frankfurt, Germany (solo exhibition) 2005 All I see is the palace, Galeria Jubileuszowa Pałacu Kultury i Nauki, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) 2005 Let them see us, Landtag, Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, Potsdam, Germany (solo exhibition) 2005 All I see is the palace, Galeria Traffic, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) 2005 Let them see us, Neues Rathaus, Gottingen, Germany (solo exhibition) 2005 Let them see us, Jugendzentrum Glad-House, Cottbus, Germany (solo exhibition) 2005 Let them see us, Börgeramt Innerstadt, Köln, Germany (solo exhibition) 2004 An artist for sale (Karolina Breguła & Wojciech Rudzki), Jazzgot, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) 2004 Let them see us, Galeria 5, Górnośląskie Centrum Kultury, Katowice, Poland (solo exhibition) 2004 Let them see us, Galeria INTACTO, Katowice, Poland (solo exhibition) 2004 Let them see us, Goethe Institute, Bucharest, Romania (solo exhibition) 2004 Let them see us, Atrium der ver.di Bundesverwaltung, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition) 2004 Let them see us, Zagłębiowski Instytut Sztuki, Sosnowiec, Poland (solo exhibition) 2004 Galeria Czarna Łódź Podwodna, Wrocław, Poland (solo exhibition) 2003 Let them see us, Galeria Towarzystwa Sztuk Pięknych Pałacyk, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition) 2003 Let them see us, Galeria Burzym & Wolff, Cracow, Poland (solo exhibition) 2003 Let them see us, CSW Łaźnia, Gdańsk, Poland (solo exhibition) Screenings 2015 Fire-Followers and The Soup, Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic 2014 The Soup, Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria 2014 The Offence, Artists Film Biennial, ICA, London, UK 2014 The Soup, TR Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland 2014 Fire-Followers, The Filmmaking Turn, Akbank Sanat Istanbul, Turkey 2014 Fire-Followers, Hot Docs Film Festival, Toronto, Canada 2014 Fire-Followers, Kino Piast, Cieszyn, Poland 2013 Fire-Followers, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 2013 Fire-Followers, New Horizons Film Festival, Wrocław, Poland 2013 Fire-Followers, Alternativa, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, Poland 2013 Fire-Followers, National Museum, Cracow, Poland 2013 Fire-Followers, Artist Village, Genk, Belgium 2013 The Offence, Crosstalk Videoart Festival, Toldi, Budapest, Hungary 2013 The Offence, Workshops of Culture, Lublin, Poland

3 Selected group exhibitions 2015 We are here, BWA, Zielona Góra, Poland 2015 Learning to read, Słodownia +1, Poznań, Poland 2015 Videonale, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany 2014 Sights and Sounds, Jewish Museum, New York, USA 2014 Raptures and Convergences, Kuad Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2014 Deliberations on Economics Cooked Up In the Back Room. 30 Years of Wschodnia 2014 Gallery, Museum of Art, Łódź, Poland 2014 GoEAST, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany 2013 The Views, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2013 Reflection Centre for Suspended Histories. An Attempt, The Venice Biennale, The Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research, Venice, Italy 2013 The Stranger, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea 2013 Present/Presence, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Holland 2013 Seoul Seoul, Changdong Art Studio, Seoul, Korea 2013 Uncertain places, Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 2013 Uncertain places, Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria 2013 Workers of the Artworld Unite, CCA Kronika, Bytom, Poland 2013 Workers of the Artworld Unite, Galeria Szara, Cieszyn, Poland 2012 Enclave, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 2012 Artificiality, Archeology of Photography Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2012 It s time for sneakers, Kunstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany 2011 Otulina, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2011 Young Polish Artists on Tour, Uqbar gallery, Berlin, Germany 2010 Brzuch Atlasa, Atlas Gallery, Łódź, Poland 2010 Open City Festival, public space, Lublin, Poland 2010 Homo Ars Erotica, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland 2010 Failier in art, Emdes Gallery, Wrocław, Poland 2009 Kolekcja Zdarzeń sztuka istnieje poza obrazem: pokaz kolekcji Dariusza Bieńkowskiego, Atlas Gallery, Łódź, Poland 2009 Video Punkt, Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2008 Iluzja jako źródło cierpień, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko Biała, Poland 2008 Red Eye Effect, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 2008 Polsk kvinnodagbok, Konsert&Kongress, Uppsala, Sweden 2008 Biennale of Young European Art Supermarket Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland 2008 Pętle czasu, Festiwal Józefa Robakowskiego, Łodź, Poland 2008 Free Form Festiwal, Fabryka Trzciny, Warsaw, Poland 2008 Samsung Art Master, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland 2008 Versus, Fotospace, Wrocław, Poland 2007 Power, Museum of Cinematography, Łódź, Poland 2006 Poza, Real Artways, Hartford, USA 2006 Love and democracy, Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk, Poland 2006 Film School student exhibition, Galeria 65, Warsaw, Poland 2005 EAF diploma graduation exhibition, Galeria Wozownia Toruń, Poland 2005 Festival of Photography in Łódź, Poland 2004 Love and democracy, Art Poznań, Poznań, Poland 2004 Biennale of Young European Art Supermarket Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland Prizes and scholarships 2013 The Views - II prize 2013 Visegrad Fund Scholarship 2013 UNESCO Scholarship 2013 Młoda Polska Scholarship 2012 Ministry of Culture Scholarship 2012 Nomination for Przeciąg Art Award 2009 The One Minutes Poland - I and III prize 2008 Samsung Art Master - III prize Residencies 2014 KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria 2013 Residency Unlimited, New York, USA 2013 Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest, Hungary 2013 National Museum for Contemporary Art, Changdong Art Studio, Seul, S-Korea 2012 Objectifs, Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore Education currently Phd Candidate at the The National Film Television and Theatre School in Łódź, Poland The National Film Television and Theatre School in Łódź, Poland MA at the photography depertment European Academy of Photography, Warsaw, Poland GFU Photography school, Folkuniversitetet, Stockholm, Sweden

4 Teaching Warsaw School of Advertising - regular lectures guest lectures and workshops at: National Museum for Contemporary Art, Seul, S-Korea Objectifs, Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, Singapore Vienna Academy of Fine Arts Sputnik Master Program Szara Gallery, Cieszyn Languages Polish native English fluent Swedish fluent Japanese - beginner Contact bregulos@gmail.com skype: bregulos

5 THE TOWER 2015, video opera musical, 119min The Tower is an opera musical about a group of people who live in the same concrete block of flats and who plan building a sugar tower together. Full of absurd and anxiety, the story of the utopian project is addressing the history of post war housing architecture analysing it from the position of its user, the inhabitant of a modernist city. The dreams and desires are juxtapositioned with difficult reality of life in the blocks and contradictions inscribed in the modernists plans. Featuring: Joanna Cortes, Nina Czerkies, Roman Holc, Borys Jaźnicki, Ewa Konstanciak, Sylwester Kostecki, Anna Lubańska, Krzysztof Łapiński, Maciej Nawrocki, Ewa Mikulska, Wojciech Parchem Written and directed by Karolina Breguła Music by Ela Orleans Cinematography by Robert Mleczko Sound by Weronika Raźna Editing by Stefan Paruch Production by Fundacja Witryna

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7 HISTORIES OF ART 2014, photography series Histories of Art is a series of absurd photographic stories about well known pieces of art which happened to be accidentaly dostroyed and now reapear in the most unexpected moments of people s lives. Images presented here: The Butter Triangle and Pasta. The Butter Triangle addresses the story of the work Fettecke by Joseph Beuys. Pasta refers to the art works which Katarzyna Kobro burned to be able to cook a dinner for her family.

8 THE TOWER 2014, opera performance The Tower is a story about a group of people living together in a block of flats. They are planning to build a tower made of sugar together. Through this unusual architectural concept they are hoping to liberate themselves from the uncomfortable living conditions. The performance shows the expectations, dreams and desires awakened by the post-war housing architecture and their crash with the reality of the everyday life in blocks. Libretto and directed by Karolina Breguła Music by Ela Orleans Sound by Weronika Raźna Lighting by Robert Mleczko Producers: Fundacja Witryna Curator: Agnieszka Sural Photo documentation by Anna Nesterowicz

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10 THE SOUP 2014, video The Soup is a reflection on the artworld s fake engagement in politics and society. It s showing a group of artists who are stating their intrest in the revolution which is taking part behind the wall. However, what we see is their fear for action. In the end they choose to focus on their everyday issues rather than involve in the political upheaval. The film is theatre of absurd commenting on the position of the artist in the time of transformation. The table is moving as well as the world is changing. The renovation (revolution) is almost breaking into the tiny world of the characters but they don t react even though they stated they care about it. Written and directed by Karolina Breguła Cinematography by Robert Mleczko Sound by Weronika Raźna Edited by Stefan Paruch Producers: Fundacja In Search Of and TR Warszawa. Partners: Ośrodek Kultury i Sztuki we Wrocławiu and Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi. The video was created for the exhibition Prologomena do nauk ekonomicznych prowadzonych od kuchi curated by Daniel Muzyczuk and Sąsiedzi TR Warszawa curated by Barbara Piwowarska.

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12 THE STREET 2013, photography The Street alludes to the conservation issues generated by the new media art. One of the pieces in the art collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul in South Korea (MOCA) is The More, The Better - an installation by Nam June Paik. This huge tower of 250 TV sets needs constant reperations. As there are no guidelines for such a situation, the Seoul MOCA decided to hold a conference, where Paik s work was discussed in the context of new media art conservation issues. The post-conference publication shows that one of the solutions that are being considered is to dismantle the sculpture and bury it in the storage room. The Street is an illustration of the imaginative situation in which parts of the Nam June Paik work are being taken out of the museum. The photographs main protagonist is a man pulling a trolley full of broken TV sets. This brings to mind the Korean street, where such trolleys are used to collect scrap paper. The other protagonists are figures inspired by Korean art like Listening to the Nightingale on Horseback by Kim Hong-do or the film The meaning of 1/24 seconds by Kim Ku-Lim. The work was realized in collaboration with National Art Studio, Changdong - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea detail from The Street

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14 THE OFFENCE 2013, video, 20min The Offence is a short story about a town official obssessed with modernity. His provincial town is a mainstay of xenophobia and fear of everything new and unknown. The town official decides on an unusual method to rescue the people from their backwardness. Understanding human perversion, he forces progress through restrictions, knowing well that they will be broken. Written and directed by Karolina Breguła Photos: Robert Mleczko Sound: Weronica Raźny Editing: Stefan Paruch Curator: Magdalena Ujma The work was done as a part of the Visegrad Artist Residency Program in Art Quarter Budapest and Grodzka 5 project organized by the Culture Workshops in Lublin.

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16 WYJŚCIE LEAVING 2013, wideo, 2min Leaving is a repetition of Workers leaving the Lu- Fotografia Ulica powstała w nawiązaniu do problemów konserwatorskich, jakie generują dzieła mière factory in Lyon by the Lumière brothers. My remake of this film was done in front of sztuki nowych mediów. W kolekcji Muzeum Sztuki the Northern entrance to the Ujazdowski Castle Współczesnej w Seulu w Korei Południowej (MOCA) and features employees of the Centre for Cotemporary Art. The employees leave through the narrow znajduje się praca Nam June Paika The More, The Better. Ta gigantyczną wieża zbudowana z 250 door one by one: the first one is the leader of the telewizorów potrzebuje od pewnego czasu bezustatnego reperowania. Ponieważ nie ma jeszcze labour union, then the personnel of the documentation, accounting and promotion departments, wypracowanych metod radzenia sobie z tego typu the curators, coordinators, assistants, cleaning problemami, muzeum postanowiło zorganizować staff... And at the end, of course, the director. konferencję, podczas której omawiano zagadnienia konserwacji The film is showing sztuki nowych an art institution mediów na as przykładzie a place The of hard More, work The and Better. a factory Z publikacji, of meanings. która It powstała is also jako refering efekt to konferencji the current wynika, sitiuation że in jednym the Centre z kilku for rozwiązań, Contemporary które Art. bierze się pod uwagę, jest demontaż rzeźby i pogrzebanie jej w magazynie. Curator: Marcin Krasny Ulica jest zainscenizowaną ilustracją wywożenia części pracy Nam June Paika z Muzeum. Głównym bohaterem fotografii jest mężczyzna ciągnący wózek obładowany zepsutymi telewizorami. Ta scena kojarzy się z koreańską ulicą, gdzie podobne wózki służą do zbierania makulatury. Inni bohaterowie zdjęcia to postaci zainspirowane scenami z dzieł sztuki koreańskiej jak na przykład Listening to the Nightingale on Horseback Kima Hong-do or the film The meaning of 1/24 seconds by Kima Ku-Lima. Praca powstała we współpracy z National Art Studio, Changdong - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seul, Korea Południowa

17 FIRE-FOLLOWERS 2013, feature video, 48:46 min Fire-Followers is a story about a town were people suddenly start to be afraid of art. The museums, the galleries and the private art collections are all considered to be a danger. People get rid of art pieces, the vicinities of the museums become desolate. There is no proof of the existence of the danger. Still, the fear and paranoia are growing. Fire-Followers is a staged documentary which was done to provoke a reflection on the direction of progress and the power that art has to change people s thinking. Written and directed by Karolina Breguła Photos: Robert Mleczko Sound: Weronica Raźny Editing: Stefan Paruch Producers: Atlas Sztuki and TouchFILMS Trailer

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19 SPACIAL FORMS IN THE FACE OF A DISASTER 2013, performative science conference In the 1960s and 1970s the Polish city of Elbląg hosted a series of Biennials of Spatial Forms, which were the most popular cyclical Polish artistic event in public space, featuring outstanding artists such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Edward Krasiński or Henryk Stażewski. It came as an effect of collaboration between Gallery EL and Mechanical Works Zamech in Elbląg. The artists invited by the gallery stayed in the city a few months of a residency to create together with specialists from Zamech largescale metal Spatial Forms, most of which remain to be seen in the Elbląg s cityscape. The Spatial Forms have fascinated me since I saw them the first time I visited Elbląg three years ago. From then on, I have been trying to guess the meanings embedded in these metal sculptures. Upon an invitation from Gallery EL to participate in the project Awakening, I decided to finally solve their mystery. I invited scientists from various fields to collaborate with me towards the deconstruction of Elbląg s spatial forms. By observing them beyond their inherent artistic context and through the eyes of experts from outside the field of art, I wanted to reach their deeply concealed meanings. The effect of the work was presented during the performative science conference which took place in Elbląg in December Curated by Karina Dzieweczyńska

20 SPATIAL FORMS AS THE CENTRE OF EVERYTHING 2013, book Spatial Forms as the Centre of Everything is an effect of the performative science conference described below. Authors of the texts in the book: Karolina Breguła, Justyna Gabriel, Tomasz Gajda, Aanaida Ghazaryan, Krzysztof Herbst, Andrzej Kapusta, Paweł Laufer, Anna Maga, Paweł Mościcki, Daniel Muzyczuk, Ewa Opałka, Jan Suffczyński, Piotr Sułkowski, Joanna Świerczyńska, Urszula Zajączkowska. Publisher: Bęc Zmiana Foundation

21 KIPPENBERGER COOKIES 2012, installation In November 2011 a cleaner at Ostwall Museum in Dortmund destroyed a Martin Kippenberger work by removing limescale which was an element of the artwork. The irreversible destruction of the piece of art which caused an uproar in the media, was not documented comprehensively by the museum at the time. Ostwall Museum is run according to the theory of Museum As Powerstation by Alexander Dorner. The teory criticizes the old-fashioned art institutions which, according to its author, are just a place of collecting relics and escaping from life. Dorner suggests replacing this concept with that of a museum as a catalyst for interactive discussion and development. In the context of the concept of the Museum as Powerstation the cleaning of the work seems to be a highly interesting performative act which should prompt some analysis from critics and museum alike. Even if performed unconsciously, the act does rise the issue of access to art and the relation between the art and the art receiver. To commemorate the event in Dortmund I baked Kippenberger Cookies. They are an energy sugar dose decorated with icing,a reminder of the limescale removed from the original Kippenberger artwork. The guests at the Kunstlerhaus had to make the decision whether they will eat the cookies presented in such an ambiguous manner.

22 CORRECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHS 2011, photography installations Zofia Chomętowska was a photographer who worked in Warsaw from the early thirties. She photographed the city with its prewar architecture, the war time, war destructions and the rebuilding of the city after the Warsaw Uprising. 7 chosen pictures out of Zofia Chomętowska archive were installed in the city space in form of huge city wallpapers. In the new context the old pictures changed their meaning and instead of documenting commented on the contemporary city by showing what it lacks. Curator: Karolina Lewandowska Corrective photographs is a project commissioned by Archeology of Photography Foundation as a part of the Living Archive Project.

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24 EXPLAINING THE ART EXHIBITION 2011, performances Explaining the Art Exhibition is a continuation of the project Art Translation Agency which is described below. The performances titled Explaining the Art Exhibition are live versions of the Art Translation Agency. They took place in BWA Gallery (Warsaw), Centre of Contemporary Art Łaźnia (Gdańsk), Zachęta National Gallery (Warsaw), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw) and Le Guern Gallery (Warsaw); all between May and August Two of them were conducted by me and three by other translators who collaborate with the Art Translation Agency.

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26 ART TRANSLATING AGENCY 2010, internet project Art Translation Agency was a web-based organization where people were invited to order an explanation of a piece of art. The translators, who collaborated with the agency either work within the field of culture or are art lovers though not professional artists themselves. The translators suggested interpretations often different than the scholarly ones. This way they presented each work as an unfinished form, open for different interpretations and inviting participants to create new meanings. By Art Translation Agency which interpreted art in a non-traditional way I wanted to create a commotion on the art information market and find an alternative to the institutional language and institutional thruth. Translation Agency was my diploma work at the National Film Television and Theatre School in Łódź, Poland. It was active for 1 year.

27 RECONSTRUCTION OF WSCHODNIA GALLERY ARCHIVE 2011, happening When the curators of Wschodnia Gallery invited me to make an exhibition I asked for the access to the archive of the gallery in order to create something that would refer to it s history. This way I discovered that the documentation of the past events at Wschodnia Gallery has never been put in order and described. I decided to invite the old regulars and friends of the gallery to help me indentyfy all the old documents, put them in odrer and describe. On April 15th 2011 as part of the Art and Documentation festival we publicly organized the Wschodnia Gallery archives.

28 USEFUL ART - RICHARD LONG S A LINE MADE BY WALKING 2011, happening Useful art is a series of repetitions of known artistic gestures re-performed in a new context which gives them a contemporary useful meaning. The project is an inquiry about the place of art in the contemporary society. It is supposed to cause the thought about how the context of art influences its reception as well as redefine and replace the borders between the art piece and the art receiver. The conceptual art, which was meant to decrease the production of art objects, is now filling the museum collection storages in form of photographs and films with documentations. By the project Useful art the artist I am trying to turn the old art pieces into ideal non-physical objects.

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30 USEFUL ART - BRUCE NAUMAN S SELF PORTRAIT AS A FOUNTAIN 2009, happening Useful art is a series of repetitions of known artistic gestures re-performed in a new context which gives them a contemporary useful meaning. The project is an inquiry about the place of art in the contemporary society. It is supposed to cause the thought about how the context of art influences its reception as well as redefine and replace the borders between the art piece and the art receiver. The conceptual art, which was meant to decrease the production of art objects, is now filling the museum collection storages in form of photographs and films with documentations. By the project Useful art the artist I am trying to turn the old art pieces into ideal non-physical objects.

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32 ART LOVER 2010, photography, lightbox A portrait of a person, the everyman, who is not an expert on art. Although he often understands it in a different way than the artists and the critics suggest, he derives pure joy from it. The picture is presented in form of a big format light box in the context of a recognizable art institution.

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34 I DON T UNDERSTAND 2009, video A video in which I repeat fragments of conversations about art that I had with anonymous people in the years The words they say I put in my own mouth to reveal the fact that although we are unwilling to admit that, the feelings of confusion, dislike or naive delight are not unfamiliar to most people. VIDEO CAMERA 2007, video A film in which I recite a video camera manual in all European languages, simultaneously presenting its contents by moving my hands. My aim is to show the video cam technology as a carrier, which through its documentary nature is comprehensible, intelligible and beyond linguistic borders. The film won the 3rd prize in the Samsung Art Master competition.

35 66 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ART 2007, text The record of my 66 interviews with people who are not professionally connected with art. By the conversations I try to recognize the tastes and needs of a person who is not equipped to interpret art.

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37 TELESCOPE 2010, public space installation The installation was placed in a viewing point of Lublin. It was an object resembling a telescope which people use to watch the distant parts of their city. In fact, it allowed the user to reach much farther. Thanks to a monitor hidden in its body, the user was able to see the distant coast of Israel. From time to time, people walking along the harbour of the distant land were waving warmly towards the viewer. The project addresses the relations between nations that share a difficult piece of history, which influences the way the new generations look upon each other. The telescope put its audience in the uncomfortable situation of near personal interaction with a person of a different nation thus forcing an unplanned and maybe unwanted contact.

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39 SUMMER IN THE MIDDLE 2010, public space installation Summer in the middle was a white cube placed at a communist style square in the centre of Warsaw, in the middle of a severe winter. Inside the cube one could watch the four channel video projection in warmth showing a summer image of the square where the installation was placed. Summer in the middle allowed the viewer to have an illusion of travelling in time.

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41 ARTISTIC EMERGENCY SERVICE 2008, happaning There is a Polish saying It is as bitterly cold as on the railway station in a city of Kielce. Thanks to the saying it is a well known fact that it is cold on the station. As an artist I want to help people. That is why I decided to address the fact that the passengers in Kielce are freezing. I realized that I cannot help by doing art, so I decided to use my everyday artistic tools to warm up the passers-by. The action took place on the railway station in Kielce on December 13th 2008.

42 GOOD NEIGHBORS , a series of happanings Good neighbors is a series of gestures typically exchanged by people living close to each other performed towards people from neighbouring countries. Neighbors ask each other for coffee, borrow salt and sugar from one another, watch a match on tv together and help with watering flowers. In the project actions, such situations were transferred to the world of people who do not know each other, speak different languages and come from different cultures.

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46 LET THEM SEE US 2003, photography Let them see us is series of portraits of Polish homosexual couples who went for a walk holding hands. The pictures from the exhibition were used as part of a billboard campaign under the same name.

47 ALL I CAN SEE IS THE PALACE 2006, collages and computer graphics All I can see is the palace is a series created for the anniversary of the Warsaw Palace of Culture and science. In the pictures the palace is shown accompanied by the icons of the past 50 years.

48 THE MARRIED WOMEN 2006, photography, video work by Karolina Breguła and Ola Buczkowska A series of portraits of two women, friends, who stay in a very close relationship to each other, and who find in their friendship something which they cannot find in their relationships with men. LOVEBOOK 2006, photography/video Lovebook is a series of works taken with a mobile phone camera. Small sized mobile phone pictures are artificially enlarged to the exhibition size. This process caused intense blur to create the impression of a night dream. It is a story about loneliness, emptiness, longing and despair. WARSAW 2005, photography A series of pictures showing a lonely plastic reindeer s journey through a huge city. The series is a symbolic and absurd story of somebody who is different and lonely.

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