Wojciech Gilewicz. PO Box Warsaw Poland

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1 Wojciech Gilewicz PO Box Warsaw Poland Wojciech Gilewicz, born in 1974 in Bilgoraj, Poland. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan ( ) and then in Warsaw, where in 1999 he earned a degree in painting (with an additional degree in photography). Lives and works in Warsaw and New York. He is a painter, photographer, author of installations and videos. In his works, which usually combine all these disciplines, Gilewicz explores the blurring of distinctions between reality and its artistic representation. A frequent motif of his practice is the replacing of elements of the real world with their painterly replicas. Gilewicz s paintings pretend to be fragments of walls, windowsills, pavements, and for an unaware viewer are utterly indistinguishable from the originals. Sometimes the artist corrects reality by placing patch paintings over dents or holes in a wall. The spectator is able to find the pieces, hidden in the urban tissue by the artist, with the help of specially prepared maps or films documenting the painting process. Gilewicz usually leaves the paintings for a long time in their public-space locations, deliberately exposing them to the effect of sunlight, rain, wind or the human factor. In his practice Gilewicz demonstrates the immense power of the painting medium that is able to perfectly imitate reality, while at the same time, in a way, denying the meaningfulness of painting, because his pictures remain invisible. Gilewicz s paintings are hyperrealistic and non-representational at the same time they perfectly imitate fragments of reality but when taken out of the reality context and transferred to the gallery, they become purely abstract. Wojciech Gilewicz is also the author of the photographic series Them started in This series is based on illusion using graduation filter and double exposure, Gilewicz creates his own look-alike, twin brother, his alter ego and looks at himself through their eyes arranging situations that, seemingly ordinary and everyday, in reality never took place. The traditional photographic techniques used here do not allow for the two characters to get close or touch each other. They work, travel, rest together, they are always together but separate at the same time, divided by an insurmountable distance. The resulting situations are full of psychological tension, alluding to a search for identity and a sense of loneliness, alienation and unfulfillment. The Them series photographs can be interpreted on many different levels as a present-day version of the Narcissus story, as a narrative about melancholy, or as homoerotic love. The leitmotif of Wojciech Gilewicz s practice is a desire to show how relative and changeable our perception of the surrounding world is and how fluid the boundaries between reality and its artistic representation can be. Gilewicz s practice invites a reflection on the mechanisms governing our perception and on the cultural determinants of the way we see things. 1

2 EDUCATION 1999 Master s Degree in Painting, Minor in Photography Academy of Fine Arts Painting Department Warsaw, Poland Academy of Fine Arts Painting Department Poznan, Poland SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected) 2012 Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Cracow, Poland 2012 Flux Factory Factory Cleaning, New York, USA 2012 Bunkier Sztuki Studio, Cracow, Poland 2011 BWA Awangarda Gallery Sale, Wroclaw, Poland 2010 Entropia Gallery Infinity, Wroclaw, Poland 2009 Lubelskie Towarzystwo Zachety Sztuk Pieknych, Lublin, Poland 2009 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2008 Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, USA 2007 Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland 2007 Museum of Fine Arts Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine 2007 BWA Gallery Revitalisations, Sanok, Poland Entropia Gallery The Aporia of Painting, Wroclaw, Poland 2005 TR Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland 2005 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2005 WAA (Warsaw Artists Action) Them, Warsaw, Poland 2004 Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, Paris, France 2002 Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland 2001 Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle / Laboratorium Gallery City Estate Studio Apartment, Warsaw, Poland 2000 Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland 1999 Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected) 2012 The Hebrew Gallery Plain, Tel Aviv, Israel 2012 Arsenal Gallery Scapes, Poznan, Poland 2011 BWA Bydgoszcz New Trends in Painting II, Bydgoszcz, Poland 2011 Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu Filling the blanks, Torun, Poland 2011 BWA Contemporary Art Gallery Post-Gauguin, Katowice, Poland 2010 FRAC (Fonds Regional d'art Contemporain) Limousin Electro Geo, Limoges, France 2010 Changdong Art Studio of National Museum of Contemporary Art A Day in the Market, Seul, Korea 2010 ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) Gallery There Has Been No Future, There Will Be No Past. Challenging Cultural Profiling in Central and Eastern European Art, New York, USA 2010 LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) / Governors Island Floating World, New York, USA 2010 BWA Contemporary Art Gallery A Dozen or so Koans on (Non)Existence, Katowice, Poland 2010 Lviv Art Palace The Power of Art, Lviv, Ukraine 2009 appendix2 Like a Rolling Stone 2, Warsaw, Poland 2009 castillo/corrales Hello Goodbye Thank You Again, Paris, France 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art BELGRADE: NONPLACES. Art in public space, Belgrade, Serbia 2009 Aspen Art Museum Monitaur, Aspen, USA 2009 MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam) Factory, Bat Yam, Israel 2009 Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu Lucim lives on, Torun, Poland 2009 Zendai Museum of Modern Art Starting Point: Intrude Art & Life 366, Shanghai, China 2009 Studio BWA Hidden, Wroclaw, Poland 2009 SculptureCenter In Practice, New York, USA 2008 Istituto Polacco di Roma Transfert Gallerie Polacche a Roma #6, Roma, Italy 2008 BWA Gallery Hidden, Zielona Gora, Poland 2

3 2008 Plumbers Hall Around the Coyote Art Festival, Chicago, USA 2008 BWA Awangarda Gallery External artists. OUT OF STH, Wroclaw, Poland 2008 Biala Gallery Remont generalny, Lublin, Poland 2008 Pianissimo Distortion of an Unendurable Reality, Milan, Italy 2008 Istituto Polacco di Roma Transfert Gallerie Polacche a Roma #2, Roma, Italy 2007 appendix2 Artists Recommend Artists, Warsaw, Poland 2007 Muzem Sztuki in Lodz Multi-way Street annex to the exhibition Beautiful Losers, Lodz, Poland 2007 Paul Robeson Galery Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture In Recent Photography, Newark, USA 2007 Zacheta National Gallery of Art / Kordegarda Gallery Here a Change Occurs, Warsaw, Poland 2006 Real Art Ways POZA, Hartford, USA 2006 Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia Love and Democracy, Gdansk, Poland 2006 LiveBox at Ravenswood Space, Place & Interface, Chicago, USA 2006 Zacheta National Gallery of Art On Their Own, Warsaw, Poland 2003 National Museum / Krolikarnia, Warsaw, Poland 2002 Bunkier Sztuki Look at me / Spojrz na mnie, Cracow, Poland 2001 BWA Gallery Goscinna Pracownia Malarstwa Leona Tarasewicza goscinnie w Galerii BWA w Zielonej Gorze, Zielona Gora, Poland SCREENINGS (selected) 2012 Bunkier Sztuki Frequency Control, Cracow, Poland 2011 Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria 2011 Haus der Kulturen der Welt Fake Estates / Les Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, Germany 2011 Reina Sophia National Museum Fake Estates / Les Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Spain Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Alternative Now, Wroclaw, Poland 2011 TVP Kultura Videogalerie, Warsaw, Poland 2011 Palais de Tokyo / The Tokyo Bar Souvenirs from the Earth.tv, Paris, France 2010 Pompidou Center Fake Estates / Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France th Ave / 29 th St The Big Screen Project, New York, USA 2010 Pratt Manhattan Gallery Art in Odd Places, New York, USA 2010 Dumbo Arts Center video_dumbo, New York, USA 2010 Haus der Kulturen der Welt Capitalismus / Les Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, Germany 2010 Reina Sophia National Museum Capitalismus / Les Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Spain 2009 Pompidou Center Capitalismus / Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France 2008 West Germany A snake on a Tree, Berlin, Germany 2008 Monkey Town A snake on a Tree, New York, USA 2008 Foksal Gallery Museum Night, Warsaw, Poland 2008 White Box DiVA (Digital & Video Art), New York, USA AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCES (selected) 2012 Flux Factory, New York, USA 2012 Residency Unlimited, New York, USA 2011 Arcus Project Residency, Ibaraki, Japan 2011 AIAV (Akiyoshidai International Art Village) Residency, Yamaguchi, Japan 2011, 2006, 2004, 2001 Ministry of Culture Grant, Poland 2010 Changdong Art Studio of National Museum of Contemporary Art Residency, Seoul, Korea 2010 National Museum of Contemporary Art Grant, Seoul, Korea 2010 UNESCO-Aschberg Grant, Paris, France 2010 LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) Residency, New York, USA 2010, 2008 IAM (The Adam Mickiewicz Institute) Grant, Poland 2009 Rema Hort Mann Foundation nominee (video), New York, USA 2009 TAV (Taipei Artist Village) Residency, Taipei, Taiwan 2008 Zendai MoMA Residency, Shanghai, China 2008 ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) Residency, New York, USA 2007 Mloda Polska Grant, Poland 3

4 2005 Galichnik Art Residency, Macedonia 2004 Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe Residency, Paris, France 2004 Fundacja Kultury Grant, Poland 1999 Master s Degree with honors, Poland WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES (selected) 2012 Bunkier Sztuki Studio, Presentations and a series of workshops, Cracow, Poland 2011 Bunkier Sztuki Open House, Workshop, Cracow, Poland 2011 Arts Initiative Tokyo Minglius with Arcus, Artist Talk, Tokyo, Japan 2011 Tsukuba University Artist Talk, Tsukuba, Japan 2011 Arcus Project Recycling Culture, Workshop, Moriya, Japan 2011 Arcus Project Open Studio, Presentation, Moriya, Japan 2011 BWA Awangarda Gallery Sale, Presentations and a series of workshops, Wroclaw, Poland 2011 AIAV (Akiyoshidai International Art Village) Open Studio, Presentation, Yamaguchi, Japan 2011 YICA (Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Art) Presentation,Yamaguchi, Japan 2011 Yamaguchi University Presentation, Yamaguchi, Japan 2010 LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) Open Studio, Presentation, New York, USA 2009 TAV (Taipei Artist Village) Giraffe Kindergarten, Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan 2009 TAV (Taipei Artist Village) Open Studio, Presentation, Taipei, Taiwan 2009 TAV (Taipei Artist Village) Who s afraid of abstraction? Presentation and workshop, Taipei, Taiwan 2007 Zacheta National Gallery of Art KMS (Art Lovers Club), Presentation and workshop, Warsaw, Poland 2007 Biala Gallery Lecture, Lublin, Poland 2006 Entropia Gallery The Aporia of Painting, Presentation, Wroclaw, Poland CATALOGUES AND BOOK PUBLICATIONS (selected) Studio / Pracownia, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, Poland 2012 Sale / Wyprzedaż (DVD), BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland 2011 Jerzy Ludwinski. Filling the blanks Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland 2011 Post-Gauguin BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland 2011 A Dozen or so Koans on (Non)Existence Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk, Poland 2010 The Power of Art Lubelskie Towarzystwo Zachety Sztuk Pieknych, Lublin, Poland 2010 ING Bank Collection Fundacja Sztuki Polskiej ING, Warsaw, Poland 2010 Polish Street Art Carta Blanca (PWN), Warsaw, Poland 2010 Art Pride. Polish Gay Art Abiekt.pl, Warsaw, Poland 2010 BELGRADE: NONPLACES / art in public space Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art and public space, Belgrade, Serbia 2009 Factory Bat Yam Museums of Art, Israel 2009 Wojciech Gilewicz Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2009 Oni/Them Wojciech Gilewicz Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland TM Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko, Poland 2009 Artibus, Transfert Gallerie Polacche a Roma #6, Istituto Polacco di Roma, Italy 2008 Artysci zewnetrzni. OUT OF STH BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland 2008 Remont Generalny Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland 2008 Entropia, Transfert Gallerie Polacche a Roma #2, Istituto Polacco di Roma, Italy 2008 Transgrsja wyobrazni Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland 2008 POZA Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA 2008 New Phenomena in Polish Art after 2000 Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 2007 Wojciech Gilewicz Revitalisations BWA Gallery, Sanok, Poland 2007 Wojciech Gilewicz The Aporia of Painting (DVD + booklet) Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland 2007 Multi-way Street annex to the exhibition Beautiful Losers. Contemporary Art and Street Culture Muzem Sztuki in Lodz, Poland 2007 Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture In Recent Photography Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, USA

5 Binary Cities: Lodz Warsaw Galeria Manhattan, Lodz; MCKiS, Warsaw, Poland 2006 Tekstylia bis. Słownik młodej polskiej kultury Korporacja Ha!art, Cracow, Poland 2006 Love and democracy Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, Poland 2006 On Their Own Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland 2006 V/1 Supermarket Sztuki Tolerate me! Warsaw, Poland 2005 Wojciech Gilewicz Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2005 Them (CD) WAA (Warsaw Artists Action), Warsaw, Poland 2005 Wojciech Gilewicz Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland 2002 Cyklop Nr. 8 Galeria i Muzeum Fotografii Cyklop, Gdansk, Poland 2001 Biala Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland 2001 Pozawydzialwe przeginanie w kierunku mozliwości otwarcia oczu na otoczenie swiatlo nature i medytacje sztuki Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland 2000 Slask kopalnia tematow Upper Silesian Culture Center, Katowice, Poland 1999 individual catalogues BIOGRAFICAL FILMS Sale / Wyprzedaż Pleple.tv, Warsaw, Poland 2011 Who Is Who? Wojciech Gilewicz Patio TV, Lodz, Poland 2009 WORKS IN COLLECTIONS (selected) FRAC (Fonds Regional d'art Contemporain) Limousin, Limoges, France Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Lubelskie Towarzystwo Zachety Sztuk Pieknych, Lublin, Poland ING Bank, Warsaw, Poland Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia Dolnoslaskie Towarzystwo Zachety Sztuk Pieknych, Wroclaw, Poland Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Museum of Fine Arts, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine Art Fairs (selected) 2010 Chic Art Fair Paris, France 2008 Berliner Liste, Germany 5