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Artur Żmijewski
Born 1966, Warsaw. Lives and works in Warsaw.
Selected solo exhibitions
2005
Artur Zmijewski, curated by Adam Szymczyk, Kunsthalle, Basel.
The Polish Pavillion, curated by Joanna Mytkowska, 51 Biennale di Venezia.
2004
Artur Zmijewski, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, CAC Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny, Paris.
Selected Works, 1998 – 2003, curated by Jane Farver. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA.
2003
Singing Lesson II. Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.
Selected group exhibitions
2006
Uniforms&Costumes, curated by Dalia Levin, Herzliya Museum, Jerusalem.
About the absence of the camp – Reflections of contemporary art on the topicality of
remembrance, cur. Christiane Mennicke, Kathrin Krahl, Kunsthaus, Dresden.
2005
Collective Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel.
Poland Overview, curated by Hanna Wróblewska & Anna Jagiello, Prague Biennale 2.
2004
Under the red and white flag. New art from Poland, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
The classical theme of the human body receives a generally new interpretation in the works of Artur Zmijewski. A graduate from
the faculty of sculpture of the Warsaw Academy of fine arts, he subsequently showed a preference for more modern forms of
artistic creativity. In the video KR WP (200) soldiers of the Polish guard of honor firstly march in uniform around a square and then
they show up naked, rifles in hand, in a sports hall. This unexpected change in decorations, the absurdity of the situation, provoking the participants to break out in fits of laughter, discloses Zmijewski's talent of creating provocative situations, clearly showing
the dependence of perception on context. «It is a musical, a masquerade, a serious history of the defenseless body, covered in
uniform» (Zmijewski).
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Artur Zmijewski (Poland)
KP RW, 2000
Video, 7.30 min
Courtesy the artist and Galeris Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
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