KUBA BAKOWSKI
Born 1971 in Warsaw, Poland Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland
EDUCATION
2001 MA Multimedia Communication, University of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Splitting Abstraction, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2012 A Boy And His Dog, Platan Gallery, Budapest, Hungary There And Back Again, Bill Scott Sculpture Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Magnetic, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland
2010 Polaris, Bec Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2009 Studies in Natural History, Scaramouche c/o Fruit & Flower Deli Gallery, New York
2008 Study for the Movie in Museum of Natural History, Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland Powerful, Zacheta National Gallery of Art / Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Nothing More Happens Than Has To Happen, Center of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2007 Nothing More Happens Than Has To Happen, Location One, New York Present for Heaven, Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
2006 Currently In The Sky, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy Tu bylem, Bakowski... Street Stickers in the Wuyishan Mountains, project in the Wuyishan Mountains, Vis-A-Vis Art Lab, Xiamen, China Light One In Ether, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, Florence, Italy Air Sculptures And Other Flying Objects, Center of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland Muzeum Ziemi na Erosie 433, Open-space Project - Posters on City Lights, NASA Photos with Author's Texts, Warsaw, Poland
2005 Unexpected Disorders of Sports Activites, Galeria Potocka, Crakow, Poland Museum of Earth on 433 Eros, 22th Edition of 3500 cm2 Poster Project, Rialto Santambrogio, Rome, Italy
2004 TV Zero Zones, Television Video Project Broadcast on Polish Public Television TVP 2 from September to November A Pole And What's More Heavier Than Air, Galleria PL, Rome, Italy Atlet P420, BWA Municipal Gallery, Zielona Gora, Poland
2003 Aircraft Tests, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Maly Salon, Warsaw, Poland
2002 Project for The New Garden, Center of Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Laboratorium Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Light in Ether, Potocka Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2001 Flat in the Bathtub and on the Bed, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Ruptures and Convergencies, Kuad Gallery in asscociation with Culture and Art Centre in Wroclaw (OKIS), Istanbul
2013 Victory Obsessed, Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, Poland
2012 Here And Now, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Videoex Festival - Art on TV, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland The Games Poles Play, CCA Derry Londonderry, Northern Ireland Sport in Art, MOCAK - Museum of Conterporary Art, Krakow, Poland Coming Soon, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Koln, Germany - group show Sport in Art, MOCAK - Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland Ricostruzioni, With the Participation of The Polish Institute, Rome, Italy
2011 Camera Vivant, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT No, No I Hardly Ever Miss a Show, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Nothing Is Eternally Important, CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland
2010 A Part of No-Part: Parallelisms Between Then and Now, Chelsea Art Museum, New York All Creatures Great and Small, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2009 All Creatures Great and Small, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Difference Beyond Difference, Stary Browar, Poznan, Poland
2008 My Space- What Public Does Mean, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy The Influence of Fish Tales on the Breaking Waves, Point B, Brooklyn, New York 3500cm2 - Art Poster Project, Uqbar, Berlin, Germany Beyond Future, Mejan Labs, Stockholm, Sweden The Red Eye Effect: Polish Photography in the 21-st Century, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland TRADE MARK, curated by Gaia Pasi, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, Florence, Italy
2007 Balance, 1/9 Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy STILL HERE: Humour in Post-Communist Performative Video, Artspace Sydney Woolloomooloo, Australia 27th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia MANUAL cc Instructions for beginners and advanced players, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland Concrete Legacy. From Le Corbusier to The Homeboys, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland Lessico Europeo, Festival Fabbrica Europa 2007, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy A Poisoned Source. Polish Contemporary Art in Postromantic Landscape, LNMA Latvian National Museum of Arts, Riga, Latvia transRobota, 7th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Museum in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland The Second Scene, Sektor I, Katowice, Poland
2006 3500cm2 - Art Poster Project, Assab One, Milan, Italy Mentality, Lodz Biennale 2006, Lodz, Poland At the Very Centre of Attention. Part 3, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Polish Painting of the 21st Century, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2005 Egoistic, Immoral, Outmoded, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Under the white-and-red flag: New Art from Poland, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Poland; National Centre for Comtemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Animartion, Galleria Sogospatty, Rome, Italy Boys, Boys, Boys, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland Four Roses, CSW - Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2004 Instant Europe - Photography and Video from the New Europe, Villa Manin, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Udine, Italy Beyond the Red Horizon, Center of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; National Centre for Comtemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Pasage d'Europe, Musee d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
2003 Public Rituals - Art / Videos from Poland, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria Reversed Art and Engineering - Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden The Lightness of Things - An exhibition of works AT Gallery's artists, CSW Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2002 Animalaction, LAZNIA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland Look at me, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
RESIDENCIES, LECTURES AND PUBLICATIONS
2014 2012 Royal Scottish Academy & Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, United Kingdom "Psychokinetic Synergy. Mental Sculpture in Public Space" in Towards the Third Culture: The Co-Existence of Art, Science and Technology, published by the National Centre for Culture, Warszawa, in collaboration with Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art
“Psychokinetic Synergy. Mental Sculpture in Public Space” at the International ConferenceTowards the Third Culture, The Co-Existence of Art, Science and Technology, Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, Poland
2010 Polaris and other species, Hornsund Polar Station of Academy of Sciences, Spitsbergen, Norway
2009 Beyond the Future, Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2007 Location One, New York
2006 Vis-a-Vis, Art Lab, Xiamen, China |