89. RAFAL
BUJNOWSKI
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| Rafał Bujnowski, Lamp Black Hexagon (1), 2008. oil on canvas 112 x 116.5 cm |
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| How to Draw the Pope, 2001. Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm |
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Lamp Black, Cave Exit (2), 2007 / oil on canvas / 160 x 200
cm
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1974, in Cracow, Poland.
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Cracow
Studies:
1993–1995
Architecture Department of Krakow Polytechnic
1996–2000 Graphic Arts Department of the Cracow
Academy of Fine Arts (diploma in 2000)
One of the founders and a member of Ladnie group
(1995-2001)
Founder and curator of Open Gallery in Cracow
(1998-2001).
Themes and
style:
His
works are a brilliant blend of two seemingly remote artistic disciplines -
painting and conceptual art. The theme of the Bujnowski's successive projects -
paintings, videos, objects or actions - are the conventions linked to the
social functioning of the artist and the works of art, as well as the conventions
present in the art itself.
Techniques:
His work
is mostly developed in paintings.
Selected solo Exhibitions
2011
Corner, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
2008
85% - Galeria Raster, Warsaw
IBID PROJECTS, London
2007
Lamp Black - Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
2006
Norwich Gallery, Norwich (England)
2005
Rafał Bujnowski - embroider, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Zurich
2004
Visa, Raster, Warsaw
Paintings and Furnitures, Polish Cultural Institute, Paris
Art in General, New York
2003
Rafal Bujnowski, Jozef Robakowski, Galerie Ruediger
Schoettle, Munich
New and recent (with Marcin Maciejowski), IBID Projects,
London
Paintings.Objects, Galerie Johnen+Schoettle, Cologne
2002
120 objects, 150 paintings, Raster, Warsaw
Graboszyce, Kont Gallery, Lublin
2001
Painting, Renovation, Centre for Contemporary Art Innerspaces
Multimedia, Poznan
Window, AMS Outdoor Gallery, 400 billboards around Poland
A very pretty gallery, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, PL
2000
Kiosk, Galeria 1/2, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice
Consumer products and equipment, Goethe Institut, Cracow
Consumer products and equipment, Bagatt Showroom, Warsaw,
Bialystok
Pictures, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow
VHS 180min, Potocka Gallery, Cracow
Cheap art from Poland - Export, St. Martin's Scholl (Window
Gallery), London
1999
Grafika gratis, Kola Gallery, Art History Institute UJ,
Cracow
Selected group exhibitions
2012
Sedimente - Kerstin Engholm Galerie (former Engholm Engelhorn
Galerie), Vienna
Sammlung Marx - Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecin, Szczecin
2011
Conscious consents - Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
Hirschfaktor - Die Kunst des Zitierens - ZKM | Zentrum für
Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Die Sammlung Marx - Eine Auswahl - Atlas Sztuki, Lodz
POLISH! - Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
On the Threshold - Jiri Svestka Berlin, Berlin
2010
something else... - (con)temporary Vienna , Vienna
Public Private Paintings. 2000-2010: 10 jaar schilderkunst
uit publieke en privécollecties in Vlaanderen en Brussel - Kunstmuseum Aan Zee,
Oostende
Nothing important, is just art - The National Brukenthal
Museum, Sibiu
RAFAŁ BUJNOWSKI / RAY BARTKUS - GALERIJA VARTAI, Vilnius
Over and Over Again - Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk
Painting, Process and Expansion - Museum Moderner Kunst
Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
Workers Leaving the Workplace - ms - Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Lodz
Things evoke feelings - CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej /
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Do It Like That - Galeria Stereo, Poznan
Unmistakable Sentences - The Collection Revisited - Ludwig
Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest
Wenn die Nacht am tiefsten - Kunstsalon Bel Etage, Berlin2009 Take a Look at Me Now, Centre for Visual Art,
Sainsbury
Na okršgło, Hala Stulecia, Wrocław
International Collection of Contemporary Art. 5th Edition,
Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
New Acquisitions - Rarely Seen Works, Ludwig Museum - Museum
of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2009
3xYES - Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of
Modern Art, Warsaw
Contemporary Czech and International Gallery Artists - Jiri
Svestka Prague, Prague
Szczyt bohaterów - Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier
Sztuki, Krakow
Artists of Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part
1) - Burger Collection, Berlin
Prespress - Ritter/Zamet, London
Freedom from Profit - Zacheta - National Gallery of Art,
Warsawa
Take a Look at Me Now - Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,
Norwich
Over and Over Again, 1989-2009 - Centennial Hall, Wroclaw
Double Hemisphere - Foxy Production, New York City, NY
New Acquisitions – Rarely Seen Works - Ludwig Museum - Museum
of Contemporary Art - Budapest
2008
Financial crisis ...from our stock, Jiri Svestka Prague,
Prague
Grupy Ladnie - Galerie Ardizon, Bregenz
Red Eye Effect-Polish Photography of the 21st Century - CSW
Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle,
Warsaw
Krzywe kolo - Galeria Raster, Warsaw
PRUESSPRESS - Rental Gallery, New York City, NY
Motivation - Work - Implement - Jiri Svestka Prague, Prague
Kolekcja Bunkra Sztuki - Stary Browar, Poznan
What kind of painting? - - Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich
P2P - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain,
Luxembourg
Carte Blanche: Freundliche Feinde - Galerie für Zeitgenössische
Kunst - GfZK, Leipzig
2041 - Artnews Projects, Berlin
Carte Blanche I: alpha 2000 – Kunstpreis „Europas Zukunft“,
Museum for Contemporary Art, Leipzig
Back to Black – Schwarz in der aktuellen Malerei, Kestner
Gesellschaft, Hannover
Crooked Circle, Galeria Raster, Warsaw
2007
RASTER HAIRCUT – RENTAL Gallery, New York
STILL - another exhibition of painting,Futura - centre for
contemporary art, Prague
Asteism - Joke and autority, recommended Program Gallery,
Warsaw
Concrete Legacy. From Le Corbusier To The Homeboys, The
Centre for
Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Several Dozen Seconds Of a Badly Developed Film, Galeria
Raster, Warsaw
White Out, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz
2006
Polish Painting of the 21st Century, Zacheta - National Gallery
of Art, Warsaw
RISS/LÜCKE/SCHARNIER, A recommended Galerie nächst St.
Stephan -
Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Rafal Bujnowski - Stefan Rinck, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,
Munich
Bunkier Sztuki Collection,Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
2005
Under White-Red Flag. New Art from Poland, National Center
For Contemporary Art
(NCCA) - Moscow Branch, Moscow
Urbane Malerei, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst - GfZK,
Leipzig
Boys, Boys, Boys, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki,
Krakow
2004
Concernés, La Maison Folie de Wazemmes, Lille, F; Bunkier
Sztuki Gallery, Cracow
Hot Destination - Marginal Destiny, House of Art, Brno
At Home, The Letterkenny Art Centre, Letterkenny, IRL
Leichte Arbeit, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
Malerei, Galerie Ruediger Schoettle, Munich
Pluzzle, Galerie griedervonputtkamer, Berlin
Under The Red & White Flag, New Art from Poland,
Contemporary Art Centre,
Vilnius, LT
Under The Red & White Flag, New Art from Poland, Estonian
Art Museum, Tallin
Tirol Transfer, Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw
2003
Prague Biennial, The National Gallery, Prague
RASTER. Aktuelle Kunst aus Polen, Museum Junge Kunst,
Frankfurt/Oder
Malerei, Galerie Johnen+Schoettle, Cologne
Art of the 3rd RP, Polish Sculpture Centre, Oronsko
Ogonblickets Anatomie (Anatomy of moments) Grafikens Hus,
Mariefred
2002
Art on the road, AMS Outdoor Gallery, Cracow
Junge Kunst aus Polen, Galerie der Marktgemeinde St.Johan, A
Projekt Karlsplatz, Kunsthalle, Vienna
2001
4th Polish Young Artists’ Show, BWA Awangarda Gallrey,
Wroclaw
The famous Ladnie Group, Sektor I Gallery, GCK, Katowice
1st friday of the month (Ladnie Group), Manhattan Gallery,
Lodz
Popelita, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Cracow
On the outside, Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk
Good, Raster, Warsaw
Fish eye, Baltic Gallery for Contemporay Art, Slupsk/Ustka
Relax, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
2000
Paint me, Art Exhibition Hall, Zielona Gora
A dream of a provincial girl, Sopot
Assembly kit, Polish Sculpture Centre, Oronsko
Trafik.Kunst, Polnisches Institut, Vienna
Ladnie Group in D'Arcy, D'Arcy Agency, Warsaw
Scene 2000, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle,
Warsaw
Postpoetry, Otwarta Pracownia Gallery, Cracow
1999
Oikos, Leon Wyczólkowski Museum, Bydgoszcz
In his own words:
“It’s not my choice. It’s a consequence of how I think… Right now
I’m working on these stained glass panels [exhibited in the Frieze Art Fair,
London, 2011]. They’re like a window when someone has thrown a stone at
it. The project is about how to repair
this window with art tools and art materials, art thinking and strategies. I thought it would be funny to do the classic
stained glass technique on a broken window.
And after I started this work I heard about the London riots, and on the
internet every second picture of the riots was a broken window. So now they are commentary. I’m playing with the technique of old masters
and using it now. But in general I’m not very reflective about my work, it’s
more intuition. I look for links between
one thing and another.”
Representative
Galleries:
Jirisvetska
Raster
Arndt
For
more Information:
http://dailyserving.com/2011/11/interview-with-rafal-bujnowski/