Camera obscura in the Vauxhall Palace A camera obscura installation realized in the staircase of the Vauxhall Palace in Krzeszowice (Vauxhall Gallery). The classical camera obscura mechanism was enhanced with a lens, allowing for a sharper and more saturated image. The inverted projection of the street, trees, and surrounding architecture appeared on the walls and… Continue reading Camera obscura in the Vauxhall Palace
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Yeast Factory
Yeast Factory Location: Pracownia Drożdżownia – the former Yeast and Spirit Factory founded by Stanisław Porębski and Jan Czecz in Bieżanów. Collages and installations were created in the historic Yeast Factory in Bieżanów, Kraków, which was founded beginning of the 20th century on Drożdżowa Street in Bieżanów. For nearly a century, the site functioned as… Continue reading Yeast Factory
Beyond the Past and the Present; Lindenau
Beyond the Past and the Present; Lindenau, Leipzig
Wood transfers
Camera Obscura at the Salt Storage
Camera Obscura at the Salt Storage Camera obscura was created within the spaces where I have been co-running the Wiewiórka Centre for Contemporary Art for the past several years – in the former Salt Storage in Krakow. A building with over two hundred years of history, it has served as a salt depot, stables, military… Continue reading Camera Obscura at the Salt Storage
Park Krakowski
Park Krakowski im. Marka Grechuty The work is based on an archival photograph of Park Krakowski from the period when a public swimming pool operated there — one of many attractions that disappeared from the urban landscape after World War I. History of Park Krakowski Park Krakowski im. Marka Grechuty was established in 1885 on… Continue reading Park Krakowski
A Gift from Krakowians to the People of Pomerania
A Gift from Krakowians to the People of Pomerania This artistic installation was created by Kraków-based artist Bartolomeo Koczenasz. In 2018, the sculpture was transported on a traditional Vistula river barge from Kraków to Gdańsk. During the four-week voyage, involving a group of Kraków artists and Vistula enthusiasts, the Moon sculpture was presented each evening… Continue reading A Gift from Krakowians to the People of Pomerania
Wobbling
Wobbling, BB Gallery in Kraków Wobbling is an installation combining a photographic collage with a very old wooden window shutter found in an abandoned garden. The work was created in 2017 and presented at Kraków Art House and BB Gallery in Kraków.
Once upon a time, there was a tree
Once upon a time, there was a tree Once upon a time, there was tree is a mixed media work in which a photographic image was transferred onto ash wood blocks, forming a modular, grid-based structure.
This is a fantastic hole
This Is a Fantastic Hole Optical site-specific installation at Baszta Gallery, Kraków This Is a Fantastic Hole is an optical, site-specific intervention based on the principles of camera obscura and a system of mirrors, penetrating the walls of Dworek Białoprądnicki and Baszta Gallery in Kraków. By reintroducing external daylight—absent from the ruins of the sixteenth-century… Continue reading This is a fantastic hole
Beyond the Past and the Present; Zizkov, Prague
Beyond the Past and the Present; Zizkov, Prague These photographic collages has been presented since 2017 in the hallway in front of Nevan Contempo gallery in Zizkov, Prague. The images you are looking at are based on an overlap of two photographs, one originating in an unspecified past and another taken within the last two… Continue reading Beyond the Past and the Present; Zizkov, Prague
Beyond the Past and the Present; Szpitalna street, Kraków
Beyond the Past and the Present;Szpitalna street, Kraków The exhibition was realized in cooperation with the Małopolska Institute of Culture and presented as part of the 21st Małopolska Cultural Heritage Days. The project comprised 13 works installed on the façades of eight tenement houses along Szpitalna Street. The elevations featured large-format photographic collages created by… Continue reading Beyond the Past and the Present; Szpitalna street, Kraków
I Suddenly Woke Up in Barcelona
I Suddenly Woke Up in BarcelonaExhibition at Piękny Pies The former glory of Kraków’s bars and cafés is constantly fading. Sometimes nothing remains of these places but words and memories. Some, wrapped in legend, still exist today—occasionally owing their survival to the fact that nothing there has really changed. I am fascinated by places where… Continue reading I Suddenly Woke Up in Barcelona
House in Detail
House in DetailKraków Art House / Cracow Gallery Weekend KRAKERS Artist: Bartolomeo KoczenaszCurator: Piotr SikoraFeatured murals: Kuzko / Koczenasz / Noude / Malik / Rejs / Rudzki / Jurecki / Wvojt …and the house stood there, looking at itself in the Vistula.It leaned its head along the long perspective of the Prague tractand listened as… Continue reading House in Detail
Floating Moon
Floating Moon7th Aquatic Critical Mass in Kraków Floating Moon was featured in Vogue Poland November 2018 Art Issue edited by Paulina Ołowska. See it.
Frames of Time, Wisła in Kraków.
Frames of Time; The Vistula River in Kraków Frames of Time is a series of works based on the juxtaposition of archival and contemporary photographs of urban spaces. The works establish a dialogue between past and present in the context of public space and the social interactions that take place within it. The spatial mode… Continue reading Frames of Time, Wisła in Kraków.
Three Perspectives, The Kraków Ghetto.
Three Perspectives; The Kraków Ghetto Installation Three Perspectives is based on two juxtaposed images of entrance into Limanowskiego street from Podgórski Market Square. It was exactly where in 1941 the gate of the ghetto wall was raised marking the borderline of humanity. The photos of exactly the same spot were taken at an interval of… Continue reading Three Perspectives, The Kraków Ghetto.
Photo booth RGB
Photo booth RGB The first photo booth produced by Photomaton appeared on the streets of Paris in 1928. To be able to get one’s portrait taken in a matter of minutes, by an automated process, was a quite revolutionary invention and accessible to all. Many artists could see the artistic potential of the device and… Continue reading Photo booth RGB