Franciszek Orłowski
There is still a lot of room down here
Conceptual and video artist, as well as sculptor. In 2010, he graduated from the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at the University of Arts in Poznań. He completed his diploma, in the field of Intermedia, under the guidance of Professor Mirosław Bałka and Professor Piotr Kurka. His projects have an existential character; they are often associated with interpersonal relationships, the lack of them or their defects, and with reflections on the role of man, from the perspective of what is happening now. His works have been displayed at the exhibitions British British Polish Polish (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw 2013), ART IST KUKU NU UT, PRADA PRAVDA (Tartu, Estonia 2013), The Splendor of Textiles (Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2013), Apoptosis (BWA, Wrocław 2012), Double Game (a special Polish-Ukrainian project for the 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv 2012), Potential City (Arsenał Gallery, Białystok 2012), After Socialist Statues (KIM? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga 2011), Mir (Arsenał Gallery, Białystok 2011), Selected Projects (BWA, Zielona Góra 2011), Do It Like That (Stereo, Poznań 2010), Zerreißproben (Lepiziger Kreis, Leipzig 2010), Ain’t No Sorry (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw 2008).
