Piotr Bosacki – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Piotr Bosacki 

Graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin State Secondary Music School as well as the Academy of Fine Arts in Ponań. He works as a lecturer at the Intermedia Department of the Poznań University of Arts. In 2007, he co-founded the informal artistic group PENERSTWO as well as the musical group KOT. He is an artist with versatile interests, who creates animated films, installations, objects, drawings, literary and musical compositions. He compares his artistic practice to the philosophy of nature. Bosacki’s works can be interpreted as unique experimental models of reality, based on the example of the artist’s studies on the nature of things - its structure, mechanics, and poetic potential. The matter, images, and language used to build as well as describe these models originate from everyday experiences. His favorite materials are items of everyday use, simple art materials such as paper or cardboard, taken from life anecdotes, dreams, or colloquial speech. These modest and ordinary things are the starting point for Bosacki, leading to his philosophical speculations and, at the same time, to seek the poetic aspect of human survival in the world, where philosophy and poetry merge into one in the artist’s works. In 2009, the artist published a collection of literary miniatures, entitled Traumtagebuch / Dream Journal, in which he wrote about, amongst other things, his invention of continuous motion picture technology (film without frames). In 2012, the University of Arts in Poznań published Bosacki’s book Urządzenie elementów" / The Economy of Elements - a short work about works of art as linguistic structures. At the 36th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia (in 2011), his film won the Audience Award in the Polish Independent Cinema review. In 2013, he was nominated for the Spojrzenia (Views) awards. The artist won the SFP Award for the best Polish film at the Animator Festival in 2014.

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• Selected solo exhibitions:

  • Bars and Clocks, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, 2009;

  • Large Scroll, Isabella Czarnowska Gallery, Berlin, 2010;

  • Not Really, Arsenał Gallery in Białystok, 2012;

  • The Black Workbook, Stereo Gallery, Poznań, 2013;

  • Within the Limits Conditioned by the Situation, Dům umění města Brna, 2014.

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• Selected collective exhibitions:

  • Luc Tuymans: A vision of Central Europe, Bruges, 2010;

  • Villa Tokyo, Tokyo, 2011;

  • It’s Bearable, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duesseldorf, 2012;

  • Elusive Earths, Etablissement d'en face projects, Brussels, 2014;

  • As You Can See: Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2014.