Krzysztof Franaszek – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Krzysztof Franaszek 

• (born in 1981) – artist working with sculpture, objects, installation, and drawing. His spatial implementations often consist of large-scale objects, inspired by a particular place, the cycle of change, as well as the observation of ubiquitous continuity in construction and deconstruction. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the Faculty of Sculpture (2006), Doctor of Fine Arts (2013). Scholarship at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) in Christian Jankowski’s studio (2005). Scholar of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2009). Since 2006, the artist has been working with the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. 
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• Światłodziura (Culture Shock Foundation, Warsaw, 2012-2013),
• Centrum (Assembly Hall of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 2012),
• Assembly (A19 Gallery, Warsaw, Metro Station Marymont, 2011),
• Hala (joint project and display of a video installation with Simone Ruess, Warsaw, 2011),
• Gradient (Mała Gallery, Nowy Sacz, 2010),
• Asphalt (Studio Gallery, Warsaw, 2009),
• Asphalt 2 (Lubelskie refleksje, BWA Lublin, Grodzka Gallery, 2010).
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• Uroboros (efekt wow, In Gallery, Żyrardów, 2011),
• Divina Silo Art Complex (site-specific co-operation with the international artist collective Local to Local, Lithuania, 2010),
• IX International Biennial of Contemporary Art Dialogues (St. Petersburg, 2009),
• Move (New European Media Art, Halle, 2009),
• Falling Objects (Kronika Gallery, Bytom, 2009),
• Shut Down (Under the Skin. New video from Poland), (New Museum, New York, 2008),
• the installation EuroUfo in public space (MachtRaum, Berlin, 2008),
• Shut Down (EPAF – Performance Festival, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 2007),
• Pearly Man (collective exhibition Transmisja under the direction of Christian Jankowski, Kunstmuseum – Staatliche Akademie, 2005).