Was born in Varsovia, 1961, lives and works Nueva York), through his photographs, videos, sculptures and multimedia installations creates incredibly emotionally charged images, which elicit a response from the viewer. On the one hand, he appropriates the iconography of the history of art and the advertising aesthetics to elaborate precise, convincing images that could be associated to those spread by the media on a daily basis, to which he applies a colour alteration, making them almost unreal. He also explores the resources of photography and the digital media to take an ordinary image close to abstraction, furthermore applying a series of alterations that question its validity as a register of reality.
Selected solo exhibitions
2013
- Cold Forest - Closer To Fall – Maior Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain (photography, video, light installation, sculpture; May-July)
- Stainless Light – Kunsthalle Detroit (video, neon, sculpture installation, April-June)
2012
- Closer To Fall – Yoshi Gallery, Vienna , Austria (photography, video-light installation, sculpture; October-December)
- Cold Forest-Closer To Fall – Rudolf Budja Gallery, Salzburg , Austria (photography, video, light installation, sculpture; July –August)
- Cold Forest – Vejle Kunstmuseum, Vejle, Denmark (video, photography, sculpture installation; curated by Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe and Nina Damsgaard)
- Cold Forest – CDS Gallery, Copenhagen
2011
- The Sound And The Fury – after the novel by W. Faulkner (video installation and photography) Michael Schultz Gallery, Beijing, China (May-July)
2010
- Light and Motion – Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (video installation and photography)
- Garden Of Stones/Cold Forest - Olivier Houg Galerie, Lyon (video + light sculpture installation, September-October)
- Moon Catcher – Vejle Kunstmuseum, Vejle, Denmark (photography, video)
2009
- “Water and Earth” – Kimpo Airport, Seoul, South Korea (multichannel video installation, 144 synchronized LCD monitors)
2008
- Route 17 N – Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (video-photography, September-October)
- Awakening - Route 17 N – Galeria Maior-Pollença, Pollença Spain
(photography/video, catalogue)
2007
- Deconstructed Cities - Lyon Biennale/ Olivier Houg Galerie, Lyon (multi–channel video/sound and light installation, September-October)
- Deconstructing My Reality (video installation and photography) Pilar Parra and Romero Galería de Arte, Madrid (June-July)
- Awakening – Michael Schultz Gallery, Seoul, Korea (May-June, photography)
- Deconstructing My Reality – Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna (May) (video installation and photography)
- Awakening – Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin (March-April) (photography, catalogue)
2006
- Deconstructed Reality/New York – CDS Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (video installation and photography)
- Vertigo/New York City – Galerie Claus Semerak, Munich (video installation and photography)
- New York City Suite - CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Spain (video installation) 22.10-15.11
2005
- Alpha - project for LVMH/Louis Vuitton, Champs-Élysées, Paris (multi-channel fiber-optics video/sound installation)
- Queen Mary, Before They Were Beatles - Pilar Parra Gallery, Madrid (4-channel video installation and photography)
2004
- Confession - La Fattoria del Cerro di Acquaviva di Montepulciano (SI), Siena, Italy (in collaborazione con Palazzo delle Papesse, curated by Lorenzo Fusi)
- In The Heart of The Terminal - Olivier Houg Galerie, Lyon, France (video and photography)
- Before They Were Beatles - Museo Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Domus Artium Spain (catalogue) curated by Javier Panera
- Confession - (4- channel video installation and photography), Reinier van Ewijk Projects, Amsterdam (29 nov- 17 jan 2004)
2003
- Terminal - Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Spain (catalogue) curated by Salvador Carretero
- Transitions - Rudolf Budja /Artmosphere Galerien, Wien, Salzburg, Austria (video installations and photography; December-January)
- Terminal at Last (video installation and photography) Pilar Parra Galería de Arte, PhotoEspaña 2003, Madrid (June-July, catalogue)
- Terminal Dream (Terminal Dream3) (video installation) Folin/Riva Gallery, New York, NY
2002
- Confession (4- channel video installation and photography), Folin/Riva Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2000
- and God Bless America (4- channel video installation and photography), Alexandre de Folin Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
1999
- Presence (Runner - El Alamein) (3- channel video installation and photography),
Alexandre de Folin Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Selected group exhibitions
2012
- “PhotoEspana 2012” - Chrystal Palace, Madrid, Spain (video installation “Terminal”)
- “Drawings, Sounds & Ambiences” Die Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany (video installation “Terminal”)
- CENTRO DE ARTE ALCOBENDAS: “La travesía de una Colección. Los Bragales, arte contemporáneo”. (video installation “On The Wing) Comisario: José Mª Díaz-Maroto. (19 Octubre 2011 – 7 Enero 2012.)
2011
- “Vol. 01” – “Drawings, Sounds & Ambiences” curated by Dr. Christoph Metzger, Cuxhaven, Germany (video installation “Terminal”)
- “Alchemy” - Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, SAR
- The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway - “When painting moves…”, curated by Paco Barragan (video project “Sunset Blues”)
- “The Natural Elements of the East and the West” - CDS Gallery, Copenhagen
2010
- “Black or White Smoothie” - CDS Gallery, Copenhagen
- Museu Jose Malhoa, Portugal, - “Human Emotion Project “ - Curator: Alberto Guerreiro
- “Tiempo Suspendido” - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca - (with Helena Almeida, Julián Álvarez, Bill Henson, Rosemary Laing, Cindy Sherman, Darío Villalba)
- “Uforudsigeligheden i det Velkendte - Unpredictable in the Well-Known” - Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen
2009
- Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce - “When painting moves...something must be rotten!”-, curated by Paco Barragan
- ART VICEROY, Miami, (solo project "Visor'd') curated by E. Cohen, R. Ravens, T. Rosenbaum, B. Tischer
- “Play” Paradise Row and Prakke Contemporary, London, Mayfair
- “Tiempo Suspendido” - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
- “Persona. Presencias humanas en la fotografía contemporánea” - Galeria Maior Palma de Mallorca (18 June 2009 - 10 September 2009)
- “Visor"d Garden for Walt Whitman” – Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark (multichannel video and light installation, LED, sculpture)
- “Cuando una pintura se mueve…algo debe estar podrido” - El Centro Colombo Americano / Sede Centro, Bogota
- “Persona. Presencias humanas en la fotografía contemporánea” - Galeria Maior - Palma de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca
2008
- "BOSON EXOTIC" - Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ - Oct-Nov
- “A View from 1988 Up to Now’”- Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul - 2008 - (w. Julian Schnabel, Gilbert & George, Tracey Emin, Jonathan Meese, Barbara Kruger, and Sol Lewitt)
- “HOT & COOL” - Galeria Maior - Pollença, Pollença
- "Expanded Painting" - Space Other, Boston, MA (17. January 2008 until 28. February 2008)
- "Mixed Emotions. Apuntes para una colección del siglo XXI" - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, curated by Javier Panera
- “En torno a lo transparente” - El Corte Inglés, Madrid. Curated by Alfonso de la Torre
(with Eva Lootz, Javier Pérez, José María Sicilia). El programa de arte se enmarca dentro de las actividades de ARCO (February - April 2008)
2007
- Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Remscheid - "Idylle - Zwischen Traum und Trugschluss"
- "Expanded Painting" - M*A*S*H Miami - Curators: Paco Barragan and Cottelston Advisors, New York City, NY
- “X-tra” - Galerie Claus Semerak, Munich
- “Selection 2007” - Proje4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
- “PhotoEspaña 2007”, Madrid, June-July (catalog)
- "Idilio I" - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, España 5.6. - 9.9. (Curated by Oliver Zybok, Martje Schulz, catalogue), exhibition traveling to: 08.10.06 - 22.04.07 Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg; Oktober bis Dezember 2007 National Gallery, Prag (Artistas: Francis Alÿs, Olaf Breuning, Mike Kelley, Won Ju Lim, Paul McCarthy, Jonathan Monk, Jorge Pardo, Diana Thater, Wolfgang Tillmans, Francesco Vezzoli)
- Festival delle letterature a Roma 2007 (May) – video “Terminal At Night” TEXT BY Robert McLiam Wilson MUSIC BY Tony Bowers, Lagash
- "Video Killed The Painting Star" - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain - 20.4. - 27.5. Curators: Paco Barragan and Javier Panera (with: William Kentridge, Fabián Marcaccio, Nam June Paik, Sam Taylor-Wood)
- The Art video collection - TAD (Rome-Milano/Italy) curated by Marianne Cordier and Joanna Chevalier (with Daniel Askill, Gary Hill, Camille Henrot)
2006
- Kulturstiftung Phoenix Art, Sammlung Falckenberg - Hamburg "Idylle - Traum und Trugschluss"
- Palais de Tokyo, Paris - "lancements et signatures" projections, "Terminal Heart" (with Daniel Askill, Gary Hill, Camille Henrot)
- Videart una visión actual - Caixa de Manlleu (Vic), Manlleu
- "VIDEOARCH" video-installazioni, Piazza Cesare Battisti, Trento - 15/17 novembre 2006 CITRAC - Circolo Trentino per l'Architettura Contemporanea (curated by Mariella Rossi) Catalog with texts by: Lorenzo Dellai, Ugo Bazzanella, Carmen Chiomento, Mariella Rossi
- "ICONS" - Espace Louis Vuitton Paris - LVMH –September 15 - December 31, 2006 (with Sylvie Fleury, Zaha Hadid, Ugo Rondinone, James Turrell, Robert Wilson, Bruno Peinado, Shigeru Ban, Andree Putman) Curated by Hervé Mikaeloff ; Scenographer: Jean-Michel Rousseau (catalogue+book)
- Kunstraum-Sylt-Quelle, Rantum / Sylt, Germany – "Innenwelten“ – "The Inner World“ (project "Confession"(video-photography) - Kuratorin: Indra Wussow (20. Juni - 31. August 2006)
- Abstract art now - floating forms (Teil 1 der Ausstellung) - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (catalogue, curated by Ulrike Lehmann/Isabel Wünsche)
- The Gallery Show - Pilar Parra & Romero Galería de Arte, Madrid
- ARTIUM of Alava, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain - "La obra maestra desconocida según Balzac / The Unknown Masterpiece according to Honoré de Balzac" Comisario: Javier González de Durana. (catalogue with texts by Honoré de Balzac, Arthur C. Danto, Francisco Calvo Serraller, Brigitte Léal, y Javier González de Durana) 02.02-06.28.2006 (with: Picasso, Cézanne, Kandinsky, Rothko, Marcaccio, Ortiz de Elguea, Basquiat, Fontcuberta, Tàpies, Tim White, Richter, Kiefer, DeKooning, Miró, Reinhardt) video “Terminal Heart”
- "Baroque and Neo-Baroque - The Hell of the Beautiful" - Domus Artium, Salamanca. 3.10.2005 - 8.1.2006. Curated by Domus Artium Chief Curator Javier Panera and guest curators Paco Barragán and Omar Pascual. (Artists: Matthew Barney,Philippe Bradshaw, Tony Oursler, Masbedo , Jonathan Meese, Chris Ofili Sam Taylor-Wood, Bill Viola)
“Catodica” - Teatro Miela, Trieste, Italy 11.01.-14.01.2006 curated by: Maria Campitelli, collaboration with G.A.M. (Galleria d’Arte Moderna) di Torino (with artists: Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Gary Hill, Masbedo, Tracey Moffat, Bruce Nauman, Naum June Paik, Bill Viola) (video “Terminal”)
2005
- ETOILES & RAYURES - Galerie Quang, Paris (Nov.-Dec) (Avec : MARGREET BULTHUIS, PASCAL LIEVRE, ANTHONY PATTI)
- Lyon Biennale 8 - project "Vertigo", presented by Olivier Houg Gallery
- "Recent Acquisitions" - Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. Oct. 01 - Nov. 5 2005 (with Jonathan Messe, Gilbert & George, Jan Fabre, Friederike Feldmann)
- "Chambres à part" - Curated by Laurence Dreyfus, Sezz Hotel, Paris, October 05-10 2005, in association with FIAC’05 (with Franz Ackermann, Ange Leccia, Philippe G. Di Corcia, Tony Oursler, James Turrell)
- "rewind<< - die neuen Alten" - photo show, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, curated by Katharina Klara Jung (catalogue) Sept-Oct. (4.9. - 16.10.)
- Invideo XV (International Exhibition of Experimental and Art Video), Milan, Italy, 09-13 November, catalog, premiering in Italy video "Closer To Fall"
- Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 04-14 August, catalogue premiering in Switzerland videos "Closer To Fall" and "Terminal Heart" - video program curated by Francesco Bonami (with: Doug Aitken; Jonas Akerlund, Anna Gaskell, Isaac Julien, Sarah Morris, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala, Gillian Wearing)
- Hamburg International Film Festival (June, video "Before They Were Beatles")
- “Pintura sin gesto” - Espacio de arte contemporáneo de Almagro (Ciudad Real) May 2005. Comisario da exposición David Barro. (Artistas: Rafael Agredano, Nathan Carter, Helmut Dorner, Graham Gillmore, Katharina Grosse, Imi Knoebel, Álvaro Negro, Perejaume, Jörg Sasse, Simeón Saiz Ruiz, Sam Samore, Eve Sussman, Tim White, Peter Zimmermann)
- Bucharest Biennale 1 - 27.05.05 - 15.06.05 "Identity Factories" - MLR Gallery, Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Eugen Radescu (May, project "Before They Were Beatles"; video, photography)
- "Brückenpark im Licht"- Internationale Videokunst im Dreiradenspeicher in Zgorzelec (May)
- Haus der Kulturen der Welt - Berlin, „Terminal 1 - SIRAP mon amour“ 21.04.-26.04.2005
- Galleri S.E , "Video Unplugged" - Bergen, Norway (curated by Paco Barragán; video "Terminal Heart")
- Montevideo International Film Festival, Uruguay (premiering in South America "Before They Were Beatles")
- European Media ART FESTIVAL, Osnabrück, (Germany, April) (video "Before They Were Beatles")
- “Sky Shout A Pintura despois da pintura”. - Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela (España). January 2005. Comisario da exposición David Barro (Artistas: Nathan Carter, Günther Förg, Peter Halley, IMI Knoebel, Sarah Morris, Vik Muniz, Manuel Ocampo, Julian Opie, Fiona Rae, Gerhard Richter, David Salle, Sam Samore, Julião Sarmento, Jörg Sasse, Eve Sussman, Tim White, Peter Wütrich e Peter Zimmerman)
- "Art Digital Vidéo" - National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) (National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC)), Bucharest, Romania 24.2. - 20.3.2005. Curator: Laurence Hazout-Dreyfus. A project by AFAA (L'Association Française d'Action Artistique) & Ministere Francais des Affaires Etrangeres (w. Haluk Akakçe, Tobias Bernstrup, Kolkoz, Melik Ohanian, Sven Påhlsson)
2004
- Invideo (International Exhibition of Experimental and Art Video), Milan, Italy (10th-14th November, catalog)
- "September 11" (video) - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid; Curated by Paco Barragán and Berta Sichel, MNCARS
- "Don't Call it Performance" - El Museo del Bario, New York, NY (Aug 18 - Nov 07, curated by Paco Barragán and Deborah Cullen, catalog)
- The Oakland International Film Festival, Oakland, California (September 15-19)
- "No lo llames performance" - Domus Artium 2002 Salamanca, Spain (Aug 12 - Oct 03)
- "LOVE" - Rudolf Budja Galerie, Salzburg, Austria (photography; July 24 - August 31, 2004) (with: Jean Michel Basquiat, Robert Indiana, David LaChapelle, Roy Lichtenstein, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann)
- Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (premiering video "On The Wing", 04-14 August, catalogue)
- "Corpo Sociale" - Galleria Pack, Milano (May) Curated by Giampaolo Abbondio
- Multimedia Festival "Nuits Sonores", Lyon, France (May)
- "Arquitecturas Urbanas" - contemporary photography - Centro Municipal de las Artes de Alcorcon (Madrid, 12 Feb. - 8 March); Centro Nacional de Fotografía Torrelavega (Santander, 26 March - 2 May); catalogue
- "No lo llames performance / Don¹t Call it Performance" - CAAC. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporanéo, Sevilla, Spain (Mar 09 - May 02,2004) with artists: Carlos Amorales, Kimsooja, Kristin Oppenheim, Erwin Wurm, Zhang Huan
2003
- "Don't Call it Performance" - video - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid (October); Curated by Paco Barragán, en colaboración con el Departamento de Audiovisuales del MNCARS)
- "Frágiles" - Espacio Liquido Gallery, Gijon, Asturias, Spain. (October) Curated by Nuria Fernández Franco y Fernando Martín Galán (video)
- "ART DIGITAL VIDEO" - Hong Kong, Videotage, collaboration w. Alliance Francaise de Hong Kong. Curated by Laurence Dreyfus, France
- Mill Valley Film Festival - The California Film Institute, Mill Valley, CA (October)
- "Pegadas de Luz (Traces of Light)" - CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea in Santiago de Compostela A Coruña, Spain) (July 11 – September 14, 2003). Curated by Miguel Fernandez-Cid (video installation, with Jannis Kounellis, Sam Samore, Xavier Veilhan) (book)
- "Conceptualisms" - Zeitgenössische Tendenzen in Musik, Kunst und Film” – Curated by Dr. Christoph Metzger, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 10. August - 14. Sept. (with Angela Bulloch, Sharon Lockhart, On Kawara, Heimo Zobernig)
- "re:LAX"- DCKT Contemporary, New York, 11.7. - 22.8.2003 (curated by Megan Riley)
- Prague Biennale (video “Terminal”, curated by Laurence Dreyfus, France selection, 26.6. - 24.8.2003, video “Terminal 1”)
- PhotoEspaña, Pilar Parra Gallery, Madrid ("Terminal", photography/video, catalogue)
- "For All" - Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen (Oslo), Norway (catalogue)
- "experimental :1" - ache700, Bergheim, Austria (video, curated by Helmut Grill; with jubal brown (canada) deco dawson (canada) pascal paquette (canada) erwin wurm (austria)
- “Tim White - Confession" - Reinier van Ewijk Projects (former Buro Empty), Amsterdam
- "Digital Video Art" - AFAA, Ministere des Afaires Etrangeres, Paris (curated by Laurence Dreyfus), catalogue
2001
- "FOTONOVIEMBRE 2001" - VI Bienal Internacional de Fotografia de Tenerife, Centro de Fotographia, Isla De Tenerife (catalogue with essays by Antonio Vela de la Torre, Alicia Murria, Daniel Girardin) Photo series « God Bless America »
- "Anxiety Disorder" - videoworks - 7.9. - 6.10.2001 - Galerie Voges + Partner, Organized by Irena Popiashvili (with Christoph Draeger, Chloe Piene, Sven Påhlsson)
- "Mixed Pickle" - Leyendecker Gallery, Tenerife, Spain (with Donald Baechler and Peter Klaar)
2000
- “2000 años Luz” - el centro de Arte La Recova y en el Espacio Cultural El tanque, Tenerife, Spain ; organized by Instituto Oscar Domínguez de Arte y Cultura Contemporánea (IODACC), collaboration with Leyendecker Gallery. Video and photography, project “Presence-Runner” (artists: Teresita Fernández, Sean Landers, Julian La Verdiere, Peter Klare, Marilyn Minter, Karim Rashid, John F. Simon Jr., Spencer Tunick, Charlie White)
- "Breathe" video installation (with Marcia Lyons), Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. Video and photography, project “Presence-Runner”
1997
- "Works on Paper", University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
1996
- Leo Castelli Graphics Gallery, lithographs, artists of the Robert Blackburn's printmaking workshop (New York, NY)
Selected public collections
- Aena Foundation - FUNDACIÓN AENA, Madrid, Spain
- CITI Bank Collection, New York, NY
- Collection of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
- Collezione Foundation LA GAIA, Busca, Italy
- Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
- Fundación Rac (Rosón Arte Contemporáneo) Pontevedra, Spain
- ING Art Collection (Brussels-Amsterdam-London-New York)
- IRIS Capital Management, Paris, France
- KunstMuseum Vejle, Denmark
- L’Oreal Collection, Paris, France
- Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France
- Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, SANTANDER, Spain
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain
- Museum of Contemporary Art CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Museum of Contemporary Art DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
- Museum of Contemporary Art Elgiz, Istanbul, Turkey
- Museum of Contemporary Art GAM, Torino, Italy
- Museum of Contemporary Art KunstRaum Sylt-Quelle, Rantum auf Sylt, Germany
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA
- New York Public Library, Print Collection, New York, NY
- Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
- The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York, NY
- UBS collection of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland
- Major Private Collections, Private museums and Art Foundations:
- Bernard Arnault Foundation, Paris, France
- Olivier Ginon Foundation, Lyon, France
- Lawrence Graff collection, Graff Diamonds, London, UK
- Alain Servais collection, Bruxelles, Belgium
- Candy & Candy, corporate art collections, London, UK
- Coleccíon de Arte Contemporáneo Los Bragales, Santander, Spain
- Bruce Ritchie corporate art collection, London, UK
- Pierre de Fouquet corporate art collection, Paris, France
- Powell Tate corporate art collection, New York, NY
- Raffaella and Stefano Sciarretta museum and foundation, Rome, Italy
- Ellen and Jerome Stern collection, US
- Jaime Sordo Foundation, Spain