Jarosław Kozłowski– Portfolio of selected works

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Jarosław Kozłowski is one of the leading conceptual artists coming out of Poland. He initiated the international artistic network NET (1971) and took part in the artistic movement Fluxus. During the 60s and the 70s he was engaged in analytical reflection and linguistic studies as well as performance art and was considered one of the most consequential conceptualists. In the 80s, the artist began to create large-scope installations in which he criticized of how art functions in society, there were series of works devoted to de-mythologizing art. During the 90s and until the present time, Kozłowski has been the author of a number of spectacular installations in which he deals with problems of modernist traditions and the social and political context of art.

Born in 1945 in Srem. In the years 1963-1969, he studied painting at the State Graduate School of Visual Arts in Poznań (today the University of Arts in Poznań), where he has also taught (paiting and drawing) since 1967. In the years 1981-1987, he served as the academy`s rector. He has also taught at Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo (1992-1997), Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunste in Amsterdam (1992-2004), Academy Without Walls in Lusaca ( 1999, 2001),and at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2005-2010). He is currently professor at the University of Arts in Pozna. In 1971, he initiated the NET project- an international artistic exchange. Between 1972-90, he founded and then ran the Akumulatory Gallery in Poznań, which presented the work of Polish and international avant-garde artists. In 1991-1993, he was programming curator of the gallery and collection of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. Fellowships with The British Council in London (1979) and DAAD Berlin (1984-85). He lives and works in Poznań.

Situation, 1968 (reconstruction 2015)

A/B, 1971Art Book

+/-, 1971Art Book

Lingual Exercises, 197244 individual pages drawing and text

Grammatical Exercises, 1973drawing and text

Photo-graphies, 1973photo paper, 50 x 59,5 cm, 10 photos

Exercises in Aesthetics, 1976work on paper

In Exercises in Aesthetics, Kozlowski subjected a field of color to analysis by annotating it with the statement ‘neither beautiful, nor ugly’. This foundation provided the basis for a demonstration of general law of logic based on tautological reasoning and aimed at defining

aesthetic neutrality, or the so-called zero-value.

Facts, 19769 drawings, 9 texts, 1 collage

Exercises in Semiotics III, 1977

7 vintage photographs with text

Colour, 1978

8 works on paper

Wall Painting, 1978

work on paper, 24 frames

Drawing Facts, 1979

work on paper

Surface Drawings, 1979-80

work on paper

Transit, 2005

installation, 24 paintings, 24 suitcases, 24 alarm clocks

Recycled News II, 2008 –

newspapers, paint

Jarosław Kozłowski revisits obsolete painting techniques, and asks how painting can be an answer to the current problems of the contemporary world. Recycled News II, consisting of hun-dreds of newspaper pages garishly painted with watercolours, with its incredible accumulation of press from all over the world, shows us how the media with their mass distribution of infor-mation, maintain the myth of diversity. The multilingual collec-tion of newspapers includes titles from different regions of the world. Language, place of publication and political leaning not-withstanding, these newspapers are all similarly framed, similarly dependent on the rhythm-and-repetition aesthetics, and simi-larly illegible. Newspapers formed in decorative panneau reveal their aesthetisation. Kozłowski casts doubt on the veracity of the media, having meticulously painted over the entire pages of the newspapers and in doing so, he questions the role of media in the contemporary media-governed reality.

Cover Your Image (Masks), 2010

water color on paper (framed)

News Games, 2014

installation, 17 bags

Fluxus Room - Nomadic Version, 2015

installation

CV

Born in Śrem, Poland, in 1945. Lives and works in Poznan, PL.

1963 – 1969 studied painting at the State Graduate School of Fine Arts in Poznan (currently the Poznan Academy of Fine Arts), PL.1969 – teaches painting and drawing at the Poznan Academy of Fine Arts, PL.1972 – 1990 ran Galeria Akumulatory 2 in Poznan, PL.1979 fellowship holder at the British Council in London, UK.1981 – 1987 president of the Poznan Academy of Fine Arts, PL. 1984 – 1985 fellowship holder at DAAD in Berlin, DE. 1991 – 1993 curator for the gallery and collection of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, PL.1992 - 1997 taught at the Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo, NO.1996 - 2004 taught at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunste in Amsterdam, NL.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2017 Words and Colours, ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin, DE2016 Sensations of Reality and Conceptual Practices 1965–1980, MOCAK, Krakow, PL Recycled Games, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, PL 2015 Sensation Of Reality And Conceptual Practices 1965–1980, Center of Contem porary Art Znaki Czasu - CoCA, Torun, PL2014 Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, PL2011 Recycled News II, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, AT African Standards - Postcolonial Version, Galeria AT, Poznan, PL 2010 BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Olsztyn, PL 2009 No-truth/No-lie, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, PL2007 Rhetorical figures III, Le Guern, Warsaw, PL2001 United world - democratic version, Galeria BWA Zielona Góra , PL2000 Objects and Installations, Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ1997 EPISODES, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL1994 Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, PL1986 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE1972 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL

Group exhibitions (selection)

2017 Thoughts Isolated: The Foksal Gallery Archives 1966-2016, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL Winter Assembly, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, UK 2016 Home At Last: The Polish House During The Transition 8th Edition Of The War

saw Under Construction Festival, MoMA in Warsaw, PL Autumn Exhibition, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, UK The Procedures of 1970s Art, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, PL De – Mo – Cra – Cy, Galeria Labirynt - BWA Lublin, PL Ich kenne kein Weekend. Archive and Collection René Block, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AT Remember Lidice, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, DE2015 Setting Things in Motion. Collections in Dialogue, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT [A] SYMMETRIES, Zacheta Lublin, PL Ich kenne kein Weekend. Archive and Collection René Block, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, DE Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin, DE, 2016: Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, DE Art According To Politics, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, PL Personal Structures Crossing Borders, Palazzo Bembo Exhibitions, Venice, IT Grammar Of Freedom / Five Lessons: Works From Arteast 2000+ Collection, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moskow, PL2014 New Conceptual Practices: Natalia Brandt / Jaroslaw Kozlowski, annex14 | Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Zurich, CH Grażyna Kulczyk Collection. Everybody Is Nobody for Somebody, Fundación Banco Santander, Boadilla del Monte, ES For Each Gesture Another Character, Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, PL 2013 B.A.B.E - The Best Artists Books and Editors, Immanence, espace d’art contemporain, Paris, FR The Unanswered Question. İskele2, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and Tanas, Berlin, DE Economics in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, PL Amazing! Clever! Linguistic! - An Adventure in Conceptual Art, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT 2012 Beyond Corrupted Eye Akumulatory 2 Gallery, 1972–1990, Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL, 2013: MOCAK, Krakow, PL Mediations Biennale, Biennale Office: Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, PL Anew shown - anew read, Galeria BWA Zielona Góra, PL Artificial Fullmoon, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL the lunatics are on the loose… European Fluxus Festivals 1962-1977, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE, MOCAK, Krakow, PL, CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT Cultural luggage, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, UA How to Make – Ideas, Notations, Materializations, Kunsthaus Dresden, DE2011 Polish conceptual photography, Galeria BWA, Gorzów Wielkopolski, PL Multiplication is Human - 45 Years of Edition Block 1966-2011, Tanas, Berlin, DE Maps II., Esterházy Palace, Bratislava, SK Not In Place, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL Maps. Art Cartography In The Centre Of Europe 1960 -2011, City Gallery of Bratislava, SK History in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, PL 2010 Over and Over Again, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, PL Things evoke feelings, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL 3 → ∞, Edition Block, Berlin, DE

Gallery AT, Mazowieckie Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej „ELEKTROWNIA”, Radom, PL Mediators, The Gallery of 20th-century Polish Art, Warsaw, PL Starter Works from the Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, AFTER -space for art, Istanbul, TR 2009 Difference Beyond Difference, Stary Browar, Poznan, PL Idee/Ideas, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL Rivers (Fleuves), Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, SK, Hameau Fournaise, Chatou, FR Yesterday or on the 2nd floor - Karl Valentin, Comic and Art since 1948 - Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, DE Positions of Polish Contemporary Art, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder, DE Reflections on Drawing, BWA Lublin, PL2008 Mediation Biennale, Biennale Office: Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, PL UN COUP DE DÉS, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT A Story Differently Told, LAZNIA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, PL Vinyl - Records and Covers by Artists, Museu Serralves, Porto, PT To Be Continued, Edition Block, Berlin, DE 2007 = (Equals sign), Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, DE Words – Forms – Meditations - BWA Lublin, PL Fluxus East, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE, CAC - Contemporary Art Canter, Vilnius, LT, 2008: Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, PL, Ludwig Museum, Bu dapest, HU, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, EE, 2009: Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK, 2010: Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, NO For a Special Place: Documents and Works from the Generali Foundation Collection, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, US2006 27th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, BR 47th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade, RS ...CONCEPT HAS NEVER MEANT HORSE, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT In Poland, That Is Where?, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL 2005 HABITAT - Baltic Contemporary Art Biennale, Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej , Szczecin, PL Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded, Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL Way of looking at things, KOG - Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, DE Writing, Sign, Gesture. Carlfriedrich Claus in Context from Klee to Pollock, Kunstsam mlungen Chemnitz, DE 2004 Collected Views From East Or West, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT 2002 International Arteast Collection 2000+, Nacionalna Galerija - Cifte Amam, Skopje, MK 2001 In Between - : Art. From Poland, 1945 - 2000, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, US 2000 visual art - simple live, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, DE The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West, Moderna galerija Ljubljana, SI Art Dealers. In the Face of Reality. LAZNIA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, PL 1999 Chronos and Kairos. Time in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE

Conceptual Reflexion in Polish Art - Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL 1995 4th International İstanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR 1994 Polish Analytical Abstraction, Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw, PL, 1995: Galeria Stara BWA Lublin, PL1992 Polish Avant-garde 1930–1990, Staatliche Berliner Kunsthalle, Berlin, DE Lyon, Łódź: Museum of Art in Lodz, 1931-1992, Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, FR1991 Double Identity, Museum Wiesbaden, DE 1990 Rhetorical Image, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US 8th Biennale of Sydney - The Readymade Boomerang, Sydney, AU

Collections (selection)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DKMOCAK, Krakow, PLMuseum of Art in Lodz, PLNational Museum Poznan, PLCenter for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PLModerna galerija Ljubljana, SIMuseum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT

Collections (selection):

Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DKMOCAK, Krakow, PLMuseum of Art in Lodz, PLNational Museum Poznan, PLCenter for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PLModerna galerija Ljubljana, SIMuseum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT