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Graduate of the Multimedia Comunication
Faculty of the University of Fine Arts in Poznan.
Lives and works in Warsaw.
The work of Kuba Bakowski can be
defined as experimental activities on the borders of
photography, sculpture, video and performance. He is mainly known by
his analytical,
ironic and intentionally absurd realizations that reflect on a reality
full of paradoxes.
individual exhibitions:
-
A Boy And His Dog, Platan Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2012
- There And Back Again, Bill Scott Sculpture Centre, Edinburgh, United
Kingdom, 2012
- Magnetic, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland, 2011
- Polaris, Bec Zmiana Fundation, Warsaw, Poland, 2010
- Studies in Natural History, Scaramouche co Fruit & Flower
Deli Gallery, New York City, USA, 2009
- Study for the Movie in Museum of Natural History, Entropia Gallery,
Wroclaw, Poland, 2008
- Powerful, Zacheta National Gallery of Art / Kordegarda Gallery,
Warsaw, Poland, 2008
- Nothing More Happens Than Has To Happen, Center of Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland, 2008
- Nothing More Happens Than Has To Happen, Location One, New York City,
USA,
2007
- Air Sculptures And Other Flying Objects, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok,
Poland,
2007
- Currently In The Sky, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy, 2006
- Tu bylem, Bakowski... Street Stickers in the Wuyishan Mountains,
project in the Wuyishan Mountains, China, 2006
- Light One In Ether, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, Florence, Italy,
2006
- Air Sculptures And Other Flying Objects, Center of Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland, 2006
- Muzeum Ziemi na Erosie 433, open-space project - posters on
citylights, NASA photos with author's texts, Warsaw, Poland, 2006
- Museum of Earth on 433 Eros, 22th edition of 3500 cm2 - poster
project for Rialto Santambrogio, Roma, Italy, 2005
- TV Zero Zones, television video project broadcasted on the air of
Polish Public Television TVP 2, from september to november,l Poland,
2004
- A Pole And What's More Heavier Than Air, Galleria PL/Istituto
Polacco, Roma, Poland, 2004
- Atlet P420 , BWA Municipal Gallery, Zielona Gora, Poland, 2004
-Aircraft Tests, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Maly Salon, Warsaw,
Poland,
2003
- Project for The New Garden, Center of Contemporary Art Zamek
Ujazdowski, Laboratorium Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2002
- Light in Ether, Potocka Gallery, Crakow, Poland, 2002
group
exhibitions:
- Here And Now, Royal Scottish
Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2012
- Videoex Festival - Art on TV, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich,
Switzerland, 2012
- The Games Poles Play, CCA Derry Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 2012
- Sport in Art, MOCAK - Museum of Conterporary Art, Krakow, Poland, 2012
- Coming Soon, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 2012
- No, No, I Hardly Ever Miss a Show, Zacheta National Gallery of Art,
Warsaw, Poland, 2011
- Nothing is Eternally Important, CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art,
Torun, Poland, 2011
- Camera Vivant - Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, Utah, USA, 2011
- A Part of No-Part: Parallelisms Between Then and Now - CAM - Chelsea
Art Museum, New York City, USA, 2010
- All Creatures Great and Small, Zacheta National Gallery of Art,
Warsaw, Poland, 2010
- My Space. What Public Does
Mean, PAN - Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy, 2008
- The Influence of Fish Tales on the Breaking Waves, Point B, Brooklyn,
New York City, USA, 2008
- 3500cm2 - Art Poster Project, Uqbar, Berlin, Germany, 2008
- Beyond Future, Mejan Labs, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
- The Red Eye Effect. Polish Photography in the 21-st Century, Centre
for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2008
- TRADE MARK,curated by Gaia Pasi, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary,
Florence, Italy, 2008
- STILL HERE: humour in post-communist performative video, Artspace
Sydney, Woolloomooloo, Australia, 2007
- 27th Biennial of Graphic Arts Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana,
Slovenia, 2007
- MANUAL cc Instructions for beginners and advanced players, Kronika
Gallery, Bytom, Poland, 2007
- Concrete Legacy. From Le Corbusier to The Homeboys, Centre for
Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2007
- Polish Painting of the 21st Century, Zacheta - National Gallery of
Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2007
- Lessico Europeo, Festival Fabbrica Europa 2007, Stazione Leopolda
Florence, Italy, 2007
- 3500cm2 - Art Poster Project, Assab One, Milan, Italy, 2006
- Lodz Biennale 2006 - Mentality, Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland, 2006
- At the Very Centre of Attention. Part 3, Centre for Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2006
- Egoistic, Immoral, Outmoded, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw,
Poland, Italy, 2005
- Animartion, Galleria Sogospatty, Rome, 2005
- Instant Europe - Photography and Video from the New Europe,Villa
Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy, 2004
- Beyond the Red Horizon, Center of Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski,
Warsaw; National Centre for Comtemporary Art, Moscow, Poland/Rusia,
2004/2005
- Under the white-and-red flag. New Art from Poland, Contemporary Art
Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius;National Centre for Comtemporary Art,
Moscow, Rusia, 2004
- Pasage d'Europe, Musee d'Art Moderne Saint-Etienne,
Saint-Etienne, France, 2004
- Public Rituals - Art / Videos from Poland, Museum Moderner Kunst
Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2003
- Animalaction, LAZNIA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland,
2002