Born 1947 in Nysa, Poland. Lives and works in Berlin.
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2016 Who’s Afraid Of Colour (Positive vs. Negative), ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin, DE.
2015 Time Sculptures – Conceptual work from the 80s., ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin, DE.
2014 Time Frames – Conceptual work from the 70s., ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin, DE.
2013 Genesis, TRAFO Art Center, Stettin, PL.
2012 Do the Meditation Rock, Freies Museum, Berlin, DE.
2011 One&One, Freies Museum, Berlin, DE.
2010 Portrait of a Family in Time, Cinema Museum, Lodz, PL.
2009 Contemporary Portrait, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, DE.
2008 Ryszard Wasko, Lodz – Berlin, Museum of the City Lodz, Lodz, PL.
2008 Ryszard Wasko, Cut Up Portrait, Senatorska Gallery, Warsaw, DE.
2006 I am telling you a secret, Signum Gallery, Posen, PL.
2005 Nasty Bedtime Stories, Fizek Gallery, Posen, PL.
2003 New Paintings, Center for the Arts, New York, US.
2001 Breaking News, Herzliya Gallery, Herzliya, IL., Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, PL.
2000 one-man-show, Many H Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL.
1997 Small Rose Garden, International Artist's Museum, Zachęta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, PL.
1987 Homage for the Street, Ruine der Künste, Berlin, DE.
1986 one-man-show, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE.
1984 one-man-show, Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Kunstverein, Kassel, Hoffman Gallery, Friedberg, DE.
1981 Retrospective, Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE.
1981 one-man-show, Gallery "m”, Bochum, DE.
1979 one-man-show, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Enschede, NL.
1976 one-man-show, Gallery "m”, Bochum, DE.
Group exhibitions (selected)
2021 The Artist Is Present, MOCAK Kraków, PL
2020 Searching for the Shapes Within, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE.
2020 The Penumbral Age. Art in the Time of Planetary Change, MUSEUM on the Vistula, Warsaw, PL.
2016 27th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2016, Brno, CZE.
2016 Generationsübergreifend – Polish Art in Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, DE.
2015 Emmett Williams and his Adventures in Poland, Museum FLUXUS+ , Potsdam, DE.
2015 Art for All, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE.
2014 Crime in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, PL.
2014 Decade of Revolt, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE.
2013 Inseldasein, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, DE.
2012 Anonymous, Perm Museum, RU.
2011 Tür an Tür. Deutschland—Polen. 1000 Jahre Kunst und Geschichte, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, DE.
2011 Community that came?, Museum of Art, Lodz, PL.
2011 Ostalgia, New Museum, New York, US.
2011 Polish Conceptual Photography, Freies Museum, Berlin, DE.
2009 See This Sound, Lentos Museum of Art, Linz, AT.
2009 Eye World, Triple Candie Gallery, New York, US.
2009 Painting in Photography, Givatayim Theatre, Tel Aviv, IL.
2009 Passing Through, Kunstpunkt Gallery, Berlin, DE.
2009 Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FR.
2008 Multikino, Tranzitdisplay, Prag, CH.
2008 Time is always now, Gallery "m”, Bochum, DE.
2008 1,2,3…Avant-Gardes, Tate Modern, London, UK.
2008 Yes ,No? Other options, Art Sheffield 08, Sheffield, UK.
2007 The Optical Edge, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, US.
2007 Tents, Venice Biennale - Synagogue, Venice, IT.
2007 Asteism, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL.
2006 Image/Text, Tate Modern, London,UK.
2006 Pioneering Artists’ Video, Tate Modern, London, UK.
2005 Open Systems, Tate Modern, London, UK.
2004 Biennale of Polish Art, Lodz Biennale 2004, Lodz, PL.
2004 The Workshop of Film Form, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, US.
2003 A History of Polish Avantgarde Film, MOMA, New York, US.
2002 Classics & Pearls, Cinédoc, Paris, FR.
2001 Markers-Project, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT.
2000 From Here to There, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE.
1999 Oreste Project, Venice Biennale - Italian Pavillion, Venice, IT.
1999 International Installation Triennale, Haifa Museum of Art, IL.
1998 Personal Touch, Art in General Gallery, New York, US.
1998 The Bridge, Construction in Process VI, Melbourne, AU.
1997 Another Language, Haifa Museum of Art, IL.
1997 Alive Gallery, Zachęta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, PL.
1996 Shattered Latitudes, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York, US.
1995 Under One Roof, Podewil, Berlin, DE.
1995 Co-existence, Construction in Process V, Negev Desert, IL.
1994 Central Europe: Art from the 60s, Schüppenhauer Gallery, Köln, Kunsthalle der Bundesrepublik, Bonn, DE.
1994 Milk, Volkskundemuseum, Munich, DE.
1994 Medium Bild, Gallery T&A, Berlin, DE.
1994 My home is your home, Construction in Process IV, Lodz, PL.
1991In-between Project, Venice Biennale - Turkish Pavillion,Venice, IT.
1991Farbe Gold, Künstlerhaus, Berlin, DE.
1991 37 Rooms, Kunstwerke, Berlin, DE.
1990 Construction in Process III – back in Lodz, Lodz, PL.
1989 Niemandsland, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, DE.
1989 Balkon mit Fächer, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Kunsthalle DuMont, Köln, DE.
1989 Berlin’s Art Scene, Berlinische Gallery, Berlin, DE.
1988 Berlin, Cultural City of Europe 1988, Berlin, DE.
1987 Zeitberliner, Gallery of the City Stuttgart, Stuttgart
1987 Homage to Joseph Beuys, Klaus Staeck Gallery, Heidelberg, DE.
1986 Idee, Raum, Konstruktion, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, DE.
1986 After Malevich Square, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshaven, DE.
1985 European Film Avant-garde 1960–1980 (tour-show), American Federation of Arts, US.
1985 Peace-Biennale (Biennale des Friedens), Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE.
1985 Prozess und Konstruktion, Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich, DE.
1985 Konkret Vier, Kunsthaus, Nurnberg, DE.
1983 Praesence Polonaise, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR.
1982 Sol LeWitt’s Choice, Cenobio Visualità Gallery, Mailand, IT.
1981 Construction in Process (Konstrukcja w Procesie), Lodz, PL.
1980 Pier + Ocean: Art of the 70s, Hayward Gallery, London, UK.
1980 Biennale de Paris, Paris, FR.
1980 Sydney Biennale, Sydney, AU.
1979 Drawing and photography, Museum of Art, Lodz, PL.
1979 Works & Words, DeAppel Gallery / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL.
1979 Polish Photography, International Center of Photography, New York, US.
1979 Film as Film, Hayward Gallery, London, UK.
1979 3rd Internat. Festival of Indepdendent Avant-garde Film, National Theatre, London, UK.
1977 22 Polish Artists, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, DE.
1977 documenta 6, Kassel, DE.
1977 Encounter on Video, Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, VE.
1977 Film as Film, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, DE.
1977 Art as a Contextual Art, St. Petri Gallery, Lund, SE.
1976 Experimenta, Ferro Napoli Gallery, IT.
1975 Workshop, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, DE.
Prizes and Awards
2017 The Francis J. Greenburger Award
1998 Jackson Pollock - Lee Krasner Foundation
1997 International Studio Programme, New York, Artist-in- Residency
1994 Art Omi Foundation, New York, Artist-in-Residency
1994 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Artist-in-Residency
1993 ackson Pollock - Lee Krasner Foundation
1992 Scholarship of the Senat of Berlin, Berlin
1988 Jackson Pollock - Lee Krasner Foundation
1986 Scholarship of the city of Munic, Villa Waldberta, Feldafing
1985 DAAD, German Exchange Academy, Berlin,
1982-83 The Arts Council of Great Britain, St. Martin’s School of Art, London
Collections
Städtische Gallery Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
Berlinische Gallery, Berlin
National Gallery, Berlin
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Cinema Museum, Bruxelles
Bauhaus Museum, Dessau
Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Museum of Art, Lodz
LUX Collection, London
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshaven
Centrum Pompidou, Paris
Cinédoc, Paris
Goddard de Fiddes, Perth
Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich
Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
Städtische Gallery, Stuttgart
Hollweg Sammlung, Bremen
World Bank Contemporary Art Collection, Washington
Peter C. Ruppert Collection, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg
Bank Austria Creditanstalt Art Collection
Dresdner Bank Art Collection
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