Robert Szczerbowski

Robert Szczerbowski (born 1959) is a Polish artist and writer. He explores the impact of new technologies on culture and the way we perceive reality and ourselves. His works reveal the complex relationship between humans and technology, raising questions about the boundaries of subjectivity and consciousness in the contemporary world.

In his works, he builds coherent, autonomous narrative worlds that transcend established definitions of individual media. He utilizes the aesthetics and language of advanced technologies. In his paintings, Szczerbowski references fractal geometry and biometric facial recognition systems. In his objects and installations, he employs programming languages, transforming their specialized codes into carriers of cultural and symbolic meaning.

The exhibition titled "I AM AI" (2026) presents iconic objects where sacret texts meet machine code and the digital world of AI. Szczerbowski blurring lines between organic and digital, real and simulation. Questioning identity and transcendence. The exhibition "I AM AI" does not feature works generated using artificial intelligence.

The series of grayscale portraits titled "ID" was created between 2002 and 2020. Artis references ubiquitous facial recognition tech...

Robert Szczerbowski studied philosophy in Poznań and Warsaw, but eventually abandoned it for the sake of creativity.

Artist's publications:

The Book of Life (1979-85), Warsaw 1990;
Æ (1985-90), Warsaw 1991;
Compositions (1977-81), Warsaw 1991;
hypertext for a computer reader (!996).
Hermetic writings (1996)
Retrospective for the End of Time (a catalogue of fictitious exhibition), Warsaw 1997
Anthology, Kraków 2013

Solo exhibitions:

I AM AI, AT Gallery, Poznań 2026
ID, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw 2020
Immortal, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw 2018
Movie show, AT Gallery, Poznań 2007
Recent works, WAA Gallery, Warsaw 2006
Movies (Pop Corn, Kane 3’10, The End, Motion Pictures, Cinema Show, The Lecture), Kino Lab CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2006
Art as simulacrum, lecture for 4 readers, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2003
Algorithms, AT Gallery, Poznań 2003
Fractal paintings, Gallery XX1, Warsaw 2003
Steel Life and Venus without qualities, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw 2000
Retrospective for the end of Time, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 1998

Some of group shows:

Your Neigbor As Yourself Pola Magnetyczne, Warszawa 2022
Metamorphosis, Pola Magnetyczne, Warszawa 2019
What they call my shadow, here on earth is my true substance, CACBM, Paris 2019
Moving images, Awangarda Gallery, BWA Wrocław 2015
Projection Propaganda Machine, Open’er Festival, Gdynia 2013
Sick art, Jerozolima, Warsaw 2012
Koans, MCS Elektrownia, Radom 2009
Movie Show, Rewizje, Warsaw 2007
Cinema Movie, Kino Lab CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2007
Flesztival Aperitif 2007, SWPS Warsaw 2007
Mobile Academy: On the perfect illusion - Acoustic simulacra, Warsaw 2006
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