Marek Kucharski

I always work with the place where my work activity is anchored. It is the space itself that echoes the subject and gives a fertile ground for creation. Found materials such as web data, objects, sounds, written sentences or video recordings play a major role in the process of defining the physical shape of the subject – nevertheless they don’t necessarily have to be included in the final work. In my art practice things often become transmutations of themselves and serve a different meaning by provoking certain associations of geopolitical or scientific character. The relation of things (rather than objects) to space form in my opinion a living network of interconnected actors who are in a constant move and thus define the shape of the world we live in. Aesthetics, politics and mass media mix with dumped furniture, excess web data and diseases to become a language of thought of the New. My strategy implies an endless reformulating of things in space – a final structure is impossible because of the innumerable mutations that occur in a gathering like the so called 'art work'. I treat my pieces more like renderings of a state in a given time rather than something final.

2012 MFA University of Art in Poznan, Faculty of Multimedia Communication, Photography

2020 PhD University of Art in Poznan, Interdisciplinary Arts

SOLO SHOWS:

2020 The Colour You Are Facing, Art Walk, Warsaw, Poland

2019 Bartleby, R.O.D. Warsaw, Poland

2017 Presque Vu, Dimora Oz, Palermo, Italy

2015 The sea is worse on the other side, Archiwum Otwarte, Warsaw, Poland

2015 Media Lab 6, Trafo Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland with D. Gęsicka

2014 There is nothing there, anyway, The Greenroom Gallery, Krakow Photomonth Festival 2014, Poland

2013 Trades, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, Australia

2012 Do the Taliban Dream About Pashtun Sheep, Workshop 315 Gallery, Warsaw,Poland



GROUP SHOWS / SCREENINGS:

2017 Black Hole, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń, Poland

2017 reGeneration3, Lishui Photography Festival, China

2016 Tide, Art Main Station by Mia, European Capital of Culture, Wrocław

2016 Visual Spa, Błękitny Wieżowiec, Matosek/Niezgoda, Warszawa

2016 Wracając do Białowieży (Returning to Białowieża), Arsenal Gallery, Białystok

2016 reGeneration3, Quad Gallery, Derby, Wielka Brytania

2015 The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Fotograf Festival, Praha, Czech Republic

2015 reGeneration3, FOTO.MX, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico

2015 reGeneration3, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

2015 ...po deszczu (...after...