Artist Parasite

Parasite Arek – an artist. In 2010 he formulated a “Manifesto of Parasitism” presenting the idea of his activities as a parasite-artist. According to these ideas covered in “Manifesto”, Parasite Arek lived,worked and created parasitizing for four years in several cities, cultural institutions and all places of culture. With time, his actions turned into a critique of the status of the artist in society and he began to create the so-called host projects. In this spirit, in 2012, he created a series of activities “Willing to help” implemented in Polish villages and towns. In 2013, he designed and completed the construction of a HOME in Elblag – a house, which is the dream of every young person who has no money for land, materials and builders. Then he worked in various projects with social groups referred to as “social parasites”: Roma, the long-term unemployed or experiencing social exclusion; a Painting workshop “Not to be Rejected”, where homeless people can work. At the basis of this and other activities is the belief in the therapeutic role of art and the belief that people can improve their situation through it.

Manifesto of Parasitism on

MA, Academy of Fine Arts / New Media Art, Ciechocinek, PL

[ Selected Solo Exhibition ]
2016 - Blackthings, GAUNTLET Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2014 – Malineas O Roma!, Dům Pánů z Kunštátu, Brno, CZE
2009 – Ich liebe dich, Die Ballsaal Gallerie, Berlin, DE
2009 – I like CoCA only a little, CoCA Center of Contemporary Art, Toruń, PL

[ Selected Group Exhibitions ]
2017 – OSTRALE Biennale 2017, Dresden, DE
2017 – The deeper into the forest, the more mushrooms, Wykwit, Wrocław, PL
2014 – Please call Stella, under LOCIS in Ireland, Sweden and Poland, CoCA Toruń, PL
2014 – Social Parasitic Painting, Global Communication 2014, Brno, CZE
2013 – Workers of The Artworld Unite, CoCA Chronicle, Bytom, PL
2013 – EPIDEMIC, CoCA Toruń, PL
2013 – Awakening, EL Gallery, Elbląg, PL
2012 – No Budget Show, MOCAK Cracow, PL
2012 – BMW/Art/Transformy/2012, National Opera, Warsaw, PL
2011 – Begehungen no8, Chemnitz, DE
2011 – Swindlers, Rascals, Parasites, BWA Wrocław, PL
2009 – Survival Art Review 7, Wrocław, PL

The list of selected individual and group exhibitions here: www.parasite.pl/en/bio-arek-parasite
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