Jaroslaw Kozlowski (1945-)
Grey Absent Table
cut paper, ink
1982/92
62 x 82 cm
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Jaroslaw Kozlowski
Born 1945, Śrem, Poland
Lives in Poznan, PL
1963 – 1969 studied painting at the State Graduate School of Fine Arts in Poznan
(currently the Poznan Academy of Fine Arts), PL.
1969 – teaches painting and drawing at the Poznan Academy of Fine Arts, PL.
1972 – 1990 ran Galeria Akumulatory 2 in Poznan, PL.
1979 fellowship holder at the British Council in London, UK.
1981 – 1987 president of the Poznan Academy of Fine Arts, PL.
1984 – 1985 fellowship holder at DAAD in Berlin, DE.
1991 – 1993 curator for the gallery and collection of the Centre for Contemporary
Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, PL.
1992 – 1997 taught at the Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo, NO.
1996 – 2004 taught at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunste in Amsterdam, NL
Selected one – person exhibitions
2018 Exercises in Meaning, RCM Galerie, Paris, FR
2017 Words and Colours, ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin, DE
2016 Sensations of Reality and Conceptual Practices 1965–1980, MOCAK, Krakow, PL
Recycled Games, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, PL
2015 Sensation Of Reality And Conceptual Practices 1965–1980, Center of Contem
porary Art Znaki Czasu – CoCA, Torun, PL
2014 Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, PL
2011 Recycled News II, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, AT
African Standards – Postcolonial Version, Galeria AT, Poznan, PL
2010 BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Olsztyn, PL
2009 No-truth/No-lie, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, PL
2007 Rhetorical figures III, Le Guern, Warsaw, PL
2001 United world – democratic version, Galeria BWA Zielona G ra , PL
2000 Objects and Installations, Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ
1997 EPISODES, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
1994 Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, PL
1986 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
1972 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Selected group exhibitions
2018 Exercises in Freedom, SKD Museum, Dresden, DE
Hello World, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
2017 Thoughts Isolated: The Foksal Gallery Archives 1966-2016, Museum of Modern
Art in Warsaw, PL
Winter Assembly, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, UK
2016 Home At Last: The Polish House During The Transition 8th Edition Of The War
saw Under Construction Festival, MoMA in Warsaw, PL
Autumn Exhibition, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, UK
The Procedures of 1970s Art, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, PL
De – Mo – Cra – Cy, Galeria Labirynt – BWA Lublin, PL
Ich kenne kein Weekend. Archive and Collection Ren Block, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AT
Remember Lidice, St dtische Galerie Nordhorn, DE
2015 Setting Things in Motion. Collections in Dialogue, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT
[A] SYMMETRIES, Zacheta Lublin, PL
Ich kenne kein Weekend. Archive and Collection Ren Block, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.),
Berlin, DE
Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin, DE, 2016: St dtische Galerie Nordhorn, DE
Art According To Politics, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, PL
Personal Structures Crossing Borders, Palazzo Bembo Exhibitions, Venice, IT
Grammar Of Freedom / Five Lessons: Works From Arteast 2000+ Collection, Garage Museum of
Contemporary Art, Moskow, PL
2014 New Conceptual Practices: Natalia Brandt / Jaroslaw Kozlowski, annex14 | Raum für aktuelle
Kunst, Zurich, CH
Grażyna Kulczyk Collection. Everybody Is Nobody for Somebody, Fundaci n Banco Santander,
Boadilla del Monte, ES
For Each Gesture Another Character, Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, PL
2013 B.A.B.E – The Best Artists Books and Editors, Immanence, espace d’art contemporain, Paris, FR
The Unanswered Question. İskele2, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and Tanas, Berlin, DE
Economics in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, PL
Amazing! Clever! Linguistic! – An Adventure in Conceptual Art, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
2012 Beyond Corrupted Eye Akumulatory 2 Gallery, 1972–1990, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art,
Warsaw, PL, 2013: MOCAK, Krakow, PL
Mediations Biennale, Biennale Office: Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, PL
Anew shown – anew read, Galeria BWA Zielona G ra, PL
Artificial Fullmoon, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL
the lunatics are on the loose… European Fluxus Festivals 1962-1977, Akademie der Künste,
Berlin, DE, MOCAK, Krakow, PL, CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT
Cultural luggage, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, UA
How to Make – Ideas, Notations, Materializations, Kunsthaus Dresden, DE
2011 Polish conceptual photography, Galeria BWA, Gorz w Wielkopolski, PL
Multiplication is Human – 45 Years of Edition Block 1966-2011, Tanas, Berlin, DE
Maps II., Esterh zy Palace, Bratislava, SK
Not In Place, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Maps. Art Cartography In The Centre Of Europe 1960 -2011, City Gallery of Bratislava, SK
History in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, PL
2010 Over and Over Again, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, PL
Things evoke feelings, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Gallery AT, Mazowieckie Centrum Sztuki Wsp łczesnej „ELEKTROWNIA”, Radom, PL
Mediators, The Gallery of 20th-century Polish Art, Warsaw, PL
Starter Works from the Vehbi Ko Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, AFTER
-space for art, Istanbul, TR
2009 Difference Beyond Difference, Stary Browar, Poznan, PL
Idee/Ideas, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Rivers (Fleuves), Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, SK, Hameau Fournaise, Chatou, FR
Yesterday or on the 2nd floor – Karl Valentin, Comic and Art since 1948 – Münchner
Stadtmuseum, Munich, DE
Positions of Polish Contemporary Art, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder, DE
Reflections on Drawing, BWA Lublin, PL
2008 Mediation Biennale, Biennale Office: Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, PL
UN COUP DE D S, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
A Story Differently Told, LAZNIA – Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, PL
Vinyl – Records and Covers by Artists, Museu Serralves, Porto, PT
To Be Continued, Edition Block, Berlin, DE
2007 = (Equals sign), Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, DE
Words – Forms – Meditations – BWA Lublin, PL
Fluxus East, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE, CAC – Contemporary Art Canter, Vilnius,
LT, 2008: Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, PL, Ludwig Museum, Bu
dapest, HU, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, EE, 2009: Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK,
2010: Henie Onstad Art Centre, H vikodden, NO
For a Special Place: Documents and Works from the Generali Foundation Collection,
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, US
2006 27th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, BR
47th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade, RS
…CONCEPT HAS NEVER MEANT HORSE, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
In Poland, That Is Where?, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
2005 HABITAT – Baltic Contemporary Art Biennale, Muzeum Sztuki Wsp łczesnej , Szczecin,
PL
Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Way of looking at things, KOG – Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, DE
Writing, Sign, Gesture. Carlfriedrich Claus in Context from Klee to Pollock, Kunstsam
mlungen Chemnitz, DE
2004 Collected Views From East Or West, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
2002 International Arteast Collection 2000+, Nacionalna Galerija – Cifte Amam, Skopje, MK
2001 In Between – : Art. From Poland, 1945 – 2000, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, US
2000 visual art – simple live, Edith-Ru -Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, DE
The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West, Moderna galerija Ljubljana, SI
Art Dealers. In the Face of Reality. LAZNIA – Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, PL
1999 Chronos and Kairos. Time in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE
Conceptual Reflexion in Polish Art – Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975, Centre
for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
1995 4th International İstanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR
1994 Polish Analytical Abstraction, Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw, PL, 1995: Galeria Stara
BWA Lublin, PL
1992 Polish Avant-garde 1930–1990, Staatliche Berliner Kunsthalle, Berlin, DE
Lyon, Ł dź: Museum of Art in Lodz, 1931-1992, Mus e d’Art Contemporain Lyon, FR
1991 Double Identity, Museum Wiesbaden, DE
1990 Rhetorical Image, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
8th Biennale of Sydney – The Readymade Boomerang, Sydney, AU
Selected collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
MOCAK, Krakow, PL
Museum of Art in Lodz, PL
National Museum Poznan, PL
Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Moderna galerija Ljubljana, SI