Paweł Kowalewski

Events

MAGMATISM PIC-NIC

At the former Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano occupied by Pavilion 02 in GAD – Giudecca Art District Magmatism team will activate the courtyard space with video screenings, performances presentations and sheer human engagement. It will be unique occasion to get involved with Magmatism Movement – a project that we had been developing this …

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EFEF

At the former Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano occupied by Pavilion 02 in GAD – Giudecca Art District Magmatism team will activate the courtyard space with video screenings, performances presentations and sheer human engagement. It will be unique occasion to get involved with Magmatism Movement – a project that we had been developing this …

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Collections

Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko Zachęta – National Gallery of Art The National Forum of Music in Wrocław from 19 February to 31 July 2019. Curators: Joanna Egit-Pużyńska, Anna Podsiadły, Henryk Gac Building a collection of art is a process that, like art itself, is subject to constant transformation and periodic verification. The pride of …

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Imacon Color Scanner

Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko Zachęta – National Gallery of Art The National Forum of Music in Wrocław from 19 February to 31 July 2019. Curators: Joanna Egit-Pużyńska, Anna Podsiadły, Henryk Gac Building a collection of art is a process that, like art itself, is subject to constant transformation and periodic verification. The pride of …

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Zeitgeist

The Jerke Museum in Recklinghausen prepared an exhibition of Pawel Kowalewski’s output which included his sculptures (most of them weren’t on a display for 30 years) and his most recognizable painting Me Shoot By Indians. In St Peter church you were able to find large works on paper with quotes from The Book of Psalms. …

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The Jerke Museum in Recklinghausen prepared an exhibition of Pawel Kowalewski’s output which included his sculptures (most of them weren’t on a display for 30 years) and his most recognizable painting Me Shoot By Indians. In St Peter church you were able to find large works on paper with quotes from The Book of Psalms. …

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These Things Now

Exhibition These Things Now was open in gallery Propaganda, Warsaw, from February 20 to April 2, 2016. The exhibition was presenting selection of works by Paweł Kowalewski from mid 80’s. Working on them he was younger then these works are today, and without a clue about what will happen in following thirty years, with all the socialpolitical changes in Poland, Europe, world in …

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These things now, Propaganda gallery, 2016

Exhibition These Things Now was open in gallery Propaganda, Warsaw, from February 20 to April 2, 2016. The exhibition was presenting selection of works by Paweł Kowalewski from mid 80’s. Working on them he was younger then these works are today, and without a clue about what will happen in following thirty years, with all the socialpolitical changes in Poland, Europe, world in …

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Totalitarianism Simulator

In Totalitarianism Simulator the viewer is closed inside in an enormous dark cabin in which he watches a multimedia projection which places him face to face with the dark heritage of XXth century history. The installation is an allusion to well known simulators of various kinds which test human behaviour, such as ones dedicated to …

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Totalitarianism Simulator, Radom, 2013

In Totalitarianism Simulator the viewer is closed inside in an enormous dark cabin in which he watches a multimedia projection which places him face to face with the dark heritage of XXth century history. The installation is an allusion to well known simulators of various kinds which test human behaviour, such as ones dedicated to …

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FORBIDDEN!

The series of photos FORBIDDEN! was prepared over several years. While travelling Paweł Kowalewski took various photographs of different signs with orders and injunctions and on their basis made reproductions. They were presented for the first time at the 2. Mediations Biennale in Poznań in 2010. The main sign for the Biennale itself was one …

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Wrong Way

The series of photos FORBIDDEN! was prepared over several years. While travelling Paweł Kowalewski took various photographs of different signs with orders and injunctions and on their basis made reproductions. They were presented for the first time at the 2. Mediations Biennale in Poznań in 2010. The main sign for the Biennale itself was one …

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Strength and Beauty

Strength and Beauty. A very subjective history of Polish Mothers is a form of tribute to the young women who were born at the beginning of the XX century, and whose youth fell during the time of the Second World War and the development of the two biggest totalitarian systems. The exhibition was first presented …

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Strength and Beauty, 2015, Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel

Strength and Beauty. A very subjective history of Polish Mothers is a form of tribute to the young women who were born at the beginning of the XX century, and whose youth fell during the time of the Second World War and the development of the two biggest totalitarian systems. The exhibition was first presented …

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Fin de Siècle

In the series “Fin de Siècle” from 1992 Paweł Kowalewski deals with the characteristic feeling of catastrophe to be found at the end of every century. The works show wall paper made from a path of flowers which brings romantic art to a bourgeois interior. The paintings are inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement and …

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In the series “Fin de Siècle” from 1992 Paweł Kowalewski deals with the characteristic feeling of catastrophe to be found at the end of every century. The works show wall paper made from a path of flowers which brings romantic art to a bourgeois interior. The paintings are inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement and …

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Gruppa archives

The exhibition in Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw in 1992.

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The exhibition in Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw in 1992.