KwieKulik: CV
KwieKulik is the artistic duo of Zofia Kulik (b. 1947 in Wrocław) and Przemysław Kwiek (b. 1945 in Warsaw), active between 1971-1987.
Since the early 1970s, their radically political art combined artistic activity with daily life. They pioneered the process of transforming the domain of art into a laboratory of social participation and grassroots formation of groups able to achieve goals regardless of the state authorities’ intentions. They belonged to the first generation of Polish artists who rejected the traditional means of expression and concentrated on performance, ‘Activities’ (term applied by the artists themselves) and the use of media in mechanical record and reproduction of images. They continue to provide a major point of reference for socially and politically engaged contemporary artists who transpose their practice into new media.
Solo Exhibitions (selection):
2018 SHE and HE, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
2016 The Monument Without a Passport, ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin, DE
2010 Activities with Dobromierz, 1972-1974, ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin, DE
2009 FORM IS A FACT OF SOCIETY, BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wrocław, PL
1999 Galeria Miejska, Poznan, PL
1987 Franklin Furnace, New York, US
1986 Dziekanka, Warsaw, PL
1985 Dziekanka, Warsaw, PL
1984 Dziekanka, Warsaw, PL
1983 Moltkerei Werkstatt, Köln, DE
1981 Free International University, Düsseldorf, DE
1978 Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL
1971 Współczesna Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Group exhibitions (selection):
2018 Skip the Line, Biennale Warszawa, Warsaw, PL
Avant-garde and the State, Art Museum, Lodz, PL
Exercises in Freedom. Polnische Konzeptkunst 1968–1981, SKD, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, D
2017 LADY IN THE MIRROR. ARTISTIC STRATEGIES OF WOMEN IN THE 1970S, Galeria Piekary, Poznań, PL
OFF-Biennale, Budapest, HU
2016 Oskar Hansen: Open Form, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, US
After the Rally, Studio Gallery, Palace of Culture and Science, Defilad Square 1, Warsaw, PL
My Favourite Landscape, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL
2015 The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial 2015, Kiev, UA
Me, You, Us and Them. Exercises on Collectivity, OFF-Biennále, Budapest, HU
2014 Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, New Museum, New York, NY, US
2013 Better Homes, Sculpture Centre, Long Island, NY, US
2012 The Present and Presence | Repetition 1, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, SLO
Spirits of Internationalism – 6 European collections, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NL
Untimely Stories, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, PL
2011 The International, MACBA, Barcelona, ES
2010 Operators’ Exercises: Open Form Film and Architecture, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, NY, US
Early Years, KunstWerke, Berlin, DE
2009 Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, TK
2007 Documenta 12, Kassel, DE
1999 Grey in Colour 1956 – 1970, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
1985 Contemporary Art from Poland, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, CA
1979 Works and Words, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
1977 Projects, Performances – Czechoslovakia, Poland, Knox Gallery, Buffalo, US
1975 7 Young Poles, Malmö Konsthall, SE
1974 New Generation, National Museum, Wroclaw, PL
1973 Cinema-Laboratory, El Gallery, Elblag, PL
1971 The Dreamer’s Convent, El Gallery, Elblag, PL
Collections:
National Museum, Wroclaw, PL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, PL
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, SLO
Tate Modern, London, UK
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU
Galeria BWA, Lublin, PL