Biografie
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Biografie
PAWEL MENDREK is an visual artist work primarily in various technique with collage elements and also focusing on drawing, photography and site-specific project. This work resulted with such commision projects as Ariadne (2012-13) for Kunstraum B, Kiel, Germany and RAG Factory in London, Blogosphere (2012) for Strefa A Gallery in Cracow, Sampling Spaces (2009-15) for Flying Gallery Fundation in Warsaw and as well as the site specific utopian reconstruction reaserch project realized in cooperation with Ewa Zasada called from now till today for MitOst Fundation from Berlin and Independent art assotiation Oberliht from Chinsinau (2011-2014). In 2012 Pawel and Ewa together with the third artist Malgorzata Szandala created artist collective Travel Agency. The topic of the long time, nomadic art project is composed of several threads revolving around the concept of strangeness and alienation, belonging to a place, emigration, embroiled identity. This work resulted with such curatorial projects like mary and margareth for Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland (2013), intercity for Action Gallery, Warsaw (2014) and paradise for Loft 8 Gallery (2015). Pawel has exhibited nationally and internationally including group shows at Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Museum of Art, Taiwan, Sienna Art Institute in Italy, Kronika Gallery Bytom, BWA Gallery in Cracow and Bielsko-Biala, Poland and as well in Mill&Short Gallery in San Francisco and as well he works as art project coordinator for such intitutions like: Chelsea College of Arts in Londyn, Oberliht/Independet Art Association from Chinsinau, MitOst Fundation, Berlin and Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Currently based in Vienna, lectuer at Faculty of Intermedia and Stage Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Education 2008 | PhD Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice 2000-2004 | Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien 1998 | Academy of Art Collage in San Francisco 1995-2000 | MFA Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Katowice branch One/two men shows and curatorial projects 2015 | Paradise/ Travel Agency project, Loft 8 Gallery, Vienna ATELIER: WASSERGASSE 19, 1030 WIEN BÜRO: HIEßGASSE 12/3, 1030 WIEN T + 43 1 802 27 79 [email protected] WWW.LOFT8.AT 2014 | Intercity/ Travel Agency project, Action Gallery, Warsaw I don't paint landscapes, Kunstraum B, Kiel, Germany I don't paint landscapes/ Nie maluje pejzaży, Balucka Gallery, MGS Lodz, Poland (catalogue published by MGS Lodz) 2013 | Ariadne, Apricot Gallery, Rag Factory, London ['streindze(r)] / Travel Agency project, Rondo Gallery, Katowice, Poland Mary and Margareth / Travel Agency project, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland Another Day in Paradise, 5P Gallery, Berne, Switzerland 2012 | Blogosphere/Blogosfera, Strefa A Gallery & German General Consulate, Cracow, Poland 2010 | Such things happen/Takie rzeczy sie zdarzaja, Flying Gallery, Warsaw 2009 | Accumulation/Nagromadzenie, Flying Gallery, Warsaw 2007 | Moments, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna (catalogue published by Ariadne Gallery) 2005 | Give Me a Break, StadtGalerie Vienna Full Colour, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna (1: self published catalogue, 2: published by Ariadne Gallery) 2003 | Kind of Woman, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna Kind of Woman/Rodzaj Kobiety, Sosnowiec Art Center, Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec, Poland (catalogue published by Sosnowiec Art Center, Sielecki Castle) 2002 | Life of the Horizon, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna Awards and grants 2013 | Nomination for Strabag Art Award, Vienna 2012 | Nomination for Grand Prix, International Biennial of Digital Graphic Art, Era Art, Gdynia, Poland 2010 | Nomination for Strabag Art Award, Vienna Scholarship of Kunstraum B, Kiel, Germany 2006 | Nomination for Grand Prix, Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland 2002-2005 | Culture Prize for young Artist, Town Hall Katowice, Poland 2003 | Junger Österreicher Prize 2003, International Wine Marketing Austria ATELIER: WASSERGASSE 19, 1030 WIEN BÜRO: HIEßGASSE 12/3, 1030 WIEN T + 43 1 802 27 79 [email protected] WWW.LOFT8.AT 2001 | Special Award for artistic courage and uncompromising attitude Silver Spur, Polish Painting Review Promotions 2000, Legnica, Poland 2000 | scholarship of Hugo Kołłątaj Foundation, Katowice, Poland Grand Prix, the Polish Student Graphic Competition, Canson-Poland, a competition accompanying the Triennial of Polish Graphics 1998 | Grant Award of Academy of Art Collage in San Francisco 1991-1995 | Scholarship holder of the National Fund for Children in Warsaw Collective shows 2016 | North-South, Zbrojownia Gallery,Gdansk, Poland 2015 | Parallax, A Man Who Cannot Get Up/Travel Agency project, New Space, Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice 5th Guanlan International Print Biennial, China North-South, Shaft Wilson Gallery, Katowice, Poland 2013 | Love, Life and Ego, Showroom Wild Horses, Vienna Space as a Tool, Sosnowiec Art Center, Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec, Poland Visit/Wizyta, Za Szyba Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland Integrations-Mediations, East of Culture, Symposium on Contemporary Art and exhibition, Lublin, Poland Nord Art 2013, Rendsburg, Germany 2012 | Fight the November Blues, Flying Gallery Fundation, Warsaw Lettra. Sign and Letter, exhibition accompanying The International Print Triennale Cracow, Poland Boating Island, Little Venice Canal, Paddington, London 8th Triennial of Polish Graphics, BWA Katowice, Poland 2nd Inter-format Symposium on Remoteness and Contemporary Art, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania 3rd International Biennial of Digital Graphic Art, Association for the Art Promotion, Era Art, Gdynia, Poland ATELIER: WASSERGASSE 19, 1030 WIEN BÜRO: HIEßGASSE 12/3, 1030 WIEN T + 43 1 802 27 79 [email protected] WWW.LOFT8.AT Space as a Tool for Shaping Social Attitudes, Natural History Museum of Moldova, Tandem’s European Cultural Festival, Chisinau, Moldova 2011 | Chiosc/Kiosk, Rondo Gallery, Katowice, Poland 6th MIKK Annual Photography Competition, Digital Abstraction, Murska Sobota, Slovenia Wir haben Zeit, MyArt project space, Vienna Drawing Connections, Sienna Art Institute, Italy Polish Contemporary Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art in Minsk, Belarus Common Spaces, Körös Museum, Oradea, Romania 2010 | Ornament, Flying Gallery, Warsaw AAF London, Art Fair Vier Positionen polnischer Kunst, KunstraumB, Kiel, Germany XXII Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland Intymacy/Intymnosc, Flying Gallery, Warsaw 2009 | Red Dot Miami, Art Fair XIV International Print Biennale Sarcelles 2009, France PoLEMika, Coal Industry Museum, Zabrze, Poland AAF New York, Art Fair 20/21 International Art Fair, The Royal Collage of Art, London All the Best, Flying Gallery, Warsaw 2008 | AAF London, Art Fair We are European, ArtMark Gallery, Spital am Pyhrn, Austria XXII Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland Nord Art 2008, Rendsburg/Germany / AAF New York, Art Fair 20/21 International Art Fair, The Royal Collage of Art, London 2007 | Kunstschnee - Available Art, Museum Quatiter 21, Vienna Herbst-Winter Collection, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna AAF London, Art Fair International Print Triennale Cracow-Oldenburg-Vienna 2007, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna Rose- oh reiner Widerspruch, ArtMark Gallery, Vienna AAF New York, Art Fair 20/21 International Art Fair, The Royal Collage of Art, London 2006 | XXI Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland ATELIER: WASSERGASSE 19, 1030 WIEN BÜRO: HIEßGASSE 12/3, 1030 WIEN T + 43 1 802 27 79 [email protected] WWW.LOFT8.AT Dabrowki 9, Silesian Museum of Art, Katowice, Poland AAF London, Art Fair Chelsea Harbour Design Center - "Focus 2006" cooperation Vernissage & The World of Interior Magazine, London International Print Triennial Cracow 2006, Bunkie/ BWA Gallery, Cracow, Poland Nord Art 2006, Rendsburg/Hamburg, Germany Conjucton 2006, A Contemporary Art Exhibition, London-Birmingham-Stoke, United Kingdom Gegensaetze, International Art Exhibition, Hollfeld, Germany Away, Available Art, Camelot Gallery, Cracow 2005 | Step Out from Chaos, Archidiecezjalne Museum, Katowice Wind Art Festival, Jeju 2005, South Korea Art Forward Enduring Power of Paint, The Bloxham Galleries, London Harlech Biennale 2005, Wales, United Kingdom Nord Art 2005, Rendsburg, Germany 2004 | Wind Art Festival, Jeju 2004, South Korea Die Figur als Aufgabe, StadtGalerie Vienna Into Europe. New Art for New Reality, The Bloxham Galleries, London AAF London, Art Fair Europa Jetzt, ST/A/R & MAK NITE, Museum Applied Arts, Vienna Jubilee exhibition of ex-scholarship holders of the National Fund for Children in Warsaw, Old Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Kunterbunte Arbeiten, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna Palingenese, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna 2003 | Paesaggio di desiderio, Austrian Culture Forum and Academy of Fine Arts Brera, Milan, Italy Junger Österreicher 2003, Museum Applied Arts, Vienna 11 th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Museum of Art, Taiwan V Triennial of Polish Graphics, BWA Katowice, Poland VII International Biennial of Drawing and Graphics The Masters of Graphic Arts, Municipal Museum of Art, Gyor, Hungary Premio Acqui, VI International Biennal of Graphics, Ovada, Italy 2002 | Vienna Art 2002, International Art Fair, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna ATELIER: WASSERGASSE 19, 1030 WIEN BÜRO: HIEßGASSE 12/3, 1030 WIEN T + 43 1 802 27 79 [email protected] WWW.LOFT8.AT XIX Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Obrazowanie/Picturing, Szczecin VII International Biennial of Graphics, Caixanova, Ourense, Spain Kunterbunte Arbeiten, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna The Essence 2002, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna 2001 | Polish Painting Review, Bielsko Autumn/Bielska Jesień 2001, Bielsko-Biała, Poland Ab Ovo, Sukiennice Gallery, Krakow, Poland Acceptance- Tolerance, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna 2nd Polish Triennial of Student Graphics, ASP Poznan, Poland XI Polish Painting Review Promotions 2000, Legnica, Poland 2000 | Post-industrial landscapes of Upper Silesia, Rattingen, Germany Results 2000, Wittgenstein Palace, Vienna, Austria IV Triennial of Polish Graphics, BWA Katowice, Poland Polish Triennial of Student Graphics, Poznań, Poland 1998 | Who Murdered Reality? The Mill&Short Gallery, San Francisco, USA Commissions 2015 | A Man Who Cannot Get Up/Travel Agency project for Parallax / Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland 2014 | Intercity/ Travel Agency project, Action Gallery, Warsaw 2013 | Mary and Margareth / Travel Agency project, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland 2012 | Space as a Tool for Shaping Social Attitudes, Natural History Museum of Moldova, Tandem’s European Cultural Festival, Chisinau, Moldova 2011 | Common Spaces, Körös Museum, Oradea, Romania 2010 | Vier Positionen polnischer Kunst, KunstraumB, Kiel, Germany 2009 | PoLEMika, Coal Industry Museum, Zabrze, Poland 2007 | Hval Kulturstasjon, Honefoss, Norway 2006 | Garden-City-Structure, Fonix & Debrecen Municipal Gallery, Hungary 2005 | Harlech Biennale 2005, Wales, United Kingdom Wind Art Festival, Jeju 2005, South Korea 2004 | Wind Art Festival, Jeju 2004, South Korea Art Galichnik, Museum of Contemporary Art & Ministry of Culture, Skopie, Macedonia ATELIER: WASSERGASSE 19, 1030 WIEN BÜRO: HIEßGASSE 12/3, 1030 WIEN T + 43 1 802 27 79 [email protected] WWW.LOFT8.AT 2003 | Paesaggio di desiderio, Austrian Culture Forum and Academy of Fine Arts Brera, Milan, Italy Residencies 2012 | Nida Art Colony, Lithuania Space as a tool for shaping social attitudes, Oberliht in cooperation with MitOst from Berlin, Chisinau, Moldova 2010 | KunstraumB, Kiel, Germany 2009 | George Enescu National Museum, Bucharest, Romania 2007 | Hval Kulturstasjon, Honefoss, Norway 2006 | Garden-City-Structure, Fonix & Debrecen Municipal Gallery, Hungary 2004 | Art Galichnik, Museum of Contemporary Art & Ministry of Culture, Skopie, Macedonia Collections Art Mark Gallery, Vienna / George Enescu National Museum, Bucharest, Romania / Fonix & Debrecen Municipal Gallery, Hungary / Flying Gallery Fundation, Warsaw / Ariadne Gallery, Vienna / Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia / Hval Kulturstasjon, Honefoss, Norway / privat collections Lectures from 2004 | Lectuer, Associate Professor at Faculty of Intermedia and Stage Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland 2015 | Guests lectuer at Chelsea College of Arts, Londyn (Erasmus+) 2014-2015 | Long life learning project for Amerlinghaus, Vienna 2012 | Guests lectuer at Vilnus Art Academy, Lithuania (Erasmus) Guests lectuer, Space as a tool for shaping social attitudes, Schusev's school, Chisinau, Moldova 2011 | Lectuer, Kunst Fabrik Wien, Austria Lectuer, Kunstakademie Neustift, Italy 2010 | Guests lectuer at University of Applied Science Joanneum Graz, Austria 2003-04 | Lectuer, Landscape of Desire, International Art Symposium KulturAXE Wien, Giżycko, Poland ATELIER: WASSERGASSE 19, 1030 WIEN BÜRO: HIEßGASSE 12/3, 1030 WIEN T + 43 1 802 27 79 [email protected] WWW.LOFT8.AT Coordinations 2015 | Parallax / Collective show, curatorial project for Chelsea College of Arts, Londyn and Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice Kicking Montageument (With Ball). Freee collective workshop for Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland Dave Beech and Martin Newth. The apparatus of the exhibition and the status of the viewer. Workshop for Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland 2013 | Space as a Tool, Sosnowiec Art Center, Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec, Poland / Collective show, curatorial project for Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice Mother of Pearl, Emdes Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland / Collective show, curatorial project for Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice 2012 | Urban Legends, ZPAF Gallery, Katowice / Collective show, curatorial project for Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice Wanted, LP Gallery, Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland / Collective show, curatorial project for Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice 2010-2011 | Chiosc. project space, Chinsinau, Moldowa / Curatorial project for Oberliht, Independet Art Association, Chinsinau, Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and MitOst Fundation, Berlin 2006-2009 | Figurama / Collective show, international drawing project 2004 | International Festival of Visual Arts, Searching for a vertical horizon, Shaft Wilson Gallery, Katowice, Poland / Project for Cross Over Independent Art Association ATELIER: WASSERGASSE 19, 1030 WIEN BÜRO: HIEßGASSE 12/3, 1030 WIEN T + 43 1 802 27 79 [email protected] WWW.LOFT8.AT