Paweł Kruk
Paweł Kruk was born in 1976. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and Rijks Akademie in Amsterdam.
Kruk is an enigmatic artist whose work mainly involves staging performative situations. He approaches each new piece like a writer would approach a blank page: true and untrue fuse together, projects evolve, change, and are rewritten depending on which character enters the story.
Lives and works in _____, California.
solo exhibitions
2016
- 100. anniversery of the “Cabaret Voltaire”, reenactment of Adam Rzepecki’s happening from January 30, 1986, Main Square, Kraków, PL
2015
- All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, National Museum in Kraków, PL
- Remigare Necesse Est Vivere Non Est Necesse, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL (with Seamus Cater)
- What Does an Artist Want?, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL
2014
- Egyptian Secrets or Pawel Investigates the Afterlife of James Lee Byars, Beirut, Cairo, EG
- What Does an Artist Want?, Gospel Flat Farm Stand, Bolinas, US
2013
- The Art of Not Knowing, Corner College, Zurich, CH
2012
- RijksakademieOpen, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2011
- RijksakademieOpen, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
- Vanities, Witryna, Warsaw, PL
2010
- Transplanted, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, US
2009
- What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?, Goldex Poldex, Kraków, PL
- Talking To Yourself Is Very Important, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, US
2004
- Messiah College, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
2001
- Manipulator, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
2000
- Larger Than Life, Multikino Multiplex Cinema, Poznań, PL
selected group exhibitions
2015
- curated by_Sebastian Cichocki: Łukasz Jastrubczak – hollow blocks in windowless room, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna, AT
2014
- Cacophony of Things, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE
- The Long Conversation, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, US
2013
- Proximities, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US
- Baw-lal, Juliette Jongma Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2012
- Yes We Are Open, NIMk, Amsterdam, NL
- Three Artists Walk Into A Bar,de Appel, Amsterdam, NL
- FlowerCASTLE, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse, NL
2009
- Night Tide, San Francisco, US
- Portrait of the 21st Century, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
- A Trip Down (False) Memory Lane, Lexington Club, San Francisco, US
2008
- Bike Club, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2007
- Hear The Wind Sing, 826 Valencia, San Francisco, US
2006
- You Won’t Feel A Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Anesthesia, and Rituality, Kunsthaus Dresden Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dresden, DE
2005
- Egocentric, Immoral, Obsolete – Artists’ Contemporary Portraits, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
- Boys, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków, PL
2004
- Flipside, Artists Space, New York, US
- Art, Sport, Video, Musée Géo-Charles d’Echirolles, Echirolles, FR
2003
- The American Effect, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
2002
- The Young Are Realists, Really, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
- Polacos. New Art From Poland, Capella de I’Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu, Barcelona, SP
2001
- Traces of the Art Course with Marina Abramovic, Galeria Viafarini, Milan, IT
- Anuradha Vikram, Nostalgia and its Discontents, Daily Serving, 2013
- Paweł Kruk i Juliette Delventhal o projekcie “We’re Like Gardens”, Culture.pl, 2013
- Tessa Verheul, Pawel Kruk Magazujn / Amsterdam, Flash Art, 2013
- Traci Vogel, At his desk in the gallery, Pawel Kruk will se you now, SF Weekly, 2009
- Paweł Kruk, Go Surf in Your Own Hometown3.12.2022-7.01.2023
- Paweł Kruk, What does an artist want?14.05—13.06.2015