WORKS <<< •  

PERFORMANCES

2003
Festival "Asiatop", Bangkok, Thailand
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Festival "Lange Atem", Essen, Munster, Germany
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Festival "Navinki", Mińsk, Bielarus
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International Festival "Interakcje", Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
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Ośrodek sztuki performance, Lublin, Poland


2002
Festival "Navinki", Mińsk, Bielarus
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International Festival "Interakcje", Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
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Festival "Nove Zamky", Slovakia


2001
Festival "Navinki", Mińsk, Bielarus
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Międzynarodowy Festiwal "Interakcje", Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland


2000
International Festival "Interakcje", Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland


1999
International Festival "Interakcje", Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland


1998
International Festival "Ex Teresa", Mexico City, Mexico


1997
International FestiVal of Performance Art "Dimension 0", Wilno, Lithuania
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International Festival "Castle of Imagination 5", Bytów, Poland
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Moje Archiwum Gallery, Koszalin, Poland
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BWA Gallery, Słupsk, Poland
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"Performance Art" BWA Gallery, Częstochowa, Poland
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Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
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Performance Festival "Magnesia", Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
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NSCAD Gallery, Halifax, Canada
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Le Lieu Gallery, Quebec City, Canada


1996
Festival "9 Dragons Heads", Chongwon - gun, Korea
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ANNart festival, St. Georges, Romania
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BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
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Podlaska Gallery, Biała Podlaska, Poland
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Performance Festival "Second Hand", Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw, Poland


1995
The International Festival, Gulai, Hungary
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The International Nature Art, Kong-Ju, Korea
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'Gonna be Allwright', QQ Gallery, Cracow, Poland
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International Festival of Performance, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Galeria Działań, Warsaw


1993
'Real Time - Story Telling' International Performance Art Festival, Grodzka Gallery, Lublin
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NIPAF'93, International Performance Art Festival, Nagano, Japan


1992
'Tarascone '92, 9e Rencontre Contemporaine', Tarascone, France
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TYP 2, Polish Public Television, Warsaw, Poland


1991
'Real Time - Story Telling', International Performance Festival, Sopot, Poland
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IV Mezinarodny Festival Alternativnej Kultury, Studio Erte, Nove Zamky, Slovakia
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II Festival Internacional de Performance i Poesia d'Acció, Valencia, Spain


1990
Wschodnia Gallery, Łódź, Poland
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Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
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'Interaction', International Performance Festival, France
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'Project Ecart', Canada
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Premiere Biennale d'Art Actuel: 'A la manoevre', Quebec, Canada
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'Interscop', International Performance Festival, Łucznica, Poland


1989
'Escapes Affranchis', Festival of Art, Danae Foundation, Paris, France
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Mała Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
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BWA Gallery, Koszalin, Poland
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BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
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Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
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Galeria Działań, Warsaw, Poland


1988
'Immedia Concerto', Festival of Art, Quebec, Canada
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Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
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Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Canada
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Joliotte Museum, Canada
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Zakład Nad Fosą Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
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Plebanka Gallery, Koszalin, Poland
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Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
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'Take Position', International Art Meeting, Stodoła Gallery, Warsaw, Poland


1987
'Staatsliedengreep' Art Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
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Biennale of Art, Zielona Góra, Poland
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Centro Internationale Multimedia, Salerno, Italy
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BWA Gallery, Lublin, Poland


1986
Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Holland
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Remont Gallery, Warsaw, Poland


1985
Banff Cenrte of Art, Banff, Canada
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Western Front Gallery, Canada
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Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Canada


1984
BWA Gallery, Lublin, Poland


1981
'Artistic Pilgrimage: 'Outside Official Institution', Koszalin, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Łomża, Poland
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Jaszczurowa Gallery, Club Pod Jaszczurami, Kraków, Poland
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'Workshop l', Lublin, Poland
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Znak Gallery, Białystok, Poland
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'IX Cracow Meeting', Cracow, Poland
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Mała Gallery, Warsaw, Poland


1980
Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland


1978
Intervention art throughout Poland
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Contemporary Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
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Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland


1977
Remont Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
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Contemporary Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland


1976
Performance in the movie 'Chairs', Poland
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Contemporary Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland


1974
Performance Meeting at the 'Teatr Dnia i Nocy', Poznań, Poland



SELECTED EXHIBITONS

2003
Contribution to the exhibition "Labirynt", London
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Contribution to the exhibition "Comportament energetique", Sattelite Gallery, Paris
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solo exhibition, Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw
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solo exhibition, XX1 Gallery, Warsaw
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solo exhibition "Człowiek to brzmi dumnie, chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie", Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland


2002
Contribution to thr exhibiton "Autonomous conceptual movement in Poland", Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland


1998
"Anomia", Labirynt Gallery, Lublin


1997
"Treib Buch-Orbit", Kassel, Germany
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Festival "Les Ambassadeurs", Marseille, France
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solo exhibition, Galeria Le Lieu, Quebec City, Canada


1996
"Retrospective", BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
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Retrospective exhibition, BWA Gallery, Lublin, Poland


1995
Retrospective exhibition, DAP Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
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Installation at 'The Internarional Nature Art Exhibition of Kum-River', Kong-Ju, Korea
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Galeria Działań, Warsaw, Poland


1994
'25 years of Labirynt Gallery', BWA Lublin, Poland
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'it's O.K.', Stara Gallery, BWA Lublin, Poland
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'it's O.K.', Mała Gallery, Warsaw, Poland


1993
'Konkretna', International Art Exhibition, Galaria Działań, Warsaw, Poland
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NIPAF'93, Cultural Center, Exhibit Hall, Nagano, Japan


1991
One-man show during the exhibition 'Oferta', Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
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'New Spaces of Photography', International Festival of Photography, Wrocław, Poland


1990
One-man show, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
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One-man show, Wschodnia Gallery, Łódź, Poland
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Exhibition 'Boreal', Quebec, Canada


1989
'I'm back', Mała Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
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'Transgression', BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland


1988
'Kunst Nu', Verenigen voor het Museum vo Hededaayse, Kunste Centre, Gent, Belgium
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'Private problems', Plebanka Gallery, Koszalin, Poland
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Installation 'Idols should not be stared at in full light', Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
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One-man show, Zakład nad Fosą, Wrocław, Poland
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'Talking about Postmodernizm', installation, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland


1987
'Absurdities go from life to art and vice versa', installation at the Festival „Saatliedegreep", Amsterdam, Holland
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'Estetica Diffusa', Centro Internationale Multimedia, Salerno, Italy
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One-man show, Galeria Działań, Warsaw
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'Natural - Unnatural', installation, BWA Gallery, Lublin, Poland


1986
Installation at Het Apollohuis Gallery, Eindhoven, Holland
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Remont Gallery, Warsaw, Poland


1985
'Art from Poland', Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre of Art, Canada
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One-man show, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
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One-man show, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Canada
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Poolse Avant Garde Cultural Centrum, Berchem, Belgium


1984
'The Blurring', BWA Gallery, Lublin, Poland


1983
'lllusions and Phantasms', Remont Gallery, Warsaw, Poland


1982
'Freedom and Limitation', Mała Gallery, Warsaw, Poland


1981
'All of us have some troubles'. Mała Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
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'In the Context of Reality', Znak Gallery, Białystok, Poland
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'Making Order', BWA Gallery, Lublin, Poland


1980
'Contact. From Contemplation to agitation', Pałac Sztuki, Cracow, Poland


1979
One-man show, Hit Gallery, Calgary, Canada
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One-man show, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
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One-man show, 'We are always talking about the man', Mała Gallery, Warsaw, Poland


1978
One-man show, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
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One-man show, Forum Gallery, Cracow, Poland
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One-man show, Contemporary Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland


1977
One-man show, Znak Gallery, Białystok, Poland
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'The Second Context', Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
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'The Third Context', Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
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'The Fourth Context', Remont Gallery, Warsaw


1976
One-man show, Sellem Gallery, Lund, Sweden
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'Contextual Art Exhibition', Kunsthall Museum, Malmo, Sweden
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Exhibition, The Appel Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
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One-man show, Remont Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
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Exhibition at the Small Press Festival, Posada Gallery, Brussel, Belgium


1974
'On the Logic of Incomplete Realities - Photography', Remont Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
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'On the Logic of Incomplete Realities - Language', at 'Prospectiva', Sao Paulo, Brazil


1972
'Journey to Australia', Pover Gallery, Sydney, Australia
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'Diagram of the Real', Centro Tool Gallery, Milano, Italy
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One-man show, Permafo Gallery, Wrocław, Poland

One-man show, Pole Gry Gallery, Bolesławiec, Poland



VIDEO TAPES

'I'm here',
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'Looking',
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'World we live in'



LECTURES
The specific of the art Jan Świdziński creates causes that his lectures and discusions are of the artworks character.

1991
Ecole Nationale Superiere des Beaux-Art, Paris, France


1990
Nova Scotia College of Art, Nasca, Halifax, Canada


1988
Quebec University, Quebec, Canada
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Vancouver University, Vancouver, Canada


1985
Visiting artist at Banff Centre of Art, Bannf, Canada


1979
Visiting professor at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Visiting artist at Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada


1977
Lecture at conference 'L'Art et Transformation sociale', L'Ecole Sociologique Interrogative, Paris, France


1976
Lecture at the N.Y. University, New York, U.S.A
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Lecture at the Toronto University, Toronto, Canada
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'Art as a Contextual Art', Kunsthall Museum, Malmo, Sweden
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Participated in '5th InternationaI Encounter on Video' at International Cultural Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium
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Participated in 'Video International' at Kunst Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
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Participated in a film show at Centro Universitato, Padova, Italy


1970
Published article: "Spór o istnienie sztuki" ('Controversy on Existance of Art') and then holds a meeting with students at the 'Presentation of Polish Art Schools' in Nowa Ruda, Poland


1970's
Holds many meetings, lectures, debates throughout Poland

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