Wojciech Bąkowski
b. 1979 Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland
EDUCATION
| 2018 | PhD, University of Fine Arts in Poznań |
| 2005 | MFA, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | Bright Future (Sound Installation), MOMA Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland |
| Heart on the Trail, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2023 | A Couple of Details, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland |
| Route Phantom, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen, Germany | |
| 2021 | The Moon, a Star, and an Overhead Light, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2018 | Waking Up From Abstraction, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2016 | Holiday Power Supply, SVIT, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Hideout in the Corner of Level 6, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| Main Issues, Vosberg, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2015 | Weak Moods’ Control, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland |
| There’s a Pain Somewhere In The Room, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland | |
| Realizing, Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York, NY | |
| 2014 | art berlin contemporary, Berlin, Germany |
| 2013 | Stereo, Warsaw, Poland |
| Galerie Martin von Zomeren, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2012 | Clarification storage, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland |
| 2011 | Lack of Access Radiates, PGS Sopot, Poland |
| 2010 | There’s Nothing But What You See, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2009 | Beauty, Galeria Stereo, Poznan, Poland |
| 2008 | Are you going with me? - Where? - In dark fuck, Leto Gallery, Warsaw, Poland |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | OSAD, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland |
| Tears of Joy, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland | |
| 2023 | Group Exhibition, Co-curated by Tomasz Kowalski and Michał Woliński, Piktogram, Warsaw, Poland |
| Digits and Numbers, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, Poland | |
| 2022 | On Paper, ECHO, Cologne, Germany |
| 2021 | Distant Voices, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland |
| Companions, co-curated with Ted Targett, Union Pacific, London, United Kingdom | |
| 2020 | Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Hours and Places, Wojciech Bąkowski, Erica Baum, Constance DeJong, Bureau, New York, NY |
| No, No, No, No, Cell Project Space, London, United Kingdom | |
| 2017 | Things in Shapes of Things, curated by Michał Lasota, Griffin Art Space, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2015 | A Million Lines, Bunkier Sztuki, Kracow, PL |
| Propotypes, XII Baltic Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania | |
| Let’s Dance, Art Stations, Poznan, Poland | |
| State of Life, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China | |
| Procedures for the head: Polish Art Today, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia | |
| It Rained Again, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2014 | Voice, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Instalators, Art Stations, Poznan, Poland |
| Midnight Show II, Galeria Dizajn BWA Wrocław, Poland | |
| The Day is Not Enough, Warsaw Contemporary Museum, Poland | |
| Not I, Lismore Castle Arts, St Carthage Hall, Lismore, Ireland | |
| As You Can See: Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland | |
| 2013 | In the Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland |
| Things in Common, Art Stations, Poznan, Poland | |
| British British Polish Polish, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland | |
| Twisted Entities, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany | |
| Six-line staff, Audio-visual interventions in the Chopin Museum, Chopin Museum, Warsaw, Poland | |
| 2012 | Wojciech Bakowski / Michał Budny, Stereo, Poznan, Poland |
| Everything’s Alright Forever, Paradise Row, London, United Kingdom | |
| Grey Peak of the Wave, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY | |
| It’s Bearable (with P.Bosacki), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany | |
| Arbeitdisziplin, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland | |
| On Demand, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Will Be Fine, Stereo, Poznan, Poland | |
| Myth and Melancholy, Warsaw Contemporary Museum, Poland | |
| Duo-show with Matt Bryans, Galerie Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| The Forgetting of Proper Names, Calvert 22, London, United Kingdom | |
| 2011 | Villa Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| Found In Translation, Chapter L, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg | |
| The Power of Fantasy: Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Bodily Choreography, Zacheta State Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland | |
| MIR, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok, Poland | |
| Transylvania 2, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland | |
| Everything, Kolonie Gallery, Warsaw, Poland | |
| For Love Not Money, 15th Tallin Print Triennial, Tallin, Estonia | |
| 2010 | Luc Tuymans: A Vision of Central Europe, Brugge Centraal, Brugge, Belgium |
| Transylvania, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland | |
| I See Things That Are Not There, Polish Institute, Rome, Italy | |
| Traumtagebuch (with P. Bosacki), Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland | |
| Early Years, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2009 | 3 x Yes, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland |
| Completed (with Anna Molska) Kunstverein, Freiburg, Germany | |
| Head of Heads (with Magdalena Starska), Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland | |
| Views 2009, Zacheta State Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland | |
| From the Archive, Zak Branicka Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| The Generational: Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York, USA | |
| Take a Look At Me Now, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom | |
| 2008 | Establishment (and its discontents), CoCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland |
| Ain’t No Sorry, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland | |
| Good for Home Use and Outdoor, public space, Poznan, Poland | |
| Bodies Adream, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznan, Poland | |
| Stomach, Słodownia Gallery, Old Brewery, Poznan, Poland | |
| Up against the Wall, Zacheta State Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland |
SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
| 2023 | Janek Owczarek, ‘Route Phantom – Wojciech Bakowski,’ BLOK MAGAZINE, July 10 |
| 2021 | Veronica Gisondi, ‘Wojciech Bakowski: dream-like narratives (an interview),’ Conceptual Fine Arts, November 17 |
| 2018 | Krzysztof Kosciuczuk, ‘Wojciech Bakowski Dreams Of Childhood In A Post-War High-Rise,’ Frieze, August 15 |
| John Cappetta, ‘Hours and Places,’ The Brooklyn Rail, May 1 | |
| Jerry Saltz, ‘Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read,’ New York Magazine, April 29 | |
| 2016 | Paul Laster, ‘Weekend Edition: 10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before May 16,’ Observer.com, May 12 |
| 2015 | Iwona Hałgas, Karol Sienkiewicz, ‘Wojciech Bakowski,’ Culture.pl, October 30 |
| ‘Wojciech Bakowski Wins The Oberhausen Sff,’ Polish Shorts, June 2015 | |
| Federico Windhausen, ‘Projections at the 2015 New York Film Festival,’ Cineaste Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 1, Winter 2015 | |
| 2013 | Wojciech Bakowski w/essays by Dominic Eichler, Julian Heynen, Jennifer Teets, Wojciech Bakowski: Selected Works 2004-2012, pub. by Fundacja Transmisja and Galeria Stereo, Poland |
| 2012 | ‘On Not Accepting the Forgetting,’ The Forgetting of Proper Names Catalog, Calvert 22, pp.12, 14-17 |
| 2011 | Richard Unwin , ‘Villa Tokyo – European Arts Festival Hits Japan,’ Flux Magazine, December 2 |
| Villa Tokyo Arts Festival Catalog, November | |
| David Ulrichs, ‘Top-Down at Liste,’ ArtinAmerica.com, June 20 | |
| 2009 | Holland Cotter, ‘Young Artists, Caught in the Act,’ New York Times, April 9 |
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw