JANUSZ BAŁDYGA
Selected individual presentations:
2023 - Question about color – Mała Gallery PLSP. Nałęczów
2021 – State of Possesion – Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw
2019 – Related – Curator’s Lab, Poznań.
2019 – Over-Crovded … - Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych ODA, Piotrków Trybunalski (with the participation of Michał Bałdyga and Stanisław Bałdyga)
2017 – Ephemerides / Annex – Propaganda Gallery, Warszawa
2016 – Pole Dance – Entropia Gallery, Wrocław
2015 - Unease - UP Gallery - Berlin
2014 - "Lecture performance" - Galeria Raczej" - Poznań (performance - wykład)
2013 - Balance.pl - Efremova 26 Gallery - Lviv
2011 - Thrown Flags - AT Gallery - Poznań
2009 - Be careful glass – ODA – Piotrków Trybunalski
2008 - Marked places 08 – Centre of Contemporary Art. – Warsaw
2006 - Marked places - Wschodnia Gallery – Lodz
2003 - Ad Depositum – Otwarta Pracownia – Krakow
2001 - Ultra Vires - Excessive burden - Avantgard Gallery - Wroclaw
2000 - Open fractures - Interdruck Schipper Patitz - Lipsk
1999 - Steps and shadows - QQ Gallery - Cracow
1999 - Steps - Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej - Warszawa
1998 - Steps - Galeria Donguy - Paryż
1998 - Steps - Manhattan Gallery- Lodz
1998 - Neue Kunst Im Hagenbucher - Heilbronn
1997 - Stillstand - E-Werk Freiburg
1996 - Horizontal result - Wschodnia gallery - Łódź
1996 - Projections - Water-tower - Bydgoszcz
1995 - Pages and projections - Galeria GI - Zielona Gora
1995 - Performance on an empty plinth - ON Gallery - Poznan
1994 - Pages - Galeria AR - Warsaw
1993 - Column projection - Galeria Laboratorium, Centre of Modern Art - Warsaw
1991 - Inclinations - Old Gallery - Lublin
1988 - 1/2 of a pyramid - Moltkerei Werkstatt - Cologne
1988 - 1/2 even performance - East Gallery - Lodz
1985 - Equilibrium - Equivalence - Kunststation, Kleinsassen,
1981 - General Center - Galeria Dziekankas
Group exhibitions:
2023 – The eye never sleeps. Trans – Exploseum. Bydgoszcz
2023 - Myotopia – Nowa Scena Gallery UAP. Poznań
2023 – Equilibrium – FotoGen Gallery OKiS. Wrocław
2022 – Tomorrow Starts Today – International Performance Art Festival, Bielska Gallery BWA, Bielsko Biała.
2022 – Formed – Open City, Lublin.
2021 – Time Regained, Memory and Participation – Orla Art Point, Synagogue Orla.
2020 – Twelve year; The Archives of Scene UP-ON International Live Art Festival 2008 -2020, Lushan Art Museum Chengdu (China).
2020 – Dislocations – Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko.
2019 – Only broken clocks show the right time - Gdańsk City Gallery.
2019 – 7th UP-ON International Live Art Festival – Chengdu (China). 2019 – Art Park – Podlaska Gallery, Biała Podlaska
2019 – Past – Present – Future, 100 years of the Sculture Department UAP – Brama Poznania Museum, Poznań
2018 – Artist Army – Rebel Action, Bangkok (Tajlandia)
2018 – Active Items – OFF Gallery – Piotrków Trybunalski
2017 – Border – ArtPole TIO, Mariupol (Ukraina)
2017 – Artistic Dziekanka. Phenomenon of Independent Culture 1972 – 1998 on Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw. – Salon Akademii Gallery, Warszawa
2017 – Attention! Border – Labirynt Gallery, Lublin – Arsenał Gallery, Białystok
2017 – Emptiness – Full – Utopia, Waldemar Andzelm Collection – BWA Galeria Sztuki, Olsztyn
2017 – Flag – Kordegarda Gallery, Warszawa
2017 – Action Lublin – Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
2016 – Venice International Performance Art Festival, Wenecja
2016 – DE-MO-CR-AT- ION - Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
2016 – Returning to the Island of South: Beyond the Boundary – Asia / Europe Performance Art Festival – Artist Village – Tainan (Taiwan)
2016 – The 10th Guyu Action Performance Art Festival – Shenzen Town International Art District, Shenzen (Chiny)
2016 – Hong Kong International Performance Art Festival – Green Wave Art – Hong Kong
2014 - Right of way - Manhattan Gallery. Łódź (curator, performance)
2014 - Gogol Fest - Kiev (lecture)
2014 - Stairs - Kiev (performance)
2014 - Photo object - Gorna Gallery. Kielce (object)
2014 - Future of Immagination 9 - Singapore (performance)
2014 - The week of art - Dzyga. Lviv
2014 - Open City. Lublin
2014 - International Art Festival "Interakcje". Piotrków Trybunalski (curator, performance)
2013 - Dialogues. Włodzimierz Borowski - Kasyno Gallery. Podkowa Leśna (documentation, symposium)
2013 - La Bas - Taidehalli. Helsinki (performance)
2013 - Photo object - Propaganda Gallery. Warsaw (object)
2013 - Days of performance art - Dzyga. Lviv (workshop, performance)
2013 - Undisclosed territory #7 - Laboratory Performance Art Plesungen. Solo, Indonesia (workshop, performance)
2013 - International Art Festival "Interakcje". Piotrków Trybunalski (performance)
2013 - Fais ou tu es, pratiques contextuelles entre la Pologne - Le Lieu - Quebec City (performance)
2013 - Contexts 2013 - The 3rd International Sokolovsko Festival of Ephemeral Art
2013 - NIPAF - Nippon International Performance Art Festival - Tokio, Osaka, Nagano
2013 - Interactions 13 - Piotrków Trybunalski
2012 - Open City - Lublin
2012 - preMeditations/ imponderable - Maison 44 Basel
2011 - SCOPE Miami 2011 - Miami
2011- Acción!MAD 2011 - Matadero - Madrid
2011 – Performing the Exhibition – Kunstverein Konstanz, Chateau Mercier - Sierre
2011 – Polish Roots – New Territories – Glasgow
2009 – Performance Platform Lublin – OSP Lublin
2009 – Open City – Art in public space – Lublin
2009 – Performance Arsenał – Arsenał Gallery – Białystok
2008 – The Long Breath – Essen, Koeln
2008 – Polski Broch – Tel Aviv
2008 – Mediations Biennale – Poznań
2008 – Days of performance art – Lwów
2008 – UT – 21 Lillehammer
2008- Differences//Interaction – CCA - Warsaw
2007– el arte es accion – Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – Madrid
2007– ArtSwap 07 – Kunsthale Bergen
2007- ZAZ International Performance Art. Festival – Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Mitzpe Ramon
2006- EPAF - CSW Warsaw
2006- Days of performance art. – Kiev
2006- Mentality – Lodz Biennale
2006- I P Art. – Turbine Giswil Switzerland
2005 - TIPAF – Taipei Taiwan
2005 – Interaction 7 International Art Action Festival – Piotrkow Trybunalski
2004 – Recontre Internationale D’art. Performance de Quebec – Quebec City
2004 – Private Impact – Szczecin
2002 - Dialog II - eca - Edinburgh
2001 - Collection IV – Centre of Contemporary Art - Warsaw
2001 - Navinki '01 - Minsk
2000 - Zusammenkunst - Wiesbaden
1999 - Navinki '99 - Minsk
1999 - Generations - Polish Art of the End/Beginning of the Century - Sankt Petersburg
1998 - the 2nd International Art Encounters - Katowice
1997 - Glances - BWA Lublin
1995 - Oikos - Municipal Museum, Bydgoszcz
1995 - IMMS `95 - the Azores (Portugal)
1994 - Videospaces - PGS, Sopot
1994 - Oronsko Symposium - Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko
1993 - Intercity Art Project Vienna - Lodz, Galerie Theuretzbacher - Viena
1991 - The roads of European culture - Lodz, Bratislava, Brussels, Berlin
1990 - Points east - Third Eye Centre - Glasgow
1990- Construktion in process - Łódź
1989 - Art as a private gesture - BWA Koszalin
1985 - Process and Construction - Munich
1984 - lntellectual Trend in Polish Art After World War II - BWA Lublin
1983 – Records – BWA Lublin
1979 - Unidentified activity - STK, Lodz and Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
1978 – I AM Performance – Remont Gallery- Warsaw
Works in collections:
BWA Lublin, Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko, Contemporary Art Center in Warsaw, Museum of Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art in Hunfeld, Germany, National Museum in Warsaw, Munincipal Museum in Bydgoszcz, Art Museum in Lodz, Zachęta Collection Lublin, Elektrownia Art Center in Radom, National Museum in Poznań.
Adres: 02-930 Warszawa,
ul. Sobieskiego 22.27
Janusz Bałdyga (born 1954 in lublin) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1974, graduating in the studio of prof Stefan Gierowski in 1979. Co-founder of the Pracownia Artist Collective (1976-1981), co-manager of the Pracownia Gallery at the Dziekanka student art centre (1976-1979) in Warsaw. Member of the Akademia Ruchu theatre group since 1979. He is currently professor of performance art at the University of Arts in Poznań. Author of drawings, objects, installations, performances and street actions. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, symposiums and artistic projects in poland and abroad, e.g. at galeria manhattan, łódź; cca Ujazdowski castle, Warsaw; galeria Awangarda BWA, Wrocław; Otwarta pracownia, Cracow; galeria Labirynt 2, Llublin; galeria Wschodnia, Łódź; Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Trybunalski; Galerie Donguy, Paris; Interdruck Schipper Patitz, Leipzig, and other venues in Germany, Netherlands, Scotland, Austria, Russia, Taiwan, Belarus, Switzerland, Israel, Norway, Spain and the United States. He lives and works in Warsaw.
Janusz Bałdyga’s main line of artistic activity is performance art. Over many years of practice, he has developed a unique style, characterised by a reduction of the language and means of articulation and the use of simple elements such as planks, nails, ropes, water, textiles or glass, which he uses to create elementary structures: the line, the circle, the rectangle, the point. he has introduced the term ‘marked places’ to denote space and its determinants, and the dynamics lent to it by human presence. The artist’s body serves also as a construction element, an instrument of describing the surrounding space, a testimony of wrestling with matter (Inclina- tions, Attention, Border). balancing around a critical point and attempting to reveal a sphere of latency are inherent to bałdyga’s work. his performances create a sense of pulling the viewer into the space and course of ritual. Their social, political or philosophical subtext leaves no doubt as to the artist’s country of origin and tradition, without, however, in any way blurring the universal dimension of his highly individual communications. As the artist says himself, ‘i am not a commentator but the creator of a particular situation which, being located in a specific space and time, cannot be free from sociopolitical references’.
