UFO ART GALLERY

artyści

Unknown. Summertime

Michael Biber, Tomek Baran, Tadeusz Brzozowski,

Marcin Dymek, Maria Ciborowska, Dorota Buczkowska,

Maria Jarema, Bogumił Książek, Grzegorz Siembida,

Maciej Pęcak, Radim Koros, Stefan Reiterer, Greg Stevens

Kurator: 

Maria Ciborowska and Robert Domżalski

Zdjęcia: 

Szymon Sokołowski

Plakat: 

Tomek Baran, Michael Biber, Radim Koros,

Maria Ciborowska, Grzegorz Siembida

6.06.2025 – 16.08.2025

UFO Art Gallery

Widok wystawy

Unknown. Summertime

Tworzyć to poddawać się. My, Artyści w UNKNOWN, dzielimy jedną świętą praktykę: słuchamy. Nasze pracownie to laboratoria, gdzie intuicja wyszeptuje rytm duchowego tańca, a plany ego rozpuszczają się w głębszych westchnieniach duszy. Sztuka staje się skamieniałością chwilowego zderzenia kontroli i poddania się. Prawdziwym tematem nie jest tutaj dzieło sztuki jako obiekt, ale poznawczy odstęp między bodźcem a zrozumieniem. Gdy powierzchnia odmawia przybrania znanych wzorów, gdy materiał zachowuje się wbrew swoim ustalonym właściwościom, gdy struktura wizualna oscyluje pomiędzy wieloma możliwymi konfiguracjami – nie są to wybory estetyczne, lecz demonstracje ontologiczne. Tutaj sam akt twórczy jest dziełem sztuki — ciągłym stawaniem się, w którym chaos rodzi porządek, tylko po to, by go ponownie pochłonąć. Każda decyzja artystyczna jest jednocześnie aktem objawienia i przesłonięcia. Dzieła funkcjonujące jako lustra poznawcze, nie w narcystycznym sensie, ale jako dosłowne refleksje procesów myślowych. 

Każdy artysta zna ten moment — puste płótno, nietknięta bryła gliny, pusty ekran. To moment zarówno przerażenia, jak i euforii, kiedy umysł sięga po pewność, ale dusza pochyla się w nicość. Dzieła w UNKNOWN rodzą się z tego napięcia. Nie starają się podbić nieznanego, ale z nim porozmawiać, pozwolić mu prowadzić rękę, zamiast opierać się jego przyciąganiu. To nie jest abstrakcja dla samej abstrakcji. Malarz nie narzuca wizji, ale podąża szlakiem pozostawionych śladów. Rzeźbiarz nie wymusza kształtu na materiale, ale wydobywa to, co już było w nim ukryte. Artyści w UNKNOWN to współcześni alchemicy. Naszym medium nie jest ołów zamieniający się w złoto, ale chaos zamieniający się w znaczenie, ulotne, kruche i zaciekle żywe. Dzieła tutaj nie są artefaktami, ale rytuałami. Stanie przed nimi nie oznacza obserwowania, ale uczestniczenie w ich rozwijaniu.

Nieznane nie jest tam. Jest w Tobie.

Doświadczenie tych dzieł oznacza udział w eksperymencie dotyczącym natury samego rozumienia, gdy znaczenie przestaje być spójne. Wartość nie leży w samym dotarciu do odpowiedzi, ale w podtrzymywaniu pytania jako stanu stałego i produktywnego. Nieznane to ziemia, na której stoimy. Podobnie jak w teorii kwantowej, obserwacja zmienia to, co obserwowane: bycie ich świadkiem oznacza zmianę ich i siebie. Zaczynamy w ciemności. Nie w ciemności nieobecności, ale w żyznej ciemności potencjału, takiej, która szumi niewidzialnym ruchem. To tutaj żyje kreacja, w przestrzeni między tym, co wiemy, a tym, czego nie potrafimy nazwać. UNKNOWN to nie wystawa; to wyprawa na to pierwotne terytorium, zbiorowy akt słuchania szeptów niewidzialnego. Prezentowane dzieła nie są reliktami rozwiązanych idei, ale dowodami ciągłego stawania się. Bycie ich świadkiem oznacza śledzenie konturów procesu, w którym twórca również jest niszczony i tworzony na nowo.

UNKNOWN proponuje nie odpowiedzi, ale spotkanie.

Maria Ciborowska

O wystawie: Unknown. Summertime

artyści

  • Tomek Baran (1985), born in Stalowa Wola, lives and works in Kraków. He obtained his diploma in 2010 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Faculty of Painting. In his artistic practice, he willingly experiments with the medium of painting and explores its boundaries. He uses a variety of materials both in terms of the substrates used, the looms carved or constructed, as well as the materials he uses.

  • Michael Biber (1978) studied from 2003 at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He studied under the supervision of Professor Markus Oehlen and then Professor Sean Scully. He spent the years 2006-2009 in the chair of Professor Guenter Foerg, where he obtained his diploma. He is the co-creator of CU AT SADKA in Krakow. Currently lives and works in Kraków.

  • Painter, illustrator, teacher, scenographer — born November 1, 1918 in Lviv; died in Rome on April 13, 1987. In the years 1918-1954 he lived in Kraków, and then, until his death, in Zakopane. A founding member of the 2nd Kraków Group (1957), in the years 1959-75 he was also associated with the international group PHASES. Starting in 1955, he took part in almost all major exhibitions of Polish contemporary art in Poland and abroad. After 1957 — especially in the 1960s, when he was considered one of the European leaders of modern painting — he exhibited at the highest level of international events (Biennale in Sao Paulo 1959 and in 1975, Venice Biennale 1962, Seattle World Fair 1962; ROSC Dublin 1967). His works can be found in public collections (all important collections of contemporary art in Poland and many abroad - including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Vatican Museum, the National Museum in Bratislava) and in many private collections both in Poland and abroad.

  • (born in 1971 in Warsaw) uses photography, drawing, printmaking, video, painting, sculpture, and embroidery. One of the central motifs of Buczkowska’s early works is the circulation processes inherent in biological structures, but also those the artist finds in space created or transformed by humans. The artist has developed analogies between architecture, urban planning, and living organisms in numerous similar works.

  • A graduate of Applied Psychology at the Jagiellonian University (2009) and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2012). In 2014-18 she studied exhibition space design at the Faculty of Interior Design. Since 2015, she has been promoting art by organizing exhibitions, first at Atelier Rajska Poczekalnia, then at UFO Art Gallery in Krakow. Lives and creates in Krakow.

  • Marcin Dymek (1986) born in Krakow. Graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków; diploma in drawing in the studio of Professor Joanna Kaiser (2012). Currently, a doctoral student at the same university, where he also runs a drawing studio. Participant of scholarship programmes at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitatea de Arta si Design, Cluj-Napoca (Romania, 2010) and Sabanci University in Istanbul (Turkey, 2010-2011). Lives and works in Krakow.

  • Sculptor, painter, stage designer. Born in 1908 in Stary Sambor, died in 1958 in Kraków. She was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków; it was there that she studied at the Faculty of Sculpture under the supervision of Xawery Dunikowski in the years 1929-35. Before 1939 she was a member of the leftist Kraków Group. After 1945 she joined the Young Visual Artists Group. She was one of the close group of initiators of the reactivation of the Kraków Group, which was achieved in the atmosphere of the "thaw" in 1957. The artist's works represented Polish art at, among others, the Venice Biennale (1958) and - posthumously - at the Biennale of Contemporary Art in São Paulo (1961). Her works are in the most important public collections in Poland (National Museums in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław, Museum of Art in Łódź).

  • Born in the Czech Republic. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (diploma in the Department of Graphic Arts in the studio of Prof. Lech Polcyn). In 2022 he received his doctoral degree from the Painting Department of his alma mater. Co-author of the UNKNOWN project at UFO Art Gallery. He lives and works in Cracow.

  • Born in 1974. He studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He defended his diploma in 2000 in Sławomir Karpowicz's studio. After graduation, he went to Tuscany for seven years. There he met Silvio Loffredo and Mario Luzi. He lived and worked in Florence and Tizzano until 2009. He is a lecturer at the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he has been running an interdisciplinary studio since 2019.

  • Born in 1964 in Rymanowo, he lives and works in Cracow. He received his diploma in 1991 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Faculty of Sculpture. In his artistic practice, Maciej Pecak most eagerly experiments with the medium of wood, but he also reaches for other materials, such as stone, bronze, metal or non-accidental elements of the surrounding reality. He mainly creates sculptures, reliefs and installations. He is also the author of monumental and sacred sculptures in Hlomcza, Sanok and Krakow, among others. An important motif of Maciej Pecak’s work is the concept of time, aspects of passing, the idea of contemplation, nature and man.

  • Stefan Reiterer was born in 1988 in Waidhofen an der Thaya in Austria and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His works are in the collection of the Federal Republic of Austria, the Belvedere Vienna, and the Landessammlung Niederösterreich. His works have been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including São Paulo, Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Prague, Berlin, and Porto. Most recently, Reiterer was involved in the Tuesday@Secession series at the Vienna Secession.

  • Grzegorz Siembida (1984) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (diploma at the Faculty of Painting in the studio of Prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk). In 2022, at the Faculty of Art of the Pedagogical University of KEN in Krakow defended his doctoral thesis. He deals with painting and painting installation. His expressive works are a collage of various means of artistic expression. In his art, the artist uses both experiences and practices related to the trend of American expressionist abstraction, as well as artistic procedures associated with pop art or street art. Cultural animator, coordinator of artistic projects.

  • Graduated from Kingston School of Art with a First Class Honours in Illustration Animation in 2019, studying for a year at The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Interested in furthering a fine art practice, he joined the Royal Drawing School in 2021. His work attempts to capture a nostalgic detritus of memory alongside the observed as it moves anarchically between the abstract and the figurative. Printmaking provides a further way to develop surface marks and pursue an instinctive decision making he feels necessary for the anxiously intense, often violently colourful pictures he creates.

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