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DOROTA WALENTYNOWICZ
visual artist, born in 1977 in Gdansk (Poland)
/ Academic degrees /
2022 PhD, Department of Intermedia and Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk PL
2007 MA, Art Science, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Design, Music and Dance, The Hague NL
2005 MA, Photography, Faculty of Visual Communication, University of Fine Arts, Poznan PL
2001 MA, Classical Philology, Faculty of Languages, University of Gdańsk PL
/ Individual exhibitions /
Bossware, New Joerg, Vienna AT 2023
Cherish, City Gallery, Gdansk PL 2022
The Medusa vs the Odalisque (with Patricia J. Reis), Mz. Baltazar’s, Vienna AT 2021
Waschkaue: Dividing Line, Mz. Baltazar’s, Vienna AT 2018
Outside In – Inside Out (with Nanna Keogh Lauritsen), Museum Folkwang, Essen DE 2018
Apokalypsy tou Parallilou, Municipal Theatre Pyli Vithleem, Heraklion GR 2017
Parakino: Odkrywanie Rownoleglego, CCA Laznia, Gdansk PL 2016
Reciprocal (with Michal Skoda), Galerie Stadtpark, Krems AT 2016
Recording Theatre, State Gallery of Art, Sopot PL 2015
if everything is repeating (with Tomasz Dobiszewski), PF Photography Gallery, Poznan PL 2014
Algebra of Fiction, Apollonia, Strasbourg F 2013
Visa Versa, Bydgoszcz Artists’ Association Gallery, Bydgoszcz PL 2013
Heterotopias, PGR Art Gallery, Gdansk PL 2012
Dialog 9 _ Stream of Consciousness (with Herwig Weiser), City Gallery, Gdansk 2011
Of the blind spots, Austrian Culture Forum, Warsaw PL 2011
Ondertussen: Plato Machine, Stroom, The Hague NL 2009
Ouchromic Reducer (with Cut and Scrape), Kunstbuero, Vienna A 2009
Black Box, CCA Laznia, Gdansk 2009
Dobrze, Zak Gallery, Gdansk 2006
Fairy Tales, Ateneum Gallery, Warsaw 2005
/ Group exhibitions /
Bienala Alb/Negru Editia a VIII, Centre Culturale din Satu Mare RO 2023
Face to Face, The National Museum, Wroclaw 2023
Following a Common Path, Muzeum Okręgowe, Toruń 2023
7th Gdansk Biennale, Municipal Gallery, Gdansk 2023
Para bellum, WL4 Przestrzeń Sztuki, Gdańsk 2023
Da Camera, Musica Polonica Nova Festival, The National Forum of Music, Wroclaw PL 2022
First Place in the Table?, Trafostacja Sztuki Gallery, Szczecin PL 2022
Occupy Networks, Consulate General of Greece, New York USA 2022
Cud, Oko Nigdy Nie Śpi Festival, Ostromecko PL 2021
You’ll Never Walk Alone, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin PL 2021
Eksperyment Ekslibris, Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk PL 2020
Occupy Project #1, Consulate General of Greece, New York USA 2020
Sacrum Profanum Contemporary Music Festival, Cracow PL 2020
New Music Days Festival, Klub Żak, Gdańsk PL 2020
Bobsche Combo, Austrian Culture Forum, Warsaw PL 2019
Pułapki_Symulacje_Transmisje/ Traps_Simulations_Transmissions, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań PL 2019
<t<a<n>ge>n<t>>cy, Austrian Embassy, Beijing CN 2019
Dark Was the Night, CCA Andratx, SP 2018
100 FLAG, Biuro Wystaw, Warszawa, PL 2018
Sztuka z lasu koniom lżej, Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, Warszawa, PL 2018
FLOW, City Gallery, Gdańsk, PL 2018
Tehne kath’odon, art in public space festival, Heraklion, GR 2018
Miary uwagi/ Measurements of Attention, Institute of Cybernetics of Art, Gdańsk PL 2018
Białe Kłamstwo/ White Lie, CSW Kronika, Bytom PL 2017
Chania Film Festival, Municipal Film Theatre, Chania GR 2017
From dream to decay, Monitor Festival, Heraklion GR 2017
Island Hopping, Two Elephants, Heraklion GR 2017
Divided by Multiplied, City Gallery, Gdańsk PL 2016
Kumulacja, Artloop Festival 5, Sopot PL 2016
Wszystko, co ogladaly Twoje oczy, Pallace of Abbots, Gdańsk 2016
The Photobook Exhibition, Athens Photo Festival, Athens GR 2016
Conceived but not yet created, City Gallery, Gdańsk 2016
Rican/Struction – Abraham Cruzvillegas and friends, Gallery Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan PR 2016
We Rather Look Back To Futures Past, Lejervadi Collection, Teheran IR 2015
Cadavre Exquise of Polish Photography, BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw PL 2015
This is not my story, City Gallery, Gdańsk 2014
Back to the origins – 25 years of photography in Poznan, Arsenal Gallery, Poznan 2014
Narracje 6, City Institute of Culture, Gdańsk 2014
Notes from Underground, Baba Vasa, Shabla BG 2014
Picnic Invitational, Eagle Rock Center, Los Angeles USA 2014
Journal of (dis)satisfactions, Galerie Ferdinanda Baumanna, Prague CZ 2014
Pioneering Values, 15. WRO Biennale, Wroclaw PL 2013
Pomerania Art Triennale, State Gallery of Art, Sopot PL 2013
Parallel Vienna, Buero Weltausstellung, Vienna A 2013
Residences croisees, CEAAC / Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg F 2013
If sports is the brother of labor…, CAMP, Athens GR 2013
In passing, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna A 2012
Audio Art Festival, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow PL 2012
Inklusion, Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna A 2012
Women’s Bathhouse, CCA Laznia, Gdańsk PL 2012
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it…., Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna A 2011
Das werdende Wissen, Kunstverein, Salzburg A 2011
Love site specific, Koenigliche Gewehrfabrik, Gdańsk PL 2011
Open Culture Spa, State Gallery of Art, Sopot PL 2011
NeoSI : neue Situationistische Inter…nationale, Kunstraum Schattendorf A 2011
Crossing Limits. Art in Urban Transitions, Vienna Art Week, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna A 2010
Grass i czas, City Gallery, Gdańsk PL 2010
Dada Da Academy Archive, Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv BG 2010
WUFF, Coco & SpikeArt Quarterly, Vienna A / Vilnius LT 2010
Global Warming, Galery NT, Lodz PL 2010
Status Quo Vadis, installations in public space, Melk A 2010
xxxxx_temporarystructures, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin D 2009
Narracje 1, City Institute of Culture, Gdańsk PL 2009
Remotely, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag NL 2008
Licht Aus, Lichthaus, Bremen D 2008
Relational Spaces, Stara Drukarnia, Warsaw PL 2008
Living in a Box, Transmediale 07 / Gallery Zero, Berlin 2007
Test lab : Play, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam NL 2007
Moving Image, Mediamatic / ICA, London UK 2007
Tefaf 06, Wim Reiff Gallery, Maastricht NL 2006
Structet, Today’s Art Festival, The Hague NL 2006
Factory of Photography, Museum of the Artists, Lodz PL 2005
Odosobnienie/ Isolation, Okno Gallery, Slubice PL 2004
Crossing time, crossing spaces, Inner Spaces, Poznan PL 2004
/ Collective projects /
Flow (with <dienstag abend> collective, edition 93), Grudziadz/Toruń PL 2019
Kupale on the Danube (with <dienstag abend> collective, edition 91), Hoast, Vienna AT 2018
Kupale Art, Art Pragnoz (with <dienstag abend> collective, edition 89), Bobr BY 2017
Stage Diving, Galleri Syster (with FF collective), Lulea SE 2016
Kozanow – In search of the miraculous (with <dienstag abend> collective, edition 84), Wroclaw PL 2016
Triti Bradi, Lakkos Projects (with <dienstag abend> collective, edition 83), Heraklion GR 2016
Night Circle II, Haus am Lutzowplatz (with FF collective), Berlin D 2016
Wtornik wieczer, Baba Vasa (with <dienstag abend> collective, edition 82), Shabla BG 2015
Temporary Autonomous Zone III, Studio Theater / Studio Gallery (with FF collective), Warsaw PL 2014
Wtorkowy wieczor, City Gallery (with <dienstag abend> collective, edition 80), Gdansk PL 2013
/ Residencies /
2017 PACT Zollverein, Essen DE (with pisze/mowi/robi collective)
2016 Galleri Syster, Lulea SE (with FF collective)
2016 Residence SEA, Heraklion GR
2015 Skalar Studio, Seidisfjordur IS
2013 CCA Andrax, Mallorca S
2013 Galerie Stadtpark/ Kunsthalle Krems A
2012 Atelier Rondo, Graz A
2012 Apollonia European Art Exchanges, Strasbourg F
2010 Quartier21, MuseumsQartier Vienna A
/ Awards / Grants / Stipends /
2020, 2014, 2010 Scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage PL
2013 1st Award for Photography, Pomerania Art Triennale, State Art Gallery, Sopot PL
2019, 2011, 2008 Scholarship of the Voivodship Pomerania PL
2021, 2020, 2019, 2009, 2005 Culture Scholarship of the City of Gdansk PL
2008 Stroom Den Haag Onderzoek Scholarship NL
2007 City of Gdansk Award for Young Artists PL
2007 Niemeijer Fonds Stipendium, Dordrecht NL
2006 The HSP Huygens Scholarship of The Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science
/ Curatorial projects /
2018 Naklad wlasny : symposium on independent artists’ publications, Luks Sfera, Gdansk (co-curator)
2016 non-fiction : series of exhibitions, PF Photography Gallery, Poznan (curator)
2015 Techniques of Release : series of exhibitions, PF Photography Gallery, Poznan (co-curator)
2014 time-specific : series of exhibitions, PF Photography Gallery, Poznan (curator)
2013 Aussenseiters : excerpting the Artothek’s collection, Arthotek Niederosterreich, Krems A (co-curator)
2013 Wtorkowy wieczor: exhibition, City Gallery, Gdansk PL (co-curator)
2012 The Combed Thunderclap: series of exhibitions, Ve.Sch, Vienna, A (curator)
2004 On the other side of the screen: exhibition, Artists’ Colony in the Shipyard, Gdansk (curator)
2003 Zdarzenia/ Zderzenia : series of exhibitions, Zak, Gdansk PL (co-curator)
/ Lectures / Public talks / Conferences /
Kolektywy i hybrydy. Nowe wspólnoty między sztuką, nauką i innymi praktykami poznawania – konferencja, Katedra Performatyki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków 2023
Beyond the divisions. Women’s wrt-based collective actions – 25th Feminist Seminar, Gallery lokal_30, Warsaw 2022
Responsibility and Response-ability: On the Art of Sharing Research and Reshaping Futures in Central and Eastern Europe – symposium, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 2021
Rethinking Artistic Productivity with Water, POM conference Berlin 2021
Public Art as Commune – panel discussion, Occupy Art Project and Adelphi University, 2021
The Phantom Archive – debate (moderator), Chmura Foundation for Visual Culture, Gdańsk 2020
a debate devoted to documentation of the ephemeral art from the period of Poland’s systemic transformation
Yes, yes, yes – Insitutionalisations/ speculations (with pisze/mówi/robi collective)
a guest lecture at the conference What If Artistic Research, Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw PL 2020
Women’s Visual and Material Voice-Making in the Public Sphere – debate (participant)
a round table discussion organized by Occupy Art Project in cooperation with Institut Français in Athens 2020
The secret lives of cameras – artist talk, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Abteilung Digitale Kunst, Vienna A 2019 an artist talk on the topics of the blind spots and the optical unconscious in the photographic seeing
The archive and the performative turn – debate (moderator), Chmura Foundation for Visual Culture, Gdansk PL 2019 : a debate devoted to the issues of documentation, re-presentation and redistribution of performance art
From a collection to an archive – debate (moderator), Library of the University of Gdansk PL 2018 : a debate with the participation of researchers working with contemporary social archives and artists’ archives
Art in Our Age – debate (moderator) Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk PL 2017 : organized by ING Art Foundation
Object / Subject / Feminism – artist talk, DA Art Space, Heraklion GR 2016 :presented by Conqueer Heraklio
Between symbiosis and power games, Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznan PL 2012: a lecture delivered at the conference Artist-Curator-Instituition-Audience
Plato Machine, Art-Science Colloquium, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague NL 2009 : a presentation of the installation “Plato Machine” and the accompanying research.
Plato Machine, 10th International Flusser Symposium, Vilém Flusser Archive, Universität der Künste, Berlin DE 2009 : a presentation of the installation “Plato Machine” and the accompanying research.
/ Workshops / Teaching /
Photography 1 – semester course for Erasmus Students, Sculpture and Intermedia Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, 2021
Pracownia Otwarta – workshop for Master Students of Sculpture and Intermedia Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, 2021
Research Based Art/ Art Based Research, University of the Arts, Poznan PL 2020 – workshop (with pisze/mowi/robi collective) workshop for the students of the Faculty of Artistic Education and Curating
workshop for the students of the Hue College of Arts, Hue VIE 2017 (jointly conducted with Patrycja Rylko)
Image as affect / Image as effect, City Gallery Gdansk PL 2017 – workshop (with pisze/mowi/robi collective) workshop for students of the Department of Intermedia of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk
Methods of Knowing, City Gallery Gdansk PL 2016 – workshop (with pisze/mowi/robi collective)
a workshop for the students of the Department of Intermedia of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk
Contemporary Methods of Imagery and Intermedia Photography – full-year courses, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, PL 2009-10 Assistant to prof. K. Baranowski, Department of Photography
Photography and New Media – half-year course; teacher, Sowa-Edu School of Arts, Poznan PL 2010
Thought Processes in Art – 6 week course; assistant, Royal Conservatoire, The Hague NL 2008
Assistant to prof. Michael van Hooghenhuyze, Interfaculty Art Science
Synesthetics – 6 week course; assistant, Royal Conservatoire, The Hague NL 2007Assistant to prof. Frans Evers, Interfaculty Art Science
/ Selected catalogues and books /
Nakład Własny. Conversations. ed. A. Grzonkowska; publisher: Chmura Foundation for Visual Culture, Gdansk 2021
Experyment Exlibris. ed. M. Wroblewska; publisher : City Gallery, Gdansk 2021
Opake Fotografien – Das Sichtbarmachen fotografischer Materialität als künstlerische Strategie, ed. F.Kunze; publisher : Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2019
White Lie, exhibition catalogue, ed. S. Ruksza; publisher: Kronika, Bytom 2019
Prototyping Spaces and Relations, ed. E.Orzechowska; publisher : State Gallery of Art, Sopot 2017
On the path of knowledge / The phenomenon of Poznan school, ed.S.Sobczak, P. Bosacki, P.Kurka; publisher: University of the Arts in Poznan / UAP Foundation, Poznan 2017
Reciprocity, ed. D.Komary; publisher: Schlebrügge.editor, Vienna 2017
History of Various Collisions. Parkowanie 2007-2016, ed. A.Kochanowska; publisher : Akuku Sztuka Association, Gdansk 2016
Techniques of Release, ed. K. Majewska-Guede, D. Walentynowicz; publisher: Galeria PF / Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan 2015
Teatr zapisu / Recording Theatre, solo exhibition catalogue; publisher: State Gallery of Art, Sopot 2015
Back to the origins – 25 years of photography in Poznan, exhibition catalogue, ed. M.Michałowska, P.Wołyński; publisher: Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznan 2015
Algebra of Fiction, artist book; publisher: City Gallery, Gdansk 2014
if everything is repeating, exhibition catalogue; publisher: Galeria PF/ Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan 2014
Amplified. self-published art-zine (with Sonia Leimer), 2014
15. WRO Biennale Pioneering Values, biennale catalogue, ed. P. Krajewski, V. Kutlubasis-Krajewska; publisher: The WRO Art Center, Wroclaw 2013
Pomerania Art Triennale, exhibition catalogue; publisher: State Art Gallery, Sopot 2013
Artysta-Kurator-Intytucja-Odbiorca, ed. M. Kosinska, K.Sikorska; publisher: Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznan 2012
VeschHeft, Ve.Sch Verein Raum und Form in der bildenden Kunst, Vienna 2012
Global Warming, exhibition catalogue; publisher: galeria NT / Lodzki Dom Kultury, Lodz 2010
Zero Artists, ed. A.Krenz, J.Slaski; publisher: WIE Verein zur Foerderung der Deutch-Polnishen Literatur, Berlin 2009
KABK07, exhibition catalogue; publisher: KABK, The Hague 2007
Unfinished – transmediale 07, exhibition catalogue; publisher: transmediale, Berlin 2007