Performance Art in Poland

Artur Tajber

live art in Poland.

Polish Performance Archive

“The goal is to create a fairly complete archive of the most important performances, artists and events from the genesis of this form of art in the 1960s down to the present day. The point of departure for the project is the documentation of performances already collected at the museum, included in the museum’s Filmoteka and Artist Archive, supplemented by dozens of new films and over  one thousand of photos.

The archive is based mainly on the works of the classics of this genre, created from the 1960s to 1980s, such as Zbigniew Warpechowski, Włodzimierz Borowski, KwieKulik, Krzysztof Zarębski, Wojciech Bruszewski, Janusz Bałdyga, Józef Robakowski, Akademia Ruchu, Ewa Partum, Teresa Murak, Natalia LL, Zygmunt Piotrowski, Jerzy Bereś, Tadeusz Kantor, Tomasz Sikorski, Jerzy Truszkowski, Zbigniew Libera, Luxus, Zbyszko Trzeciakowski, Anna Płotnicka, Ewa Zarzycka, Artur Tajber, Wiktor Gutt, Grzegorz Kowalski, Jolanta Marcolla, Teresa Tyszkiewicz, and Adam Rzepecki….”

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More Information:

  • The Procedures of 1970s Art – an exhibition presenting early performative practices in Polish art in the 1970s and late 1960s featuring work by Włodzimierz Borowski, Wojciech Bruszewski, Andrzej Dłużniewski, Jarosław Kozłowski, KwieKulik, Natalia LL, Andrzej Matuszewski, Andrzej Partum, Ewa Partum, Józef Robakowski, Jerzy Rosołowicz, Jan Świdziński, Warsztat Formy Filmowej, Krzysztof Wodiczko.
  • Amy Bryzgel, “The Bronze Man and the Homeless Man: Performing Appearance in Latvia”, in Bryzgel, Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland since 1980, London and New York: IB Tauris, 2013, pp 100-156. (English)
  • Castle of Imagination – International Performance Art Festival – The International Performance Art Festival “Castle of Imagination” is organized by: Society of the Friends of Contemporary Art in Slupsk & Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk / Poland since 1993. The festival is curated by Wladyslaw Kazmierczak. “Castle of Imagination” is the only, cyclical, international festival of performance art in Pomerania and in Poland. It is one of a few festivals of art in Europe and in the world. During 13 years, in the Festival there participated 352 artists from 33 countries: Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Japan, Holland, Slovakia, Estonia, Poland, France, Ukraine, South Korea, Lithuania, Portugal, Hungary, Honk Kong, Finland, Spain, Singapore, Czech Republic, Belgium, Northern Ireland, Byelorussia, Mexico, Israel, Yugoslavia, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, Egypt and USA.
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  • Polish Performance Archive
  • Warsaw I AM – International Artists Meeting, de facto being the first festival of performance in the Eastern Europe. (1978)