Antoni Karwowski (Poland)

Bio

Born in 1948 in Grajewo.

Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun.

Artistically active in the fields: performance, intermedia.

Acts in performance since 1979.

Currently associated with the environment of Szczecin.

 

1978 established group "A" in Torun under which organizes a lot of events and exhibitions.

1979 - 1981 cooperates with the Center of Open Theater "Kalambur" in Wroclaw.

1980 - The National Symposium of Open Art - parateatr fulfills Parateatr monument and spectacle Corporal and Heater Concerto

1981 - 1986 organizes and leads the „Center of artistic activities? in Swinoujscie.

1992 - 1994 Co-organizer of the international project "Gaja - Four Elements"

1995 - 1999 Initiator and curator of the international festival of performance "LAWN"

in Szczecin and Cologne.

2000 - 2003 Organizer of the international project "Art migration"

2003 - 2005 Co-founder of international projesct? Art impact?

2005 - 2011 Curator of International Performance & Intermedia Festival

(Szczecin - Berlin) http://www.officyna.art.pl/PIFEST.htm

2005 -2011 Curator of the international festival of video art "PI five" in Szczecin.

 

Participant of several editions of the international forum OST - West Germany and

numerous international projects, inter alia:

 

LP 11? CCCB, Barcelona

Performer Stammtisch, Berlin

Blauverschiebung, (Leipzig - Germany)

Performance Art Platform, (Tel-aviv, Israel)

LAWN, Molkerei Werkstatt? Cologne (Germany)

Distance 777, Gallery 68elf (Cologne - Germany)

Selfportrait, (Rosario, Santa Fe? Argentina, Naples? Italy)

Bridge Ost-West, (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany)

Salz arm, Berlin

Galerie automatique, Szczecin-Berlin-Strasbourg

Gaia Four Elements, Gerlesborg (Sweden)

Graspiloten, (Broellin? Germany)

Hybrid project, (Münster - Germany)

Kophar surreal, Berlin

Coincidence, (Cologne-Germany)

Ultramarine, Museum in Greifswald (Germany).

Waiting, (Ärhus - Denmark)

Performance S-pur, (Siegburg - Germany)

Raumtrieb 2001, Berlin

International Art Biennale? NEWS? ? (Szczecin)

4th International Baltic Art Biennale (Szczecin)

5th International Baltic Art Biennale - Private Impact project (Szczecin)

 

Statement

Identity- I see a threat, that through the? decay of memory ?, it may be blurred in reality, that surrounds me.

Body is a physical and mental reality, that copes, during action, with previous experiences

Performance, enables me to play with a time. Gives me a feeling of ability to affect the course of past actions,

modify them, disconnect them from? the source ?, build new configurations and transfer them to the space of reality.