Grzegorz Rogala
Poland
Author of films and interactive installations awarded and recognized at international festivals. He has participated in dozens of solo and group exhibitions.
About the artist
Grzegorz Rogala
Between 1976 and 1981, he studied at the Cinematography Department of the PWSFTViT in Łódź. He was a member of the S.F.P. and ZPAP. Since 1988, he has run "Studio Rogala," focusing on film production and post-production. He has produced or participated in the production of approximately 800 film and advertising projects. In 1996, he was honored with an award for the computer animation "Crackfilm," Krakow. He has been active in film, photography, and interactive art for 23 years. His works are in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Gdańsk, as well as in private collections in France, New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland. Since 2007, together with Józek Piwkowski, he has run the 2b+r gallery in Warsaw. He is the author of award-winning and honored films and interactive installations at international festivals: 1st prize at the Munich Film Festival for the film "Linia" (The Line), honorable mention at the Mumbai Film Festival, India, for the film "Podniesienie" (The Elevation), and 1st prize at the "Cho-Ping" media festival at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw for the interactive installation "Chopin". He also won an award at the festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, for the installation "Traces". He has created several virtual set designs for the Warsaw Chamber Opera. He has participated in several dozen solo and group exhibitions. Since 2010, he has been teaching multimedia techniques at WIT based on his own curriculum. He received his PhD in intermedia from the UAP in Poznań in 2014.
AWARDS AND HONORS
1981 Award for best experimental film "Linia" in Munich
1983 Honorable mention at the Art Film Festival in Zakopane for the film "Kostia Malarz" (along with M. Szczepański)
1996 "Golden Mouse" award for computer animations for commercials, Crack-film Advertising Film Festival, Krakow
2009 Honorable mention at the "Videomedia" festival, Serbia, for the film "Schody"
2010 Grand Prix at the WEF "Cho-ping" interactive art festival for the installation "Przechodnie" (Passers-by), Zachęta, Warsaw
2011 Honorable mention at the "Videomedia" festival, Serbia, for the installation "Vertical trace".
FILMS DIRECTING / CINEMATOGRAPHY
1981 "LINIA" (The Line)
1983 "Kostia Malarz" (Kostia the Painter)
1983 "Kinolino"
1985 "Labirynt" (Labyrinth)
2006-2009 "Ruchome obrazki" (Moving Pictures), series started in 2006
By 2009, 11 parts completed
2009-2010 "Kino Marjan"
EXHIBITIONS
1987 Ars Electronica, group exhibition, Linz, Austria
2005 "Podwórkowe Madonny" (Backyard Madonnas), along with Joanna Krzysztoń, Warsaw
2006 "Czas-Przestrzeń" (Time-Space), along with Joanna Krzysztoń, Warsaw
2006 "Wielkanocne Chorągwie" (Easter Banners), group exhibition, Podziemie Kamedulskie, Warsaw
2006 "Ikony wolności" (Icons of Freedom), group exhibition, Warsaw, Łódź, Radom
2007 "Czas" (Time), solo exhibition at the Słowacki Theatre, Krakow
2007 "Czas 2" (Time 2), solo exhibition at Gallery Test, Warsaw
2007 "Najlepsze grafiki 2006" (Best Graphics of 2006), Gallery Lufcik, Warsaw
2007 Group exhibition "Chusta Weroniki" (Veronica's Veil), Podziemie Kamedulskie, Warsaw
2007 Group exhibition Piotrków Trybunalski 59 Joanna Krzysztoń & Grzegorz Rogala
2007 "Gwizdanie światła" (Whistling of Light), performance, Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw
2007 "REWIZJE" (REVISIONS), Independent Art Festival, Warsaw
2008 "Czas 3" (Time 3), solo exhibition, Kalisz
2008 "Ruchome Obrazki" (Moving Pictures), presentation, Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw
2008 "Ruchome obrazki" (Moving Pictures), films presented at the Athens Video Art Festival
2008 "Ruchome obrazki" (Moving Pictures), films presented at the IFF, Mumbai, India
2008 21st International Poster Biennale, Warsaw
2008 "Powstanie sztuki" (The Rise of Art), group exhibition, Radom
2008 "Mothers, sisters, fathers", Gallery WM, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008 "Czas 4" (Time 4), Gallery Pokusa, Wiesbaden, Germany
2009 "D’Arthouse", group exhibition, Kalisz
2009 "Teraz!" (Now!), Gallery XX1, Warsaw
2009 "Minuty, godziny, teraz" (Minutes, Hours, Now), Gdańsk National Museum photography gallery
2009 "Przechodnie" (Passers-by), Transform! Festival, Warsaw
2009 "We!", WM Gallery, Amsterdam
2009 "Schody-stairs", honorable mention at the Videomedja festival, Serbia
2009 "Kino Marjan", film presented at the Split Film Festival, Croatia
2010 "Żołnierze czarni" (Black Soldiers), photography exhibition at "Śmietnik Sztuki", Warsaw
2010 "Know Thyself", group exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010 "Piano", "Moving Pictures", interactive installations at the Athens Film Festival, Greece
2010 "Zasłony" (Curtains), Apteka Sztuki, Warsaw
2010 "Gwizdanie światła I jego fotomorgany" (Whistling of Light and its Photomorgans), Galeria Działań, Warsaw
2010 "Grunwald", touring group exhibition organized by Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw
2010 "Anioł Wolności" (Angel of Freedom), spectacle, collaboration with Robert Wilson
2010 "Ścieżka Chopina" (Chopin's Path), interactive installations, CSW Elektrownia, Radom
2010 "Lodówka" (Refrigerator), interactive installation, Transform, Warsaw
2010 "Portraying the surreal", group exhibition, WM Gallery, Amsterdam
2010 "GRID", group exhibition, Amsterdam
2010 "My" (Us), Pauza Gallery, Krakow
2011 "5 x razem" (5 x Together), Gallery XX1, Warsaw
2011 "ARCO", group exhibition, France
2011 "Koncert na ryby" (Concert for Fish), group exhibition, Gallery XX1, Warsaw
2011 "Przechodnie" (Passers-by), group exhibition, CSW, Warsaw
2011 "RAZEM" (TOGETHER), Szyperska Gallery, Poznań
2012 "Sztuka Niezależna" (Independent Art), ZPAP Gallery, Warsaw
2012 Rudolf gallery, group exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 "Półtora miasta" (One and a Half Cities), interactive installations, Drohobych, Ukraine
2012 "Woda" (Water), group exhibition, Warsaw, Ostrołęka, Ciechanów
2012 "Ruchome Obrazki" (Moving Pictures), solo film screening, CSW Toruń
2012 "La Route Jura Paris", interactive installation, France
2013 "Ich Dwoje" (The Two of Them), along with Joanna Krzysztoń, Municipal Gallery, Ostrołęka
2013 "Piękne kłamstwa" (Beautiful Lies), installation "Noc Kairu" (Cairo Night), BUW gardens, Warsaw
2014 "Suma po historiach" (Sum after Histories), along with Joanna Krzysztoń, Gallery XXI, Warsaw
2014 "Piękne kłamstwa" (Beautiful Lies), installation "Antypody" (Antipodes), BUW gardens, Warsaw
2014 "La route Jura-Paris", solo exhibition, Theatre of the Eighth Day, Poznań
2014 "Me Singing", audiovisual installation, Sokołowsko 60
2014 "Regiment 1914", installation, Podziemie Kamedulskie, Warsaw
2014 "Inspiracje-extreme" (Inspirations-extreme), installations, 13 Muz, Szczecin
2014 "Prysznic" (Shower), group exhibition, Galeria Działań, Warsaw
2014 "Fabryka Światła" (Light Factory), collective actions, Przasnysz
2014 "Warszawa w budowie" (Warsaw in Construction), performance, MSW, Warsaw
2014 "Droga do wolności" (Road to Freedom), Płock Art Gallery, SW Gallery, Włocławek
2014 "Instrument", audiovisual performance, Gallery XXI, Warsaw
2015 "Piękne kłamstwa" (Beautiful Lies), installation "Pranie jesiennego słońca" (Washing of the Autumn Sun) along with Joanna Krzysztoń, BUW, Warsaw
2015 "Instrument", installations along with Joanna Krzysztoń, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław
2015 "Wirtualny Brandt" (Virtual Brandt), AR installations, Brandt Museum, C.R.P, Orońsko
2015 "Anioł i syn – Witkiewiczowie" (Angel and Son – The Witkiewiczs), installations, Tatra Museum, Zakopane
2015 Audiovisual concert with K. Knittel, K. Zarębski, ADA, Warsaw
2015 "Instrument", installations along with Joanna Krzysztoń, Contexts, Sokołowsko
2016 "Przegląd instalacji" (Review of Installations), along with Joanna Krzysztoń, MCSW "Elektrownia", Radom
2016 "Archipelag" (Archipelago), along with Joanna Krzysztoń, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko
2016 "Moja pamięć analogowa" (My Analog Memory), Rotunda Gallery, UAP Poznań
2016 "Dotyk" (Touch), BWA Bydgoszcz, group exhibition
2016 "Ich dwoje" (The Two of Them), MIK Warsaw
2017 "Archipelago", along with Joanna Krzysztoń, Level Centre, United Kingdom
2017 "Altamira", BWA Kielce (with Joanna Krzysztoń)
2017 "Muzyka dla parku" (Music for the Park), musical installation at CRP in Orońsko (with Joanna Krzysztoń)
2018 "Scattered drops of time", The Level Centre, England, installations + residency (with Joanna Krzysztoń)
2019 "Nie ma człowieka – nie ma lasu" (No Man – No Forest), Walka Młodych Gallery, Warsaw, together with Joanna Krzysztoń
2019 "Sztuczna inteligencja w Korekcie" (Artificial Intelligence in Correction), graphics, Korekta Gallery, Warsaw, together with Joanna Krzysztoń
2019 "Palimpsest", Gallery XXI, Warsaw, together with Joanna Krzysztoń
2019 "Obraz ukryty" (Hidden Image), AT Gallery, Poznań, together with Joanna Krzysztoń
2019 "Władca mgieł" (Ruler of the Mists), Stara Prochownia, Warsaw, together with Joanna Krzysztoń
2019 "Pasaż Sztuki" (Art Passage), installations in urban space, group exhibition, Sopot
2019 "Antypody" (Antipodes), spatial object, together with J. Krzysztoń, CRP in Orońsko
2020 "Zapisy przestrzeni" (Records of Space), group exhibition, Gallery of the University of Life Sciences in Poznań
2021 "Galeria Themersonów" (The Themerson Gallery), two installations, Masovian Museum in Płock
2022 "Pejzaże owady wędrowcy" (Landscapes Insects Wanderers), together with J. Krzysztoń, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2022 "Polska Cyfrowa Sztuka Ludowa" (Polish Digital Folk Art), Exhibition halls "Rafael Mihaylov", Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
2022 "Matki, siostry, ojcowie" (Mothers, Sisters, Fathers), Liepāja University, Liepāja, Latvia
2021- 2023 "Walka Młodych", group exhibitions, Warsaw
2023 "Raz, dwa, trzy" (One, Two, Three) - Ostrołęka Gallery, together with J. Krzysztoń