Cezary Bodzianowski
b. in 1966 in Szczecin, Poland
lives and works in Łódź, Poland
EDUCATION
1990-1994
Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts Antwerp, Antwerp, BE
1988-1990
Fine Arts Academy Warsaw, Warsaw, PL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Allora Vero Cezary Bodzianowski”, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT
2023
“Herbalife”, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
2022
“Keep On Movin’ Storie dalla Fondazione Morra Greco”, Naples, IT
2021
“Arcimboldo Face to Face”, curated by Chiara Parisi, Centre Pompidou Metz, Paris, FR
“Sculpture in Search of a Place”, Zachęta National Gallery of Art,Warsaw, PL
2020
“ONLINE: A Bear’s Dream”, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL
2019
“Everything Is Art to Me”, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, PL
“Action Lublin! Chapter 3.” Operations on Places, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL
2018
“Operations on Places”, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tiqva, IL
2016
“BUGS”, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
“GRANPALAZZO”, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome, IT
2015
“Art Has No Alternative”, tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK
2014
Moderna Museet Malmö, Stockholm, SE
“Manifesta 10”, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RU
“Burning down the House”, 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, KR
“All my life I was standing in the shadow of cinema”, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL
10th Gwangju Biennale, SK
2013
“Chance’s Robbery”, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
“This place is called the Hole”, Museum Sztuki, Łódź, PL
“When Attitudes Became Form Becomes Attitudes”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA
2012
“This place is called the Hole”, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE
“When Attitudes Became Form Becomes Attitudes”, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
2011
“Tea Back”, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
“Let it Be”, abc art berlin contemporary, Berlin, DE
2010
“Spike Island”, Bristol, UK
“Honeymoon”, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
“Bodzianowski, Konieczny, Uklański, Warpechowski”, Muzeum Of Modern Art Łódź, PL
“The Other “Tradition””, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Bruxelles, BE
“Palace Party”, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
“UNO e più”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
“Casio Pay”, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT
“Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession)”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH
“Les Promesses du Passé”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2009
“Birthday”, abc art berlin contemporary, Berlin, DE
“Playing the City”, Sehim Kunsthalle Frankfurt, DE
“Conscious Consents”, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL
“Oxy-Man”, Museum of Art in Łódź, Łódź, PL
“Sababa”, Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, IL
2008
“Cezary Bodzianowski. Maybe”, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Bremen, DE
“Balagan”, Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, IL
“Licentia Enigmatica”, Polish Institute in Rome, Rome, IT
“Partoftheprocess3″, ZERO…, Milan, IT
“Why here is always somewhere else”, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
“When things cast no shadow” 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2007
“Delusive orders (So ist es und anders)”, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, Łódź, PL
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE
“Ten years”, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
“Flying Helmet The World as a Stage”, Tate Modern, London, UK
ICA, Boston, USA
“Nuit Blanche”, Paris, FR
“Storyboard”, mirko mayer galerie / m-projects, Cologne, DE
“Numbers and Dates, white lights”, Polish Institute in Düsseldorf, DE
“Art Premiere”, ZERO…, Art 38 Basel, Basel, CH
“Le città / L’Europa. Fotografia europea – Reggio Emilia 2007”, Comune di Reggio Emilia, IT
“Giulietta Project”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
“Altituele de Croisiere”, VF Gallerie, Marseille, FR
“Latem będzie zielono”, Museum of Art, Łódź, PL
2006
“Polish Painting of the 21st Century Zachęta”, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
“Il teatro della vita”, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT
“Artissima (with BROADWAY 1602)”, Turin, IT
“Transparent in a frame of group exhibition Miasto Binarne Łódź – Warszawa. Utopia i rzeczywistość / projekt artystyczno – integracyjny”, Manhattan Gallery, Łódź; XXI Gallery, Warsaw, PL
“Solo Sorcha”, Dallas, Glasgow, GB-SCT
Serenate in frame of group exhibition “The Exotic Journey Ends”, Foksal Gallery Foundation in collaboration with Kurimanzutto, Warsaw, PL
“The Planned Landing Performance” at Frieze Art Fair London, London, UK
“Mai Amor”, Blu Center, Bolzano, IT (catalogue)
Cezary Bodzianowski, Boar Kaizma. Neue Videoarbeiten / Recent Videoworks
Mirko mayer galerie, m-projects, Cologne, DE
Maco Mexico City (with BROADWAY 1602), Mexico City, Mexico
Best Before Galerie Giti Nourbakhch, Berlin, DE
Charleston BROADWAY 1602, New York, USA
2005
“NADA Miami (with BROADWAY 1602)”, Miami, USA
“Sfery de la Lux”, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
Bluszcz / Ivy in frame of group exhibition “Wsamym centrum uwagi” / At the Very Centre of Attention Center for Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, PL
“Zum Wieder Gedächtnis”, Neue Kunsthalle, St. Gallen, CH
“Ein und Aus / On and Off”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
“Szarp in a frame of B Sharp” exhibition, Haubrokshows, Berlin, DE
“Drugie śniadanie / Branch”, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw-Mokotów, PL
2004
Spojrzenia National Gallery Zachęta, Warsaw, PL
4x Paris Film of perofrmances screened in a frame of Soirees Prospectif Cinema, Centre Goerges Pompidou, Paris, FR (artist book)
Zielonooka Centum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku, Orońsko, PL
Romance Ethnographic Museum, Łódź, PL
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
“Mój pierwszy raz / My First Time”, GCK, Ruda Śląska, PL
“Mikrozmiany w gestości atmosfery / Micro-changes in the density”, the Atmosphere Museum of Art, Łódź, PL
2003
Zawsze stałem w cieniu kina / I have always stood in the shadow of the movies Ukryte w słońcu / Hidden in a Daylight Foksal Gallery Foundation, Cieszyn, PL
Latający Holender / The Flying Dutchman Górnośląskie Centrum Kultury (Upper-Silesia Culture Center), Katowice, PL
“Urbi et Orbi”, Zakręt Gallery, Warsaw University, Warsaw, PL
Odeon Centrum Sztuki Performances (Center of Performances Art), Lublin, PL
O obrotach ON Gallery, Poznań, PL
Sztuka współczesna dla wszystkich dzieci / Contemporary Art for All Children Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Der Blaue Reiter Macht die Brücke, “on behalf of art we have to turn to you this very day and appeal to the power of your “Imagination to boldly and recklessly assert the space, into which you or we have pushed us by what right, you will surely ask now”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
2002
“Lotos”, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
“Fishing Project”, Kunstlerhausbetanien, Berlin, DE
“Esy floresy”, Museum of Art, Łódź, PL
“Rewolwer i melonik”, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, PL
“Bal dla samotnych”, Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, PL
“Histories without end”, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT
“Polacos – Nowa sztuka z Polski / Polacos – New Art from Poland”, Poland La Capella, Barcelona, E
“Partnership of cities”, brotherhood of blood Manhattan Gallery, Łódź, Poland Hobby Natural History Museum, Łódź, PL
2001
“Spacer na koniec świata z Robertem Walserem / Walk Till the End of Wolrd with Walser”, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
“Atrament sympatyczny”, Museum of Art, Łódź, PL
“A portrait of the artist as a young man in a frame of group show”, Zawody Malarskie / Painters’ Competition with Pawel Althamer, Cezary Bodzianowski, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Piotr Janas, Goshka Maguga, Wilhelm Sasnal, Jadwiga Sawicka, Maciej Sawicki, Monika Sosnowska, Piotr Uklanski, curated by Adam Szymczyk, Galeria Bielska, Bielsko-Biala, PL
“Disillusion in a frame of Ausgeträumt… Secession”, Vienna, AT
Politi 1st Tirana Biennale, Tirana, AL
2000
“Biurokracja / Bureaucracy”, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland “Danaida po ojcu Argusie”, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL
1999
“Nigromontana”, Grodzka Gallery, Lublin, PL
International Artistic Meetings Borne Sulinowo, Sulinowo, PL
1998
Marc Chagall’s house, St. Petersburg, Russian Boriey Gallery, Moscow, RU
Galeria Działań, Ursynów, Warsaw, PL
1997
International Artistic Meetings, Borne Sulinowo, Sulinowo, PL
1996
Manus nigra Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, PL
Nattahnam Manhattan Gallery, Łódź, PL
Transgressions 4 artistic festival, Nove Zamky, SK
1994
“Ja upiększam ją, one upiększają mnie, in a frame of Spirala / Spiral symposium”, Lublin, PL