CHRISTIAN TOMASZEWSKI
*1971 in Gdansk, Poland
1995 M.F.A. Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland
International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York City
American Academy in Rome, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
2011 Michael Wiesehoefer Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2010 Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2009 Mother Earth Sister Moon, Performa’09 collaboration with Joanna Malinowska,
(commissioned project) New York City
2009 "Hunting for Pheasants", Tufts Univeristy Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusets
2008 "Hunting for Pheasants", Michael Wiesehoefer Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2007 "On Chapels, Caves and Erotic Misery", Sculpture Center, New York
2007 "On Chapels, Caves and Erotic Misery", Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie,
Regensburg, Germany
2006 "On Chapels, Caves and Erotic Misery", Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
2006 "O Kaplicach, Jaskiniach i Erotycznej Beznadziei", Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
2006 "Sacco and Vazettii" collaboration with Joanna Malinowska,
Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2006 "Light in Lynch", Luxe Gallery, New York City
2005 "Plague, Vol.1December", Luxe Gallery, New York City
2002 "Ausgestellt-Vorgestellt" Ilya Kabakov-Christian Tomaszewski
Sculpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany
2000 "My Own Reflection Does Not Deceive Me", ON Gallery, Poznan, Poland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Drawn from Photography, The DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago
2010 "Star City, The Future Under Communism", Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, U.K.
2009 Performa ’09 –the Third Biennial of Performance Art, New York City
2009 "2nd Athens Biennale 2009"
2009 "Of other Spaces", Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus/Ohio (group)
2009 Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
2009 Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2009 Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2009 Performa ’09 –the Third Biennial of Performance Art, New York City
2009 Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio
2008 "Fear Minus One", University Art Gallery, San Diego, California
2008 "Old News 4", Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
2008 "Kraj: the Work of Artists of Polish Origin", Contemporary Art Center, Opole, Poland
2007 "Manipulation: On Economies of Deceit", Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2006 "Manipulation: On Economies of Deceit", Center for Contemporary Art Laznia Gdansk, Poland
2006 "Consumption", Kino International, Berlin, Germany
2006 "POZA", Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
2006 "Spivaks Generation", Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2006 "Sublime", Luxe Gallery, New York City
2006 "Singular", Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway
2005 "Clouding Europe", Nadine Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2005 International Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
2004 "Simply Drawn", Luxe Gallery, New York City
2004 "The Palimpsest Museum", First Biennale of Polish Art, Lodz, Poland
2004 "LUMO 2004" 6th International Photograph Triennial, Jyvaskylan Art Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland
2004 "New New Yorkers", Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2003 "The Reconstruction Biennial", Exit Art, New York City
2003 Artist in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2001 "My Words Could Be Yours But They Are Not", International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York City
2001 "32m2 Out of My Mind", Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
2001 "Reconstructing a Crime-Writing a Crime", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1995 Kunst aus Polen, Young Gernation, Hannover, Germany
1995 "Omnium", Galeria u Jezuitow,Poznan, Poland
1995 Young Art in Poland, Sculpture Centre Oronsko, Poland
1994 "Untitled", ON Gallery, Poznan, Poland
1993 The Polish Young Painting, BWA Gallery, Poland
1992 "Tri-Angel", Scheersberg, Germany
1991 Academy of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain
AWARDS AND RESIDENCES
2009 International Artist-In-Residence, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
2008 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York City
2005 Gottlieb Foundation, New York City
2004 Grant awarded by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York City
2004 Leube Baustoffe Foundation, Salzburg, Austria /grant/
2002 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx,USA /AIM program/
2002 Kunstammlugen Chemnitz, Germany /studio program/
2001 Grant awarded by Polish Cultural Institute, New York City
2001 International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City
2001 American Academy in Rome, Italy /visiting artist/
2001 Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland /studio program/
1999 Grant awarded by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York City
1998 Annual Incentive Award, Polish and Slavic Foundation, Brooklyn
1993 Annual Scholarship given by the Mayor of the City of Gdynia, Poland
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007-09 Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst Salzburg, Austria
installation course: Reconstruction/Deconstruction/Appropriation
2007 "Cinema Effect" lecture from the series The Artist/self at the Kunstlerhaus
Salzburg, Austira
2008 Hunter College, guest artist
2008-09 Princeton University, lecturer-installation class
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
“Sound” Artpace, San Antonio, TX, 2009
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2009
“Cinema Effect” Kunstlerhaus Salzburg, Austria, 2007
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Thomas W. Kuhn "Christian Tomaszewski - Hunting for Pheasants at Galerie Michael Wiesehoefer Cologne",
Kunstforum International Bd. 195, Jan-March 2009
- David Coggins – "Christian Tomaszewski at the Sculpture Center",
Art in America, February 2008, page 146
- Murtaza Vali – "Christian Tomaszewski: On Chapels, Caves and Erotic Misery",
Artreview, December 2007, page 158
- Martha Schwendener – "Strolling Within the Strange World of 'Blue Velvet'",
The New York Times, June 8, 2007
- Robert Shuster – "Ears to David Lynch!", Village Voice, June 13-19, 2007
- Mazur, Adam; Moessinger, Ingrid; Zaluski, Tomasz; Michalak, Jacek - Arteon
November/December 2005, pages 2-20
- Ludwisiak, Malgorzata – "O podgladaniu i wielkiej reprodukcji"
Gazeta Wyborcza, December 1, 2005
- Malkowska, Malgorzata – "Swiatlo na lampy" Rzeczpospolita, November 26, 2005
- Modern Painters, summer edition 2005
- Lyon, Christopher; Wei Lilly – "Reports from Poland" Art in America, April 2005, page 65
- Gorczyca, Lukasz – "Sen o biennale" Raster, October 23, 2004
- Adamczewska, Izabella – "Bazant i feng-shui w salonach" Gazeta Wyborcza, October 3, 2004
- Lumo 2004-6th International Photography Triennial – catalog, text by Hanu
Castren and Kimmo Lehtonen, Jyvaskyla Taidemuseo Art Museum, Finland, 2004
- Johnson, Ken – Weekend Fine Arts & Leisure, The New York Times, June 18, 2004
- "Strefa kultury" Plus Swiata, Warsaw, Poland June18 2004
- Kultura.pl, June10, 2004
- Malkowska, Malgorzata – "Wybieg na ekran" Rzeczpospolita, May 31, 2004
- New New Yorkers – catalog, text by Milada Slezinska, CSW Warsaw, May 2004
- "Poland Invades New York City" The Warsaw Voice, May 2, 2004
- Powhil, William – "Art Seen Exit Biennial: The Reconstruction" The Brooklyn Rail, June 2003
- "The Reconstruction Biennial" The New Yorker, March 31, 2003
- "Exit Biennial", Nowy Dzennik - Przeglad Polski, March 21, 2003
- Smith, Roberta – "A Space Reborn, With A Show That’s Never Finished"
The New York Times, March 8, 2003
- Levin, Kim – "The Reconstruction Biennial" The Village Voice, March 5, 2003
- Blick, July 2002, Chemnitz, Germany, page 29
- "Marx und ein Raum ganz weiβ und leerChemnitzer Zeitung, July 10, 2002
- "Zur Horizonterweiterung" Chemnitzer Morgenpost, June 13, 2002
- Amtsbglatt, July 2002, Chemnitz, Germany, page 5
- Ilya Kabakov-Christian Tomaszewski – catalog, Ausgestellt-Vorgestellt IV-
des Skulpturenmuseum Glasken Marl, Germany, March 2002
- Westdeutsche Allgemeine, March 2002
- Frankfurter Allgemeine, March 2002
- Pasini, Francesca –" Molto di nuovo sul fronte orientale" Linus , Milan, Italy,
February 2002
- Flash Art- December 2001, page 50
- EST /Maya Bajevic, Iliya Chichkan, ChristianTomaszewski – catalog, text by
Chiara Bertola, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy, 2001
- Art in America, October 2000, page 57
- My Own Reflection Does Not Deceive Me – catalog, text by Mary Ceruti,
ON Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2000
- Pasquini, Stefano, NY Arts, November 2000
- Balewska, Aga – Format, Poznan, Poland, November 2000
- Gazeta Wyborcza - Poznan edition, October 2000