Marcin Maciejowski

Biography

Born 1974 in Babice near Cracow, Poland
Lives and works in Cracow, Poland

1994⁠—1996  Studies of Architecture at the Polytechnic high school in Cracow
1996⁠—2001  Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow

1996  Foundation of “Grupa Ładnie” with Rafał Bujnowski, Marek Firek, Wilhelm Sasnal, and Jósef Tomczyk Kurosawa
1998⁠—2000  Editor of the magazine “We wtorek” (“On Tuesday”) in Cracow
2000⁠—2002  Drawings for “Machina”, Warsaw
2000⁠—2011  Drawings and illustrations for the weekly magazine “Przekroj”, Warsaw

 

Solo Exhibitions

 2021
Polish Environs, Raster Gallery, Warsaw

2020
We are Awesome, MEYER*KAINER, Vienna

2019
Marcin Maciejowski: Private View, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London

2018
Rephrase it positively, Gallery Baton, Seoul

2016
Dimmed Colours, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Villa Kast, Salzburg

2014
Composition for a Small Space, Raster, Warsaw

2013
Marcin Maciejowski, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Marcin Maciejowski, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

2012
Wilkinson Gallery, London
Fantom (with Siggi Hofer), Museum Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala

2010
Are you really from the art world?, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
Are you really from the art world?, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris
That’s How It Is, National Museum, Cracow

2009
Marcin Maciejowski, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna.

2008
Not obvious, Gallery Wilkinson, London

2007
Bedzie wielka burza (A great storm is coming), Art–pol, Cracow; Pies Gallery, Poznan
Uszynka Showcase, Vienna
I wanna talk to you, Galerie Meyer Kainer at Art Cologne, Cologne

2006
I used to live in Vienna, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Struktury Dobra (Structures of the Good), Gallery Raster, Warsaw

2005
Bilder einer Ausstellung, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Discovery, Gallery Leo König, New York

2004
Statement, Art Basel, Basel
Dziupla (Stash), Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok
Painting, Gallery Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

2003
Let’s behave Normally, Gallery PGS, Sopot
Rysunki (Drawings), Polityka, Warsaw

2002
Sad, beautiful, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
They live here and they are doing good here, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
New Jobs, Galeria Manhattan, Lódz
Hier leben sie und hier geht es ihnen gut, Polish Institute, Berlin
Why did so many Poles went abroad, Company Bayer, Warsaw

2001
The children should not see such scenes, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
Polska (Poland), Galeria Zderzak, Cracow

2000
Sport i pielegnacja (Sports and Bodystyling), Galeria Zderzak, Cracow

1999
Wembley szaleje, Wembley faluje, Galeria Kolo, Instytut Historii Sztuki UJ, Cracow

1998
Pictures about the good, love and culture, Culture–Club, Cracow

 

Group Exhibitions

2023
Warsaw Spring Art Fair, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
The boundaries of art. 30 years of Polityka Passports, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot, Poland
Wonderful Line. A sentimental Flight, Ufo Art Gallery, Cracow

2022
Je Veux: Vienna 1975–2022, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Tectonic Movements. On the artistic symptoms of the Transition, Museum Sztuki (MS1), Lodz
200 Revelations, Raster Gallery, Warsaw

2021
Zimni Ogrodnicy, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
The Artist Is Present, MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow
Art Feeds on Art, MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow
Ice Saints, Raster Gallery, Warsaw

2020
Contemporary models of realism (MOCAK Collection), Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Cracow
The Pope, MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Cracow

2019
Charity, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Free time, time stopped, BWA Tarnów Contemporary Art Gallery, Tarnów, Poland
My name is red, PGS – Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot

2018
Pluses and Minuses. On Bialystok Power Station, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok
If I were the moon, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
Motherland in Art, MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Kracow

2017
From Artificial Reality to Selfie. Autoportrait in Polish Contemporary Art, BWA, Wroclaw
Artists from Cracow. Generation 1970-1979, MOCAK, Cracow
Art in Art, MOCAK, Cracow
# heritage, National Museum, Cracow

2016
My Abstract World, me Collectors Room, Berlin

2014
Eurasia: A view on painting, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin
An Inner Dialogue: The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Villa Kast, Salzburg
The Side of Paradise, SI2 London, London
For Each Gesture Another Character, Art Sattions gallery, Poznań

2013
Way Back Home, Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych, Cracow

2012
Phantom, BWA, Bielsko Biala

2011
History in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Cracow
The Power of Fantasy: Modern and Contemporary Polish Art, Brussels

2010
Schism, Polish Art of the 1990s, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
The Book in Polish Art and Literature, Delikatesy, Cracow
Das Porträt im Wandel der Zeit, Sehnsucht nach dem Abbild, Kunsthalle, Krems
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
Over and Over Again, Wyspa Institute of Art, Danzig
The Last Movie, Galerie Raster, Warschau

2009
Sehnsucht nach dem Abbild, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Last day of Summer, Galeria Pies, Poznan

2008
Bildpolitiken, Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg

2007
Exitus, Tod alltäglich, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Franz West: Souffle, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
Polish Painting of the 21st Century, National Galerie Zacheta, Warsaw
Andrzej finansowo stoi bardzo dobrze, Galeria Zderzak, Cracow

2006
Stan Zewnetrzny (The Inner State), Centrum Kultury “Zamek”, Poznan
Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf (cat.)
Kolekcja Bunkra Sztuki, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
In Polen, czyli gdzie? In Poland, that is where?, CSW–Zamek Zjazdowski, Warsaw (cat.)
Is it Better to Be a Bood Artist or a Good Person?, Gallery Rental, Los Angeles
Nach Schiele, Atelier Augarten, Vienna (cat.)

2005
Wystawa o niczym, BWA, Zielona Gora
Prague Biennale2, Overview Poland, Kerlin Hall, Prague
Clouding Europe, Gallery Gandy, Bratislava
Stadtmaler–Artists in residence 1988–2001, Bayer AG, Leverkusen
Nach Rykotnik, Die Sammlung der EVN, Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna
Superstars, Von Warhol bis Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien, Kunstforum BA–CA, Vienna
Falsche Erwartung, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
Podroze “Made in Poland”, Gallery Zderzak, Cracow
Vom Bild zum Bild. Metamorphose, Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg
Polish Aer of the 20th Century, Nationalmuseum, Cracow
In this (our) country, Vienna International Apartment, Turku

2004
The Yugoslaw Biennal of Young Artists, Vrsav/Beograd
Habitat, Arndt&Partner, Berlin
Gelegenheit und Reue, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Under the Red and White flag. New Art from Poland, Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
Walk me, Center of Architecture, Vienna
Monde parallele, La Maison Folie de Wazemmes, Lille; Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
Distances?, Le Plateau, Paris
Far West Near East, Forum für Kunst und Architektur, Essen

2003
1. Frieze Art Fair 2003, London
Dessinez avec Desirée, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Dekada, 10 Years Art–Competition “Paszport Polityki”, CSW–Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
Nation, Kunstverein Frankfurt

2002
Supermarket of Art III – People and Objects, Galeria DAP, Warsaw
Really, the youngsters are realists, Center for Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
Dobrze, in Ordnung, Minoritenzentrum, Graz; Kunstbuero, Graz

2001
Relax, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok
Rybie oko (Fisheye), BWA, Slupsk
The first friday in a month, Galeria Manhattan, Lódz (with Grupa Ladnie)
Pop–Elita, Trends of Art at the end of the ’90s, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
Wyprzedaz Sztuki (Sale of Art), BWA, Katowice (with Grupa Ladnie)

2000
Trafik.Kunst, Young.Free.Art/Cracow 2000, Polish Institute, Vienna
100% Malarstwa, Galeria BWA, Poznan
Scena 2000, Center for contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
Grupa Ladnie at D’Arcy, D’Arcy, Warsaw

1999
Namaluj mnie (Paint me), Galeria BWA, Zielona Góra

 

Collections

Volpinum Kunstsammlung, Vienna
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Burger Collection, Berlin
Goetz Collection, Munich
Ellipse Foundation – Contemporary Art Collection, Amsterdam
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
Bunkier Stzuki, Cracow
Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume Institute, New York
The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York