Sławomir Brzoska
Installation, Sculpture, Video, Performance
born in 1967 in Szopienice, Upper Silesia/ Poland
1991-1995 he studied at the Art School of the Silesian University Cieszyn.
He has taught at the University of Arts in Poznań since 1997 and was in 2011 appointed to a professorship there. Head of Faculty of Spatial Activities at the University of Arts in Poznan, teaching also sculpture in Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Interested in the nomadic experiencing of the world.
2007-2008 he travelled around the world under the motto:
'Year of Wandering Life'.
He has participated in over 100 international exhibitions: group exhibitions and individual exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland (Maison 44 2004/10/12), Spain (MAM Alicante), France and Canada.
His work can be found in collections in Sweden, England, Switzerland, Serbia and Slovakia.
About his work
Sławomir Brzoska is situated in the traditions of constructivism, minimalism, neo-symbolism and the new geometry. He sees himself as an interpreter who endeavours to decode what lies hidden behind things, founded in their relationship to nature and in an interaction with space. Taoism, Zen and the pre-Socratics as well as the philosophy and literature of the 20th century and the present inspire his thought.
Sławomir Brzoska seeks the physical experience of the self and the world and has wandered across secluded territories (e.g. Papua), studying archaic societies and meeting their peoples: "Year of wandering life" 2007/08.
(Ute Stoecklin, 2012)