PRZEMEK BRANAS
photo: Yulia Krivich, 2019
I was born in 1987, in Poland. I live in Warsaw. The essence of my artistic practice is working at the intersections of various media and breaking their structures. I use performance, photography, video, installation and research. In my work I often ferer to the figure of a craftsman as redifined by the Enlightenment.
Even if the outcome is something else, I usually start from objects, their physical presence, and the ways they can be represented. Recognizing the objects and the states they provoke results in a suspension of their status. The activity leading to the creation of a particular work concentrates on the conversion of static media into performative ones.
{I am interested in the political and critical aspect of art, which I understand as a declaration of one's attitude, not just as an artist, but also as a person. Although the practices of the critical artists of the 1990s have exhausted their possibilities, the potential of contestation and destabilization of reality through art remains unexhausted.}
I locate my art practice in different worlds like an island. This kind of cosmopolitan existence is of more interest to me than the idea of the globe. The local/global opposition is too close to sociology and prevents one from focusing on the geography of various phenomena itself.
I consciously draw from different aesthetics as I do not want to get attached to a single one. The untamed, unfamiliar – borrowed for the sake of particular statements – is treated as a means of expression. Aesthetization is a political tool, because it enables the mobilization of far more unconscious or repressed contents and has a greater potential of activizing the spectator than an ostentatious construction of a political language as such.
Przemek Branas
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
2019
I Is Somebody Else, Centrala Space, Birmingham, England
I Wanna Be Your Colonizer, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk, PL
2018
Moonrise, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, PL
Mountain Cosmos Head, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL
2017
Just a Dick/ Kawał Chuja, Grey House Gallery, Cracow, PL
Ten Guys in One Car, Sesama Gallery, Yogjakarta, Indonesia
2016
The birth of Black and White, Księgarnia|Wystawa, Kraków, PL
Worh–shop, Contemporary Art Center, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, PL
Masters Peasants Peasants Masters, (with K.Radziszewski) , BWA Sokół,Nowy Sącz, PL
Untitled, Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic
2014
Hiccup, Gallery Re, MOCAK, Cracow, curator E.Tatar
2013
M.O.R.O, Wschodnia Gallery, Łódź, PL
(nie)swój/(non)own, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk, PL
2010
mapa (nie)pamięci, with S, Galon, Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdańsk, PL
RESIDENCY
2018 Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2018 Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL
2017 Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny, France
2017 Sesama Gallery, Yogjakarta, Indonesia
2016 Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic,
2011 Spektartulum , Posneck, Germany
AWARDS
2017 2nd prize Spojrzenia/Views Deutsche Bank and Zachęta National Gallery Prize, Warsaw, PL
2016 1st prize in Foundtation Grey House, Grey House Gallery, Cracow, PL
2015 Laureate of competition Telo kao rezim/Body as a regime, Belgrad, Serbia
EDUCATION
2019 PhD, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies, Multimedia Department at the University of Art in Poznan, PL
2013 M.A, Academy of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department, Performance Art Studio Cracow, PL
2010 Most/Bridge Grant in artist Grzegorz Klaman, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, PL
2011 B.A- Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland, Intermedia Department, Performance Art Studio
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2021
Open Departments / Closed Departments, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, PL
Disassembly, KMO Katowice, PL
2020
Milk me sugar, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL
Tropical sun dream, Tatra Museum, Zakopane, PL
2019
Three Plagues, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL
2018
Waiting For Another Comming, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnus, Lithuania
2017
Spojrzenia Deutsche Bank Award Exhibition, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, PL
7th Young Triennial in Orońsko, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, PL
2016
participation in the project devoted to the artist Moshe Kupferman, BWA Tarnów, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk, PL
Masters Peasants Peasants Masters (alongside Karol Radziszewski), BWA Sokół, Nowy Sącz, PL
performance I Keep on Casting Geometric Shadows, Studio Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Communis – Renegotiating Community, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL
Midnight Show, BWA Wrocław, PL
City.Cutout, BWA Tarnów PL
Untitled, performance, Return to the Island of South: Beyond the Boundary, Aisa / Europe, Kaohsiung and Tainan, Taiwan
Untitled, performance The 10th GUYU ACTION Performance Art Festival Shenzen, China
Untitled, performance, Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies CCCD Artspace - Green Wave Art, Hong Kong
Fight for a fire, GreyHouse Gallery, Cracow, PL
2015
Ars moriendi, BWA Tarnów, PL
2014
performance day,Domin(a)ction of space II, Contemporary Art Centre, Ujazdowski Castle, Warszawa, PL
performance Domin(a)ction of space I, Turbine Hale, Giswill, Switzerland
LOVE, PGS Gallery, Sopot, PL
2013
performance Draft, PERFORMANCES POLONAISES -Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, Quebec City, Canada
2011
XIII’International Performance Festival „Interakcje” Piotrków Trybunalski, PL
2010
Epaf International Perfrmance Festival,Contemporary Art Center, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
