Michal Brzezinski
http://video-art.pl
Michał Brzeziński, born in 1975, artist, curator in Centre for
Contemporary Arts “Åaźnia” in GdaÅ„sk, a graduate of film studies at
the Media and Audiovisual Culture Department at the University of
Åodź. MA thesis entitled Subject, Body, Identity. A Contribution to
Cybercultural Anthropology completed in 2003. An artist and video
theoretician, a specialist on the visual media, such as TV, DVD and
the Internet. An organizer of video training workshops and author of a
TV programme devoted to video. His work combines the tradition of
video art and experimental cinema and is a reflection on the
phenomenon of identity in the world of the new media. In order to
define video art and describe its functioning in society, he
introduces the notions of VIRUS-VIDEO or VIDEO-IDENTITY. To him, video
is the only appropriate language of the new media.
His work was presented in Józef Robakowski’s Programme “Polish Found
Footage 1957-2004”, at Rzeźnia Miejska while the II Art Fair in
PoznaÅ„. Additionally, BrzeziÅ„ski’s exhibitions were displayed at
Lublin Art Gallery, Space-twoentwo Gallery in London and as a part of
Galeria Wymiany collection: “New Video Energies” at the Art Centre of
PoznaÅ„ and “DVD – new video energies” at the Manhattan Gallery in
Åódź. Moreover, he took part in Krzysztof Jurecki’s lectures entitled
“Supplement to the history of Polish experimental cinema and Polish
video art (1983-2006)” held in the Centre for Contemporary Arts
“Åaźnia” in GdaÅ„sk, at the “Kont” Art Gallery in Lublin, the
“Wozownia” Art Gallery in ToruÅ„, the Centre for Contemporary Arts
“Zamek Ujazdowski” in Warsaw. A one-man exhibition of his work Peer
Gynt took place at A. Rubinstein’s Concert Hall in Åódź. Other solo
exhibitions were held at the Arsenal Art Gallery in Białystok, the
“Bunkier Sztuki” Art Gallery in Cracow and Art Museum in Åódź. He
participated in two shows at the Biennial of Åódź in 2006.
His artistic output has been described and commented on in Exit and
Obieg magazine. In Art Eon, Krzysztof Jurecki called him the most
outstanding video theoretician. According to Polish Video Art
Catalogue, published by the Inner Spaces Art Gallery in 2006,
Brzeziński is one of the most representative Polish video artists. The
exhibitioner of Minister of Culture and the National Heritage on 2008.