Wojciech Gilewicz. Studio

Wojciech Gilewicz’s exhibition Studio combines, in a new format, a gallery presentation of contemporary art with innovative educational techniques. The project carried out in Krakow’s Bunkier Sztuki Gallery is a continuation and extension of the exhibition Sale shown at the BWA Awangarda Gallery in Wrocław, Poland in April 2011.

Gilewicz was inspired by the Wrocław project, particularly by the process involved in the exhibition formula based on constant transformation within the exhibition space. The project will present paintings (including LTZSP, 2009-2011), video projections (such as In Practice, 2009; Bat Yam, 2008; Ivano-Frankivsk, 2007) and paintings created as the exhibition unfolds. The constant presence of the artist himself in the exhibition space provides visitors with direct contact with the artist, enabling them to take an active part in the creative process, while enhancing their perception and obliging them to reflect on the contemporary art scene.

The exhibition will dovetail with an extensive educational program, which will encourage visitors to spend time in the gallery space. The programme poses a number of questions about the interpretation of contemporary art, particularly painting. Workshops for children and teenagers with the participation of the artist are also planned to coincide with the exhibition, as well as a meeting with the artist tailor-made for the older school-age group and students. A number of educational materials will also be published. The exhibition will also be accompanied by a Polish-English catalogue and a film produced by pleple.tv.

Wojciech Gilewicz (born in 1974 in Biłgoraj). Lives and works in Warsaw and New York. He is a painter, photographer and video and installation artist. In his works – usually poised at the point where all these disciplines meet – Gilewicz takes up the question of the blurring of the boundaries between reality and its depiction in art. The leitmotif of Wojciech Gilewicz’s art is the desire to demonstrate how relative and changeable our perception of the surrounding world is and how fluid the boundaries between reality and its artistic representation can be.

The artist’s work invites reflection on the mechanisms governing our perception and on the cultural determinants of the way we see things.

Opening 12 Janaury 2012, 6pm; to 26 February 2012.