Janusz Bałdyga

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Janusz Bałdyga (b. 1954 in Lublin) performance, instalation.

Creates performances and drawings, author of numerous installations and spatial realisations. In 1975-79 studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, obtained his degree in painting under professor Stefan Gierowski in 1979. In 1976 he founded  the artistic group “Pracownia” (“Workshop”) and in 1977-1979 he co-directed “Pracownia Dziekanka”. Since 1979 he has co-operated with the theatre “Akademia Ruchu”.Since 1982 he has conducted his original didactic series in the form of workshops, realized in artistic and educational centres in Poland and abroad. Since 1999 has made llecturer (spatial forms, performance, intermedia), since 2009 connected with the Fine Arts Academy in Poznań.

Selected individual presentations:

1981 – General Center – Pracownia Dziekanka

1985 – Equilibrium – Equivalence – Kunststation – Kleinsassen,

1988 – 1/2 of a pyramid – Moltkerei Werkstatt – Cologne

1991 – Inclinations – Stara Gallery – Lublin

1993 – Column projection – Laboratorium Gallery, Centre of Contemporary Art – Warsaw

1994 – Pages – AR Gallery – Warsaw

1995 – Pages and projections – Gi Gallery – Zielona Gora

1996 – Horizontal result – Wschodnia Gallery – Lodz

1997 – Stillstand – E-Werk Freiburg

1998 – Steps – Manhattan Gallery- Lodz

1998 – Steps – Donguy Gallery – Paris

1999 – Steps – Centre of Contemporary Art – Warsaw

2000 – Open fractures – Interdruck Schipper Patitz – Lipzig

2001 – Ultra Vires – Excessive burden – Avantgard Gallery – Wroclaw

2003 – Ad Depositum – Otwarta Pracownia – Krakow

2004 – The Unattainable – Labirynt Gallery – Lublin

2006 – Marked places – Wschodnia Gallery – Lodz

2008 – Marked places 08 – Centre of Contemporary Art. – Warsaw

2009 – Be careful glass – ODA – Piotrków Trybunalski

Group exhibitions:

1978 – I AM Performance – Remont Gallery- Warsaw

1979 – Unidentified activity – STK, Lodz and Labirynt Gallery, Lublin

1980 – Art of the Young 80 – BWA Łódź

1983 – Records – BWA Lublin

1984 – lntellectual Trend in Polish Art After World War II – BWA Lublin

1985 – Process and Construction – Munich

1987 – Freiraum – Kunststation Kleinsassen

1989 – Art as a private gesture – BWA Koszalin

1990- Construktion in process – Łódź

1990 – Points east – Third Eye Centre – Glasgow

1991 – The roads of European culture – Lodz, Bratislava, Brussels, Berlin

1992 – Books and pages – Centre of Modern Art, Warsaw

1993 – Intercity Art Project Vienna – Lodz, Galerie Theuretzbacher – Viena

1994 – Oronsko Symposium – Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko

1994 – Videospaces – PGS, Sopot

1995 – IMMS `95 – the Azores (Portugal)

1995 – Oikos – Municipal Museum, Bydgoszcz

1995 – Around the sculpture of the seventies and eighties – Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko

1997 – Glances – BWA Lublin

1998 – 3 Esa – Borne-Sulinowo

1998 – Chips – ON Gallery – Poznan

1998 – the 2nd International Art Encounters – Katowice

1999 – Generations – Polish Art of the End/Beginning of the Century – Sankt Petersburg

1999 – Navinki ’99 – Minsk

2000 – Zusammenkunst – Wiesbaden

2000 – Artkontakt – Lublin

2001 – Navinki ’01 – Minsk

2001 – Collection IV – Centre of Contemporary Art – Warsaw

2002 – Dialog II – eca – Edinburgh

2002 – Power of the people – Arsenal Gallery – Bialystok

2003 – The Series of Actions – Cysterna, Centre of Contemporary Art – Warsaw

2004 – Private Impact – Szczecin

2004 – Recontre Internationale D’art. Performance de Quebec – Quebec City

2004 – Labyrinth – BWA Lublin

2005 – Interaction 7 International Art Action Festival – Piotrkow Trybunalski

2005 – TIPAF – Taipei Taiwan

2005- I P Art. – Turbine Giswil Switzerland

2006- Mentality – Lodz Biennale

2006- Days of performance art. – Kiev

2006 – EPAF – CSW Warsaw

2006- In Poland, that is where ? – CSW Warszawa

2007- ZAZ International Performance Art. Festival – Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Mitzpe Ramon

2007– ArtSwap 07 – Kunsthale Bergen

2007– el arte es accion – Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – Madrid

2008- Differences//Interaction – CCA – Warsaw

2008 – UT – 21 Lillehammer

2008 – Days of performance art – Lwów

2008 – Mediations Biennale – Poznań

2008 – Polski Broch – Tel Aviv

2008 – The Long Breath – Essen, Koeln

2009 – Performance Arsenał – Arsenał Gallery – Białystok

2009 – Performance Intermedia – Miejsce sztuki Officyna – Szczecin

2009 – Open City – Art in public space – Lublin

2009 – Performance Platform Lublin – OSP Lublin

2010 – Outside in / Inside out – Centre of Polish Sculpture – Orońsko

2011 – Polish Roots – New Territories – Glasgow

2011 – Performing the Exhibition – Kunstverein Konstanz, Chateau Mercier – Sierre

Works in collections:

BWA Lublin, Center of Polish Sculpture in Oronsko, Contemporary Art Center in Warsaw, Museum of Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art in Hunfeld, Germany, National Museum in Warsaw, Munincipal Museum in Bydgoszcz, Art Museum in Lodz. Zachęta Collection Lublin.