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.