Born in Warsaw (1966), trained in Grzegorz Kowalski’s legendary workshop at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Artur ?mijewski has been a leading figure of video art since the end of the nineties through a striking series of short works which display the crushed condition of the Western body in our inhuman societies.
He achieved international recognition with the Singing Lesson (I) at the 2002 Frankfurt Manifesta and with Repetition at the 2005 Venice Biennale, a powerful metaphor of our regressive democracies in which the state of exception has become the rule, according to Benjamin’s terms, which Agamben has made famous. Artur ?mijewski is curating the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art which is to open soon (April 27 – July 1, 2012).
Artur ?mijewski continues the artist-talk series HUMBOLDT MEETINGS, to which Christoph Hochhäusler (12 December 2011), Angela Schanelec (10 January 2012), Anne Tismer (31 January 2012), Harun Farocki (NEW DATE: 7 February 2012), and Thomas Ostermeier (15 February 2012) have been invited to open discussions at the Department of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
The dialogue series is organized by Régis Michel (Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professor 2011/12) and Katharina Lee Chichester
HUMBOLDT MEETINGS III
Invitation to an open discussion with Artur ?mijewski
Podium guests: Charlotte Klonk and Piotr Piotrowski
Tonight, January 23, 2012, 8 pm
Humboldt-University of Berlin
Dorotheenstraße 24, Room 1.101
With the kind support of Carolin Behrmann and the students of the seminars
HUMBOLDT MEETINGS is realized by the Department of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-University of Berlin.
