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Born 1956. Curator, critic and lecturer, expert in issues of contemporary art and media culture, Piotr Krajewski completed his degree in Theory of Culture at Wrocław University in 1980. In 1989 Krajewski co-founded the [[WRO Biennale|WRO International Biennale for Media Art]], and he serves as artistic director of that festival to the present day. Founder of [[WRO]] Center for Media Art in [[Wroclaw]] (1998). He is also artistic director of the PRIX VISIONICA International Televised Creation Festival (2006) (http://prixvisionica.pl). Krajewski has curated numerous exhibitions and media presentations in Poland and abroad, including exhibitions at the Kunsthalle in Vienna and the National Museum in Wroclaw; and he has served as juror at many international festivals, including Transmediale (Berlin 2002), Internationale Kurzfilmtage (Oberhausen 2004), the  European Media Art Festival (Osnabrueck (2006). In collaboration with Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska, he has developed over 200 television programs devoted to media art and culture broadcast on TVP's Channel 2.  
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'''Piotr Krajewski''' (1956) is a curator and author engaged in contemporary art, electronic art, and interactive art as well as new media issues.
  
Author of many publications, editor of the books ''From a Monument to Market. Video Art and the Public Space'' (2005), and ''Energetic Pictures of Jozef Robakowski'' (2007). Krajewski has authored texts published in Poland, Austria, Germany, Brazil, the UK, the US  and Japan; he has given lectures worldwide, including presentations at conferences at Tate Modern in London and Centre George Pompidou in Paris; in 2005 he served as European Union expert in the Culture 2000 grant program.  Krajewski is currently a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in [[Poznan]] and at the Cultural Studies Department of Wrocław University in [[Wroclaw]].  He is a member of the AICA, a member of the Programming Board of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and a member of the board of the Lower Silesian Fine Arts Association Zachęta.
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He is a graduate of cultural studies at the University of Wrocław, chief curator of the [[WRO|WRO Art Centre]] in [[Wrocław]] and a lecturer at the Artistic University in Poznań and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław.
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In 1988 Piotr Krajewski, together with [[Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska]] and Zbigniew Kupisz, created the OPEN STUDIO/WRO cooperative. The first WRO Media Art Biennale took place in 1989. From day one of the festival Krajewski played the role of its artistic chief executive. The WRO Media Art Biennale, especially in the first phase of its existence back in the 1980s and the 1990s, was very important in the process of democratising media technology in Poland and helped Polish audiences recognize new European and World accomplishments in media art.
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From the beginning of the 1990s Krajewski has realised exhibitions in Poland and abroad, such as at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Kunsthalle in Vienna, Kunsthall Aarhus in Denmark, the National Museum in Wrocław, and Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków.
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As well as being engaged in the preparation of permanent exhibitions at the WRO Art Centre, Krajewski is also a curator of exhibitions of Polish artists living in the West, including the ''From Monument to Market: Video and Public Space'' exhibition in Podewil Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst in Berlin which explores works of Polish artists from the 1970s. In 2009 he curated ''Ukryta Dekada: Polska Sztuka Wideo 1895-1995'' [A Hidden Decade: Polish Video Art 1895-1995], an exhibition that attempts to summarize this important period in Polish media art. The exhibition held in the National Museum in Wrocław and Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków conjoined the most iconic Polish video artists’ works, showing their reactions to the changing sociopolitical situation in Poland.
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Within different projects and exhibitions Krajewski collaborated with Mirosław Bałka, Robert Cahen, Izabella Gustowska, Garry Hill, Paweł Janicki, Istvan Kantor, Leszek Knaflewski, Igor Krenz, Dominik Lejman, Józef Robakowski, Zbigniew Rybczyński and Carolee Schneemann.
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Between 1992 and 2004 Krajewski, together with Violetta Krajewska, realized more than 150 artistic programmes, films, pioneering broadcasts of performances and intermedia operations for Polish Television. [https://culture.pl/en/artist/piotr-krajewski (2016)]
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* [https://wrocenter.pl WRO Art Center]
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* [https://culture.pl/en/artist/piotr-krajewski Culture.pl]
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* [[Poland#Video_art]]
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[[Series:Video art|Krajewski, Piotr]]

Latest revision as of 09:28, 13 May 2025

Piotr Krajewski (1956) is a curator and author engaged in contemporary art, electronic art, and interactive art as well as new media issues.

He is a graduate of cultural studies at the University of Wrocław, chief curator of the WRO Art Centre in Wrocław and a lecturer at the Artistic University in Poznań and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław.

In 1988 Piotr Krajewski, together with Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska and Zbigniew Kupisz, created the OPEN STUDIO/WRO cooperative. The first WRO Media Art Biennale took place in 1989. From day one of the festival Krajewski played the role of its artistic chief executive. The WRO Media Art Biennale, especially in the first phase of its existence back in the 1980s and the 1990s, was very important in the process of democratising media technology in Poland and helped Polish audiences recognize new European and World accomplishments in media art.

From the beginning of the 1990s Krajewski has realised exhibitions in Poland and abroad, such as at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Kunsthalle in Vienna, Kunsthall Aarhus in Denmark, the National Museum in Wrocław, and Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków.

As well as being engaged in the preparation of permanent exhibitions at the WRO Art Centre, Krajewski is also a curator of exhibitions of Polish artists living in the West, including the From Monument to Market: Video and Public Space exhibition in Podewil Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst in Berlin which explores works of Polish artists from the 1970s. In 2009 he curated Ukryta Dekada: Polska Sztuka Wideo 1895-1995 [A Hidden Decade: Polish Video Art 1895-1995], an exhibition that attempts to summarize this important period in Polish media art. The exhibition held in the National Museum in Wrocław and Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków conjoined the most iconic Polish video artists’ works, showing their reactions to the changing sociopolitical situation in Poland.

Within different projects and exhibitions Krajewski collaborated with Mirosław Bałka, Robert Cahen, Izabella Gustowska, Garry Hill, Paweł Janicki, Istvan Kantor, Leszek Knaflewski, Igor Krenz, Dominik Lejman, Józef Robakowski, Zbigniew Rybczyński and Carolee Schneemann.

Between 1992 and 2004 Krajewski, together with Violetta Krajewska, realized more than 150 artistic programmes, films, pioneering broadcasts of performances and intermedia operations for Polish Television. (2016)

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