Paweł Kwiek

Paweł Kwiek (16 March 1951, Warsaw - 13 March 2022, Warsaw) was a Polish artist, photographer, cinematographer, light designer, and co-founder of the Workshop of the Film Form.

Paweł Kwiek graduated from the Cinematography Department of the Łódź Film School in 1974. In 1970, he began making experimental films, video art, photography and artistic activities involving other disciplines of art, culture and related sciences (philosophy, theatre, poetry, sociology, etc.). Between 1970 and 1980 he was a founding member of the Workshop of the Film Form. He lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1977-78) and at the Łódź Film School (1978-81).

Kwiek is one of the key figures of the Polish neo-avant-garde of the 1970s along with artists such as Józef Robakowski, Jan Świdziński, Zbigniew Dłubak, and Zofia Kulik.

Works

• 1,2,3 – ćwiczenia operatorskie [1,2,3… Operator's Exercise], 1972. [1]
• Video A (Sytuacja studia) [Video A (Studio Situation)], 1974. [2]
• more

Literature

• Karol Sienkiewicz, "Paweł Kwiek", Culture.pl, Dec 2010. (English)
• Marika Kuźmicz (ed.), Paweł Kwiek. 1,2,3... A Cinematographer's Exercises. Photography, Film, Video, Warsaw: Arton Foundation, 2014, 198 pp. Texts: David Crowley, Marika Kuźmicz, Mark Nash, Łukasz Ronduda. (Polish)/(German)/(English)
• Eliza Rose, "Single-minute communities: assembling collective agency with Paweł Kwiek", Studies in Eastern European Cinema 13:1, 2022, pp 70-89. [3]
• Sven Spieker, "Film as Operation (Harun Farocki, Paweł Kwiek)", ch. 4 in Spieker, Art and Demonstration: A Revolutionary Recasting of Knowledge, MIT Press, Feb 2024. [4] (English)

See also

• Workshop of the Film Form
• Poland#Video_art

Links

• Pawel Kwiek archive, Arton Foundation
• Biography and selected works on Forgotten Heritage
• Wikipedia