The title is taken from Michael Foedrowitz’s book “One Man Bunker”.
“I will make a DIY mobile shelter/bunker for moving around the city. It will be an activity that shows, on the one hand, the current phobias and fears I have personally encountered (especially when talking to people living around Warsaw or in the east of Poland) and, on the other hand, the even more current and real threat experienced by the people of Palestine, Ukraine and other territories occupied by warfare.”
Friday / June 21, 2024 / 3:00 – 6:00 pm / Zgorzelec / Görlitz / RABRYKA
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Tomasz Opania
He was born in 1970 in Gliwice. In 1994, he graduated in sculpture from the State Higher School ofFine Arts in Wrocław. In 1993, he received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and Art, and in the following year he was awarded a scholarship from the government of the Swiss Confederation for young artists. From 1994 to 1996, he pursued further studies at the École Supérieure d’Arts Visuels (ÉSAV) in Geneva. Since 1996, he has been employed at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, where he currently runs the Studio of Art in Public Space. He engages in a variety of artistic practices, including sculpture, installation, performance, actions in public space, and the design and implementation of new formats of art presentation (such as “Chwilówka” and “Wrocław – Backyard Entrance”). He also uses various techniques or collaborates with professionals to build “participatory sculptures” – objects, inventions, “art tools,” machines, or other instruments that actively engage the viewer by forcing them to behave in a predetermined way. He also creates “attributes” that he uses in public appearances. He regards his works as a commentary on the current socio-political situation and the reality around him. He has had more than a dozen individual exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows in Poland and abroad.
http://tomaszopania.pl/
