Andrew DUDEK-DÜRER, Digital Apocalypse 00

27x39, framed: 40x50, mixed technique: creasing, drawing, laser, 1998

Andrzej Dudek-Dürer is one of the most original, consistent and recognizable personalities in contemporary Polish art; visual artist, performer, photographer, graphic designer, composer, and musician. Since 1969, he has consistently pursued life performance: Art of Shoes - Art of Pants - Art of Andrzej Dudek-Dürer-life sculpture. His areas of interest are video art, environment, installation, metaphysical-telepathic activity, anti-poetry, and mail art. [...] Curator and organizer of the independent contemporary art movement in the 1970s and 1980s on the Polish and world stage. [...] He has presented his work at The Art Institute, Chicago; Academy of Art College, San Francisco; Conservatorio National de Musica, Mexico City; School of Art Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin - New Zealand; The City Art Institute, Sydney; University of California, Berkeley; ASP, Gdansk; Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, among others. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage 2002; 2011.[...] participant in many art presentations around the world including La Biennale di Venezia/ Extra 50/ Brain Academy Apartment - Venice 2003; 20th Century in Polish Photography from the Collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź, presentation at Shoto Museum of Art in Tokyo and Nigata City Art Museum in Nigata, Japan 2006; ; Polish Photography in the 20th Century, Palace of Culture and Science - Warsaw 2007; Nature Morte.... National Museum, Wrocław 2017; Collage - Glued Worlds, Pavilion of the Four Domes National Museum in Wrocław 2022/23

Awards: Marshal of the Lower Silesian Province for outstanding achievements in the field of culture, 2014, Minister of Culture and National Heritage for invaluable contributions to Polish Culture, 2014 [...] Documentation and works in many private and public collections (such as. National Museum in Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery of Art - Warsaw, National Museum in Wrocław, City Museum in Wrocław, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Gallery in London, City Art Institute Library in Sydney, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago).