Exhibitions / One of Many / Biography

Pawel Althamer was born in Warsaw in 1967. He lives and works in Warsaw.

AWARDS
2004
The Vincent Award, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006
Black Market, Galerie neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Pawel Althamer, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris

2005
Pawe? Althamer Incites, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (cat.)

2004
Pawel and Vincent, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (cat.)
Walk with model of Foksal Gallery Foundation in Praga district, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw

2003
So genannte Wellen und andere Phänomene des Geistes, Kunstverein für Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (with Artur Zmijewski) (cat.)
Galerie neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Wrong Gallery, New York

2002
Chiesa di San Matteo, Galleria Claudio Polleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca (cat.)
Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste
Prisones, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Müenster
Le cinema itinerant/De rondreizende cinema, various locations, Belgium
Unsichtbar, Alexanderplatz, (DAAD artist-in-residency), Berlin

2001
Weronika, (public project) Amden
House on the Tree, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
DAAD artist-in-residency, Berlin

2000
BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra
Bródno 2000, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw (cat.)

1999
Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
Artist-in-residency, Hoffmann Sammlung, Berlin

1998
Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

1997
Kosmonauta, a.r.t. Gallery, Plock
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (cat.)
Bródno, A.R Gallery, Tecza cinema, Warsaw (cat.)

1996
Life after Death, Kronika Gallery, Bytom
Foksal Gallery, Warsaw (cat.)

1995
Miejsce Gallery, Cieszyn

1994
Fairy-tale, Galeria WOK, Warsaw

1993
Studies from Nature, Galeria a.r.t., Plock
Diploma, Galeria a.r.t., Plock

1992
a.r.t. Gallery, Plock

1991
Academy of Fine Arts’ Museum (with Jacek Adamas), Warsaw



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006
1,2,3…Avant-Garde, Experiment/Film/Art/Archive, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
ManiPulations. On Economies of Deceit, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk
GEGENSTÄNDE / HANDLUNGSFORMEN, Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York
YOU WON’T FEEL A THING. On Panic, Obsession, Anesthesia and Rituality, Kunsthaus Dresden, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Dresden
In Poland, That Is Where? The Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (cat.)
Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Kontakt… aus der Sammlung der Erste Bank-Gruppe, Museum Modern Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

2005
At the Very Center of Attention, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
9th Istanbul Biennial, International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Einstein Spaces – Neun Kunstprojekte in Berlin, Postdam und Caputh Im Rahmen des Einsteinjahres (cat.)
Positioning – In the New Reality of Europe, The National Museum of Art – Osaka, Osaka
The Impossible Theatre, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2006)
(with Artur Zmijewski) Kollektive Kreativität, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
I Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (cat.)
(with Artur Zmijewski and the Nowolipie Group) Akademie. Kunst lehren und lernen, Kunstverein in Hamburg

2004
De ma fenetre. Des artistes et leurs territoires, Galerie de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Atom Krieg, Kunsthaus Dresden (cat.)
Duty and Rebellion. Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw 1944–2004, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (cat.)
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (cat.)
Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Nowa Huta. Kunst aus polnischer Sicht, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Artists’ Favorites (Act 1), Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Atomkrieg, Kunst Haus Dresden, Dresden
Kinder Biennale, Utrecht
Academy East/West, Tanzquartier Wien
Prym, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra (cat.)
Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz. Philosophical Margins, CCA, Warsaw (cat.)
Under the White-Red Flag. New Art from Poland, Estonian Art Museum, Exhibition Hall in the Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn; Contemporary Art Centra, Vilnius; National Centra for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Nizhny Novgorod branch of the National Centra for Contemporary Arts, Arsenal, Nizhegorodsky Kreml; Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil (cat.)

2003
Way of life…, Center for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk
Art Focus 4, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (with Artur Zmijewski)
Institutional Aesthetics, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Views 2003 / The Deutsche Bank Cultural Foundation Award, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
Now What? Dreaming a better world in six parts, BAK, Utrecht (cat.)
Bring on the Clowns, Frize Art Fair, London
Street level/Simplon Tunnel, Simplon
Hidden in a Daylight, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Cieszyn 2003 (cat.)
Dreams and Conflicts – The Viewer’s Dictatorship, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
Play ground, Bródno, Contemporary Art for All Children, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw

2002
A Need for Realism. Solitude in Ujazdowski, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (cat.)
I Promise it’s Political, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (cat.)
In Prague, Galeria Vaclava Spaly, Prague
The Collective Unconsciousness, Migros Museum, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich

2001
Ausgeträumt..., Secession, Vienna (cat.)
Jubilee exhibition, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
Poetry Summer, Watou (cat.)
Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (cat.)
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (cat.)
Dialog III, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz
Vi – International Communities, Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Arts, Malmö
Progetto Bovisa, Milan (cat.)

2000
Endgame, Progetto Arte, Firenze (cat.)
Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (cat.)
Polnishe Kunst nach 1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (cat.)
Colored Grey 1956 – 1970, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
Amateur 1900-2000, Göteborg Konstmuseum (cat.)

1999
City Sleepers, Midnight Walkers (public project), Amsterdam (cat.)
Fauna, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw
14th Contemporary Art Days, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
Welcome to the Art World, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (cat.)
Artist-in-residency, Hoffmann Sammlung, Berlin

1998
Passport: Exchange, (Ex)change, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Arthouse Multimedia Centre, Dublin; Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw
Parteitag II”, Galeria a.r.t, Plock (cat.)
There is Nothing Like A Bad Coincidence, Medium Gallery, Bratislava (cat.)
Poliptyk, BWA, Katowice (cat.)

1997
documenta X, Kassel (cat.)
Parteitag I, artists’ studios, Warsaw

1996
The Garden of Arts, city park, Biala Podlaska
Me and AIDS, Kino Stolica, Warsaw; a.r.t., Plock

1994
Germinations 8. European Biennale for Young Artists, Academie St. Joost / Hogeschool West-Brabant, Breda; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw

1993
Unvollkommen, Museum Bochum, Bochum (cat.)
Sonsbeek '93, International Bienalle of Art, Arnhem (cat.)

1992
Polish Contemporary Art, Espace Periresc, Toulon
Studies of the Nude, a.r.t. Gallery, Plock
A Home Exhibition of Photographs, Katarzyna Kozyra’s apartment, Warsaw
Die andere Seite, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Dialog dzie? i postaw, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko

1991
Magicians and Mystics, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (cat.)