“Against” is the title of Polish artist Artur Żmijewski's fifth solo exhibition at Galerie Peter Kilchmann. The exhibition features a new film and a new series of photographs. The film follows children of kindergarten and primary school age as they prepare for a demonstration. The fifteen photographs in the Red Army series were taken by Żmijewski in the Soviet Military Cemetery in Warsaw and show sections of the two groups of figures Heroism and Sacrifice by the sculptors Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz and Stanisław Lisowski. By overlapping the shots the conflict-laden monuments are detached from their site-specific context and given a new level of meaning.
Artur Żmijewski was born in 1966. He lives and works in Warsaw. Works by Artur Żmijewski have been exhibited internationally since the early 1990s. On March 5, the collection presentation Signals: How Video Transformed the World opened at MoMA in New York, featuring Żmijewski's perhaps most groundbreaking installation Democracies (2009) - a 20-part video work that subtly explores the meaning of democracy in our society. (The exhibition runs until July 8, 2023) In 2022, Żmijewskis solo exhibition When Fear Eats the Soul was presented at the PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, on the occasion of which a comprehensive monograph will be published in spring 2023. The exhibition at Galerie Peter Kilchmann runs until May 20, 2023.
Artur Zmijewski: Against / Galerie Peter Kilchmann. Zürich (Switzerland), March 30, 2023.
