JAROSLAW KOZLOWSKI

Biography

1945 born in Śrem, Poland
1963-1969 Studies of painting at the State
Academy of Visual Arts in Poznan
(Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Sztuk
Plastycznych)
since 1967 teaching activity for drawing and
painting: professorship Academy of
Visual Arts in Poznan and professorship
at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende
Kunsten in Amsterdam
1972-1989 Founder and Director of the Gallery
Akumulatory 2
1979 grant of the British Council in London
1981-1987 Director of the Academy in Poznan
1984-1985 DAAD-grant in Berlin
1991-1993 Programm-Curator of the collection
and the Galleries at the Centre for
Contemporary Art in Warsaw
Jarosław Kozłowski lives and works in Poznan, Poland.

 

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2011 Recycled News I, Emerson Gallery Berlin
2005 Counting-Out Rhyme, Galeria AT, Poznan
Grüße aus Berlin, Emerson Gallery Berlin
2004 United World – Alternative Version,
Kunstverein Regensburg
2003 Exercise in Drawing, Galeria R, Poznan
2002 Hot News, Galeria Muzalewska, Poznan
2001 United World – Democratic Version, BWA
Gallery, Zielona Góra, Poland
2000 Objects and Installations, House of Art,
Brno
Depot, Galeria kameralna, Słupsk
1999 European Standarts, Matt’s Gallery,
London
European Standarts – Polish Version
Galeria Potocka, Kracow, Poland
Time Vacuum, The Arbaer Museum,
Reykjavik
1997 Temporary Objects, Stadtgalerie Bern
Spaces of Time, Muzeum Narodowe,
Poznan
Colours and Spaces, BWA Gallery, Lublin,
Poland
Episodes, Centre for Contemporary Art,
Warsaw
1995 Drawings and Spaces, BWA Gallery,
Wrocław, Poland
Soft Protection – The Great Britain and
Northern Ireland Version, Matt’s Gallery,
London
Gravity Room and Other Works, Museet
for Samtidskunst Oslo
1994 Soft Protection – Swiss Version, c/o Suti
Galerie, Bern
Swedish Bathhouse – Australian Version,
Art-huts, Malmö
Soft Protection – Polish Version, Muzeum
Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
1993 1993, H.C.A.K., The Hague
Personal Files, Archief den Haag
1992 Mouvements délicats, Galerie l’Ollave,
Lyon, France
Warszawa Eyewitnes, Galeria Stares,
Lublin
Le cas, ELAC, Lyon
Sharp Object, Tapko, Kobenhaven
1991 Double Image, Galeria Potocka, Kracow
1990 In Yellow, Matt’s Gallery, London
Sleep Well, Kunstverein Giannozzo,
Berlin
Double Agent, Osrodek Dzialan
Plastycznych, Wrocław
1989 Dark Blue, Brandts Klædefabrik,
Kunsthallen Odense
Cover Your Face, Archipel Gallery,
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Simple Geometry, Royal le Page Building,
Edmonton, Canada
1988 Żółty Time, Rote Czas, Blue Zeit, Galeria
Potocka, Kracow
1987 Die schwarze Rose, Galeria R-R, Warsaw
Blue Fragments, Galeria Piwna 20/26,
Warsaw
1986 Fata Morgana, Galerie Gruppe Grün,
Bremen
The Academy, Matt’s Gallery, London
The Room, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
The Garden of Art, H.A.H., Kobenhaven
1985 The Show, DAADgalerie, Berlin
The Exhibition, DAADgalerie, Berlin
The Auction, DAADgalerie, Berlin
1984 Piece for Two and One, Galeria R-R,
Warsaw
3-153, Zaklad nad Fosa, Wrocław
Still Life with Wind and Guitar, Galeria
Akumulatory 2, Poznan
1983 Light – and Shadow Drawings, Galerie
Kanal 2,  Kobenhaven
Opus I, Opus II, Galeria Akumulatory 2,
Poznan
1982 Green Surfaces, Galerie Vor Ort, Hamburg
Easy Drawings, Matt’s Gallery, London
Green Wall, Its Picture, Its Illusion and Its
Image, Galeria Akumulatory 2, Poznan
1981 Small Drawings, Galeria Piwna 20/26,
Warsaw
1980 Time-, Weight- and Quantity Drawings,
Galeria Akumulatory 2, Poznan
Wall-Paintings I-VIII, Galeria X, Wrocław
Caledonian Road Series, Matt’s Gallery,
London
Annexation of the Gallery, Galeria
Krzysztofory, Kracow
Object- and Postobject Drawings,
Galerie Vor Ort, Hamburg
1979 Wall-Paintings I-III and Wall-Sculptures
III-V, Galerie Rene Block, Berlin
Drawings Facts, Galerie 38, Kobenhaven
Wall-Sculptures V – IX, Galerie St. Petri,
Lund, Sweden
1978 Colour, Galeria Pawilon, Kracow
1977 Exercises in Ethics, Galerie St, Petri, Lund,
Sweden
Exercises in Semiotics, Galeria
Akumulatory 2, Poznan
1976 Exercises in Aesthetics, Galeria Foksal,
Warsaw
Facts, Galeria Akumulatory 2, Poznan
1975 Lesson, Fiatal Muveszek Klubjanok,
Budapest
Modal Drawings, Galeria Akumulatory 2,
Poznan
1974 Ics, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
1973 Realidade, Vesta Sagrade Organisacao
Criativa, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Physics, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
1972 Set, Galeria A., Gniezno, Poznan
Metaphysics, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
1971 Points, Galeria Krzysztofory, Kracow
Apparatus, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
1968 Collages, Galeria Wspolczesna, Warsaw
Situation, Galeria Mona Lisa, Wrocław
1967 Arrangement, Galeria odNOWA, Poznan

 

Group exhibitions (Selection)

2005 Sicht der Dinge. Positionen aktueller
Kunst in Polen, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche
Galerie, Regensburg
2004 Collected Views from East or West,
Generali Foundation, Vienna
Beyond Geometry, Los Angeles
Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Alphabet, Galeria AT, Poznan
Polonium 209, Forum des Cordeliers,
Toulouse, France
2003 Konturi Siemi, Fine Art Museum, Samara,
Russia
Reading Spaces, Galeria Plastyfikatory,
Luboń, Poland
2001 Art From Poland 1945 – 2000, Chicago
Cultural Centre, Chicago
2000 Negotiators of Art, CSW Laznia, Gdansk,
Poland
Arte Conceitual, Museu de Arte
Contemporanea, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Collection 2001+, Museum of Modern Art,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Visual Art – Simple Life, Haus für
Medienkunst, Oldenburg
1999 Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art 
1965-1975, Centre for Contemporary Art,
Warsaw
Chronos and Kairos, Museum Fridericianum,
Kassel
1998 Sunday Morning Walk, Kunsthallen Odense
1997 Lengyelorszag Muveszet 1945-1996,
Mucsarnok, Budapest
Haltungen, Schloss Georgenbau, Dresden
1996 Oikos, Muzeum Okregowe, Bydgoszcz,
Poland
1995 ORIENT/ATION, International Istanbul
Biennale, Istanbul
1994 Europa, Europa, Kunst- und
Ausstellungshalle, Bonn
1992 Hovedet Gennein Muren, Statens Museum
Kopenhaven
Books and Pages, Centrum Sztuki
Współczesnej, Warsaw
Polnische Avantgarde 1930-1990,  Neuer
Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin
Actualité, Musée d‘ Art Contemporain, Lyon
1991 Doppelte Identität, Museum Wiesbaden
Der Raum der Worte, Herzog-August-
Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
Eyeshot, Galerie Nikolaj, Kobenhaven
1990 The Readymade Boomerang, 8th Biennale
of Sydney
Rhetorical Image, The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York
1989 Broken Music, Berlin, Grenoble, Sydney,
Amsterdam, Montreal
Vision and Unity, Van Reekum Museum
Appeldorn
1987 Freiraum, Kunststation, Kleinsassen
1985 Dem Frieden eine Form Geben,
Kunstverein Hamburg
1983 Triptychon, Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg
1981 Libres d’Artista, Gallery Metronom,
Barcelona
1980 Individual Mythologies, Galeria
Akumulatory 2, Poznan
1978 Private Views, Galeria Akumulatory 2,
Poznan
The Seventies, Museo Universitario de Arte,
Mexico City
1977 X. Biennale de Paris, Musée d´Art Moderne,
Paris
1976 Actualities, Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan
Pan-Conceptuals, Maki Gallery, Tokyo
1975 Signifying, The Kyoto Museum of Art, Kyoto
The Decade of the 70s., CAYC, Buenos Aires
1974 Perspective ’74, Museu de Arte
Contemporanea, Sao Paulo
The World Uprising III, ISRC, Nagano-ken
Six Artistas Conceituais, Museu de Arte
Contemporanea, Sao Paulo
1973 Omaha Flow System, Joslyn Art Museum,
Omaha
Returned to Sender, Galerie Schema,
Firenze, Italy
1972 Espace-Situation ’72, Galerie Impace,
Lausanne, Switzerland
Arte de Sistemas, CAYC, Buenos Aires
1971 IV. Biennale of Forms, Galeria El, Elblag,
Poland

 

Performance

2004 Forum des Cordeliers, Toulouse
2002 Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2001 Centro di Experimentacao de Arte,
Bello Horizonte
2000 House of Art, Brno
Narodni Galerie, Prague
1997 Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan
1996 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten,
Amsterdam
Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Warsaw
1995 Academy of Art, Poznan
Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Wrocław
1994 Statens Kunstakademi, Oslo
1993 Haags Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst,
The Hague
1991 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1990 Dyam Show School of Art, London
The University New South Wales, Sydney
1989 Works Festival, Edmonton
Archipel Galerie, Apeldoorn
1988 Workshop, BWA, Zielona Góra
Concordia University, Montreal
1980 Art of the 70s., Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
Drawings and Comments, Muzeum
Regionalne, Radom
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
Individual Mythologies, Galeria
Akumulatory 2, Poznan
1979 Fourth Dimension, Osieki
1978 relARTacje, Dłusko
New Art und New Values, Jankowice

 

Bibliography

1995 Labirynth, Grodzka Gallert, Lublin
ORIENT/ATION, International Istanbul
Biennale, Istanbul
1994 Contemporary Polish Art, Muzeum
Narodowe, Poznan
Europa, Europa, Kunst- und
Ausstellungshalle, Bonn
Polish Geometrical Art, BWA, Wrocław
1993 Vector of Art, BWA, Poznan

K. Ball: Green. Talks with Jarosław Kozłowski, Everything, June-July 1994, No. 14

M. Bomanowska: Nie-Porozumienia, Tygodnik Kulturalny, No. 27,4.09.1994

W. Borowski: Galeria Foksal 1966-1994, Warszawa 1994

L. Krzywda: Przede wszystkim odpowiedzialność, (rozmowa z prof. Jarosławem Kozłowskim), Gazeta Malarzt’ i Poetów, No. 1 / 1995 I. Pikosz, A. Jakubowska;

Inne narzedzia, Czas Kultury, No. 1, 1995 U. Szulakowska: Jarosław Kozłowski, Art Monthly, June 1995, No. 187