Born in 1983, Grzegorz Stefański graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland and Photography at the Department of Visual Communication at the University of Arts in Poznań, Poland. Currently, he continues his artistic education at Mirosław Balka Studio of Spatial Activities at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw. In his latest photographic and video projects Grzegorz Stefański introduces suspension of epistemology. He does not accept current state of reality and artificially creates situations at the nexus of psychology, philosophy and ethics. He has presented his works at individual exhibitions (New Face in Lookout Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, Go-See in Zpafiska Gallery, Cracow, Poland, emptybottles in Goldex-Poldex Gallery, Cracow, Poland) as well as at group shows (in Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, in MoMa PS1 in New York, in Bunkier Sztuki Gallery in Cracow, and during Wro Media Art Bienalle in Wroclaw).
FORMATION
2014 – New Media Department (MA in Fine Arts), University of Arts in Warsaw, Poland (Miroslaw Balka Studio of Spatial Activities)
2010 – 2013 Photography Department (BA in Fine Arts), University of Arts in Poznan, Poland
2006 – 2007 Philosophy Department, University of Paris X Nanterre, Paris, France
2002 – 2008 Philosophy Department (MA), Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
ACTIVITES
2015
Residence in Strasbourg
Team, group show, Salon of Academy Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Exquisite Corps of Polish Photography, group show, BWA Avangard Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
Does on your island night begins later?, collective activity, Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland
Mimicry, group show, National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw, Poland
Just between us, those videos are very serious ones, group show, BWA Zielona Góra Gallery, Poland
The memory of a crying tree (…), group exhibition of Miroslaw Balka Studio of Spatial Activities, WRO Media Art Bienalle, Wroclaw, Poland
New Face, solo exhibition, Lookout Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2014
Go-See, solo exhibition, Zpafiska Gallery, Cracow, Poland
Myths. Students/Artists/Teachers. A process of exchange, group show of Miroslaw Balka Studio of Spatial Activities, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere Gallery, Rome, Italy
No yawning, group show, New Theatre, Warsaw, Poland
inSpirations Festival, group show, 13Muz Gallery, Szczecin, Poland
Darkroom, action performed in Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Cracow, Poland
Just between us, those videos are very serious ones, group show, 1A Collective, Poznań, Poland
Digital_ia Festival, group show, 13 Muz Gallery, Szczecin, Poland
2013
Hole, group show, TRAFO Gallery, Szczecin, Poland
2011
NY Art Book Fair, MoMa PS1, New York
Second Annual Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair, New York
Pile of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Publish yourself!, Czułość Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2010
emptybottles, solo exhibition, Goldex-Poldex Gallery, Cracow, Poland
IN THE FRAMEWORK OF :
GRZEGORZ STEFAŃSKI, Residence : 1 September 2015 – 22 November 2015