Wojtek Pukocz

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Wojtek Pukocz 1970 born in Mikolajow, Poland Lives and works in Wroclaw, Poland Wojtek Pukocz is painter, graphic artist, author of installations, films and multimedia shows combining video images with music performed live. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław in 1997, diploma in painting (Prof. Stanisław Kortyka’s studio), currently professor at the Department of Painting in Architecture and Multimedia and head of the Electronic Media and Multimedia Studio. Since 2012 dean of the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture of his alma mater. Wojtek Pukocz is author of over a dozen solo and tens of collective exhibitions, as well as curator and organizer of exhibitions. Twice granted the Rector’s Award during his academic career in recognition of organizational activities for the benefit of the Academy (in 2008 and 2012). In 2001 awarded the BWA Wrocław Prize in the 5th Geppert Competition for best young Polish painters, together with an honourable mention. In 1997 awarded the “Format” Art Prize and an honourable mention at Promocje ’97 review of young artistic talents in Legnica. Lives in Ligota Mała near Wrocław and works in Wrocław. Selected solo exhibitions and shows: 2018 „All about... vol.1”, National Forum of Music, Wrocław, Poland 2018 „All about... vol.2”, BWA Gallery, Awangarda, Wrocław, Poland 2017 „Painting”, Attic Gallery, Culture Center, Prudnik, Poland 2016 „KORPO!”,, Art in the office, IdeaPlace, Wrocław, Poland 2016 "Separate stories", Gallery ART 9, Leszno, Poland 2015 The Picture is not enough, BWA Wrocław, Poland 2013 Parts of Yesterday, ASP Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland 2011 „I believe in abstract art”, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw 2011 „Painting”, Rawicz Land Muzeum, Rawicz 2007 Haggadah – a Story, film, Awangarda Gallery, BWA Wrocław, Poland 2007 By Half, multimedia show at Wrocław NonStop Festival, National Museum in Wrocław, Poland 2004 Ten Persons, Awangarda Gallery, BWA Wrocław, Poland 2002 Anatomical Objects, Milano Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 1998 Photographic Objects, film, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław, Poland 1997 Post-Diploma Exhibition, Jerzy Grotowski Research Centre, Wrocław, Poland Selected group exhibitions: 2018 - "Here we are after ESK. Expression, structure, color", BWA Awangarda, Wrocław, Poland - "Brockenau Specter", BWA Awangarda, Wrocław, Poland - "100 years!", Palace of Art, Lviv, Ukraine - "Good morning, exhibition of the Wrocław artistic community", Volyn Art Gallery, Lutsk, Ukraine - "+48", State Historical Museum, Kamieniec Podolski, Ukraine - "Limited Vision", 3331 Arts, Chioyoda, Tokyo, Japan - "Permeation", Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China 2017 - "Wroclaw Now !, Wrocław Now", National Gallery, Syactar, Russia - "The End. A deadly serious exhibition”, Open Studio, Krakow, Poland - "RYSOPIS W BIEGU / ZĪMĒJUMI STEIGĀ", Exhibition Hall of the Academy of Fine Arts in Riga, Latvia (15/03/210) - Bratislava Pro Wratislavia / Wratislavia Pro Bratislava, Dom Umenia Bratislava, Galéria Mesta Bratislavy - Pálffyho Palác 2016 - Wrocław Now! All the faces of chaos, painting exhibition - Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj - Napoca, Romania - "Three Poles", Galeria Jama, Ostrava, the Czech Republic (together with Paweł Jarodzki and Krzysztof Wałaszek) - "Presentation of the creators from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw - the city of the European Capital of Culture 2016" Inviting institution: Beijing Tian Yi Tong Ge International Art and Culture Co.Ltd. Date: August 27, 2016 - September 25, 2016 Place: Star Galery and Star Theater , Beijing, China - "The Future At Last. Memory at last. Il futoro finalmente: Contemporary Artists from Poland "Fondazione Benetton,, Italy, Modena, Fondazione Benetton 2015 - Direction Painting - Center of Artistic Activities ODA, Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland - 2/6, Michał Jędrzejewski and the pretexts of space, an exhibition from the series Art with a Wrocław certificate, Galeria Test Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury, Warsaw, Poland - It is / It is not. Exhibition of the collection of the Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland - Central Warsaw - Wrocław Główny - exhibition of didactics. Painting department of the MiRz Department, Galeria Salon Akademy, Warsaw, Poland - Of Painting off Painting, Museum of Non-Conformist Art, Pushkinskaya 10 Arts Center, St.Petersburg, Russia 2014 What’s Left – What’s Gone, Trafaka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic 2013 56th Exhibition of European Art EVBK, Prüm, Germany 2012 Space Between Us, Kunsthaus, Wiesbaden, Germany 2011 What’s Here / What’s Not, Regional Museum, Liberec, Czech Republic 2010 Structure of Things, Structure of Emotions, Structure, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland 2009 Art In Poland, Sanat Polonya, Art Faculty Gallery, Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey 2007 Wrocław’s Skyscrapers – 60 Years of ASP in Wrocław, National Museum in Wrocław, Poland 2006 Wrocław’s ASP Painting Department, Art Centre EL Gallery, Elbląg, Poland 2004 Photography, Homeless Gallery, Mieszczański Brewery, Wrocław, Poland 2003 1st Art Review SURVIVAL, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland 2001 4th Polish Exhibition of Young Painting, 5th Geppert Competition, Awangarda Gallery, BWA Wrocław, Poland 2000 International Drawing Competition, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław, Poland 1997 32nd Polish Painting Competition Bielsko Autumn ’97, Bielsko BWA Gallery, Poland 1996 Painting, Graphic Art, Sculpture, Academy Gallery, Braunschweig, Germany