Biografie

PAWEL MENDREK
is an visual artist work primarily in various technique with collage elements and also
focusing on drawing, photography and site-specific project. This work resulted with such
commision projects as Ariadne (2012-13) for Kunstraum B, Kiel, Germany and RAG
Factory in London, Blogosphere (2012) for Strefa A Gallery in Cracow, Sampling Spaces
(2009-15) for Flying Gallery Fundation in Warsaw and as well as the site specific utopian
reconstruction reaserch project realized in cooperation with Ewa Zasada called from now
till today for MitOst Fundation from Berlin and Independent art assotiation Oberliht from
Chinsinau (2011-2014). In 2012 Pawel and Ewa together with the third artist Malgorzata
Szandala created artist collective Travel Agency. The topic of the long time, nomadic art
project is composed of several threads revolving around the concept of strangeness and
alienation, belonging to a place, emigration, embroiled identity. This work resulted with
such curatorial projects like mary and margareth for Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland
(2013), intercity for Action Gallery, Warsaw (2014) and paradise for Loft 8 Gallery (2015).
Pawel has exhibited nationally and internationally including group shows at Museum of
Applied Arts Vienna, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Museum of Art, Taiwan, Sienna Art Institute
in Italy, Kronika Gallery Bytom, BWA Gallery in Cracow and Bielsko-Biala, Poland and as
well in Mill&Short Gallery in San Francisco and as well he works as art project
coordinator for such intitutions like: Chelsea College of Arts in Londyn,
Oberliht/Independet Art Association from Chinsinau, MitOst Fundation, Berlin and
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice.
Currently based in Vienna, lectuer at Faculty of Intermedia and Stage Design at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice.
Education
2008 | PhD Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
2000-2004 | Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien
1998 | Academy of Art Collage in San Francisco
1995-2000 | MFA Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Katowice branch
One/two men shows and curatorial projects
2015 | Paradise/ Travel Agency project, Loft 8 Gallery, Vienna
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2014 | Intercity/ Travel Agency project, Action Gallery, Warsaw
I don't paint landscapes, Kunstraum B, Kiel, Germany
I don't paint landscapes/ Nie maluje pejzaży, Balucka Gallery, MGS Lodz, Poland (catalogue
published by MGS Lodz)
2013 | Ariadne, Apricot Gallery, Rag Factory, London
['streindze(r)] / Travel Agency project, Rondo Gallery, Katowice, Poland
Mary and Margareth / Travel Agency project, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland
Another Day in Paradise, 5P Gallery, Berne, Switzerland
2012 | Blogosphere/Blogosfera, Strefa A Gallery & German General Consulate, Cracow,
Poland
2010 | Such things happen/Takie rzeczy sie zdarzaja, Flying Gallery, Warsaw
2009 | Accumulation/Nagromadzenie, Flying Gallery, Warsaw
2007 | Moments, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna (catalogue published by Ariadne Gallery)
2005 | Give Me a Break, StadtGalerie Vienna
Full Colour, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna (1: self published catalogue, 2: published by Ariadne
Gallery)
2003 | Kind of Woman, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
Kind of Woman/Rodzaj Kobiety, Sosnowiec Art Center, Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec, Poland
(catalogue published by Sosnowiec Art Center, Sielecki Castle)
2002 | Life of the Horizon, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
Awards and grants
2013 | Nomination for Strabag Art Award, Vienna
2012 | Nomination for Grand Prix, International Biennial of Digital Graphic Art, Era Art,
Gdynia, Poland
2010 | Nomination for Strabag Art Award, Vienna
Scholarship of Kunstraum B, Kiel, Germany
2006 | Nomination for Grand Prix, Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin,
Poland
2002-2005 | Culture Prize for young Artist, Town Hall Katowice, Poland
2003 | Junger Österreicher Prize 2003, International Wine Marketing Austria
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2001 | Special Award for artistic courage and uncompromising attitude Silver Spur, Polish
Painting Review Promotions 2000, Legnica, Poland
2000 | scholarship of Hugo Kołłątaj Foundation, Katowice, Poland
Grand Prix, the Polish Student Graphic Competition, Canson-Poland, a competition
accompanying the Triennial of Polish Graphics
1998 | Grant Award of Academy of Art Collage in San Francisco
1991-1995 | Scholarship holder of the National Fund for Children in Warsaw
Collective shows
2016 | North-South, Zbrojownia Gallery,Gdansk, Poland
2015 | Parallax, A Man Who Cannot Get Up/Travel Agency project, New Space, Academy of
Fine Arts in Katowice
5th Guanlan International Print Biennial, China
North-South, Shaft Wilson Gallery, Katowice, Poland
2013 | Love, Life and Ego, Showroom Wild Horses, Vienna
Space as a Tool, Sosnowiec Art Center, Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec, Poland
Visit/Wizyta, Za Szyba Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
Integrations-Mediations, East of Culture, Symposium on Contemporary Art and exhibition,
Lublin, Poland
Nord Art 2013, Rendsburg, Germany
2012 | Fight the November Blues, Flying Gallery Fundation, Warsaw
Lettra. Sign and Letter, exhibition accompanying The International Print Triennale Cracow,
Poland
Boating Island, Little Venice Canal, Paddington, London
8th Triennial of Polish Graphics, BWA Katowice, Poland
2nd Inter-format Symposium on Remoteness and Contemporary Art, Nida Art Colony,
Lithuania
3rd International Biennial of Digital Graphic Art, Association for the Art Promotion, Era Art,
Gdynia, Poland
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Space as a Tool for Shaping Social Attitudes, Natural History Museum of Moldova, Tandem’s
European Cultural Festival, Chisinau, Moldova
2011 | Chiosc/Kiosk, Rondo Gallery, Katowice, Poland
6th MIKK Annual Photography Competition, Digital Abstraction, Murska Sobota, Slovenia
Wir haben Zeit, MyArt project space, Vienna
Drawing Connections, Sienna Art Institute, Italy
Polish Contemporary Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art in Minsk, Belarus
Common Spaces, Körös Museum, Oradea, Romania
2010 | Ornament, Flying Gallery, Warsaw
AAF London, Art Fair
Vier Positionen polnischer Kunst, KunstraumB, Kiel, Germany
XXII Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland
Intymacy/Intymnosc, Flying Gallery, Warsaw
2009 | Red Dot Miami, Art Fair
XIV International Print Biennale Sarcelles 2009, France
PoLEMika, Coal Industry Museum, Zabrze, Poland
AAF New York, Art Fair
20/21 International Art Fair, The Royal Collage of Art, London
All the Best, Flying Gallery, Warsaw
2008 | AAF London, Art Fair
We are European, ArtMark Gallery, Spital am Pyhrn, Austria
XXII Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland
Nord Art 2008, Rendsburg/Germany / AAF New York, Art Fair
20/21 International Art Fair, The Royal Collage of Art, London
2007 | Kunstschnee - Available Art, Museum Quatiter 21, Vienna
Herbst-Winter Collection, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
AAF London, Art Fair
International Print Triennale Cracow-Oldenburg-Vienna 2007, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
Rose- oh reiner Widerspruch, ArtMark Gallery, Vienna
AAF New York, Art Fair
20/21 International Art Fair, The Royal Collage of Art, London
2006 | XXI Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland
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Dabrowki 9, Silesian Museum of Art, Katowice, Poland
AAF London, Art Fair
Chelsea Harbour Design Center - "Focus 2006" cooperation Vernissage & The World of
Interior Magazine, London
International Print Triennial Cracow 2006, Bunkie/ BWA Gallery, Cracow, Poland
Nord Art 2006, Rendsburg/Hamburg, Germany
Conjucton 2006, A Contemporary Art Exhibition, London-Birmingham-Stoke, United Kingdom
Gegensaetze, International Art Exhibition, Hollfeld, Germany
Away, Available Art, Camelot Gallery, Cracow
2005 | Step Out from Chaos, Archidiecezjalne Museum, Katowice
Wind Art Festival, Jeju 2005, South Korea
Art Forward Enduring Power of Paint, The Bloxham Galleries, London
Harlech Biennale 2005, Wales, United Kingdom
Nord Art 2005, Rendsburg, Germany
2004 | Wind Art Festival, Jeju 2004, South Korea
Die Figur als Aufgabe, StadtGalerie Vienna
Into Europe. New Art for New Reality, The Bloxham Galleries, London
AAF London, Art Fair
Europa Jetzt, ST/A/R & MAK NITE, Museum Applied Arts, Vienna
Jubilee exhibition of ex-scholarship holders of the National Fund for Children in Warsaw, Old
Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Kunterbunte Arbeiten, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
Palingenese, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
2003 | Paesaggio di desiderio, Austrian Culture Forum and Academy of Fine Arts Brera,
Milan, Italy
Junger Österreicher 2003, Museum Applied Arts, Vienna
11 th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Museum of Art, Taiwan
V Triennial of Polish Graphics, BWA Katowice, Poland
VII International Biennial of Drawing and Graphics The Masters of Graphic Arts, Municipal
Museum of Art, Gyor, Hungary
Premio Acqui, VI International Biennal of Graphics, Ovada, Italy
2002 | Vienna Art 2002, International Art Fair, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
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XIX Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Obrazowanie/Picturing, Szczecin
VII International Biennial of Graphics, Caixanova, Ourense, Spain
Kunterbunte Arbeiten, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
The Essence 2002, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
2001 | Polish Painting Review, Bielsko Autumn/Bielska Jesień 2001, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Ab Ovo, Sukiennice Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Acceptance- Tolerance, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
2nd Polish Triennial of Student Graphics, ASP Poznan, Poland
XI Polish Painting Review Promotions 2000, Legnica, Poland
2000 | Post-industrial landscapes of Upper Silesia, Rattingen, Germany
Results 2000, Wittgenstein Palace, Vienna, Austria
IV Triennial of Polish Graphics, BWA Katowice, Poland
Polish Triennial of Student Graphics, Poznań, Poland
1998 | Who Murdered Reality? The Mill&Short Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Commissions
2015 | A Man Who Cannot Get Up/Travel Agency project for Parallax / Academy of Fine Arts
in Katowice, Poland
2014 | Intercity/ Travel Agency project, Action Gallery, Warsaw
2013 | Mary and Margareth / Travel Agency project, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland
2012 | Space as a Tool for Shaping Social Attitudes, Natural History Museum of Moldova,
Tandem’s European Cultural Festival, Chisinau, Moldova
2011 | Common Spaces, Körös Museum, Oradea, Romania
2010 | Vier Positionen polnischer Kunst, KunstraumB, Kiel, Germany
2009 | PoLEMika, Coal Industry Museum, Zabrze, Poland
2007 | Hval Kulturstasjon, Honefoss, Norway
2006 | Garden-City-Structure, Fonix & Debrecen Municipal Gallery, Hungary
2005 | Harlech Biennale 2005, Wales, United Kingdom
Wind Art Festival, Jeju 2005, South Korea
2004 | Wind Art Festival, Jeju 2004, South Korea
Art Galichnik, Museum of Contemporary Art & Ministry of Culture, Skopie, Macedonia
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2003 | Paesaggio di desiderio, Austrian Culture Forum and Academy of Fine Arts Brera,
Milan, Italy
Residencies
2012 | Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
Space as a tool for shaping social attitudes, Oberliht in cooperation with MitOst from Berlin,
Chisinau, Moldova
2010 | KunstraumB, Kiel, Germany
2009 | George Enescu National Museum, Bucharest, Romania
2007 | Hval Kulturstasjon, Honefoss, Norway
2006 | Garden-City-Structure, Fonix & Debrecen Municipal Gallery, Hungary
2004 | Art Galichnik, Museum of Contemporary Art & Ministry of Culture, Skopie, Macedonia
Collections
Art Mark Gallery, Vienna / George Enescu National Museum, Bucharest, Romania / Fonix &
Debrecen Municipal Gallery, Hungary / Flying Gallery Fundation, Warsaw / Ariadne Gallery,
Vienna / Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia / Hval Kulturstasjon, Honefoss,
Norway / privat collections
Lectures
from 2004 | Lectuer, Associate Professor at Faculty of Intermedia and Stage Design at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland
2015 | Guests lectuer at Chelsea College of Arts, Londyn (Erasmus+)
2014-2015 | Long life learning project for Amerlinghaus, Vienna
2012 | Guests lectuer at Vilnus Art Academy, Lithuania (Erasmus)
Guests lectuer, Space as a tool for shaping social attitudes, Schusev's school, Chisinau,
Moldova
2011 | Lectuer, Kunst Fabrik Wien, Austria
Lectuer, Kunstakademie Neustift, Italy
2010 | Guests lectuer at University of Applied Science Joanneum Graz, Austria
2003-04 | Lectuer, Landscape of Desire, International Art Symposium KulturAXE Wien,
Giżycko, Poland
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Coordinations
2015 | Parallax / Collective show, curatorial project for Chelsea College of Arts, Londyn and
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
Kicking Montageument (With Ball). Freee collective workshop for Academy of Fine Arts in
Katowice, Poland
Dave Beech and Martin Newth. The apparatus of the exhibition and the status of the viewer.
Workshop for Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland
2013 | Space as a Tool, Sosnowiec Art Center, Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec, Poland /
Collective show, curatorial project for Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
Mother of Pearl, Emdes Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland / Collective show, curatorial project for
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
2012 | Urban Legends, ZPAF Gallery, Katowice / Collective show, curatorial project for
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
Wanted, LP Gallery, Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland / Collective show, curatorial project for
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
2010-2011 | Chiosc. project space, Chinsinau, Moldowa / Curatorial project for Oberliht,
Independet Art Association, Chinsinau, Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and MitOst
Fundation, Berlin
2006-2009 | Figurama / Collective show, international drawing project
2004 | International Festival of Visual Arts, Searching for a vertical horizon, Shaft Wilson
Gallery, Katowice, Poland / Project for Cross Over Independent Art Association
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