Michał Smandek
Born 1981, Poland. Lives and works in Katowice.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2018

Drift – A Rt+, Areál Malcovna, Český Těšín
Plant Care. “Wujek” Coal Mine
– Silesian Freedom and Solidarity Centre, Katowice
Conjuring up Sculpture – with Dorota Buczkowska, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz

2017

Plant Care. “Wujek” Coal Mine – Interventions: space/time/memory – Ars Cameralis, Silesian Museum, Katowice

2016

Overremembering,Rodriguez Gallery, Poznan
The Sun Extinguished,
 Wozownia Art Gallery, Art Laboratory, Torun, Poland
Drawings, Starter Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2015

Prognostic, ShowOff, Skład Długa, Photomonth Krakow, Krakow, Poland

2014

The Herd, 3rd International Biennial Land Art Mongolia LAM 360°, Orkhon Valley, Mongolia
The Vanishing Ability to Rest, BWA Tarnow Contemporary Art Gallery, Tarnow, Poland

2013

Heavy Metal, Wozownia Art Gallery, Art Laboratory, Torun, Poland
Teleport Process (Modernists: tourists), BWA Sokol Contemporary Art Gallery, Nowy Sacz, Poland

2012

Fatigue of Materials, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland

2011

Romantic Distress, BWA Design / Czarny Neseser Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland

2010

Discovery, Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art, Bytom, Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2017

Line and Chaos – the World in SpatialCompositions – BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice
D / I / S / R / U / P / T (part 2) – Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Rodríguez Gallery, Warsaw
Mirror + Light + Shadow – I International Land Art Symposium, India, West Bengal
Jego białe pióra, oświecone słońcem, błyszczały jak samo słońce – Henryk Gallery, Cracow
Imperfect Future Tense – Rondo Sztuki, Katowice

2016

Secret Meanings – Maison 44 Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

2015

Keep Both Feet on the Ground, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery Katowice, Poland

2014

LAM 360°, 3rd International Biennial Land Art Mongolia, Union of Mongolian Artists National Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Instructors’ Room, Grolsch ArtBoom Festival, Krakow, Poland
Cold, Warm and Nonhuman, BWA Sokol Contemporary Art Gallery, Nowy Sacz, Poland

2013

Positive/Negative, XVII Art Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Survival 11, Wroclaw, Poland
Milk Teeth, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland

2012

Recognition the nature is not the nature, Henryk Jordan Park, Krakow, Poland
Apoptosis – BWA Studio, Wroclaw, Poland

2011

Fear of the Darkness, CKK Centre of Culture, Katowice, Poland
Hommage to Kantor, Program Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2010

Survival 8, Art Review, Strzegomski Shelter, Wroclaw, Poland

2009

Polish Alphabet part 1, BWA Gallery, Tarnow, Poland
Survival 7, Young Art in Extreme Conditions Review, Four Domes Pavilion, Wroclaw, Poland
Accidental Pleasures, Bwa Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland

PUBLICATIONS:

2018

Conjuring up Sculpture –Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz

2017

Line and Chaos – BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice
Secret Meanings, Marked Secrets – UAP, Poznan

2016

Midnight Show IV in 9 epizodes – BWA Wrocław, Galleries of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw
Revange on Nature – interviewer Aleksander Hudzik, NN6T

2015

Keep Both Feet on the Ground, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery Katowice
Savages. New Art form Silesia, Marta Lisok, Fine Arts Academy in Katowice
North and South – catalog of the exhibition, Fine Arts Academy in Katowice

2014

Constant Co-operation with Nature – interviewer Magdalena Ujma, catalog Grolsch ArtBoom Festival, Krakow Festival Office, Krakow
The Herd – catalog of the 3rd International Biennial Land Art Mongolia LAM 360°, UMA – Union of Mongolian Artists, Ulaanbaatar

2013

Nothing More, Nothing Less – catalog Survival 11, Contemporary Art Fundation ArtTransparent, Wroclaw
Heavy Metal – rec. Maria Niemyjska, catalog Nie[po]rozumienie, Art Gallery Wozownia/Art Laboratory, Torun
Trapper and Hunter – rec. Marta Lisok, catalog Milk Teeth, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice

2012

A Cowboy, in other words – a Shepherd – rec. Łukasz Białkowski, catalog Drobnostki, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice
Romantic Distress – catalog Black Briefcase, BWA Wroclaw Contemporary Art Gallery, Wroclaw
A white tongue as a sign of dehydration – Punkt 8, Contemporary Art Gallery Arsenał in Poznan

2011

Boundary Conditions – rec. Marta Lisok, Fragile, numer 2, Krakow

2010

Black Escape – catalog Survival 8 Art Review, Contemporary Art Fundation ArtTransparent, Wroclaw

2009

In the Dust – about Ośmiornica group – rec. Marta Lisok, catalog Alfabet polski_1, BWA Tarnow Contemporary Art Gallery, Tarnow
Reconstructions – catalog Survival 7 Art In Extreme Conditions, Contemporary Art Fundation ArtTransparent, Wroclaw
There are no waves inside the Smithson’s Jetty Spiral – catalog Accidental Pleasures, rec. Marta Lisok, Contemporary Art Gallery BWA, Katowice