Rafał Milach
Visual artist, photographer, and educator. His work focuses on the tension between society and power structures. Author of protest books and critical publications on state control. He is a professor at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of Silesian University in Katowice, Poland. Milach is a winner of the Author Book Award at Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, France and World Press Photo contest. A finalist of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, Polityka Passports Award. He has received scholarships from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Magnum Foundation, and European Cultural Foundation. A co-founder of the Archive of Public Protests and Sputnik Photos collectives. He is the only Polish member of Magnum Photos. He constantly publishesin the most important magazines in the world. Milach’s works have been widely exhibited in Poland and worldwide, and can be found in the collections of MoMA Warsaw, Poland,
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; ING Polish Art Foundation, Poland; Kiyosato, the Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan; Brandts, Odense, Denmark; NOMUS New Art Museum / National Museum, Gdańsk, Poland; Museum of Warsaw, Poland.
Exhibitions
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 | Reverse Jednostka Gallery, Warsaw
2024 | Reverse 7L, Karl Lagerfeld Library, Paris, France
2023 | Rafał Milach. The Archive of Public Protests, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
2022 | Strike Fonderia 20.9 Gallery, Verona, Italy
2021 | Strike Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Jednostka Gallery, Warsaw
2021 | Stop Calling Me Murzyn Jednostka Gallery, Warsaw
2020 | Common Ground Polish Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020 | Refusal Galleri Format, Malmo, Sweden
2019 | Oscillations Galeria Studio, Warsaw, Poland
2019 | Refusal Karlin Studios Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2018 | Refusal PGS National Gallery, Sopot, Poland
2018 | The Winners Side Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2018 | The First March of Gentlemen ISSP Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2017 | The First March of Gentlemen Fonderia 20.9 Gallery, Verona, Italy
2017 | Refusal Szara Gallery, Katowice, Poland
2017 | Refusal Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Łódź, Poland
2014 | In the Car with R Fotodepartament, St.Petersburg, Russia
2013 | 7 Rooms Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2012 | 7 Rooms C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2012 | 7 Rooms Noorderlicht Photo Gallery, Groningen, The Netherlands
2012 | 7 Rooms Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2012 | In the car with R Czytelnia Sztuki, Gliwice, Poland
Other
MONOGRAPHIES
2024 | Reverse L7, Paris
2021 | Strike JEDNOSTKA, Warsaw
2021 | I am Warning You GOST, London
2018 | Nearly Every Rose on the Barriers in front of the Parliament JEDNOSTKA, Warsaw
2017 | PRESSIDENT Szara Gallery, partner: JEDNOSTKA
2017 | The First March of Gentlemen Kolekcja Wrzesińska I ed., GOST, London II ed. in 2018
2014 | The Winners GOST, London (I+II ed.)
2013 | Black Sea of Concrete self-published, Warsaw
2012 | In the Car with R Czytelnia Sztuki Gallery, Gliwice, Poland
2011 | 7 Rooms Kehrer Verlag I ed., II ed. in 2013