Wojciech Bąkowski

b. 1979, lives and works in Warsaw

Graduated at Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. His work has been shown (among others) in New Museum, New York, Schmela Haus, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. Apart from being a visual artist, he is also a poet and musician. In 2015 he was awarded the Grand Prize at the 61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. His films were presented at film festivals in Toronto, Vienna, Wrocław, Ann Arbour, and on individual screening at Anthology Film Archives, NYC.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

• “Tinnitus”, Ciaccia Levi, Paris

2024

• “Heart on the Trail”, Bureau, New York, USA

2023

• “A Couple of Details”, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland
• “Route Phantom”, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen, Germany 

2021

• “The Moon, a Star, and an Overhead Light”, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland

2019

• solo presentation w/ Stereo, Warsaw & Bureau, NYC/ Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2018

• “Waking Up From Abstraction”, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland

2016

• “Holiday Power Supply”, SVIT, Prague, Czech Republic
• “Hideout in the Corner of Level 6”, Bureau, New York, USA
• “Main Issues”, Vosberg, Cologne, Germany

2015

• “Weak Moods’ Control”, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland
• “There’s a Pain Somewhere In The Room”, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
• “Realizing”, Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York, USA

2014

• abc – art berlin contemporary, Berlin, Germany

2013

• Exhibitions of the works: “Prospects’ overview”, “Standby map”, 
• “Finding oneself”, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland
• Exhibition of the works: ”Impressions spread out”, “The expositions of problems”, 
• “Entoptic screening”, Galerie Martin von Zomeren, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012

• “Clarification storage”, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland
• “Dry Standpipe”, LISTE 17, Basel, Switzerland

2011

• “Lack of Access Radiates”, PGS Sopot, Poland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

• “Ruhr Ding: Schlaf”, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Essen
• “Cemetery of Splendour”, Piktogram, Warsaw
• “On Paper”, ECHO, Cologne
• “Czuła Rewolucja”, Razem Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw
• “Patyk, na który nawija się niebo”, Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature, Warsaw
• ”Digits and Numbers”, Stereo, Warsaw

2022

• “ca. 2009”, Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw
• Callart 1, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wrocław

2021

• “Distant Voices”, Stereo, Warsaw
• “Companions”, Union Pacific, London, UK

2019

• “Creation of a Moment”, KaviarFactory, Henningsvær, Norway

2018

• “Slight Ache”, (curated by James Richards), Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, UK
• “Hours and Places”, Wojciech Bąkowski, Erica Baum, Constance DeJong, Bureau, New York, USA
• “No, no, no, no”, Cell Project Space, London, UK

2017

• Narrative Festival #9, Gdańsk, Poland
• Things in Shapes of Things, Griffin Art Space, Warsaw, Poland
• It Is As You Think It Is, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Poland
• CONDO, The Sunday Painter, London, UK

2016

• “Open City” VIII Festival of Art in Public Spaces, Lublin, Poland
• “I am waiting for someone to call me”, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, Poland
• “Entoptic screening”, Galeria Salon Akademii, Warsaw, Poland

2015

• “Tomorrow Was a Montage”, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK
• “A Milion Lines”, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, Poland
• “Propotypes”, XII Baltic Triennal, Vilnius, Lithuania
• “Let’s dance”, Art Stations, Poznan, Poland
• “State of Life”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
• “Procedures for the head. Polish Art Today”, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
• “It Rained Again”, Bureau, New York, USA

2014

• “Voice”, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
• “Instalators”, Art Stations, Poznań, Poland
• “Midnight Show II”, Galeria Dizajn BWA Wrocław, Poland
• “The Day is Not Enough”, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Poland
• “Not I”, Lismore Castle Arts, St Carthage Hall, Lismore, Ireland
• “As You Can See: Polish Art Today”, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

2013

• “In the Heart of the Country”, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
• “Things in common”, Art Stations, Poznań, Poland
• “British British Polish Polish”, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
• “Twisted Entities”, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

2012

• Wojciech Bąkowski/ Michał Budny, Galeria Stereo, Poznan, Poland
• “Everything’s Alright Forever”, Paradise Row, London, United Kingdom
• “Grey Peak of the Wave”, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA
• “It’s Bearable” (with P.Bosacki), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
• “Arbeitdisziplin”, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland
• “On Demand”, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• “Will Be Fine”, Galeria Stereo, Poznan, Poland
• “Myth and Melancholy”, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Poland
• Duo-show with Matt Bryans, Galerie Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• “The Forgetting of Proper Names”, Calvert 22, London, United Kingdom

2011

• “Villa Tokyo”, Tokyo, Japan
• “Found In Translation, Chapter L”, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• “The Room You Are In Now”, Galeria Stereo at LISTE 16, Basel, Switzerland
• “The Power of Fantasy. Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland”, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
• “Bodily Choreography”, Zachęta State Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
• “MIR”, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok, Poland
• “Everything”, Kolonie Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
• “For love not money”, 15th Tallin Print Triennal, Tallin, Estonia

2010

• “Luc Tuymans: A Vision of Central Europe”, Brugge Centraal, Brugge, Belgium
• “Transilvania”, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland
• “I See Things That Are Not There”, Polish Institute, Rome, Italy
• “Traumtagebuch” (with P. Bosacki), Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
• “Early Years” Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany

2009

• “3 x Yes”, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
• “Completed” (with Anna Molska) Kunstverei, Freiburg, Germany
• “Head of Heads“ (with Magdalena Starska), Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland
• “Views 2009”, Zachęta State Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
• “From the archive” Zak Branicka Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• “The Generational: Younger than Jesus”, New Museum, New York, USA
• “Take a look at me now”, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Norwich United Kingdom

2008

• “Establishment (and its discontents)”, CoCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
• “Ain’t no sorry”, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
• “Good for home use and outdoor”, public space, Poznan, Poland
• “Bodies adream”, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznan, Poland
• “Stomach”, Słodownia Gallery, Old Brewery, Poznan, Poland
• “Up against the Wall”, Zachęta State Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland