WOJCIECH KUCHARCZYK

Poland

Audiovisual artist, musician, activist. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and lecturer there in 1999-2005. For years he has been trying to break the boundaries and divisions in art. He is the author of numerous exhibitions and concerts, dozens of music albums, a book “For the end”, music and dance performances, albums and other projects. He has given concerts in Europe, as well as in the USA, Mexico and Kyrgyzstan. He has shown his visual works and sound installations in equally distant places, such as Palestine.

In the course of several decades of his artistic work, he authored individual exhibitions and took part in group shows in both still operating and now non-existent galleries, such as BWA in Katowice, Bęc Zmiana in Warsaw, Manhattan Gallery in Łódź, Rafał Bujnowski Open Gallery in Krakow, CSW Kronika in Bytom, Mózg in Bydgoszcz, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Entropia Gallery in Wrocław, ON in Poznań, Ludwig Museum in Cologne or Musee D’art Moderne in Liege.

Since 1995 he has been the head of the Mik Musik record label. Since 2014, he has also been involved in curating music events, e.g. for the Tauron New Music Festival in Katowice. He has travelled a lot. He still does. Fan of all kinds of wunderkammern and gardening.