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BIOGRAFIE
| 1931 | Born in Hocquincourt, France to Polish parents |
| 1935 | Return to Poland with the family |
| 1940 | Deportation of the family to Germany |
| 1945 | Liberation of the family by the US Army and departure to France |
| 1946 | Return to Poland |
| 1946 - 1948 | Education as a lithographer at the graphic school of Walbrzych Nowa Ruda |
| 1949 | Studies at the School of Art and Design in Lódz |
| 1950 - 1956 | Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw |
| 1957 | First trip to Paris |
| 1959 - 1963 | Serie of monochrome paintings in white |
| 1963 | Painting on the color white |
| 1965 | Beginning of the work OPALKA 1965/1 – ∞ |
| 1977 | Settles in France |
| 1985 - 1990 | Visiting professor at the Summer Academy in Salzburg |
| 2011 | died in Chieti, Italy |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
| 2016 | Galerie Dominique Levy, London Musée Soulages, Rodez Espace Croix Baragnon, Toulouse Centre Pompidou, Metz Musée Folkwang, Essen Städtischen Galerie, Dresden Metropolitan Breuer, New York LAAC – Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine, Dunkerque Centre d’Art Ten Bogaerde, Coxyde, Belgium Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels |
| 2015 | Christie’s Mayfair, London Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels Musée du Louvre, Paris Centre d’art contemporain Walter Benjamin, Perpignan Collection Philippe Piguet – Espace d’Art Contemporain, Annecy, France National Art Museum of China, Peking Centre d’Art Contemporain, Châtellerault, France FRAC Franche-Comté, Cité des Arts, Besançon, France |
| 2014 | Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York Fondazione Prada, Ca’ Corner della Regina palazzo, Venice Art au mur / Artothèque, Pessac Château Guiraud, Sauternes Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux la Maison rouge, Paris, |
| 2013 | Art Station Gallery, Poznan Punta della Dogana, Venice FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence |
| 2012 | Centre Pompidou – Metz, Metz |
| 2011 | Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg Galerie Michela Rizzo, Venice Venice Casino Correr Museum, Venice Gallery ZAK/BRANICKA, Berlin La Chapelle de la Visitation and the Galerie de l’Etrave, Thonon-les-Bains Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp La Collégiale and the Tessé Museum, Le Mans Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux Art Brussels – Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels David Robert Art Foundation, London Palais Fortuny, Venice Daegu Art Museum, Seoul |
| 2010 | Art stations Foundation, Poznan Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris Künstlerhaus Thurn &Taxis, Bregenz Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna résidence artistique du Kulturforum Sud-Nord, Cotonou Mortos gallery, New-York Museum Twentse Velle, Enschede |
| 2009 | Galleria Melesi, Lecco Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palazzo Belmonte Riso, Palermo Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux Fondazione Puclisi Cosentino, Catane Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris Palazzo Fortuny, Venice Musée Baron Gérard, Espace d’Art Actuel, Bayaux Art Forum Wurth, Capena CNEAI ( Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’Art Imprimé), Chatou Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano Studio d’Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome Musée – Château, Annecy |
| 2008 | Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice MUMOK, Vienna Fondation Salomon, Alex Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Fondazione Mudima, Milan Château de Fraïsse, Fraïssé des Corbières Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan Brussels Brennel |
| 2007 | Cueto Project New York metro station « Université Paul Sabatier », Toulouse Centre Photographique d’Ile de France, Pontault Combault Cueto Project, New York Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri Musée Fortuny, Venice Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam walter storms galerie, Munich Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna - Turin, Palazzo Callicola, Spoleto, Istituto National d’Arte Contemporanea, Carrina Western Project, Culver City les Abattoirs Toulouse Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne |
| 2006 | Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne Métropole, Saint Etienne Slought Foundation, Philadelphia Museum der Moderne, Salzburg City Art Center, Edinbourg Grand Palais, Paris MACBA, Barcelona Musée Matisse, Le Cateau Cambresis FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen Musée Départemental de la Tapisserie, Aubusson Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warshaw |
| 2005 | ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux Fondation Culturale Edison, Naples ARTCURIAL Paris Sant’Agostino, Bergamo, Italy Il Filatoio Caraglio, Italy Casino Luxembourg KEOM Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warshaw Le Dix-Neuf, Centre Régional Art Contemporain, Montbéliard |
| 2004 | Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris CCC de Tours Galerie Ephémère, 91 rue de Seine – Paris Guggenheim, New-York Kunsthaus, Potsdam Galerie Klovicevi dvori, Zagreb County Museum of Art (LACMA) Los Angeles Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing Musée national Centre d’Art Reina Sofia Castel Dell’Ovo, Naples Espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux |
| 2003 | Galerie Grant – Selwyn, New York Stadtpalais, Dresden, Germany Musée des Beaux-Arts, Zug, Switzerland Piotrkowska, Lödz Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen Basilicata Potenza, 50éme Biennale Internationale d’Art, Venice 34émes Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles Palais Ujazdowski, Warshaw |
| 2002 | Mark Quint, Gallery La Jolla, Californie Gallerie Grant-Selwyn, Los-Angeles Lindenau Museum, Altenburg Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT, USA Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Musée de Grenoble l’Arsenal, Soissons Galerie Zéro, L’Infini, Zürich L’Espace Paul Ricard et la Galerie Papillon-Fiat, Paris Hôtel de la région, Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine de Bordeaux Expo 02, Morat/Murten, Switzerland National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Site Odeon-5, Paris Centre d’Art de Rotterdam, Netherlands CAPC, Bordeaux Quaderni Della Galleria Melesi, Lecco, Italy Istituto Polacco di Roma et Galleria di Pino Casagrande, Rome Lenbachhaus Kunstbau und Städtische Galerie Munich Arbeiten auf Papier, Munich Szczcinie 2002, Muzeum Narodowe |
| 2001 | Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Lodz Galerie Foksal, Warshaw espace Renn, Paris Musée de l’Architecture, Wroclaw La Verrière, Fondation Hermès, Brussels Kasa Galerie, Sabanci University, Istanbul Chicago 2001, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Kunstmuseum, Wiesbaden Zamek Ksiazat Pomorskich, Stupsk Toyota Municipal Museum of Art’s collection Toyota Palais de la Culture, Warshaw Centre d’Art contemporain Bouvet Ladubay, Saumur Musée cantonal des Beaux Arts, Sion Kunsthalle, Hamburg Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia |
| 2000 | Kunstmuseum, Bonn Museum moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 20er Haus, Vienna Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf Zacheta Museum, Warshaw KunstMuseum, Bergen KunstMuseum, Reykjavik Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris Würth Museum, Künzelsau Miami Art Center, Miami M.I.T. List Visual Art center , Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge (MA) Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver Galeria Stara, Galeria Labirynt 2,Czerwiec, Lublin |
| 1999 | Katowice Galerie, Katowice, Pologne Medienzentrum der Verlagsgruppe Passau, St.-Anna-Kapelle, Passau Kunstmuseum, Bonn Galerie der Stadt, Stuttgart Queens Museum. Flushing Meadows Västernorrland, Härnösand, Länsmuseet Pougues-les-Eaux Krems, Kremser Kunsthalle Nationalgalerie, Berlin PS1 MoMA, New York |
| 1998 | Musée des Beaux Arts, Vilafranca del Penedès Städtische Galerie, Altes Theater, Ravensburg Lieu d’Art Contemporain (L.A.C.), Sigean Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Katowice Galerie, Katowice Musée des Beaux Arts, Vilafranca del Penedès Kronprinzpalais, Berlin Abbaye-aux-Dames, Caen Galerie TNB, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes$ Box Château d’Eau, Bourges Musée d’Art Contemporain, Strasbourg Le choix de 10 artistes contemporains en Pologne, Katowice |
| 1997 | Musée Muzeum Narodowe W Gdansku, Gdansk Palma Dotze Galeria d’art, Vilafranca del Penedes Mucjarnok Palace of Art, Budapest Stadtsgalerie, Stuttgart G.A.M.E.S., Mönchengladbach Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Priesterseminar, Graz Szépmüvézeti Mùzeum – Ludwig Mùzeum, Budapest |
| 1996 | Gallery ISM, Gaain Gallery, Séoul Arsenal Galeria, Miejska Bwa, Poznan Starmach Galeria, Krakow Centrum Sztucki Wspolczesnej, Warshaw Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art Kwangju Museum of Contemporary Art Chosun Ilbo Gallery, South Korea Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Sonje Museum, Kyongiu and Seoul, South Korea Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. |
| 1995 | Szepmuveszeti Budapest, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Budapest Pavillon de la Pologne, 46th Venice Biennale Salon Gaudi, Palacio Victoria Eugenia Sala Camper, Rambla de Cataluna, Barcelona Centre Cultural, Barcelona Kunstlerhaus, Vienna Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 1994 | Stadt Fellbach Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warshaw Museo Correr, Venice Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn C.A.P.C. Bordeaux Centre d'Art Contemporain Bouvet Ladubay, Saumur Museum of Modern and Contempory Art, Geneva Musée d’Art de Shoto, Japan Musée de la Ville de Kariya, Japan Musée de la Ville d’Onomichi, Japan Musée d’art moderne d’Akita, Japan Galerie Pels-Leudsen, Berlin Centre Lotois d’Art Contemporain, Figeac, France |
| 1993 | Städtische Galerie, Göppingen Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar E.L.A.C., Lyon Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig XLV ème Biennale de Venise, Pavillon de l'ex Yougoslavie, Venice Musée des Beaux Arts, Sophia, Plovid, Varna, Bulgary Galerie Caudine Papillon, Paris Musée instrumental, Old England, Brussels FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Villeneuve d'Ascq Galeria Apendix, Warszawa Muzeum Okregowego im Leona Wyczolkowskiego w Bydgoszozy, Bydgoszcz Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz |
| 1992 | Galerie Christine et Isy Brachot, Paris Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Galerie Foksal, Warshaw Galerie Froment-Putman, Paris Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster |
| 1991 | Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels Primo Piano, Rome, Italy Galerie Appendix, Warshaw Galerie du Triangle, Bordeaux Mala Galerija, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana Feigen Gallery, Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio ARCO, Madrid, Spain Bath Festival Exhibition, Bath |
| 1990 | Galerie Lallouz, Montréal Centre d'Art contemporain, Mont-de-Marsan, Landes Ecole d'Art de Dunkerque, Dunkerque Galerie Le Chanjour, Nice Galerie Walter Storms, Munich Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Castello di Rivara, Torino John Weber Gallery, New York Galerie Wanda Dunikowski, Cologne |
| 1989 | John Weber Gallery, New York |
| 1988 | Centre Culturel de Buenos Aires Galleria Ariete, Lecco Collection Lenz Schonberg, Fundacio Caixa de Barcelona, Barcelona Fundacion Juan March, Munich Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn Maison Centrale des Artistes, Krimwall, Moskow Städtische Galerie im Lembachhaus, Munich |
| 1987 | 19th Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brasil Primo Piano, Rome, Italy 19e Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brasil The Salomon R. Guggenheim Fondation, New York Musée du Périgord, Périgueux et FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux |
| 1986 | John Weber Gallery, New York Centre de Création Contemporaine (CCC) de Tours Barbican Center, London Centre régional d'Art contemporain, Labège Innopole, Toulouse Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich Musée Cantini, Marseille |
| 1985 | Musée Rath, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek Städtische Kunsthalle, Manheim Museum des 20 Jahrhundetds-Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne Kunstlerwerkstätten, Munich Peter Stuyvesant Stichting, Amsterdam Salzburger Museum, Salzburg Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris Turmac, Zevenaar |
| 1984 | Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels Villa Arson, Nice Goethe Institut, Paris Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
| 1983 | John Weber Gallery, New York La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-les-Avignon Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
| 1982 | Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris Erker Gallery, Saint-Gall John Weber Gallery, New York Galerie d+c Mueller Roth, Stuttgart Eremitani San Agostino, Bergamo |
| 1981 | Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal Galerie Walter Storms, Villingen Convento degli Eremitani San Agostino, Bergamo Musée d’Art et d’Histoire photographique, Geneva Alte Oper, Frankfurt Webster College Hilton Center, Saint Louis Palais de la Sécession, Vienna Neuberger Museum, State University, New York Archives of 20th Century in Contemporary Art, Lodz PKWN 37, Lodz |
| 1980 | Galerie Art in Progress, Düsseldorf La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Galerie Walter Storms, Munich Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt Rice Museum, Houston, Texas Rijksmuseum, Kröller-Müller, Otterlo Hayward Gallery, London Galerie Beyeler, Basel Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden im Albertinum, Dresden Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
| 1979 | Museum of Art Allentown, Pennsylvania Muhlenberg College, Muhlenberg John Weber Gallery, New York Minneapolis Institut of Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome Westfälischer Kunstverien, Münster |
| 1978 | Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachussetts Colombus Museum, Colombus, Ohio Roman Opalka , J.W Gallery, New York Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis |
| 1977 | Hôte du Musée d'art et d'histoire, AMAM, Geneva Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld John Weber Gallery, New York Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia Documenta, Kassel ROSC'1977, Dublin Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston 14e Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brasil Guggenheim Museum, New York Museum Sztuki, Lodz Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart Zwtazek Polskich Artystow Plastykow Okreg, Warshaw |
| 1976 | Galeria Wspolczesna "Ruch", Warshaw Museum Boymans - Van Beuningnen, Rotterdam Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Galerie Schweinebraden, Berlin, R.D.A. Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami The Gallery oh the Loretto Hilton Center, Webster College, Saint Louis Loew Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables Biennale di Venezia Csók Istvàn Gallery, Gallery of the Museum, Sveged |
| 1975 | John Weber Gallery, New York Museum Chelm, Chelm Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm John Weber Gallery, New York Sarah Lawrence Gallery, Bronxville, New York University of Colorado, Boulder Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College, Northhampton Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhre Museo Castelvecchio, Verona Galeria Wspôtczesna, Warsawa |
| 1974 | John Weber Gallery, New York Galeria Krzysztofory, Krakow Kunsthaus, Zürich Museum of Art, Indianapolis Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati John Weber Gallery, New York |
| 1973 | Folkwang Museum, Essen Contemporanea, Roma John Weber Gallery, New York |
| 1972 | Salone Annunciata, Milan Galleria LP 220, Turin Galleria La Bertesca, Genova William Weston Gallery, London IV° Biennale internationale de la gravure, Krakow Biennale di Venezia Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1971 | Galleria II Punto, Turin Konstmuseum, Göteborg Maison de la Culture de Bourges |
| 1970 | 8e Internationale Graphik Ausstellung, Europahaus, Vienna 3e Biennale Internationale de la Gravure, Krakow 7th International Biennal Exhibition of Prints, Tokyo Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin |
| 1969 | Galeria Wspölczesna "Ruch", Warshaw 10e Biennale de Sao Paulo |
| 1968 | First International Biennale of Graphic Art, Bradford |
| 1966 | Galeria Dom Artysty Plastyka, Warshaw |
| 1965 | La jeune peinture polonaise, Sopot |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
| 2009 | Awarded Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters, Paris Gold Medal of the Cultural Merit « Gloria Artis », Warsaw |
| 1996 | Special Prize of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw |
| 1993 | Kaiserring (King's Ring Prize), Goslar |
| 1991 | National Prize of Painting, Paris |
| 1977 | Prize at the 14th Sao Paulo International Art Biennial, Brazil |
| 1976 - 1977 | DAAD’s scholarship in Berlin |
| 1972 | First trip to the USA |
| 1971 | First Prize of the Ministry of Arts and Culture of Poland |
| 1970 | Prize at the 3rd International Print Biennial, Krakow Prize at the Second British International Print Biennial, Bradford Prize at the 7th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Tokyo Prize at the Art Museum Ohara, Tokyo |
| 1969 | Gold Medal for graphic arts at the exhibition «Gold Bunch of Grapes» in Zielona Gora, Poland |
| 1968 | Grand Prize at the First British International Print Biennial, Bradford |
| 1968 | Grand Prize at the First British International Print Biennial, Bradford |
| 1965 | Prize at the Exhibition of Young Polish Painters in Sopot, Poland |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
| Artsonje Museum, Seoul, South Korea Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, Poland "BNF" Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France F.R.A.C Collection Aquitaine, France F.R.A.C Nord-Pas de Calais, France F.R.A.C Ile-de-France, France Goteborg Konstmuseum, Sweden Ho-Am Art Museum, Séoul, South Korea Los Angeles County Museum, United States La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, United States Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany Kurashiki - Ohara Museum of Art, Japon The Menil Collection, Houston, United States "MoMA", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States Museum of Art (Museum Sztuki), Lodz, Poland Museu de Art de São Paulo, Brasil "MAMCO", Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Genève, Switzerland Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Pologne Musée National des Beaux-Arts, Stockholm, Suède Musée du palais Albertina, Vienne, Austria Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany National Museum, Poznan, Pologne National Museum of Canberra, Australia National Museum in Szczecin, PolandNational Museum in Kraków, PolandÖsterreichischen Ludwig-Stiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Vienna, Austria Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States Sammlung Lenz Schönberg, Zöll, Austria Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbaus, München, Germany Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan |
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