Christian Tomaszewski

Guest Artist

Christian Tomaszewski was born in Gdansk, Poland and currently lives and works in New York. He has been predominantly working in multi-media installation exploring various aspects of cinema, architecture and experiments with reconstruction or deconstruction of a narrative. In his work, he has been also interested in adapting different roles and definitions of an artist, balancing between making things out of sincere or self-induced obsession and critical calculation.

His work has been exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw), the First Biennale of Polish Art (Lodz), the Bronx Museum of Art, Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venice), Sculpturenmuseum Glaskasten (Marl), Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (Chemnitz), Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie (Regensburg) among other places. In his most recent solo exhibition at New York’s Sculpture Center, he presented an installation exploring and intersecting two iconic masterpieces - David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau.

He has participated in residency programs at the American Academy in Rome, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City, and his work has received support from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation among others.

Since 2006, Tomaszewski has been working on a series of posters for non-existing movies that is going to be exhibited at Michael Wiesehoefer gallery in Cologne, Germany in the fall of 2008. He is also developing a new body of work - 15 short films based on sci-fi tales by Stanislaw Lem.