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| Pawel Althamer |
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Pawel Althamer was born in 1967 in Warsaw, Poland where he continues to live and work. His sculptures, performances and video installations engages with the notions of alienation and otherness. Whether creating immersive environments, totemic self-portraits, or disorienting participatory projects, Althamer gives form to the disjunctive feelings inherent to the human condition. His works address both existential and social experiences, from the strange awareness of one’s own finite bodily shell, to the consciousness of the formal and informal norms that regulate our conduct and modes of being in the world. Pawel Althamer has had major solo exhibitions at Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2007), The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2006) and Zacheta, The National Gallery, Warsaw (2006). His work was recently shown as part of the 1st Brussels Biennial (2008), the 7th Shanghai Biennial (2008), Münster Sculpture Project, Germany (2007), “Of Mice and Men”, the 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006) and the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005). He has received the Vincent Award at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2004). Pawel Althamer is represented by Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. |
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