Grzegorz KLAMAN
CARBON MONUMENT
Jerzy Giedroyc Square
art installation
Grzegorz Klaman – artist, curator, activist, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, leads the Studio of Transdisciplinary Activities. He works in installation, public space activities, critical art and bio-art analysing the discursive relations of body, power, knowledge and science. Since 1984 involved in the artistic activation of various areas of Gdansk, such as Granary Island (1985-1996), the former city baths (1992-1998). Co-founder and leader of Wyspa Gallery (1990-2012) and Wyspa Progress Foundation. Co-originator (together with Aneta Szyłak) of the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in 1998. He has participated in numerous exhibitions: ‘Expression of the 80s’ at the PGS in Sopot (1986), ‘Paradise Lost’ at the CCA in Warsaw (1990), ‘Doppelte Indenitat’ at the Landesmuseum in Wiesbaden (1991), Collection of Contemporary Art for the 1000th Anniversary of Gdańsk (1997) ‘At Freedom / At Last’ at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2000), ‘In Between. Art In Poland 1945-2000’ at the Chicago Cultural Center (2001). He co-organised the International Multimedia Workshop ‘Wyspa Project’ (1992-1994) concerning Granary Island and attempts at its revitalisation. In the same team, he prepared ‘City Transformers’ – an international project in public space concerning urban changes in the area of the former Gdańsk Shipyard. There, he is the author of the monumental realisation ‘BRAMA’, opening the exhibition ‘Roads to Freedom’ (2000). He founded and from 2002 to 2013 led the Modelarnia – Artists’ Co-operative in the post-shipyard areas.
In 2007, he was a Fulbright scholar at Florida Atlantic University, where his solo exhibition was held at the Schmidt Art Center. He has also participated in the group exhibitions ‘History of Violence’ at the Haifa Art Museum and ‘Chosen’ at the Digital Art Laboratory in Holon (2009), ‘Dock Guards’ (Gdansk, 2005), ‘Political Things’ (Gdansk, 2010), ‘Re-designing the East: Politisches Design In Asien Und Europa’ (Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2011), ‘Crushing in’ (Nobel Museum, Stockholm, 2010) and ‘Arche – Architecture of Universe’, Pavilion 0 Guidecca Art District (Venice, 2021).
