KRZYSZTOF FRANASZEK
OBJECT 24
Façade of the building or forecourt of the Centre for Culture in Lublin
12 Peowiaków Street
installation
Krzysztof Franaszek was born in 1981 in Lublin, lives and works in Warsaw. The artist creates sculptures, installations and drawings. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2006), he holds a Post-doctoral degree of Fine Arts (2021). Since 2006, he has worked at his alma mater. He was a scholarship holder in the studio of Christian Jankowski at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart (2005) and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2009, 2018, 2020).
His work has been presented in solo exhibitions, including at the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Oronsko (2021); Casa Matei Corivin Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2021); Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw (2019, 2021); CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2013), Studio Gallery, Warsaw (2009). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Poland and abroad in, among others: New Museum in New York (2008); Asian Art Biennale in Bangladesh (2018); BWA in Lublin (2009); IX International Biennale of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg (2009); Kunst Museum – Staatliche Akademie in Stuttgart (2005). Moreover, has realised artistic projects in urban space in Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and Lithuania.
Krzysztof Franaszek is a well-known Polish conceptual artist, whose works belong to many private and institutional collections. His works can be found in private collections, in the collection of PKO Bank Polski and the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. When creating sculptural objects, video recordings, and installations, Franaszek analyses the interactions between a person and its surrounding space. He is interested in the opposition, arising from the clash between the creative energy and the destructive forces of time and nature. The motif of the city is also prevalent in the works of the artist: analysing the nature of a human being and its relationship with an artificially-created environment, Franaszek creates totems, installations, and abstractions. They reflect the topics of human nature and its adaptation in different spaces.
