Ryszard Górecki

About artist

Born
1956
Country
Germany

Born in 1956 in Słubice. An interdisciplinary artist active in painting, object art and installation. Exhibition curator and teacher. Graduate of the University of Zielona Góra (degree in 1979). In 1980–2002, he created and ran the Provincial Gallery in Słubice and Art in CP at the Collegium Polonicum UAM.
In the years 1998–2005, he was the curator of the Polish Contemporary Art Programme at the Brandenburg Museum of Contemporary Art Cottbus-Frankfurt (Oder).
Winner of the 'Polityka' Passport (1994). Multiple scholarships from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Warsaw and the Culture Foundation in Berlin.
He is interested in deforming science and combining popular culture with social sciences, history and the meta-language of art. Experiments with found objects and consumer products. He lives in Berlin.

Works

Ryszard Górecki

Planet profit

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