Biography

Oskar Chmioła — visual and performance artist

Oskar Chmioła (also listed in international databases as: Oskar Chmiola) — visual and performance artist, art therapist, teacher, arts facilitator and digital experience designer. He creates performances, psychoperformances, site-specific and contextual actions, multimedia installations and video. He combines artistic practice with inclusive education, art therapy and interaction design. He is the author of the Performative Cinema Manifesto and the concepts of Perfotherapy, Psychoperformance, Performance Tourism, Performative Communication and IndywiduAkcja, and the initiator of the international SpaceTime Performance movement.

Selected projects and appearances — 2026

• NORMA — announced participation in Adam Klasa’s project, 9–23 October 2026, Galeria OFF M, Szczecin. An interactive digital psychoperformative work integrated with the fictional NORMA brand, including games accessible through QR codes, a customer service panel and live actions. Role: artist, author of the psychoperformative component. Information from the organiser.
• Restoring the Alternative / Przywracanie alternatywy — 21 August 2026, London. An independent, public, site-specific psychoperformance carried out along a route from St Paul’s Cathedral across Millennium Bridge to the vicinity of Tate Modern. Role: author and performer. Photographs: Karolina Puławska; editing: Oskar Chmioła. Project documentation.
• Asymptota — a Psychoperformance workshop using an interactive audiovisual environment — 9 August 2026, Sanatorium Dźwięku festival, Sokołowsko. A workshop using the project Anatomia niepewności, Atlas symbolicznych map ciała, a screening of the film Au(c)tor. Szkic do IndywiduAkcji and the micro-action Gest Asymptoty. Role: author and facilitator. Festival website.
• ART DESTINATIONS. APO-THEO-SUS — 25–27 July 2026, Instytut Cybernetyki Sztuki and Galeria Spiż 7, Gdańsk Osowa. Presentation of the work Anatomia niepewności: an atlas, video and an interactive installation. Curator and author of the exhibition concept: dr Marek Rogulski; collaboration: prof. Leszek Krutulski. Role: artist, author of the work. Information from ICS.
• KONTEKSTY 2026: PRZEWRÓT / OVERTURN — 18 July 2026, Skwer Kieślowskiego, Sokołowsko, during the 12th Festiwal Sztuki Efemerycznej KONTEKSTY (16–19 July). Participation as a performer in Open Group’s action PROTEST #3 / Płatny protest. Role: performer; not the author of the action. Festival programme.
• Psychoperformans. Opracowanie metodyczne — publication of the artist’s methodological study, May 2026. Role: author. Full text PDF.
• Kompendium Psychoperformansu — a ten-part publication made available online, March 2026. Role: author. Parts: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X.
• Pożyteczni, Radio Szczecin — 29 March 2026. Participation in the programme as a special educator and coordinator of the Samodzielne Atomy project, together with Maria Podeszewska-Mateńko and Maciej Podsiadło. Programme page.

Short bio in English

Oskar Chmioła (also indexed internationally as Oskar Chmiola) is a Polish visual and performance artist, art therapist, educator and digital experience designer. His practice spans performance, psychoperformance, site-specific and contextual actions, multimedia installation, video and participatory art. He connects artistic research with inclusive education, art therapy and interaction design. Chmioła is the author of the Performative Cinema Manifesto and originator of Perfotherapy, Psychoperformance, Performance Tourism, Performative Communication and IndywiduAkcja. He also initiated the international SpaceTime Performance movement.

Selected projects in 2026

• NORMA — forthcoming interactive digital psychoperformative contribution to Adam Klasa’s project, Galeria OFF M, Szczecin, 9–23 October 2026.
• Restoring the Alternative — independent public site-specific psychoperformance from St Paul’s Cathedral across Millennium Bridge to the vicinity of Tate Modern, London, 21 August 2026. Author and performer.
• Asymptota — Psychoperformance workshop using an interactive audiovisual environment, Sanatorium of Sound Festival, Sokołowsko, 9 August 2026. Author and facilitator.
• ART DESTINATIONS. APO-THEO-SUS — presentation of Anatomia niepewności, an atlas, video and interactive installation, Institute of Cybernetics of Art and Galeria Spiż 7, Gdańsk, 25–27 July 2026.
• KONTEKSTY 2026: OVERTURN — performer in Open Group’s action PROTEST #3 / Paid Protest, Sokołowsko, 18 July 2026.
• Psychoperformance: Methodological Study — author, May 2026; Compendium of Psychoperformance — author of the ten-part online publication, March 2026.

Archival biography and full list of projects — retained in full

Artistic biography – Oskar Chmioła
Visual artist, arts facilitator, art therapist, teacher, graphic designer and front-end developer. A graduate of Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie (Art and Cinematography), Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna and Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania i Przedsiębiorczości. As an educator and therapist, he works within a network of associations, social cooperatives, speech clinics and preschools, where he leads classes in creativity, gymnastics and robotics. He designs specialist educational aids for people on the autism spectrum. He regularly performs in and directs stage projects, often with an inclusive focus.

He is the author of the Performative Cinema Manifesto and other creative concepts, including Performance Tourism, Perfotherapy, Psψchoperformance, Performative Communication, IndywiduAkcja and the international SpaceTime Performance movement.
He works at the intersection of different artistic disciplines, focusing on contextual, site-specific and process-based actions; he therefore makes the form of each work entirely dependent on the content and essence it is intended to address. He most often creates performances, multimedia installations and video. He has exhibited in London, Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, Szczecin, Lublin and smaller cities, and has also participated in many performance art festivals throughout the country.

Education:
1997 – 2000 – Szkoła plastyczna Ewy Misztal,
2000 – 2007 – Lower and upper secondary art school,
2007 – 2009 – Post-secondary studies in interior architecture and theatrical and film make-up, 2009 – 2012 – Studies at ASP w Warszawie (bachelor’s degree in Cinematography and Art under prof. Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz),
2015 – 2017 – Studies at Uniwersytet Szczeciński (teacher preparation, postgraduate), 2017 – 2018 – Studies at Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna (Education and Rehabilitation of People with Autism Spectrum Disorders, postgraduate),
2018 – 2020 – Studies at Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania i Przedsiębiorczości WSZiP (Early Primary and Preschool Education with Corrective and Compensatory Gymnastics, master’s degree).

Awards:
2022 – grant from Fundusz Popierania Twórczości ZAiKS
2020 – grant for people engaged in artistic creation
and the dissemination of culture, from Gmina Miasta Sopotu,
2019 – cultural grant from Miasto Gdańsk,
2017 – arts grant from the Marshal of Województwo Zachodniopomorskie.

Major exhibitions and appearances, from the most recent:

Full list of artistic projects:
Documentation of creative work
Below is a full list of exhibitions, events, happenings and performances authored by Oskar Chmioła. Almost every entry is represented in visual documentation, so this is also a list of works.

2025 – Creation and launch of an artistic Agent for the book Sztuka po AI (06.2025)
2025 – Publication of the book Sztuka po AI (05.2025)
A treatise published on Zenodo and in Google Docs under open peer review. Role: author.
2025 – ARcTic TALK (04.2025)
Spoken-word performance at Piazza del Duomo in Milan. Role: author, performer, activist.
2025 – Samodzielne Atomy – second edition – concluding event (02.03.2025)
Curating and coordination of the social and artistic programme. Role: creator of the programme and visual concept.
2024 – Publication of the book Au(c)tor.
A book forming part of artistic projects of the same title. Role: author, creator of the visual concept.
2024 – Wieża Opus (07.2024)
Psψchoperformance and multimedia installation at ICS Gdańsk. Role: performer, author of the concept.
2024 – Muzyka struktur / Akustyczna podróż (04.2024)
Choreographic performance at Filharmonia Szczecińska. Role: director, curator.
2024 – Concluding event for the Samodzielne Atomy project – first edition (01.2024)
Coordination and curating of an art therapy project in Szczecin. Role: curator, facilitator.
2023 – Muzyka codzienności (10.2023)
Kinetic performance and presentation of works with the participation of people with ASD. Role: director, educator, curator.
2023 – Inwigilakcja 2 (07.2023 – present)
Media performance in the space of Facebook. Role: initiator, conceptual performer.
2023 – Rola kontrola kontra rola (07.2023)
Participation in the exhibition ART AFTER PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGY at ICS Gdańsk. Role: artist.
2023 – Performance Auctor – wyjście człowieka z obrazu (05.2023)
Interpretation of Cezary Dubiel’s photographs during XI WIOSNY MUZ (Wolin–Grodno). Role: performer.
2022 – Musical and kinetic performance Między strunami for World Music Day and the Polish National Day of People with Developmental Aphasia, with the participation of therapists and people with ASD, P.P.Dzwoneczek, Szczecin,
2022 – Curating of the A TO MY project (Exhibition and Happening) for World Autism Awareness Day, with the participation of therapists and people with ASD, in collaboration with Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie and P.P.Dzwoneczek, (Plac Solidarności) Szczecin,
2021 – Collective sensory performance Ogród wyciszenia for European Autism Day, with the participation of therapists and children on the autism spectrum, Stowarzyszenie A TO MY and P.P.Srebrny Dzwoneczek, Szczecin,
2021 – Collective performance Między strunami with the participation of people living with schizophrenia, INKU Szczecin,
2020 – Online premiere of the project “Bryza – pierwszy film performatywny”, Goyki 3 Art Inkubator, Sopot,
2020 – Transmedia conceptual performance “Źrenica Świętowita” as part of the event “Powiew performansu”, Centrum Współpracy Międzynarodowej, Grodno,
2020 – Stage and online premiere of the performative production “Przy drzwiach zamkniętych”, Centrum Kultury Euroregionu Stara Rzeźnia, Szczecin,
2020 – Text “Artysta politykiem”, as part of the event “Artysta politykiem”, Galeria buntu młodych, Warsaw,
2020 – “Młyn”, curating of a collective performance in the SpaceTime Performance format as part of the event “OFF w Młynie”, Przecław 3D, Przecław,
2020 – Shooting of the film Bryza as a collective performance, Sopot
2020 – Performative Cinema Manifesto, Sopot,
2020 – Artivist climate protest “Ostatni bal”, Plac Grunwaldzki, Szczecin,
2019 – Performative guided tour along the brick Gothic trail in Gdańsk, funded by Miasto Gdańsk through a Cultural Grant,
2019 – Performance “Pamięć” as part of SpaceTime Performance, during the Come Witch Us festival at Inkubator Kultury in Szczecin,
2019 – Performance “Above Mainstream” during the Szkoła warszawska XXI wieku gathering at Galeria Młodych, as part of Warsaw’s Night of Museums,
2019 – Psychoperformance “Pragnienie” during the collective presentation “Woda, Pragnienie”, held during Wiosna Muz at Centrum Współpracy Międzynarodowej in Grodno,
2018 – Exhibition “Przestrzeń sensoryczna”,
2018 – Collective performance “Przy drzwiach zamkniętych”, 13 MUZ in Szczecin,
2017 – Performance “Prawda”, Książnica Pomorska im. Stanisława Staszica in Szczecin, as part of an arts grant from the Marshal of Województwo Zachodniopomorskie,
2017 – Inclusive performance “Miłość” for people with intellectual disabilities, Stowarzyszenie “A TO MY”, as part of an arts grant from the Marshal of Województwo Zachodniopomorskie,
2017 – Performance “Piękno”, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, as part of an arts grant from the Marshal of Województwo Zachodniopomorskie,
2017 – Collective performance “Śmierć”, Teatr Polski in Szczecin, as part of an arts grant from the Marshal of Województwo Zachodniopomorskie,
2017 – Performance “Sprawiedliwość” at Plac Solidarności in Szczecin (in collaboration,
with Centrum Dialogu Przelomy), as part of an arts grant from the Marshal of Województwo Zachodniopomorskie,
2017 – Presentation of “Perfotherapy”, the artist’s own form of art therapy, during the XVl PIKTOGRAMY Conference (building a model of communication support based on AAC pictograms for people with severe communication difficulties: aphasia–autism–alalia–SLI–oligophasia–dyspraxia), at Wydział Zarządzania i Ekononomii Usług Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego,
2017 – Performance “Sens”, Opera na Zamku in Szczecin, as part of an arts grant from the Marshal of Województwo Zachodniopomorskie,
2017 – Performance “Dobro” on Europejski Szlak Gotyku Ceglanego in Stargard, as part of an arts grant from the Marshal of Województwo Zachodniopomorskie,
2017 – Performance “Kim jestem”, Teatr KANA in Szczecin, as part of an arts grant from the Marshal of Województwo Zachodniopomorskie,
2017 – Performance “Najważniejszy problem współczesnego świata” and the first presentation of the artist’s own form of art therapy, which he named “Perfotherapy”, at the XlX Międzynarodowy Festiwal Sztuki “INTERAKCJE” in Piotrków Trybunalski,
2017 – Happening “Niebieski plac” for World Autism Awareness Day, at Plac Szarych Szeregów in Szczecin,
2016 – “Turystyka performance” – a guided tour of Szczecin for young people,
2016 – Action “Jasne Błonia” at Jasne Błonia in Szczecin,
2015 – Exhibition “wieczór performance”, as part of the “Interakcje” festival, at “galeria Działań”, Warsaw (first PSI-FORMANCE “Acedia”),
2015 – Numerous performance workshops for children and adults (prof. as part of “miejski plac zabaw” at “Tworzę się” gallery),
2015 – Publication of an article in “gazeta polska” (“co to jest performance”),
2015 – Exhibition “muzyczny plac zabaw” at “tworzę się” gallery, Szczecin (acoustic installation “polifonia”,
2014 – nspiracje festival, Szczecin (performance triptych “nie-post-szerzenie),
2014 – Exhibition “powroty” at Neurony Lustrzane gallery, Warsaw (performance “powroty”),
2014 – He established the SpaceTime Performance movement and the first meeting took place, Park Saski, Lublin,
2014 – Exhibition “perforado” at Raczej gallery, Poznań (performance “poznań raczej performance”),
2013 – He ran “Przestrzeń Performance” in Warsaw,
2013 – Exhibition “Przed..po..zamiast..Wystawa performerska” at Galeria Cicha4, Lublin (site-specific “wystawa performerska”),
2013 – Interakcje festival, Piotrków Trybunalski (performances “Pręgierz” and “Kodowanie”),
2012 – Exhibition “Afther the dark” at Barrbican Center, London (instal-action “Halloween; permeation”),
2012 – Konteksty festival, Sokołowsko (performance “Przestrzeń P”),
2011 – Exhibition “Podwówrko na Pradze” at Sen Pszczoły, Warsaw (electroacoustic instal-action “Odbiór”),
2010 – Performance “Wieża Babel” in Copenhagen,
2009 – 2011 – Actions as part of Grupa Wyspa,
2011 – 2014 – Exhibitions at Pracownia Działań Przestrzennych Mirosława Bałki, Warsaw (“granica”, “Higiena”, “Żywoty Świętych, poprawione”, “Kohezja”, “Szaman miejski”),
2009 – Exhibition by Grupa Wyspa at Zoya gallery, Warsaw,
2007 – “Film” perform-actions in Cannes,
2007 – Performance “Szczęście” in Monaco Monte Carlo,
2007 – Performance “Spektakl” in Venice,
2007 – Solo exhibition “Człowiek czyli czas” at the Szkół Artystycznych boarding house in Lublin (first performance “Miłość”).

Contact and online portfolio
website:
https://www.chmiola.com
social media:

https://www.facebook.com/oskar.chmiola/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClIcgy5WDPUxDjVjzm_p9Nw

https://www.instagram.com/oskarchmiola/

Contact details:
phone: 515 866 425
e-mail: oskarchmiola@gmail.com

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Oskar Chmioła – born 9 III 1987 in Lublin (Poland)

Education:

2018 – 2020 – Master’s studies at the WSZiP University of Management and Entrepreneurship (Early school and preschool education with corrective and compensatory gymnastics);
2017 – 2018 – Studies at the University of Humanities (Education and Rehabilitation of People on the Autistic Spectrum of Disorders, postgraduate);
2015 – 2017 – University of Szczecin, faculty of Pedagogy, Direction: Pedagogical Preparation;
2007 – 2009 – Secondary School of Interior Architecture;
2009 – 2012 – Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Department of New Media Arts, Direction: photography, Specialty: Art and Cinematography;
2000 – 2007 – The Norwid Secondary School of Fine Arts in Lublin, field of study: Exhibition.

Professional experience:
2016 – 2021 – Integral Music Kindergarten Bells, Position: Art Therapist, „Creativity classes” – (Uses the interaction of performance as one of the methods of therapy. Designs educational aids for alternative communication based on AAC-assisted communication);
2017 – 2021 Association for the Support of People with Autism and Related Psychiatric Disorders „A TO MY”, Function: Member of the Board.

Important exhibitions and projects:
2021 – he is currently working on the second performative film with the working title „Method”

2020 – Online premiere of the project „Bryza – the first performative film”, Goyki 3 Art Inkubator, Sopot

2020 – Transmedia conceptual performance „Pupil of the Holy Spirit” as part of the event „The breath of performance”, Center for International Cooperation, Grodno

2020 – Stage and online premiere of the performance „At the closed door”, Euroregion Culture Center Stara Rzeźnia, Szczecin

2020 – Text „Artist Politician”, as part of the event „Artist Politician”, Gallery of Rebellion
young, Warsaw

2020 – „Młyn”, curated by a collective performance of the SpaceTime Performance type as part of the event „OFF w Młynie”, Przecław 3D, Przecław

2020 – Shooting for the film Bryza as a collective performance, Sopot

2020 – Manifesto of Performative Cinema, Sopot

2020 – Arivist climate protest „The Last Ball”, Grunwaldzki Square, Szczecin

2017 – 2020 – translate soon

Contextual and processual artist (2007 – 2021).

2007 – individual exhibition „Man or time”– Gallery Bursa, Lublin; 2009 – exhibition of the Artistic Group of the Island – Gallery Zoya, Warsaw; 2009 – 2010 – shares of the Artistic Group of the Island – Warsaw; 2011 – 2014 – exhibitions Department of Spatial Operations Miroslaw Bałka – PDP, Warsaw („Boundary”, „Hygiene”, „Living Saints, Corrected”, „Cohesion”, „Urban shaman”); 2011 – exhibition ” Courtyard at Prague ” – Sen Pszczoły, Warsaw; 2012 – performance „Space P” – „ Festival Contexts”, Sokołowsko; 2012 – exhibition „Afther the dark” – Barrbican Center, Londyn; 2013 – performance „Pręgierz”, „Kodowanie” – „Festiwal Interakcje”, ODA, Piotrków Trybunalski; 2013 – exhibition ” Before … after … instead … Performers’ exhibition ” – Gallery Cicha4, Lublin; 2013 – „Performance Space” – WSK, Warsaw; 2013 – Seminar „Processual behavior as a conditioned innovation Disinterested Wizard, and social reception of time-effects (their aesthetics) „; Attend as speaker – Polish Academy of Sciences, Pałac Staszica, Warsaw; 2014 – exhibition „perforado” – Gallery Raczej, Poznań; 2014 – exhibition ” returns” – Gallery Neurony Lustrzane, Warsaw; 2014 – triptych performers „nie-post-szerzenie” – „Festival inSpiracje” , 13 MUZ, Szczecin; 2014 – Przemysław Kwiek’s private financial reward for „Material-Spatial Performance” during „ Flax II”; 2015 – Exhibition „evening performance ” – Gallery of action, Warsaw; 2015 – The publication of the article entitled „What is performance?”- Gazeta Polska; 2015 – 2016 – „Performance tourism” – Gallery Tworzę się, Szczecin; 2016 – presentation of performance art therapy – Conference „Pictograms”; 2017 – Collective performance „Let’s find a common language” – Association for the Support of People with Autism “A TO MY”, Szczecin; 2014 – 2017 – actions „SpaceTime Performance” (STP) – Lublin, Cracow, Warsaw, Szczecin.