Oskar Chmioła (Oskar Chmiola) is a visual and performance artist working across performance, Psychoperformance, performative film, multimedia installations, site-specific actions and inclusive projects. This page brings together essential information for curators, galleries, cultural institutions, collectors, editorial teams, publishers and project partners.
Areas of practice and possible forms of collaboration
- performance and psychoperformance in galleries, theatres and public space;
- multimedia installations, interactive audiovisual environments and digital projects;
- site-specific projects and contextual actions;
- lectures, artist talks and workshops on Psychoperformance, performative cinema and art after AI;
- curating, art education, art therapy and inclusive initiatives;
- exhibition, publishing, research and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Short biography
Oskar Chmioła — visual and performance artist, art therapist, educator, arts facilitator and digital experience designer. He creates process-based, contextual and site-specific actions, most often in the form of performance, multimedia installation and video. 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. He graduated from Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie and completed studies in education and specialist studies in the education and rehabilitation of people on the autism spectrum.
Selected recent projects
- 2026 — Restoring the Alternative / Przywracanie alternatywy, independent site-specific psychoperformance, London;
- 2026 — Asymptota, Psychoperformance workshop, Sanatorium Dźwięku, Sokołowsko;
- 2026 — Anatomia niepewności, atlas, video and interactive installation, ART DESTINATIONS. APO-THEO-SUS, Instytut Cybernetyki Sztuki and Galeria Spiż 7, Gdańsk;
- 2026 — participation as a performer in Open Group’s action PROTEST #3 / Płatny protest, KONTEKSTY, Sokołowsko;
- 2026 — publications: Kompendium Psychoperformansu and Psychoperformans. Opracowanie metodyczne;
- 2025 — ARcTic TALK, spoken-word performance, Piazza del Duomo, Milan;
- 2025 — publication of the book Sztuka po AI. Sztuka, technologia, przemoc;
- 2024 — Wieża Opus, psychoperformance and multimedia installation, Instytut Cybernetyki Sztuki, Gdańsk;
- 2024 — Muzyka struktur / Akustyczna podróż, choreographic performance, Filharmonia Szczecińska.
Selected grants
- 2022 — grant from Fundusz Popierania Twórczości ZAiKS;
- 2020 — grant from Gmina Miasta Sopotu for people engaged in artistic creation and the dissemination of culture;
- 2019 — cultural grant from Miasto Gdańsk;
- 2017 — arts grant from the Marshal of Województwo Zachodniopomorskie.
Materials and documentation
- full biography, education, grants and chronological list of projects;
- portfolio and visual arts;
- Performative Cinema Manifesto and Performative Cinema Manifesto;
- Psychoperformance and methodological study PDF;
- YouTube channel, Instagram and Facebook.
Extended photographic and video documentation, a biography of the required length and publication materials can be prepared for a specific exhibition, event, article or publishing project.
Contact
E-mail: oskarchmiola@gmail.com
Phone: +48 515 866 425
Website: chmiola.com
For curators, galleries and press
Oskar Chmioła (also indexed 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 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.
Available collaboration formats include exhibitions, commissioned performances, site-specific projects, interactive digital installations, lectures, artist talks, workshops, publications, research partnerships and inclusive art programmes. For project inquiries, press materials or extended documentation, contact oskarchmiola@gmail.com.