Conceptual practices

Performance — an attempt to define the phenomenon

nie-post-szerzenie (non-post-spreading)

description of participation in “Perfidia Perfearance IV” TRIPTYCH 1. “Inwigil-akcja”. Subject of the install-action: the artist. Caption: “if you want to take part in the action — make yourself at ho…

powroty (returns)

Galeria Neurony Lustrzane, Warsaw, 2014 Oskar Chmioła “powroty” 2014 100/50 printing ink and pencil on canvas (the object will be created as a result of a performance during the exhibition opening) “T…

poznań raczej performance, kreolizakcja

Galeria Raczej, Poznań, 2014 Referring to the phenomenon of creolisation, O.Ch. carried out a performance: he handed out envelopes to 50 viewers. Inside were the flags of all European countries, inclu…

Wystawa performerska — kompozycja na siedem zmysłów (Performance exhibition — a composition for seven senses)

The exhibition “przed.. po.. zamiast” at Galeria Cicha4 in Lublin Curator — Marta Ryczkowska (group exhibition, with: Ewa Zarzycka, Anna Kalwajtys, Paweł Korbus, Emrah Gökdemi). There are rhetorical f…

Kodowanie (Encoding)

Interakcje XV, Focus Mall shopping centre, Piotrków Trybunalski, 2013 Walking around the shopping centre, O.Ch. wrote terms for “uczyć” on sticky notes, encoded in a system of signs of his own devisin…

Szaman miejski (Urban Shaman), Stalker

Exhibition of Mirosław Bałka’s Pracownia Działań Przestrzennych, Warsaw, 2014 O. Ch. led people into the square along Kanonia Street, throwing a white-and-red baton that had been part of the safety ba…

Kohezja (Cohesion)

http://wyspastan.blogspot.com/2013/01/sztuka-filozofia-i-semantykasztukafilmy.html KOHEZJA A visual-semantic installation by Oskar Chmioła shown as part of the exhibition “Kohezja” at Nowy Teatr, in t…

Żywoty świętych poprawione — Jan Kanty (Lives of the Saints, Revised — John Cantius)

Kościół Św. Jana Kantego in Legionowo, 2013 in the church basement, three young artists, including O.Ch., wrote on the walls a certain text they were hearing in Latin through headphones, which Jan Kan…

Higiena (Hygiene)

Kraków (Wawel) — Warsaw (Faculty of Media Art), 2012 O.Ch. filled several jars with water from the Vistula and handed them out to members of the group in Mirosław Bałka’s Pracownia Działań Przestrzenn…

Gra-nica

Gra-nica what will happen when a hole in a wall, or the potential for one, for example in the form of a sealed-up doorway, is entirely strung with fishing lines, or preferably real strings, and the ha…

Odbiór (Reception)

exhibition “podwórko na Pradze” by Prof. Włodzimierz Szymański’s studio at the Warsaw club Sen Pszczoły electroacoustic installation “odbiór” http://wyspastan.blogspot.com/2013/05/instalacja-elektroak…

Performance — an attempt at a definition

Electroacoustic Installation — Odbiór (Reception)

Installation presented as part of the exhibition “Podwórko na Pradze”, Sen Pszczoły, Warsaw, 3 Inżynierska Street Exhibition curator — Włodzimierz Szymański https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2…

KOHEZJA______________________________EXHIBITION IN THE WORKSHOP HALL OF NOWY TEATR IN WARSAW 2013

by Norbert Delman SOURCE — http://www.nowyteatr.pl/event/kohezja >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>DEFINITION >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Cohesion — the general name for …

Untitled in the source

KOHEZJA Visual-semantic installation by Oskar Chmioła shown as part of the exhibition “Kohezja” at Nowy Teatr, in the Workshop Hall at 10/16 Madalińskiego Street in Warsaw, which took place on 24–30.0…

PERFORMANCE LUK-ARTY

when — Saturday 10.04.2010, from 15:00where — 15 Spokojna Street Two rows of rooms, garages empty on an everyday basis, and a group of people who decided to bring life into them. Two, facing each othe…

PERFORMANCE — FALANGA (PHALANX)

On Monday 22.02.2010 at 16:00, the open performance FALANGA took place in the faculty courtyard at 15 Spokojna Street.Each participant brought a camera. We then stood in a circle facing its centre and…

PERFORMANCE — MIŚ (TEDDY BEAR)

A teddy bear sits at the faculty and listens. The bear is a cuddly toy, pretty and nice. It evokes pleasant feelings, memories, thoughts, associations. So it is there to bring joy. Does it bring joy? …

PERFORMANCE — KOPALNIA MANITU (MANITOU MINE)

When — 16.02.2010 at 15:30; where — Spokojna 15, find yourself there A situation is alive through the dynamics of what initiates it. What sets everything in motion? What is mana? What is this fluid, e…

Początekoniec (Beginningend). Concrete poetry.

A monographic exhibition of Stanisław Dróżdż The end of Stanisław Dróżdż’s exhibition at Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej in Zamek Ujazdowski interpenetrates its beginning, giving it the character of a hyp…

Should an artist be a philosopher?

That is, reflections on Platonic Anamnesis and the concept of art. Art leads away from truth as long as it is not subordinated to philosophy. The thesis stated above contains a thought put forward by …

Art as a stage

Perhaps it is necessary to break with the very term “art” altogether, which would be quite troublesome, but I think it is already easier to grasp the validity of breaking with the notion of possessing…

PERFORMANCE — AUTOPORTRET ZBIOROWY (COLLECTIVE SELF-PORTRAIT)

On 15.02.2010 at 16:00, in room 13 at 15 Spokojna Street, the performance Autoportret zbiorowy took place. The living organism that is the plane of a painting became saturated with content through sev…

ARcTic TALK – English

performative text / site-specific / poetic and critical / artivist action I. – ICE – SPACE THAT IS MELTING(The performer stands over the ice.) This is no monumentno marble of Piazza Duomono graniteno …

ARcTic Talk – en

performative text / site-specific / poetic-critical / artivist action I. – ICE – THE SPACE THAT MELTS(Performer stands above the ice.) This is not a monumentnot the marble of Piazza Duomonot graniteno…

ARcTic Talk – it

performative text / site-specific / poetic-critical / artivist action I. – ICE – THE SPACE THAT MELTS(The performer is above the ice.) It is not a monumentnot the marble of Piazza Duomonot granitenot …

visual arts

The first decade of artistic work — 2007–2016 ( -> http://oskarchmiola.blogspot.com/?view=flipcard ) Currently — 2017 -> Chmioła is currently working on the multidisciplinary project Au(c)tor. More:ht…

psychoperformance

psychoperformance (Ψperformance) ™SMan active creative act serving to change the microcosm or macrocosm Psychoperformans. A Methodological Study A Case Study of a Visual Artist with an Eye Condition(f…

Artist statement

Oskar Chmioła (OCh) born 9 March 1987 in Lublin (has lived and worked in Szczecin since 2014) Visual artist, conceptual artist, social activist, cultural facilitator, designer, therapist, teacher. . H…