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 EXHIBITION

Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art
Centre for Creative Activities  in Ustka
/ ul. Zaruskiego 1a

Bogusław Bachorczyk
The beach is a huge studio

Curated by
Weronika Teplicka

Opening of the exhibition
and meeting with the artist

Creative Activity Center in Ustka
admission free

25.07.2024 / 5 p.m.

exhibition
10 a.m. – 6 p.m. 

26 – 30.07.2024*

* admission to the gallery with ticket

The artist’s works depict the encounter between man and nature, wave and shore, foot and sand, eye and horizon, face and wind, hand and the marine debris ….

Returning to Ustka after 7 years, Bogusław Bachorczyk will finalise the ideas and concepts he started at that time, hoping at the same time for some “new hunts”. The sea, throwing rubbish ashore, will contribute to the artist’s creations by constantly provide new materials for his work.

The Baltic Sea, iodine, the inhabitants of Ustka and walks will become the impulse and motivation to create a sculpture about everyday life at the seaside.

Bogusław Bachorczyk

(born 1969) is a painter, sculptor, draughtsman, multimedia artist and exhibition curator. He holds a postdoctoral degree, is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and heads the 3rd Interdisciplinary Studio at the Faculty of Painting. Graduate of the sculpture class at the Kenar Secondary School in High School in Zakopane and of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with a degree in the studio of Professor Włodzimierz Kunz (1998). He defended his doctoral thesis “Game of Enchantment” in 2011, habilitation “Pure 17” in 2013. Scholarship holder of the City of Nuremberg, winner of the Józef Czapski Scholarship. In 2012, he received the Rector’s Third Degree Award for his achievements in artistic and teaching work, and in 2017. Rector’s Second Degree Award for achievements in artistic and teaching work. In 2019 he received the Creative Scholarship of the City of Kraków for the project “Our Garden”. In 2019, he received the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis. His works have been presented at over 50 solo and group exhibitions, including Bunkier Sztuki, the National Museum in Kraków, the Museum of Photography in Kraków, Galeria Zderzak in Kraków, Galeria Atak in Warsaw, ABC Gallery in Poznań, Galeria ASP in Gdańsk, the Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk, the Tatra Museum in Zakopane and the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. He is the creator of the concept and executor of long-term creative projects, including the diary-sketchbook (since 1986), the “Pracownia Czysta 17” project (since 2003) and the open-air gallery “Nasz Ogródek” (since 2018). In his art, often presented in the form of installations with elements of performance, he combines various media. He invites artists from other disciplines, such as actors, dancers and poets, to collaborate with him on his projects. He is also an illustrator and author of art books. He addresses the legacy of great artists (J. Iwaszkiewicz, W.G. Sebald, Has, A. Rodczenko, W. Niżyński, W. Hasior, Z. Ginczanka). His work is concerned with history and time, identity, and the individual discovery of a private past. He is interested in the issue of mechanisms and properties of memory, contemporary definitions of masculinity and post-batalism. He creates at the intersection of various media: painting, sculpture and photography, and uses bricolage and a combination of craft techniques and modern media.