biograPHY                                                                                                              © 1947   




Study at the National Film Academy in  Łódź


Kuźnia - Toruń 1968 - last exhibition of
 Zero 61 Group, (from left) Andrzej Różycki, 
Antoni Mikołajczyk, Józef Robakowski, 
Wojciech Bruszewski, Michał Kokot.



Atelier 72 - The Richard Demarco Gallery, 
Edinburg, 
Rosa Emma Ahrens, Wojciech Bruszewski 


Atelier 72 
- The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburg,  
Wojciech Bruszewski, Sean Connery.


First art video tape made in Poland  '73
Paweł Kwiek, Wojciech Bruszewski,
Piotr Bernacki.


Workshop Group in De Appel, 
Amsterdam 1975


Exhibition of Workshop Group in  BWA, Łódź
Zbigniew Dłubak, Irena Flis,
Antoni Mikołajczyk, Jan Świdziński


Film as Film - Hayward Gallery, London 77


Tomislav Gotovac, Wojciech Bruszewski
Film as Film - Hayward Gallery, London 77


Helmut Nickels, Wojciech Bruszewski
Acumulatory 2 Gallery, Poznań 1980


New Tools - New Artistic Ideas
Mała Galeria, Warszawa 1980, 
Peter Weibel, Wojciech Bruszewski


DAAD grant in Berlin West 1980/1981
Wojciech Bruszewski, Bethaniendamm


Radio Ruine der Künste, Berlin 1988
Wojciech Bruszewski, Wolf Kahlen


Delayed May Day, Bauhaus Dessau '92
exhibition with Ruine der Künste Berlin


Construction in Process - Łódź 1992
Sofia Zezmer, Wojciech Bruszewski,
Ryszard Waśko, Galeria Wschodnia 
and activists.


The Butterfly Effect - Budapest 1998


The Butterfly Effect - Budapest 1998,
Siegfried Zielinski, Wojciech Bruszewski


The Butterfly Effect - Budapest 1998,
Tibor Kristóf, Dóra Maurer, Wojciech Bruszewski

 


Born 1947. Married. Daughter Balbina.
Lives in Lodz, Poland. 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND 
AND OCCUPATIONS

1970 - graduate of the Department 
of Film Photography 
of the National Film Academy, Lodz.
1970 - member of ZPAF - the accociation 
of Polish professional photographers.
1970/88 photographer in advertising.
1970 - 1976 - member and co-founder 
of the WARSZTAT, 
avantgarde group of film-makers.
1975 - graduate of the Department 
of Film Directing 
of the National Film Academy, Lodz.
1981 - member of the Internationales Künstler Gremium, Germany.
1981 - starts to teach the "extended" photography at the Art Academy, Poznań.
1985 - Assistant Professor 
at the Art Academy, Poznan. 
1989 - Sets up the computer arts workshop at the Art Academy, Poznań. 
1990 -1992 President of the Construction
 in Process Association.
1991 member and co-founder of the GUST - the Polish group of the TeX users.
1991-1996 - Associate Professor 
at the Art Academy, Poznań.
1992/2001 Doing commercials 
for radio and TV.
1997 - mentioned in Polish PWN Encyclopedia. 
1999 - Associate Professor
at the Art Department at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun.

GRANT
1980-1981 one year stay in West Berlin 
as guest of DAAD - Deutcher Akademischer Austauschdienst.

LIST OF EXHIBITIONS (selection)
1969 - KUZNIA - Kuznia, Torun - the last exhibition of ZERO 61 Group (Poland)
1971 - CONTINUATION - Galeria Wspolczesna, Warsaw (Poland)
 - first one man show
1972 - ATELIER 72 - The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh - Polish Art Festival.
1973 - KINOLABORATORIUM - El Gallery, Elblag (Poland). The first show of the first video tape made in Poland - Pictures Language (with cooperation of Piotr Bernacki)
1973 - XII BIENNALE OF ART - Sao Paulo - WARSZTAT Group (Brazil)
1974 - THE 5-TH INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM COMPETITION 
- Knokke Heist (Belgium)
1976 - ART AS MECHANICAL REALITY - DST, Lodz (Poland)
1977 - DOCUMENTA 6 - Kassel 
- video & experimental film sections.
1977 - 22 POLNISHE KÜNSTLER 
- Kölnisher Kunstverein, Köln
1977 - FILM ALS FILM 
- Köln, Essen, Stuttgart, Berlin.
1978 - ANALYSES IN MEDIA BWA, 
Lodz - a video tape.
1978 - ART, ARTIST AND THE MEDIA 
- art conference in Graz.
1978 - FILM AS FILM 
- Hayward Gallery, London
1979 - INPUT-OUTPUT 
- GN Gallery, Gdańsk.
1980 - NEW TOOLS-NEW ARTISTIC IDEAS - Stara Galeria ZPAF, Warszawa.
1980/81 - HORIZON 
- Mała Galeria ZPAF, Warszawa
- FV Gallery, Kraków
- Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Wroclaw
- Polish Photography
   tour exhibition in Japan
- Akumulatory 2 Gallery, Poznań
- Kolnischer Kunstverein, Köln
- Erweiterte Fotografie, Wienna
- Ostranenie - Bauhaus Dessau
1982 - SYDNEY BIENNALE, Sydney
1983 - REALITY - BWA, Lublin
1983 - PRESENCES POLONAISES - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1985 - FILM AND SOUND 
- MM Centre, Zagreb
1986 - DOCUMENTA 8 - Kassel
1988 - VIDEO WOHEN - Basel
1988/93 - RADIO RUINE DER KUNSTE, 
Ruine der Kunste, Berlin West 
 - art radio station.
1992 - UBER ZEIT - Ruine der Kunste Berin + Bauhaus Dessau
1992 - CONSTRUCTION IN PROCESS III 
- Lodz, artist and co-organizer
1992 - MAY-DAY - retrospective exhibition in the Artists Museum, Lodz
1993 - OSTRANENIE 93 - The Sonnets - Bauhaus Dessau
1996 - THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT - Budapest
1997 - SZTUKA PROGRESYWNA 
- the contemporary art of Lodz, Zacheta Gallery, Warszawa
1997 - OSTRANENIE 97 - Horizon/The Story About White Mice (a lecture) 
- Bauhaus Dessau
2000 - GRUPA WARSZTAT
 - the retrospective exhibition of the WARSZTAT Group 
- Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa

FILMS 
INWENTARYZACJA - 1971, 5 min.
KLASKACZ - 1972, 6 min.
BEZDECH - 1972, 10 min.
YYAA - 1973, 3 min.
TEXT-DOOR - 1974, 2 min.
MACH-BOX - 1975, 5 min.
TEA-SPOON - 1976, 2 min.
POINTS - 1977, 10 min. - film performance
CHAIRS - 1977, 15 min. (educational film about chair as an art object)


VIDEO WORKS
PICTURES LANGUAGE - 1973 - video tape, 25 min. (lost)
ANALYSES IN MEDIA - 1971/78 - video tape, 45 min.
10 works - 1975/77 - video tape, 30 min.
OUTSIDE - 1976 - video installation
FROM X TO X - 1976 - Osetnica Agriculture Coop - video installation
FOR LABITYNTH GALLERY - 1976 - the Labirynth Gallery, Lublin
SOME MUSICS - 1976/82 - video tape, 7 min.
SERNMUSIK - 1978 - video/audio object
TV HEN - 1979 - video/audio object
TV MUSIC - 1978 - video/audio object
FOR MR MUYBRIDGE - 1978 - video installation
MAASTICHT INSTALLATION - 1981 - Jan Van Eyck Academy
REALITY - 1983 - BWA Lublin
REALITY/PRINCIPE - 1983 - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
OLIVER'S TRAIN - 1988 - Basel, video installation
RADIO RUINE DER KÜNSTE BERLIN - 1994 - 30 min (made for Channel 2-TVP)
THE RISE AND THE FALL OF THE PEANUT PARTY - 1994 - 30 min (made for Channel 2-TVP)

COMPUTER WORKS 
THE INFINITE TALK - 1988/93 
- permanent audio installation in the
Ruine der Kunste Berlin - a radio station,
THE POETRY MACHINE - 1991
 - computer object,
ROMANTICA - 1991
- series of interactive audio works,
THE SONNETS - 1992 - literature work,
8 volumes
C.H.O.P.I.N. - 1994 - music works, CD audio 
THE SONNETS - 1996
 - computer installation, The Butterfly Effect,
Budapest
9 WORKS - 1999 - CD-ROM
LODZ FOR ALL SEASONS - 2000 - CD-ROM


Emmett Williams, Wojciech Bruszewski
Construction in Process, Łódź



Wojciech Bruszewski, Emmett Williams,
Emilia Benes-Brzezinska, Ryszard Wasko



Janusz Połom, Paweł Kwiek, Wojciech B.,
Andrzej Różycki, Lech Czołnowski,
Józef Robakowski
retrospective exhibitions of
the Workshop Group in CSW,
Warszawa 2000


 with wife Margaret in
Info Express office.


with daughter Balbina (2001).