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2016
Dream About White Marianna, installation, Berlin 2009/Poznań 2016
2015
Tram with David' Star - 70th Holocaust Anniversary, Warsaw
Fr. Twardowski's Furnace - installation, Post Camaldolese Monastery, Warsaw
2012
Black Crystal - installation, anniversary of "Crystal Night" in Jewish Center of Culture and Education in White Stork Synagogue, Wrocław
Waiting for Shakespeare's Storm - installation, Jarosław (Russia)
Attendance List - installation, Warsaw
2010
XII Station - Way of The Cross - Artistic arrangement and direction, Warsaw
Stream of Remembrance - Katyń's Epitaph Wrocław
2009
Stream of Remembrance - Warsaw
Stream of Remembrance - Acropolis, Athens
Dream About White Marianna - installation, Berlin
Kunst macht frei - action, Berlin
Lacrimosa III - installation, Tarnów
Katyń's Tear - installation, Berlin
2008
Lacrimosa - installation in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Heros Memorial, Warsaw,
Próżna 14 - installation, Warsaw
Stream of Remembrance, street action, Radom
Sarcophagus II - installation and performance - Art's uprising, Radom
Necrotec - installation, Radom
2007
Sarcophagus I - Icons of Solidarity - installation, Warsaw
2006
Lesson of Armoured - installation, Poznań
Necrotec - installation, action, Radom
2005
River of Remembrance - 60th anniversary of Auschwitz–Birkenau German Nazi Death Camp liberation. 800m of railways set on fire from the Gate od Death to International Memorial of Camp Vctims. Auschwitz – Birkenau German Nazi Death Camp, 2005
2004
Homołazy - installation, Międzyzdroje
2002
Maritime Fata Morgana to the Moth’s Temptation - ritual action (music by Milo Kurtis Drum Freaks), Festival of the Stars, beach in Międzyzdroje
2001
To the Moth’s Temptation - installation, metal, water, olive oil and light wire, exhibition ‘Light’, Studio Gallery, Warsaw
2000
Obsessionata I - performance, part of the modern music festival ‘ The Warsaw Autumn’
Obsessionata II – Performance for a Pass Grade Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, November (The second version of Obsessionata dedicated to Stefan Gierowski)
White Shelter - Dedicated on the 80th birthday of Pope John Paul II, ritual actions, National Museum in Wrocław, 18 May
The Fahrenheit Bridge - actions on a bridge over the Vistula in Tczew; ‘Event’ II International Festival of eatrical and Visual Artistic Action, Tczew/Europe 2000, 7-9 September
Over the Loss of Memory - ritual actions in a forest, The Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Museum, Stawisko
Crevice - an object dedicated to the memory of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko.
The State of at Which Is Hidden… - installation, exhibition ‘Images of Death in the Polish Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries', National Museum, Cracow
1999
Under the Eyelid - exhibition, the Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, May-June
Via Crucis - installation, castle moat in Toruń, 2-27 May exhibition ‘A Sense of the Sacred’
A Cohort - a pagan object, the 100th anniversary of Komorów by Warsaw
Tree States - ritual activities, a manor barn, Ronald Dwight’s estate, Jadamowo near Niedzica
Interrogation - installation, exhibition ‘The Time of Hope’, works created by independent artists, Ars Longa Gallery, Milanówek, 11 November
Prague Winter – The Last Judgement - ritual actions, the façade of the Academia Theatre in Warsaw, 11 December. Part of ‘ e Last Judgement’ exhibition curated by E. Dzikowska and W. Wierzchowska.
1998
A Sea Cohort - installation, beach in Międzyzdroje, 4th Festival of the Stars in Międzyzdroje
Merry Gospel – Christmas Eve in Warsaw - Urban Fata Morgana 2, directed and designed by Jerzy Kalina, action under the auspices of the National Opera, Plac Teatralny, 22 December
Embers and Ashes - ritual open-air action (music by Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz, vocal by Elżbieta Towarnicka), International Street Festival, Vilnius ’98, August
Between Heaven and Earth - ritual open-air action on the Motlava river
Art – A Mirror of Cultures - visual narrative, arrangement of the sacred space in St. John’s Church, Gdańsk, 25-26 September, accompanying the Congress of Polish Architecture.
Vision 1 (music by Milo Kurtis) 1 July; ritual actions on the beach, 3rd Festival of the Stars, Międzyzdroje
Vision 2 (music Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz), 5 July, ritual actions on the beach, 3rd Festival of the Stars, Międzyzdroje; Inspired by Adam Mickiewicz’s Ode to Youth and the Forefathers’ Eve, Part three.
K+M+B [Twelth Night] – 1984 – A Remembrance – of e Bethlehem Vehicle of 1984 - installation at’s What I Like’ exhibition, e Art Palace, Cracow
Permanent Chickenpox – Triptych from Małopolska - ritual action, exhibition ‘To y Neighbour ...’, Rzeszów Philhar- monic Hall
Permanent Chickenpox – Triptych from Silesia - ritual action, V Carnival Garden of Art, Czechowice-Dziedzice
Rhapsody in Blue. Urban Fata Morgana – 3 - action, Królikarnia, park and Xawery Dunikowski Museum, Warsaw, 16 September
Festive Water-Tower - ritual action
The Artists’ Christmas tree - installation, park in front of the Zachęta Gallery, December
1997
In the Green Grass, Urban Fata Morgana - action organized on the occasion of Children’s Day, Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, 1 June
Maybe Ashes, Maybe Diamonds - ritual action, Holiday Festival of the Stars, Międzyzdroje
Day to Day - installation
Keep your Spirit High - ritual action, cemetery in Nowy Sącz, 5th Festival of Miniature Art Forms, Mała Gallery, Nowy Sącz, September – October
Permanent Chickenpox - performance, Warsaw, lobby of the Zachęta Gallery, 13 November, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Studio Gallery
1996
People into Ice – Hibernator 2000 - ritual action, Agrykola Park, Warsaw, 27 January
Moving tresholds - installation, exhibition Oikos ’96, Bydgoszcz, District Museum, April
On the treshold - space dedicated to Krzysztof Kieślowski, Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw, 2-6 April
Big Heat 1 – 2 - ritual action, beach, illuminating a concert played by Janusz Olejniczak, golf course
On the treshold - second space dedicated to Krzysztof Kieślowski, Municipal Community Centre, I Festival of the Stars, Międzyzdroje
1995
The Rape of Europa - ritual action with the participation of Małgorzata Magier, music by A. Mi- tan, meeting ‘Europe between Byzantium and Disneyland’, courtyard of the Royal Castle, Warsaw, 17 May
In the Door and behind the Door on is and the Other Side - spatial arrangement of installations:
Triumphal Entry
A Wish of the Millions
Festive Tables
Great Water and Earth
Shelters – a Volcano and Burial Mounds
Neo Noah
An Angel over the Palace
Interrogation
Warsaw, premises of the Documentary Films Studio, Warsaw, September
A Skating Ring, Interrogation, Erratic oughts - installations, exhibition ’50 Years Later in Milanówek’, Ars Longa Gallery, Milanówek, October
Christmas-Eve Supper - [reconstruction], exhibition ‘Around Polish Sculpture of the 1970s’, Orońsko, October-November
1994
The Lake of Gennesaret - object, II Triennale of Visual Arts “ The Sacred. Faith – Art”, Częstochowa ’94 (Reconstruction of the installation shown at ‘ e Dungeons of Manhattan’ exhibition in Łódź in 1989)
A Memorial Place Guarded by Silence - installation
Memorial plates - objects (from 1984), “63 Days and Nights” exhibition, Archdiocesan Museum, Warsaw, 12 August - 15 September
Erratic oughts - sculpture
A Memorial Place Guarded by Silence - installation, St. Eberhard’s Cathedral, Stuttgart
Elevation of the Light - ritual action in the park in front of the palace, Table – Fire – Grain an indoor ritual object, ‘Fire Freezes, Glow Darkens’, an artistic event, Warsaw, Królikarnia, 17 December
Desert Sex - installation
A Fire-Ball - (cartoon story), 1986, exhibition ‘Ars Erotica’, National Museum Warsaw
A Burning Window - installation, Warsaw, Plac Piłsudskiego, 1-3 August
1993
On a String - performance in a park in Orońsko as part of the seminar ‘Art and Town’, November
Litany - ritual action
Parking Prohibited -A Cortège, installation, Częstochowa, 3 April-2 May (International Festival of Religions Music ‘Gaude Mater’ )
A Tour Inspection - Exhibition ‘Repassage’, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, 28 June, reconstruction
Spring - installation
Hearths, e Great Banner of Lithuania and Belarus - object‘
The Gran Spring - installation
Hearths, The Great Banner of Lithuania and Belarus - object ‘The Grand Duchy’, artistic action, Stara Kotłownia, Warsaw, 15 October
K + M + B [ e Twel Night] - from the cycle of adopted objects
The Tower of Babel - Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Still Life – Puri ed Objects - installation
Indian Summer - performance, Łódź, Manhattan Gallery, 10-11 December
Again a Star Has Fallen, A Cosy Corner - installations, a meeting ‘Supper, or the Visible and the Invisible’ Warsaw, Gallery of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers, 6-31 December
1992
A Co n-Portrait - from the cycle of adopted objects
Tableburgers - installation
St John’s-Night or A Midsummer Night’s Dream - artistic action, Embassy of the Polish Republic, Prague, 24 June
From the Diary of a Combatant - installation
A Coffin-Portrait - an adopted object, Warsaw, Gallery of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers, Mazowiecka Street, November
We Go to the European - ritual action, Warsaw, lobby of the Ministry of Culture and Art, November
The Crossing of the Red Sea - the Fall of Giants, installation, Warsaw, the Kordegarda Gallery, 13 November – 13 December
Carpet Bombing - action, Appendix Gallery, Warsaw, gala room and several other rooms in the Academy, 13 December
1991
Special ward, Live Pictogram - installation (reconstruction of the 1974 version) exhibition ‘Magicians and Mystics’, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Welcome to Poland - performance, III Meetings of the Theatre of Vision and Art, Katowice
Ćmy i můry, nočné mory - installation, Prague, Bratislava, e Centre for Polish Culture, March-May
Kontr-Formationen. Genese der Solidarność Polen 1970- 1989, 1-30 Mai - Muelheim, garage installation, eaterlandscha , eater a.d. Ruhr, Muelheim [another version of the exhibition ‘ e time of the intransigent’]
The Muster - artistic action with a 110-person choir, 200 spades and a signalling trumpet
29th Festival of Polish Contemporary Drama, Wrocław Town Square, 22-26 May
Cathedral - installation, Li – 9, Londyn, Serpentine Gallery, June-July
La Traviata - adopted objects, live pictograms, Londyn, Serpentine Gallery
Welcome to Poland - performance, London, Serpentine Gallery, June-July
Chops’ pyramid - meteorological object, Wrocław, Town Square
White Relief - installation, Wrocław, Market Square
Cathedral II - installation, II International Meeting of Pope John Paul II with the Young, Częstochowa [dismantled by the organizers before the Pope’s arrival]
Indiscretions - meteorological installation, IV Biennale of New Art, Zielona Góra
Sarcophags - installation, exhibition ‘A Meeting of Holy Pictures’, Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw, National Museum, Cracow, 23 September – 31 October
An Epitaph – Seven Spaces, installation in front of the Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw
Cannibals of Art/Stoning/Wet Story - joint project of actors from the Studio Theatre and the National Theatre in Taipei, e Chiang Kai-shek Centre for Culture, Taipei, Taiwan
1990
The Gate of Paradise / The Muster / The Alley of the Fallen Heroes - installations, exhibition ‘Paradise Lost – Art 1949-1989’, e Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Welcome to Poland - performance, city park, Germany, Muelheim, 30 May (The second, open-air version of Beating Painting)
Solidarity in Prague – e Time of the Intransigent, Wańka Wstańka - installations, Prague, for 31 August
The Time of the Intransigent - installation, the exhibition ‘The Time of the Intransigent. History of the Opposition in Poland 1970-1989’. Museum of Independence Movements, Warsaw, previously The Lenin Museum; J. Kalina– visual narration, October
Siberian Cortège - installation
Welcome to Poland - performance, Points East, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, December 11th – January 10th 1991
1989
Exhibition ‘Departures’ - Studio Gallery, Warsaw, 20 February-12 March
Bitch Trembling - installation
Good Morning - installation
Beating Painting - ritual performance
Mutants in the Country of Active Lilliputians - installation, Berlin, Centre for Polish Culture
The Lake of Gennesaret - meteorological installation, Berlin, Centre for Polish Culture
The Wall of Memory - installation, church in Żytnia Street, Easter
A Train to Heaven - installation, 3-31 May
Exhibition ‘Recent Art. In His Own Image’, the former Norblin factory, Warsaw
The Tower of Babel - installation, September (exhibition ‘Labyrinth’, a church in Ursynów, Warsaw wood, tar paper, binder)
The Lake of Gennesaret II - meteorological installation, November exhibition ‘ e Dungeons of Manhattan’, Łódź
1988
Departures – An Emigrant’s Dream - installation, e 27th Festival of Polish Contemporary Theatre, Wrocław
Ragroom II - performance, II Meetings of the Theatre of Vision and Art, Kato- wice ’88. Bon voyage - sculpture, modern sculpture collection in the Olympic Park in Seoul
My Home - meteorological installation, September (Exhibition ‘Sculpture in the Garden’, Union of Polish Artists and Designers, Warsaw)
Sentencing a Christmas Tree - performance, Komorowski Forest, anniversary of martial law’s imposition
1987
The Easter Sepulchre, Bringing the Sheep Down from the Mountain Pastures – The Festive Table, The Way of Lights - installations shown at the exhibition, ‘Way of Lights’, Church of God’s Mercy in Żytnia Street in Warsaw
Easter 1987. Easter Sepulchre - Church of God’s Mercy in Żytnia Street, installation
1986
Flat-Rolling - installation, Podkowa Leśna, St Christopher’s Church
The Chernobyl Madonna - icon
Sarcophagus S.P.Q.R. installation, Meadow, live pictogram exhibition ‘New Heaven and New Earth?’, Warsaw, Church of God’s Mercy in Żytnia Street, October
1985
Reliquary, installation
Polish Epitaphs, installation, exhibition ‘Against Evil, Against Violence’ dedicated to the memory of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, parish church in Mistrzejowice, February-March
Crucifixion - installation, Church of St Stanislaus Kostka in Warsaw, April
The Easter Sepulchre, Warsaw, Church of St. Stanislaus Kostka
Polish Fortress ‘81 - installation, park surrounding the hunting-lodge, Antonin near Kalisz, curated by Jacek Olędzki
1984
Resurrection - installation, Warsaw, the lower church of the Holy Cross
The Easter Sepulchre - Warsaw, Garrison Vhurch in Długa Street
Esperalia - exhibition, Warsaw, the Studio Gallery
Memorial Tablets, Angelus Table (Kneeling Table) - installation Christmas Carol, Amnesty, Christmas-Eve 1981, Twelth Night, Triptych Abortium – Right, Le , Cortège, paintings Winter’81, Winter’82, icon The Black Madonna
Ragroom - performance accompanying the ‘Esperalia’ exhibition
Sandpit - installation, exhibition ‘Apocalypse, Light in the Dark’, the lower Church of the Holy Cross, November
Helplessness - installation, Church of St Stanislaus Kostka in Warsaw
The Toruń Shroud - installation, Church in Suchowola
Artistic Design of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko’s Funeral
The Bethlehem Vehicle - installation, the Church of St Stanislaus Kostka in Warsaw
1983
Easter Sepulchre - Warsaw, Visitation Church, Przyrynek Street
From Forest to Forest - action, 11 November (the Independence Day), Laski by Warsaw
The Last Supper - installation, exhibition ‘The Sign of the Cross’, Warsaw, Church of God’s Mercy, Żytnia Street, 14-30 June
1981
Black Procession - Intervention action, the fourth cardiac arrest of Culture and Art, Warsaw, 2 May
A Long Viking Bus - urban determimage-action, Malmö, Sweden, August
1979
Installation with a Palm - The Chełm 72 Gallery, Chełm
1978
The Triumphal Arch - installation, Białystok, Plac Zwycięstwa, September
Catapult - ritual action, courtyard of Warsaw University, 16 October
Artbus - urban determinage-action; a city-tour, Gdańsk
1977
Blue Jeans - ritual action, Warsaw, music by Jacek ‘Crocodile’ Malicki, Gallery of the Studio Theatre, 4 December
Passage – a Monument of an Anonymous Passer-By - at the crossing of Świętokrzyska and Mazowiecka Streets in Warsaw, the night of 12-13 December
1975
Tour Inspection II - Repassage Gallery, Warsaw 14-25 April
Incident - urban determinage, 6 days + one month, Sweden, Johannesgaten 7, Konsthall, Malmö, August
Hospital - live pictograms, installation, Sweden, Johannesgaten 7, Konsthall, Malmö (The Swedish version of the Wrocław Inspection Tour)
Two Hours with a Rifle - action, Warsaw, Centrum Department Stores and neighbouring streets, October
A Positivistic Manifesto - action (prepared together with Małgorzata Maliszewska), Warsaw, Złota Street, October
Vividrama - action prepared together with Małgorzata Maliszewska, Warsaw, the Studio Gallery
The Whispered Square of Malevich - action, Warsaw, Eastern Wall passage, November. Cooperation with Małgorzata Maliszewska
Generation 30 - live pictogram, installation (prepared together with Małgorzata Maliszewska), Warsaw, Gallery of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers, Mazowiecka Street, December
1974
White Bridge - action, Wrocław, September
Triptych of Polychrome Sculptures - (live gures), Warsaw, Współczesna Gallery, October
Hyperrealism - Display of polychrome sculptures. e artist exhibited behind the glass live gures striking poses, wearing make-up, and transformed into hyperrealistic gures.
Make-Ups - Facial archaeology. Live gures placed inside glass sarcophagi were subjected to paracosmetic treatments so that they would become even ‘more life-like’
Paper Prophet - Acupuncture. A response to the hippie movement in Poland. In co- -operation with a music band (Milo Kurtis, Jacek Malicki) and students of the Mikołaj Rej Secondary School in Warsaw.
Soap Zone - installation, Wspóczesna Gallery, Warsaw. Bars of grey “Jeleń” soap arranged in regular rows like tombstones at the cemetery.
Tour Inspection – Special Ward, Live Pictograms - installation, Wrocław, the BWA Gallery, November
Exhibition: Edward Dwurnik – Jerzy Kalina, Christmas Table II, Live Pictograms II - Gallery of the Studio Theatre, Warsaw, December 1974 - January 1975
1973
The Bond - intervention, Warsaw, park in ul. Bednarska
Reservation - installation, Gallery of the Studio Teatre, December
No Response - action
1972
The Day of the Crane - ritual action (realized together with Małgorzata Maliszewska),the village of Hołowienki, the location of Andrzej Ekwiński’s experimental gallery, 24 June.
Momentary Objects – 11th Debut of the Alumni - installation (prepared together with Małgorzata Maliszewska), Warsaw, Society of Friends of Fine Arts (TPSP), October
Taxi Stop - ritual action with the participation of Milo Kurtis (playing the ute), Wrocław, Plac Solny, October
Polish Flax – Polish Fashion - ritual action in a construction pit prepared for the building of an underground passage between the Academy of Fine Arts and the University in Krakowskie Przedmieście Street in Warsaw, October 16. Cooperation with the Band with participation of Jacek Malicki, Milo Kurtis.
Wedding Ceremony - ritual action, Warsaw, courtyard of the Registar’s Once in the Old Town district, November
At Hopfer’s - ritual action, wine cellar At Hopfer’s in Warsaw, 19 December
Christmas-Eve Supper - ritual action, Warsaw, the Repassage Gallery, 24 December19
Halting the Time - first ritual action with the use of pigment, alarm clock, suitcase and water, Warsaw, Central Station, December-January
1971
A Diploma of an Anonyme - determinage, Warsaw, courtyard of the Academy of Fine Arts , May
Tied-Up - political determinage, Warsaw, Plac Zwycięstwa, July
What You Should and What You Should Not row to Garbage - action, Warsaw, Old Town Squareaction with objects found in garbage containers
Bible Read from the End - installation, Galeria 10 in the Wola district