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Krzysztof Jung (11 July 1951 in Warsaw – 5 October 1998 in Warsaw) was a Polish painter, graphic artist, performer, teacher and creator of the conception of the Plastic Theatre.
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Krzysztof Jung (11 July 1951 in Warsaw – 5 October 1998 in Warsaw) was a Polish painter, graphic artist, performer, teacher and creator of the conception of the Plastic Theatre.
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Life Studied at the Faculty of Interior Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1971-76. In 1978-79, he ran the neo-avant-garde Repassage gallery, which promoted performance art. He was involved in the first period of Polish performance art. Despite government censorship, his performances as well as his drawings and paintings, which treated homoerotic themes, helped to open the way for LGBT art in Poland. In his capacity as teacher and gallery manager he attracted a group of artists and intellectuals who audaciously addressed the issue of both political and sexual freedom in art. In 1983, under the influence of writer Wojciech Karpiński and after getting to know painter Józef Czapski in Paris, he focused on painting. He was mainly interested in landscapes, paintings with strong, saturated colours, to which he also gave symbolic meaning. Beginning in 1988 he published pencil portraits of prominent writers including Józef Czapski, Joseph Brodsky, Zbigniew Herbert, Konstanty Jeleński, Czesław Miłosz and James Merrill for the literary journal Zeszyty Literackie newly created in Paris. He died from asthma in 1998. Art and concept of the Plastic Theatre The most distinctive aspect of Krzysztof Jung's work and performances was his conception of the Plastic…
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Selected exhibitions and individual events 1974 - exhibition at 44 Aleje Jerozolimskie, Warsaw 1976 - The visual and non-visual aspects of space - Repassage gallery, Warsaw 1977 - Public entanglement of space - Repassage gallery, Warsaw 1978 - Two red ones, or a spatial poem about the regime - Repassage 2 gallery, Warsaw 1979 - Responsibility - action at the main gate of the University of Warsaw; Cocooning performance - Repassage 2 gallery, Warsaw 1980 - Conversation performance - Re'Repassage gallery, Warsaw; Creating through others and a horizon of freedom - Re'Repassage gallery, Warsaw 1981 - Still-life action - Re'Repassage gallery, Warsaw 1982 - Instruct me, and I will be quiet, and show me where I have erred performance - Barbara and Wiktor Gutts' studio, Warsaw; Caprichos XIII - The sleep of reason produces monsters performance - Barbara and Wiktor Gutts' studio, Warsaw 1989 - Paradise - Dziekanka gallery, Warsaw; 'Trees at the centre of the world' - Pokaz gallery, Warsaw 1992 - Landscape with Saint Sebastian - Dziekanka gallery, Warsaw 1999 - Krzysztof Jung 1951-1998 - posthumous exhibition at the Xawery Dunikowski Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 2016 - Krzysztof Jung: Metamorphosis, Museum of the Academy…
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Selected group exhibitions 1978 - Seventh Festival of the Fine Arts - Warsaw 1979 - Eroticism - House of the Artist, Warsaw; Documentation of selected actions 1977-79 - Repassage 2 gallery, Warsaw 1980 - All-Poland Confrontations, art by young people, Art Propaganda Centre, Łódź; Unpublished catalogue. Show of 1974-80 documentation - Re'Repassage gallery, Warsaw 1989 - Pole German Russian - Zakłady Norblina, Warsaw 1993 - Sigma. Galeria. Repassage. Repassage 2, Re'Repassage - Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 1997 - CARTOGRAPHERS. GEO-GNOSTIC PROJECTION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - Zagreb, Croatia; Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (1998); Budapest, Hungary (1998); Maribor, Slovenia (1998) 2010 - Ars HomoErotica - National Museum in Warsaw 2023-2024 – Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2023-2024), Phoenix Art Museum (2024), Vancouver Art Gallery (2024) 2024 – Arkadia – National Museum in Warsaw
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Bibliography Krzysztof Jung. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Grzegorz Kowalski and Maryla Sitkowska, Warsaw 2001 Krzysztof Jung. The Male Nude | Der männliche Akt, Berlin 2019 Krzysztof Jung : Peintures, dessins, photographies. Edited by Wojciech Karpiński, Paris 2017 Krzysztof Jung : Metamorphosis. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Katarzyna Urbańska, Warsaw 2016 Paweł Leszkowicz, Art pride : gay art from Poland, Warsaw 2010 Paweł Leszkowicz, Male nude : Naked Man in Polish Art after 1945, Poznań 2012
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Filmography Biographical film Imago of Krzyś directed by Adam Janisch and Barbara Janisch, Berlin 2016