1963 born in Olsztyn/ Poland studied, amongst others, Painting at the Art Academy in Munich, Germany; Sculpture and Typography at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, Germany lives in Düsseldorf
Piotr Zamojski's main subjects are time, space and language. The materials he uses are pre-existing situations such as interiors, public spaces, landscapes and also objects of daily use. He investigates the relation between appearance, image, description and reality itself. His works have an evocative and responsive character; they can be seen as pretexts, as an invitation to pay more attention to a particular place in order to get closer to the genius loci. In doing so, he examines local formal languages against a broader historical, geographical and socio-cultural background. His choice of media ranges from painting, photography, film and sound to sculptural techniques.
Selected solo exhibitions and projects:
2019 Playback former cinema Delfin, Gdansk-Oliwa, Poland
2017 O vrime (O Time) Galerija AZ, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 Sat lacrimis St. Mary Magdalene Church, Geldern, Germany
2015 Face and Hands AIS, Shibukawa, Japan
2014 Nu Kunstraum Düsseldorf
Paraopticum exhibition space Bove, Düsseldorf
2013 Refrain the abandoned house, Taagan, Scotland
ris an adhar (In the Air)
transmitted by Two Lochs Radio, Gairloch, Scotland
2012 Homo Ludens
Muzeum Sopotu, Sopot, Poland
2011 Wall
Färberstraße, Düsseldorf
Rear House
Klaus Kinski’s birth place, Sopot, Poland
2010 Singleman’s Hut
Warawara
Bundanon, West Cambewarra, Australia
Melkein… (Almost…)
Inre Hatten Island, Helsinki, Finland
Third Setting
Concept Space, Shibukawa, Japan
Drawings
R2, Shibukawa
2006 Second Setting Concept Space, Shibukawa, Japan
2005 Titles
Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf
Pillars
Finanz_IT, Berlin
2004 Metamuseum
MMKI (Museum of Modern Art in Internet)
Three Walls
Raum Claudia Simon, Düsseldorf
2003 Floor
Ausstellungsraum Acker 204, Düsseldorf
First Setting
Concept Space, Shibukawa, Japan
Eight Walls
Gallery Surge, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Guest Studio
Van de Nieuwe Dingen, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Wall and Balustrade
Nord-LB, Magdeburg, Germany
2001 Seeschule
Former high school, Überlingen, Germany
2000 Fifth Room Escale, Düsseldorf, Germany
Akiyama Arrangement
Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Bootskeller
Pillnitz Castle, Dresden, Germany
Two Rooms
Ausstellungsraum Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 26, Leipzig, Germany
1997 Four Rooms
Escale, Düsseldorf, Germany
1996 Fivefold Divided and Straight Wall
Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Germany
1995-96 Two Windows and Two Rooms
Rooms of Kühle and Mozer, Cologne, Germany
1994 Three Rooms
Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
Selected group exhibitions:
2023 Stafa bú (Letter Farm), participation in Dálítill Sjór, former seafood factory, Eyrarbakki, Iceland
FAR CRY/ PAS ICI (Not Here)
SUN FUN/ SANS FIN (Without End), participation in Island - Myths and Reality, The National History Museum, Mahébourg,Mauritius
2022 SIN ELLOS, NO SERIA LO MISMO. (Without Them, It Wouldn’t Be the Same.),
Al viento (To the Wind), Pósters
participation in FIFV Raís & Caos (Roots & Caos), La Sala de Artes Visuales del Parque Cultural de Valparaiso, Chile
Hafsjór Tilbrigdin, participation in Hafsjòr/Oceanus, Árnessysla Heritage Museum, Eyrarbakki, Iceland
Vor den Bildern (Before the Images), NKR Düsseldorf Germany
2021 Wandzeitung(Wall Newsaper)
participation in Between Model and Museum II, Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
2020 Wandzeitung
participation in Between Model and Museum I, Eisenhüttenstadt
2019 NKR Call
NKR, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 Bove-Expat
Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Germany
Utopies Fluviales
La Marèchalerie, Versailles, France
Nie dbam o gwiazdy... (I Care Not About the Stars...)
participation in Narracje #10 Gdansk-Oliwa, Poland
2017 Utopies Fluviales
Muséo-Seine, Caudebec-en-Caux, France
Utopies Fluviales Fort de Tourneville, Le Havre, France
Una confusión cotidiana (The Daily Confusion)
cooperation with La Virgen Del Milagro Producciones,
Teatro Experimental de Boyacá, Tunja, Colombia
2015 OE=OM IV
Minami, Maebashi, Japan
Absenz (Absence)
Die Letzten und die Ersten (The Last and the First)
participation in the exhibition Reflexionen
former St.Francis monastery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2012 Gamli Vitinn (Old Lighthouse);
á glæ kastat (Cast into the Sea)
participation in the exhibition Fresh Winds
Gardur, Iceland
Five Proverbs
participation in the exhibition Equinox
The Salos Manor House, Salos, Lithuania
2011 Windows
participation in the exhibition 5x3
Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 Sjaldan… (Seldom…)
Former fisherman’s hut, Gardur, Iceland;
Brandur Af Brandi Brenn Uns Bruninn Er
participation in the exhibition Fresh Winds
Gardur, Iceland
2009 From Text to Image
Suwon Art Center, Suwon, Korea
Under the Bottom Line
participation in the TEAF 2009
Ulsan, Korea
2008 Letters of Law
participation in the exhibition Ten Years Later
Old Prison, Port Louis, Mauritius
Four Words
participation in the exhibition Aslijnen Op Kopvlakken
former Deprez Factory, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2007 Ladder and Desk
participation in the exhibition Wrong Mistakes
Kartinnaya Galerya, Myshkin, Russia
2006 Globus Dei
Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany
Headlines and Scribbles
participation in Busan Biennale 2006
Busan, Korea
2004 Five Sequences
participation in the exhibition Besides…
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Vingt et Une Pierres (Twenty-One Stones)
participation in the exhibition 13001 Frioul
Hopital Caroline, Frioul Island, Marseille, France
2003 Antesala (Anteroom)
participation in the exhibition Confluencias
Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloe, Castro, Chile
2000 Taubenturm
participation in the exhibition Am Ort
Künstlerhof Buch, Berlin, Germany
Contraventanas (Shutters)
participation in the exhibition Myths of ModernTimes
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile
Puerta (The Gate)
participation in the exhibition El Dia
Former prison, Valparaiso, Chile
1999 Mach Bazaar (Fishmarket)
participation in the exhibition 9/7
the market square Bara Bazaar in Shillong, India
1997 Letanier
Traveller’s Tree
participation in the exhibition Escale in Mauritius
Eureka, Moca, Mauritius
1996 Meeting Room and Basement
participation in East 1996 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
and Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England
1993 Woman’s and Man’s Room
participation in the exhibition Wände (Walls)
Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
Selected unrealised projects
2019 Postskriptum (Post Scriptum) proposal for
the redesign of Reeser Platz, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 Todos Modos
proposal for Manifesta 12
Palermo, Italy
2014 Grand Escalier
proposal for Rayol Gardens
Domaine du Rayol, Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer, France
Énoncées (Statements)
proposal for the Espace d’art la Terrasse Nanterre, France
2010 Coleurs
proposal for the Centre de Formation Eurespace
Cholet, France
2006 Pieces
proposal for Busan Biennale
pavillon, Haeundae Beach, Busan, Korea
2005 Fünf Räume (Five Rooms)
Finanz_IT, office rooms, Spittelmarkt, Berlin, Germany
2002 Treppenhaus II (Staircase II)
Nord LB. Leipzig, Germany
1999 Latenz (Latency)
proposal for the Memorial of Vanished Jewish Community
Gottschedstraße, Leipzig, Germany
1995 Two Pillars
Staircase I
Boerhaaveplein 4, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Coradina
proposal for the redesign of the schooner Coradina
Vier Wände (Four Walls)
Bagelstraße 97, Düsseldorf, Germany
Selected bibliography
2020 Wandzeitung, Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
2018 Bove/ Bove- Expat , Armin Hartenstein, Düsseldorf, Germany, p. 23, 38-39.
zat No.6, Düsseldort, Germany, text Dort als hier (There as Here)
2016 Sat lacrimis, Geldern, Germany
2014 The Caravane, Düsseldorf, Germany, artist book
2012 A Radical Place, Mediabus: Seoyoung Kim, Seoul, Korea, p. 7-14.
2009 From Text to Image Suwon, Korea: Suwon Art Center, p. 90-95.
Tarawa River Eco Art Festival 2009, Ulsan, Korea: TEAF p. 66-67.
2007 Hinter Glass, Hannover, Germany: NORD/ LB, p. 59-61
2006 Public Furniture, Busan, Korea: Busan Biennale 2006, catalogue, p. 30-31, 66-69.
2005 SITE 8, Düsseldorf, Germany: hausammeer productions
2004 SITE 7, Düsseldorf, Germany: hausammeer productions
2003 Journal of Tokyo Zokei University, 2003/4, Tokyo, Japan, p. 8-10.
Bolles + Willson Nord/LB, Magdeburg, Stuttgart/ London: Edition Axel Menges, p. 56-57.
2002 Förderband. Die Künstlerkataloge der Krupp-Stiftung, Steidl Verlag Göttingen, Germany:
Klaus Gallwitz und Bettina Schönfelder, p. 180-181, 272.
2001 Am Ort, Berlin, Germany:Deutscher Künstlerbund, p.179-183, 216.
2000 Vier Räume/ Zwei Räume, Düsseldorf, Germany
1998 Bootskeller, Schloss Pillnitz Dresden, Germany: Dirk Welich
1996 Grenzgänge der Zeichnung, Jahrbuch: Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Germany, p. 140-149.
Fünfgeteilte und gerade Wand, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Münster, Germany: Heinz Liesbrock
Acht Seiten, artist book, Bern, Switzerland
1993 Wände, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany: Eva Meyer-Hermann, p. 20-28.
1992 Exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, Germany
Exhibition catalogue, Munich, Germany
Grants / Residencies
2021 Kunstfonds
2021 FIFV, Valparaiso, Chile
2020 Kunstfonds
2013 Ceangal Residency, Natural Heritage, Scotland
2010 HIAP, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Bundanon Trust, West Cambewarra, NSW, Australia
2002 Van de Nieuwe Dingen, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2001 Nida, Lithuania
2000 Kunstfonds
1999 Stiftung Kunst und Kultur NRW
1996 Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung
Teaching
2008 – 09 Professorship at the Departement of Western Painting,
Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
Guest Lecturer
2015 Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
2011 Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
2009 Hansung University, Seoul, Korea
2008 Uniwerytet Warminsko-Mazurski, Olsztyn, Poland
2003 Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
2003 Zokei University, Tokio, Japan
2001 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania