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Opening #BIBLIOTEKA in Poznan and IZOLATKA in Warsaw

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IZOLATKA / ISOLATION WARD

Opening : Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 7 PM

Studio Teatrgaleria
Pl. Defilad 1
Pałac Kultury i Nauki
00-901 Warszawa

An installation designed by Olga Mokrzycka-Grospierre and myself, imagined as a theatrical space, within the Studio Theatre in Warsaw. The installation space shall serve as a stage without scenography, where several theatre shows shall be staged, starting with Pocałunek Kobiety Pająka ” (The Kiss of the Spider Woman), directed by Rafał Dziemidok on February 10, 2017.

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#BIBLIOTEKA / #LIBRARY
An exhibition curated by Marta Smolińska

Opening : Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 6 PM

Until 28.02.2017

Centrum Kultury Zamek
ul. Św. Marcin 80/82
61-809 Poznań

Artists: Jan Berdyszak, Barbara Bloom, Hubert Czerepok, Iwona Demko, Krzysztof Gliszczyński, Maurycy Gomulicki, Nicolas Grospierre, Horst Hoheisel & Andreas Knitz, Jakub Jasiukiewicz, Bartosz Kokosiński, Jarosław Kozłowski, Anna Królikiewicz, Agnieszka Kurant, Piotr Kurka, Paweł Susid, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, Małgorzata Szymankiewiczmore info here

Opening BOGACTWO – MONEY TO BURN at Zachęta National Gallery of Art

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Opening of

BOGACTWO – MONEY TO BURN

at Zachęta National Gallery of Art
pl. Małachowskiego 3, 00-916 Warsaw

on Friday, August 26, 2016 at 7 PM

artists: Azorro, Ewa Axelrad, Tymek Borowski, Rafał Dominik, Maurycy Gomulicki, Nicolas Grospierre, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Monika Kmita, Luxus, Mister D. i Krzysztof Skonieczny/głębokiOFF, Tomasz Mróz, Witek Orski, Zbigniew Rogalski, Gregor Różański, Jadwiga Sawicka, Janek Simon, Konrad Smoleński, Radek Szlaga, Paweł Śliwiński, Maria Toboła, Piotr Uklański

curators: Katarzyna Kołodziej, Magdalena KomornickaFor most of us wealth is still something very much desired. Hence the title of the exhibition is more of a quote, an understatement and an ambiguity. It serves as a slogan which does not actually refer to material assets but rather the lack of.  The exhibition tries to trace the visual representations of wealth from the 1990s, the times of transformation when Poles went money-crazy lured by the opportunities of making a quick buck, through the period of disenchantment with the neoliberal ideas until this day. Nowadays, wealth is often a mere fantasy or an illusion, while “poverty is the new wealth”, and as such it is a generational experience, in which irony is used to cope with the longings and fears on the one hand and, on the other, serves as a tool for questioning reality.

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Opening TODO PALICEDE ANTE EL LIBRO at Centro de Arte Alcobendas, June 30, 2016

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Opening of “Todo palidece ante el libro” [All pales before the book], at the Centro de Arte Alcobendas, on June 30, 2016 at 19.30

Centro de Arte Alcobendas

C/ Mariano Sebastián Izuel 9
28100 Alcobendas, Madrid

The show, which is part of PhotoEspana, will be on until September 13.

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Todo palidece ante el libro presents the printed book as the universal medium, the container which holds all the narrations, the story that tells all the stories, including that of its own birth, but also of its own destruction.

In this exhibition, Nicolas Grospierre has assembled several works – photographs, photographic objects, installations, videos – which, every time in a different way, praise the wonder of the book, by showing the vertigo and exhilaration that enlightenment can create, the melancholy at the prospect of a devastated library, but also the capacity of knowledge to come back to life once it has been destroyed, literally rising from its own ashes.

Opening MODERN FORMS at the Architectural Association in London, April 29, 2016

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Opening of MODERN FORMS. A Subjective Atlas of 20th Century Architecture, at the Architectural Association Gallery in London.

The exhibition is curated by Alona Pardo and Elias Redstone with AA Exhibitions.

Private view and book launch
Friday 29 April, 6.30 – 8.30PM

Artist talk
Saturday 30 April, 11AM

Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

This exhibition, and the book which accompanies it, is the sum of my photographic work documenting late modernist architecture: it covers buildings from 4 continents and presents photographs from 2003 until 2015. A publication accompanies the exhibition and is published by Prestel.

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Exhibition
30 April – 28 May 2016
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

Monday to Friday 10am–7pm
Saturday 10am–5pm

Opening 50/50 at TEATR WIELKI OPERA NARODOWA, Warsaw, on November 20, 2015

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Opening of the show 50/50, and launch of the album 50/50, showcasing 50 photographs by photographer Nicolas Grospierre, of the architecture of the National Opera in Warsaw. The show celebrates the 50th anniversary of the reconstruction of the National Opera House in Warsaw.

Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa

Plac Teatralny 1, Warsaw

November 20, 2015, and on show until January 2016

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Opening KURZ / DUST /غبار at CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw 4.09.2015

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KURZ / DUST / غبار

Honorary Patronage of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage prof. Małgorzata Omilanowska.

Opening: 4 September 2015 (Friday) at 6:00 p.m.
Opening concert: PRAED (Liban)
On view through 15 November 2015

Artists:
Mona Aghababee (Iran), Nazgol Ansarinia (Iran), Caline Aoun (Lebanon), Mehraneh Atashi (Iran),Vartan Avakian (Lebanon), Naser Bakhshi (Iran), Charbel-joseph H. Boutros (Lebanon), Ali Cherri(Lebanon), Vikram Divecha (UAE), Negar Farajiani (Iran), Barbad Golshiri (Iran), Mikołaj Grospierre(Poland), Mireille Kassar (Lebanon), Ali Kazim (Pakistan), Komuna// Warszawa (Poland), Mehreen Murtaza (Pakistan), Jurgen Ots (Belgium), Monira Al Qadiri (Kuwait), Wojciech Pustoła (Poland), Neda Razavipour (Iran), Iza Tarasewicz (Poland), Lorde Selys (Belgium).

Curator: Anna Ptak
Co-Curator: Amanda Abi Khalil
Exhibition Design: Krzysztof Skoczylas

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opening EMULSION, at the Archaeology of Photography Foundation, Warsaw, May 10, 2015

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Fundacja Archeologii Fotografii presents:

Nicolas Grospierre  /  Tadeusz Sumiński
The Picture which grows
Part of the Living Archives series
Project launch and an afternoon picnic:
May 22 (Sunday), 3.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Venue: the apartment of Tadeusz Sumiński,
Ulica Koszykowa 1, Apt. 82 and in the green courtyard

The picture which grows will be on view from May 23 to June 11, 2011

Mondays to Fridays, 4.00 pm – 8.00 pm, Saturdays 12.00 – 5.00 pm

Koszykowa 1, Apt. 82, Warsaw

The picture which grows, a project by Nicolas Grospierre (b. 1975) realized in the apartment of the photographer Tadeusz Sumiński (1924-2009), is a new event in the Living Archives series, organized by the Archeology of Photography Foundation, which seeks to establish a creative dialogue between the classic figures of Polish photography and contemporary artists.
The picture which grows is an attempt at confronting the ideas of tidiness and untidiness, the static and the dynamic, order and entropy, in the form of a photographic installation. It is also a clash of the order informing the archive of Tadeusz Sumiński and a method that aims to disturb this order. The installation consists of Sumiński’s archive accompanied by 800 photographs of the apartment and the archive taken by Nicolas Grospierre and mounted on the walls, ceiling and the floor. Grospierre photographed the interior of a room, made a print, mounted it in the same room in order to photograph it, develop, and photograph again, repeating the process up to a point when the room was completely filled with photographs of itself.

opening EMULSION, at the Archaeology of Photography Foundation, Warsaw, May 10, 2015

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FUNDACJA ARCHEOLOGII FOTOGRAFII, WARSAW

EMULSION
 Artists : Dorota Buczkowska, Nicolas Grospierre, Robert Kuśmirowski
Opening : May 28,  2015 at  7 PM
Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii

13 Andersa St Warsaw

On show until July 17, 2015
Reviewing the analogue roots of photography is extremely important in the context of contemporary photographic practices. The exhibition Emulsion emerges from the need of revisiting the issues concerned with the materiality of photography and the related formal explorations. The project comprises works by three acclaimed artists who work in photography, but also engage with other media: Dorota Buczkowska, Nicolas Grospierre, and Robert Kuśmirowski. They will show brand new works, prepared especially for the Foundation’s gallery space, which reference the origins of photography and deal with such notions as photosensitivity and conservation of photographic material. Coinciding with the opening night of the exhibition will be launch of the book under the same title. The book will feature archival photographs next to works by artists reflecting on the photographic matter as well as exploiting the potential latent in damaged photographs.
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Opening STATE OF LIFE. Polish Contemporary Art within a Global Circumstance at the NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF CHINA, BEIJING, May 10, 2015

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NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF CHINA, BEIJING

STATE OF LIFE. Polish Contemporary Art within a Global Circumstance
curator: Jarosław Lubiak
On show: May 10 until June 24, 2015

 State of Life is an attempt to communicate the Polish experience to recipients from a different culture. Presenting Polish art at the National Art Museum of China, State of Life aims to reflect the complex balance of forces and tensions shaping reality in today’s Poland as it undergoes modernization and globalization processes.

The exhibition features some 70 works by artists who concern themselves with the present-day situation in Poland yet work in a truly global vein. It is precisely the achievements of artists from generations enjoying full access to participation in global culture that the exhibition presents in the widest selection.

artists: Paweł Althamer, Ewa Axelrad, Mirosław Bałka, Wojciech Bąkowski, Michał Budny, Rafał Bujnowski, Olaf Brzeski, Marek Chlanda, Tomasz Ciecierski, Edward Dwurnik, Nicolas Grospierre, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Piotr Janas, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Adam Jastrzębski, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Agnieszka Kalinowska, Tadeusz Kantor, Leszek Knaflewski, Katarzyna Kobro, Tomasz Kozak, Katarzyna Kozyra, Zofia Kulik, Kamil Kuskowski, Norman Leto, Zbigniew Libera, Robert Maciejuk, Jan Manski, Angelika Markul, Anna Molska, Magdalena Moskwa, Jerzy Nowosielski, Roman Opałka, Ewa Partum, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Zbigniew Rogalski, Tadeusz Rolke, Zofia Rydet, Wilhelm Sasnal, Jan Simon, Aleksandra Ska, Łukasz Skąpski, Jan Smaga, Mikołaj Smoczyński, Magdalena Starska, Władysław Strzemiński, Alina Szapocznikow, Radek Szlaga, Leon Tarasewicz, Andrzej Wasilewski, Julita Wójcik, Andrzej Wróblewski, Monika Zawadzki, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, Zorka Projekt

Opening at KUNSTHALLE BRATISLAVA: PROCEDURES FOR THE HEAD / Polish Art Today – 27 February 2015

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KUNSTHALLE BRATISLAVA

PROCEDURES FOR THE HEAD / Polish Art Today
Curator : Sebastian Cichocki
on show until June 28, 2015

The exhibition PROCEDURES FOR THE HEAD / Polish Art Today was prepared by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The exhibition presents over 50 Polish contemporary artists of several generations and it is the first large international event of the Dom umenia/Kunsthalle Bratislava.

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Opening A GLASS SHARD IN THE EYE, BWA Warszawa, September 26, 2014

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BWA Warszawa invites you to the exhibition by

NICOLAS GROSPIERRE, OLGA MOKRZYCKA-GROSPIERRE

A Glass Shard in the Eye

Friday, 26.09.2014, 5 p.m.

Exhibition is open till 08.11.2014

Wednesday – Saturday 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.

The centerpiece of the exhibition is a crystal – a mineral of fascinating qualities, of sensual beauty and geometric precision. The crystal not only attracts the eye as an object of beauty, but it also facilitates seeing itself as a material often used in optical equipment (such as cameras). At the same time it maintains its mystery, with its complex structure of mirrors reflecting infinitely.

The Grospierres translate this complexity into the language of visual arts. In Olga’s paintings it appears both as a theme and as a medium. The seemingly abstract canvases show real crystals created using a special pigment containing microscopic crystals.

Nicolas builds upon Olga’s canvases in creating an installation that sets optical equipment among her works.

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The Graham Foundation awards a grant to Nicolas Grospierre

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Nicolas Grospierre was awarded a grant by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, towards the achivement of his latest work, A House for Culture, dealing with the architetural legacy of the Israeli Kibbutzim and of the Estonian Kolkhozes

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Opening TYPOLOGIES at Galeria Alarcon Criado, Seville January 31, 2014

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NICOLAS GROSPIERRE

TYPOLOGIES

Opening on Friday January 31, at 20:30

From January 31 to March 29, 2014

Galeria Alarcon Criado

C/ Velarde, 9. 41001, Sevilla

Nicolas Grospierre’s practice as an artist and photographer is close to that of collecting: thanks to his camera, by photographing interesting things or phenomena, he has made them his own, he has appropriated them. For Grospierre, this impulse to photograph is comparable to a kind of imperative. However, this urge to photograph /collect lead him to question the very motivation behind such a behavior and try to systematize it through works which use and display collections, by employing the focus of one of his collections, the exhibition cabinets. 
Therefore, Typologiesis an exhibition which shows a variety of collections (some authentic, some fake, although the distinction is not clear-cut) and raises the question as to the meaning behind the act of collecting. 
Ultimately, Typologies, besides its undeniable visual seduction, instills the viewer with an uneasy feeling. That, however we try to justify our urge to collect, what remains in our hands in the end is perhaps nothing more than a breath of air.

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