A PHOTO OF THE CITY

Warsaw photography and related forms of art from the end of WWII until now

Nowy Teatr, Hala Warsztatowa

20 September – 24 November 2013 | 20:00

Exhibition opening: September 20, 2013
The exhibition will be open until November 24, 2013

Curator:
Adam Mazur

Curators of the „Synchronization” part:
Bogna Świątkowska, Piotr Drewko

Cooperation:
Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Artists:
Akademia Ruchu school of dance, Stefan Arczyński, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Zofia Chomętowska, Maria Chrząszczowa, Kuba Dąbrowski, Zbigniew Dłubak, Mikołaj Długosz, Maurycy Gomulicki, Nicolas Grospierre, Łukasz Gorczyca/Michał Kaczyński, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Mariusz Hermanowicz, Elżbieta Janicka, Jacek Kołodziejski, Kobas Laksa, Dominik Lewiński, Zbigniew Libera, Ewa Partum, Krzysztof Pijarski, Błażej Pindor, Krystyna Piotrowska, Konrad Pustoła, Joanna Rajkowska, Szymon Rogiński, Tomasz Saciłowski, Leonard Sempoliński, Tomasz Sikorski, Jan Smaga, Juliusz Sokołowski, Maciej Stępiński, Tomasz Szerszeń, Zbigniew Tomaszczuk, Wojciech Wilczyk, Monika Zawadzki

Scenography:
Olga Mokrzycka-Grospierre

more information here

We are pleased to inform about the lauch of Nicolas Grospierre’s monography, OPEN-ENDED.

OPEN-ENDED traces Grospierre’s work through numerous illustrations, critical essays by David Crowley and Adam Mazur, as well as an interview by Tomasz Plata.

The album was designed by the Warsaw based design studio MamaStudio, and published by Jovis Verlag, Berlin.

More info HERE and images HERE

Tuesday April 4 2013, at 7 PM

Opening speech by Levente Polyák, urbanist, Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre

PLatan Gallery, Polish Institute, Budapest

Andrassy ut 32

Budapest

Thursday 4 April, 7:00 pm — Friday 10 May 2013, 7:00 pm

more info here

Transfer: PinchukArtCentre presents

The Bank by Nicolas Grospierre

Opening on September 18, 2012 at 6PM

18–23 September 2012

Open Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 until 21:00.

Admission is Free.

PinchukArtCentre

Block А, 1/3-2, Chervonoarmiyska Street/Baseyna Street

Besarabka quarter

Kyiv 01 004

Ukraine

more info here    

Nicolas Grospierre

The City Which Does Not Exist

Opening: 13 July 2012, 8 pm

The exhibition will be open from 14 July until 26 August 2012
Curator: Lidia Krawczyk

more info here

Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Bunkier Sztuki, pl. Szczepański 3a, 31-011 Kraków

www.bunkier.art.pl

NICOLAS GROSPIERRE

Axonometry

Inauguración viernes 30 a las 20:30 h.

Hasta el 19 de Mayo 2012.

ALARCÓN CRIADO GALERÍA

C./ Madrid 4.B6

41001 – SEVILLA

www.alarconcriado.com

more info here

Axonometry
The Axonometry exhibition gathers different works by Nicolas Grospierre whose common denominator is that these are all photographic works which represent reality as axonometric views. This is an apparent paradox: one sees reality in perspective (and this is what the camera records), and axonometry is a technique representing reality in an abstract, geometric fashion, which by definition contradicts the fundamental rules of perspective. In other words, the expression “axonometricphotography” is a contradiction in terms, since photography is always a representation through perspective.

This visual paradox has intrigued Nicolas Grospierre, who for the past few years has created numerous axonometric photographs, most of the times visualisations of buildings (as axonometry is very often used in architectural designs), but also of objects. The quasi geometric aspect of these photographs, but also the need to build literally from scratch these images, has led Nicolas Grospierre to represent imaginary buildings, legends of the modernist tradition.

Among other works, the Axonometry exhibition will display a few of these imaginary structures : the floating swimming pool imagined by Rem Koolhas at the end of his book Delirious New York, (which was supposed to carry Russian dissident architects to New York, in a trip which took them 5 decades), but also the legendary Wolkenbügel, designed by the Russian avant-guarde artist and architect El-Lissitzky. In this last work, and in order to create the axonometry of the Wolkenbügel, Nicolas Grospierre used photographs he made in Brasil: in an ironic twist, a brought to life utopia thus served as the visual basis for a never achieved utopian building.

Finally, the show will present a set of two especially prepared axonometric photographs which refer directly to the space of the Alarcon Criado Gallery, where the show is taking place.

BWA WARSZAWA presents
„THE BANK”
a solo show by Nicolas Grospierre

Opening: Saturday, 03.12.2011, 7 p.m.
ul. Jakubowska 16, Functional House, Warsaw
the exhibition is open till 11.02.2012
Wednesday-Saturday, 3 p.m.-7 p.m.

more info  here

BIBLIOTEKA NARODOWA / POLISH NATIONAL LIBRARY

„COŚ, KTÓRE NADCHODZI. ARCHITEKTURA XXI WIEKU” / „SOMETHING THAT COMES. ARCHITECTURE OF XXI CENTURY”
Oprowadzanie kuratorskie po wystawie: sobota, 03.12.2011, godz. 11.00
Guided tour: Saturday, 03.12.2011,11 a.m.
KRÓLIKARNIA /KROLIKARNIA PALACE
NATIONAL MUSEUM in Warsaw

„SKONTRUM”

Curator : Agnieszka Tarasiuk
Artists : Nicolas Grospierre, Agnieszka Polska, Jan Szewczyk
Opening: Sunday, 04.12.2011, 5 p.m.
more info on www.krolikarnia.mnw.art.pl

CSW ZAMEK UJAZDOWSKI / CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS ZAMEK UJAZDOWSKI
„ENKLAWA” / „ENCLAVE”
Curators : Ewa Gorządek, Stach Szabłowski, Irina Tchesnokova, Evgeny Umansky

Artists : Danil Akimov, Karolina Breguła, Dimitri Bulatov, Alexey Chebykin, Ryszard Górecki, Mikołaj Grospierre, Dominik Lejman, Mariusz Libel, Artur Malewski, Nezhniye Baby (Sasha Artamonova & Zhenya Lapteva), Aleksander Podoprigorow, Maciej Stępiński, Katja Shadkovska, Evgeny Umansky, Anna i Adam Witkowscy, Yury Vassiliev, ZOR (Grzegorz Drozd & Alicja Łukasiak)

Opening: Monday, 05.12.2011, 7 p.m.
more info here

Announcing the opening of “K–POOL i Spolka”, a show inspired by the imaginary swimming pool devised by Rem Koolhas in “Delirious New York”, and confronted with the brutalist architecture of the late USSR. The show  which will be presented at the Galeria PF, Poznan, on Monday April 18, at 7 PM.

The show will be on until May 22, 2011

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

More info here.

Nicolas Grospierre likes to probe the relationship between architecture and photography by challenging the accustomed norms of 2 and 3-dimensionality and the parameters of different media. With his camera he investigates the concept of a building as well as the architectural process. For this exhibition Grospierre has chosen the Aviation Museum in Cracow as his subject and created a new body of work, including a series of large paper planes made from his photographs, which act as a playful homage to the architect’s design.

Phase 2, ARUP, 8 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 4BJ, UK

Opening: March 30, 2011 at 6.30 PM. Installation on show until July 1.

More info about the installation here.

One Thousand Doors, No Exit

NICOLAS GROSPIERRE

MAR 3 – APR 2, 2011

MAR 3, 2011
ARTIST TALK 6PM – 7PM
OPENING RECEPTION 6:30PM – 8PM

Graham Foundation

for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Madlener House

4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610 – 1416

www.grahamfoundation.org

GALLERY HOURS
Wednesday-Saturday, 11AM —  5PM; every third Thursday of the month, 11AM — 8PM
Free Admission.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

On view from March 3 through April 2, 2011, the new exhibition One Thousand Doors, No Exit features two projects by Warsaw-based artist Nicolas Grospierre, TATTARRATTAT (2010) and Hydroklinika (2004). The subjects could not be less similar: a 14th century Venetian palazzo and an abandoned Soviet-era spa treatment complex in Lithuania. Taken together, however, these projects show Grospierre’s persistent interest in the tension between perception and truth in architecture, as well as architecture’s capacity to stand as an artifact of ideology.

The Graham’s presentation of TATTARRATTAT is made possible in part by the Signum Foundation.

Nicolas Grospierre will be giving a lecture entitled Lost in Architecture in the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, as part of the series of lectures Show off: Architecture on display, on January 14, 2010 at 8 PM. The series of lectures is organised by the Architecture [discussion] Fund of Vilnius, Lithuania.

More info on www.archfondas.lt

The lecture is online here

A multimedia installation in the form of a two-channel video, a photograph and a convex mirror. The installation is shown on the site where it was created, at the Palazzo Dona in Venice, where the Signum Foundation is located.

Signum Foundation, Palazzo Dona, Campo San Polo 2177, Venice

Opening: November 11, 2010 at 6 PM. Installation on show until December 15.

Project achieved as part of the site specific programme of the Signum Foundation. More info on www.signum.art.pl.

A Thousand Plateaus Art Space In Partnership with the French Embassy in China as part of Festival Croisements present

“Lost in Architecture”

A Nicolas Grospierre Photography Exhibition

Organizers：A Thousand Plateaus Art Space , French Embassy, French Consulate General of Chengdu

Artist: Nicolas Grospierre

Exhibition opening：June 24^th, 2011, 5 pm

Exhibition time：June 24^th, 2011 – July 24^th, 2011

Location：A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, 87 Fangqinjie, Chengdu, China

more info on www.1000plateaus.org

An international exhibition of the Platform for Central European International Cultural Policy
Part of PHOTOESPAÑA2010

MODERNIZACIÓN 
(Modernisation)

Tamás T. Deszö (H)
Mikolaj Długosz (PL)
Jan Dziaczkowski (PL)
Anna Fabricius (H)
Pavel Frič (CZ)
Nicolas Grospierre (PL)
Martin Kleibl (SK)
Marek Kvetan (SK)
Andrew Phelps (A/US)
Wolfgang Thaler (A)
Barbara Zeidler & Abbé Libansky (A)

Curators : Grzegorz Piątek & Jarosław Trybuś (PL)

Opening : Friday June 11, 2010 at 6 PM.

Exibition open from June 12 until July 27, 2010 (closed on mondays)

Aula Cultural Universidad Abierta – UCLM
Colmillo, s/n. 16001 Cuenca

www.phe.es