Photo Majorowski Gallery, Salzburg
zbigniew.oksiuta(at)gmail.com
www.zbigniewoksiuta.com
Born in Mulawicze, Poland.
Education
1970-78 studied at the Department of Architecture of the Warsaw Technical University, Poland
1978 May 22, Diploma (master equivalent) Department of Architecture, Warsaw Technical University, Warsaw, Poland
1986-90 studied at Department History of Art, Technical University, Aachen, Germany
Teaching Experience
1981 Centre for Theatre and Environmental Research, Jelenia Góra, Poland
2004 Mastership "Sculpture / Architecture", Department of Architecture, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany
2008 Visiting Artist Position - School of Art, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University, Bloomington/Normal, Illinois, USA
2010 Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
2012 Lecturer, School of Architecture, RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2014-2022 Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Professional Practice as Founder
1.
1978-1980
Free artist and architect, Warsaw, Poland
"A Spring in a Peach Wood", series of art and architectural actions in the open space, Warsaw, Poland
2.
1980-81
Co-Founder of Experimental Centre for Theatre and Environmental Research
within the structure of The Theater of Cyprian Norwid (Dyr. Alina Obidniak) in Jelenia Góra, Poland
3.
1981-2009
Studio Zbigniew Oksiuta: Art, Architecture, Science, Cologne, Germany
Selected art installations and architectural works for public space:
1988 “Orangery for the City”, Cologne, Germany
1989 Kurt Hackenberg Square Project, Cologne, Germany
1992 Rhainauhafen Project, Cologne, Germany
1992 Project for Breslauerplatz, Cologne, Germany
1996-2000 Project for Bialystok, Poland
1997 Art for Rhenag Company, Cologne, Germany
1997 XYZ, Project of Art Gallery, Poznan, Poland
1897-98 Project “Soft Architecture”, Duisburg-Rheinhausen, Germany
1998 “Unforseen Space”, Projekt Dorotheenblöcke, Art for Reichstag, Berlin
1998 Project fur Denkmal auf dem Friedhof Chorweiler, (art competition) Cologne
1999 House U1, Project for Nancy, France
1999 “Architecture now, one2one”, Cologne, Germany
2001 Espace pour L’Art, Nancy, Lorraine, France
2002 Art units, Kunsthalle, Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
2003 Second-hand Architecture, Cologne, Germany
2006-2012 La Bulle six coques, France, Germany, Poland
Awards
1986 Cologne Award of Artistic Activity, Friedriech Vordemberge Scholarship, Germany
1994 Award of the German Architects for outstanding work of architecture
1994 Award of the German Architects for stone architecture
1995 Award of the German Architects for concrete architecture
2003 Award Plan 03, Forum of Contemporary Architecture in Cologne, Germany
2007 Awards of Distinction, Hybrid Art, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2012 Brown’s Traveling Fellowship, Rensselaer Architecture, RPI
Project related collaboration with scientific institutions and industry
2005-2007
University of Cologne, Germany
Institute of Physical Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Strey
2001-2009
University of Cologne, Germany
Botanical Institute
Prof. Michael Melkonian, Dr. Bjoern Podola
2005-2006
Max-Planck-Institute of Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Prof. Hans-Henning Steinbiss
2007
German Aerospace Center, Cologne, Germany
Institute of Aerospace Medicine
Biomedical Science Support Center
Dr. Jens Hauslage
2011-2012
"We have weightlessness on Earth", Random Positioning Machine
Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Prof Stanislaw Bielecki
Prof Bogdan Kruszynski
Institute of Technical Biochemistry and
Medical University of Lodz, Poland
Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Poland
Prof. Aleksander Chmiel
2001-2012
Wolf-Peter Walter, Factory manager
Econtis GmbH, The Netherlands
and Foodstuff and Biotechnology, Mettersheim, Germany
2010-2012
Chris Bjornsson
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Director, Microscopy Core
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Individual exhibitions
1976-78 "A Spring in a Peach Forest", a series of actions, Warsaw
1980-81 "Environment workshop"- actions Jelenia Gora, Pl
1984 "Spring Pyramid", Alte Feuerwache, Cologne
1984 "Triumph", Volksgarten, Cologne
1984 "Farming Art", Cologne
1985 "Only Love Decreases Entropy", Stollwerk, Cologne
1985 "The Sun Liberates Wuuhm", Wachsfabrik, Cologne
1989 "Space Installation by Two", Friedrich Gallery, Cologne
1991 "A Project for a Square with a Bank", Kunstraum Wuppertal, Germany
1992 "Urban Installation 3+5x/92", BBK, Cologne
1995 "Abstractions of Architecture", Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland
1996 "Sculpture / Architecture", Gothaer Kunstforum, Cologne
1986 "5 Years After", Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
1986 " Biononlogical Space", Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
1997 "XYZ", ON Gallery, Poznan, Poland
1987 "Blue Triangle", BWA Gallery, Jelenia Gora, Poland
1998 "Project for Europe", SARP, Polish Architects Association, Warsaw
1989 "Lord Curson Party", Grodzka Gallery, Lublin, Poland
1989 "Project for Rhenag", Rhenag, Cologne
1999 "66 99", Kunstraum Gallery, Cologne
1999 "one, two, one, architecture now" Plan 99, Cologne
2001 "Coutun Project", Haferkamp Gallery, Cologne
2001 "100 Years", DKV, Cologne
2002 "Drawings and Design", Glanzform Gallery, Cologne
2003 "Spatium Gelatum", International Furniture Fair, Cologne
2003 "Spatium Gelatum", BWA, Galleries of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw
2003 "Spatium Gelatum - Laboratory", Plan 03, Forum of Contemporary Architecture, Cologne
2007 "Breeding Spaces", Arsenal Gallery of Art, Bialystok, Poland
2007 "Breeding Spaces", Centre for Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
2007 "Beyond Gravity", Rachel Haferkamp Gallery, Cologne
2010 "Your Personal Biosphere", Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 "Architectural Evolutions. Between Art and Science", Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
2018 "Selected RPI student Projects" (as curator)
2019 "Cosmic Gardens", Centre of Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, Poland
Group exhibitions
1980 "Terra 2", International Exhibition of Intentional Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland
1985 "Atlantis", Wandelhalle, Cologne
1985 "Tree", Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
1985 "Art of Cologne", Kunsthalle, Cologne
1986 "Change Positions", Friedrich Gallery, Cologne
1987 "Utopia and Reality", Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz
1987 "Art by the Rhine", Cologne
1987 "Four Polish Artists in Cologne", Ignis Culture Centre, Cologne
1988 "Sculpture", Kunsthalle Bielefeld
1988 "Art of Cologne 2", Kunsthalle, Cologne
1992 "Space and Sound", Landtag Duesseldorf
1993 "Impreza", ZPAP, Warsaw
1995 "Art of Cologne 3", Kunsthalle Cologne
1997 "Trough Bialystok", Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
2000 "Schloßräume", Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert
2003 "City Transformers", Centre of Modern Art, Laznia, Gdansk
2004 "La Biennale di Venezia, 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2004 "The naked city", ArciLab, 2004, Orleans, France
2006 "Crossmediale1", Gosia Koscielak Gallery, Chicago
2007 KunstQuadrate 07 - Das Forum, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2007 Still, Living, Biennale of Electronical Arts Perth, Australia
2007 "Biological Habitat: Breeding Spaces Technologie & Made in Space", Ars Electronica Linz, Austria
2008 "sk-interfaces", FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool
2008 Article 08, Biennale for the Electronic and Unstable Arts, Stavanger / Norway
2009 "sk-interfaces" Casino Luxembourg
2010 Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
2010 re-architectura 10, Fundacja Spot, Poznan, Poland
2011 "Your personal Biosphere", Exhibition "Human+. The Future of Our Species", Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2018 "Transgenic Habitat", MSU Broad Art Museum, Lansing, Michigan State University, USA
2020 "The twilight of the Anthropocene", Gallery of Academy of Art, Gdansk, Poland
Workshops
1981 Centre for Theatre and Environmental Research, Jelenia Góra, Poland
2004 Department of Architecture, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany
2008 College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University, Bloomington/Normal, Illinois, USA
2008 FACT Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK
2009 Casino Luxembourg, Forum d/Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2009 Architectural Association AA, London, UK
2016 Michigan State University, Department of Arts, Art History and Design
2016 Coalesce Center for Biological Art, University of Buffalo
2018 Science Gallery, Detroit, USA
Artist in Residence Programs
2016 Michigan State University, Department of Art, Art History and design, Lansing
2016 Coalesce Center for Biological Art, University at Buffalo
Films
2000
"Architecture now"
Idea and direction: Zbigniew Oksiuta
Cut and Animation by Inge Kamps,Cologne
Music by Frank Schulte, Cologne
2001
"Isopycnic Systems"
Idea and direction: Zbigniew Oksiuta
Production by Rachel Haferkamp Gallery, Cologne
Cut and Animation by Industriesauger TV,Sebastian Kaltmeyer,Martin Ziebell +Inge Kamps, Cologne
Music by: Jürgen Stöve,Cologne
2003
"Mesogloea"
Idea and direction: Zbigniew Oksiuta
Production by: Messe Köln, German Aerospace Agency
Cut and Animation by: Industriesauger TV, Sebastian Kaltmeyer, Martin Ziebell, Cologne
Music by: Osaka Bondage: Nicolas Marmin, Arnaud Durand, Paris
2006
"Breeding Spaces Technology"
Idea and direction: Zbigniew Oksiuta
Music by Andre Hindenburg
Edit sound & Animation Industriesauger-TV: Sebastian Kaltmeyer, Martin Ziebell, Andre Hindenburg, Cologne
2007
"Made in Space"
Idea and direction:Zbigniew Oksiuta
Music by Andre Hindenburg
Edit sound & Animation Industriesauger-TV: Sebastian Kaltmeyer, Martin Ziebell, Andre Hindenburg, Cologne
2007
"Biological Habitat"
Idea and direction: Zbigniew Oksiuta
Production: Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2010
"Your Personal Biosphere", Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Scientific research on biological architecture
The projects created in cooperation with scientific institutions
2016
- Michigan State University, Department of Art, Art History and design, Lansing
- Coalesce Centre for Biological Art, University at Buffalo
2017
Coalesce Centr efor Biological Art, University at Buffalo
2018
- Project "Roots Make Nodes"
The project was created as part of Artist Residency Michigan State University, Lansing, USA
in cooperation with prof. Brad Day, Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, MSU, Lansing USA
- Project "Spatium Gelatum"
in cooperation with:
Wolf Peter Walter, Food Technology, Meddersheim, Germany
For exhibition
Matter(s) matter(s) Broad Art Museum, Lansing, Michigan State University, USA
Project presentation Bridge: An art and science Symposium, Broad Art Museum, Lansing,
2018
Project "Flax callus in the field of changing gravity"
in collaboration with:
- Dr. Aneta Adamczuk, Dr. Bozena Kozlowska-Szerenos
Institut of Biology, University of Bialystok, Poland
- and Dr. Adam Wolniakowski, Bialystok Polytechnic, Poland
For Exhibition
"Architectural Evolutions. Between Art and Science", Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
2019
Project "Roots make nodes"
Project "A Root in a Hormone Cocktail"
Project "Water ecospheres in a neutral buoyancy"
Project "Breeding of flat callus surfaces"
Callus: Bishop's weed cells (Ammi majus L.).
Cells transformed with Agrobacterium rhizogenes.
Scientific and Laboratory Cooperation:
Prof. dr hab. Ewa Łojkowska, Dr. Anna Ihnatowicz, Mgr. Iza Perkowska
andb studenci Klaudia Kochanowicz, Michał Prusinowski, Michał Strzała, Izabela Kowalczyk, Consultation Prof. A. Królicka
Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of UG&GUMed Department of Biotechnology, Gdansk, Poland
For exhibition
"Cosmic Gardens", Centre of Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, Poland
Selected architectural works and works for public space
1988 Orangery for the City, Cologne
1989 Kurt Hackenberg Square Project, Cologne
1988-94 Memorial Site Old Synagogue,Wupperta in co-operation with Busmann &Haberer, Volker Pueschel
1987 Idea of Bio-centre of Frankfurt University
1991 Kyoto Station Project, in co-operation with Busmann &Haberer Bureau, Japan
1992 Rhainauhafen Project,Cologne,
1992 Project for Breslauerplatz, Cologne
1999 Museum of Fragrance, Cologne
2002 Art units, Kunsthalle, Kunstverein, Cologne
2003 Second-hand Architecture, Cologne
2006-2008 La Bulle six coques, France, Germany, Poland