Zbigniew Libera
Zbigniew Libera (born 07.07.1959 in Pabianice, lives and works in Warsaw). In 1982-1983 he was imprisoned (§ 48 of the Martial Law Decree) for printing the underground press. In the 1980s, he co-founded the most interesting independent art circles and ventures in Poland, including the Łódź-based Kultura Zrzuty, the Sternenhoch music group (with J.Truszkowski), the Tango magazine, artistic milieu centered around Zofia Kulik and Przemyslaw Kwiek. In 1987-89 he was a model for Zofia Kulik's photographs. In the autumn of 1989, he embarked on an initiatory "trip east" to Egypt and Israel lasting until the summer of 1990. In the early 2000s, he co-founded the association Warszawski Aktyw Artystów and two art clubs: Baumgart/Libera, and then (together with Mariola Przyjemska and Tomasz Kurzyca) Aurora. Involved in the activities of the Civic Forum for Contemporary Art, whose activities focus on the concerns of artists, their social and material conditions. Libera is considered a leading representative of the critical art trend. In his works he analyzes and criticizes accepted conventions, mass culture, traditional models of upbringing, raises issues of manipulation of reality by the media. Libera's photographs and videos from the 1980s, including Someone Else, Hemaphrodite, Intimate Rites, Mystical Perseveration, How To Train Little Girls were a decade ahead of the wave of body art; In the mid-1990s, he begins to create corrective devices - objects that are transformations of existing products, objects of mass consumption, including the Universal Penis Expander or Body Master. Playset for children under the age of 9. He designs also processed toys, works that reveal the mechanisms of upbringing, education and cultural taming, the most famous of which are: LEGO. Concentration Camp, Ken’s Aunt, You Can Shave The Baby. He creates art books, including: What is the Messenger Girl Doing with poet Darek Foks (publ. Ars Cameralis, 2005, 2nd ed. Ossolineum, 2022), Trotsky’s Ice Pick (published by One Starr Press, 2006), The Gay, Innocent and Heartless (published by Profile Gallery, 2008 ), Art Of Liberation. A Press Study (publ. CCA Ujazdowski Castle 2019 and 2020). Since the early 2000s, he has been mainly focusing on photography, in particular the nature of press photography, how the media shape our visual memory and manipulate the image of history, e.g., the series of works Positives and Masters. In recent years, he has been making large-format photographs, such as Mother, History Lesson, The Exodus of People from the Cities, First Day of Freedom, Polish Hospitality. He has exhibited as part of many group exhibitions and individual exhibitions, including the 45th Biennale di Venezia, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, MUMOK Museum in Vienna, Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, and the Jewish Museum in New York. He is also a film director, having graduated from the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He made a feature film titled Walser (2015). He collaborates with theater directors such as: Krzysztof Warlikowski (The African Tales by Shakespeare at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw), Magda Szpecht (The Possibility of an Island based on a novel by M.Houellebecq at TR Warszawa Theatre in Warsaw), Katarzyna Kalwat (Grotowski non-fiction at Teatr im. Kochanowski in Opole and Teatr Wspolczesny in Wroclaw) and Maja Kleczewska (Fury based on a play by E. Jelinek at the Powszechny Theater in Warsaw). This production won the Silver Lion award at the Venice Theater Festival in 2016. In 2018, Hamlet directed by her at the Polish Theater in Poznan and Berek at the Jewish Theater in Warsaw. In 2021, Hlapci based on Ivan Cankar at the Mladinsko Theater in Ljubljana and Face to Face at the Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw. In 2022, Ulysses (based on James Joyce) at Teatr Polski in Poznan. In 2023 The Book of Paradise (based on the only novel by Itzik Manger) directed by Josef Damian Neć at the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw.
He has also curated art exhibitions, such as Artist in Times of Despair. Poland's Latest Art at BWA Awangarda Gallery in Wroclaw, It's Not My Fault That This Sculpture Rubbed Against Me at the Królikarnia - Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, a division of the National Museum in Warsaw. He is also involved in education; in 2006 he gave an honorary Annual Copernicus Lecture at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (USA) and a so-called mini-course at the institution’s Art Department, from 2008 to 2009 he led the Open Form Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU) in Prague, and in 2017 he lectured at the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. In the years 2013-2016 he realized, in cooperation with Aleksandra Panisko, an over 50-episode series of programs for TVP Kultura, titled Libera - Art Guide.
The website was created as part of the project of Fundacja Nowych Działań, co-financed by the City of Warsaw. The project consists of the art book STOS ZDJĘĆ, published together with the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and a website dedicated to the work of Zbigniew Libera.
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Collaborations with galleries:
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, FR
Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, DK
Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Profile Foundation, Warsaw, PL
Asymetria Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Guy McIntyre Gallery, New York, USA
American/European Art Association, New York, USA
Selected group exhibitions (compilation prepared by Anna Jagiełło)
2022
Miękki i delikatny, Krakowski Underground Group, The Gorka Castle Museum, Szamotuły, PL
New Legends of Krakow, Krakowski Underground Group, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cracow, PL
2019
Arte in Memoria, The ruins of Ostia Antica, Rome, IT
2018
World Peace Begins at the Family Table, ZAMEK Culture Centre, Poznan, PL
What Is Enlightenment?, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
2017
From Artificial Reality to a Selfie, BWA Wroclaw Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
Collection of the Malopolska Foundation for Contemporary Art Collection - 13th Exhibition, BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biala, PL
Everything is Getting Better. Unknown Knowns of Polish (Post)Colonialism, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE
The Present? The Collection of ING Polish Art Foundation, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL
10 Years Old, Fondazione Fotografia Moderna, Modena, IT
MIG 21 Migratory Interdisciplinary Grid, Association for Culture and Education KIBLA, Maribor, SI
2016
Illegibility. Palimpsests. Associated events, Pan Tadeusz Museum Ossolineum, Wroclaw, PL
L’arte differente: MOCAK al MAXXI, MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, IT
Będzie lepiej i coraz lepiej? Prezentacja kolekcji II, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL
Scuff Mark on an Eyelid — XXV Festival Ars Cameralis, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, PL
Pokaz 4, Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biala, PL
SONSBEEK ’16: transACTION, Museum Arnhem, NL
Bread and Roses. Artists and the Class Divide, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
Entoptic screening, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2015
Zbigniew Libera: It's Not My Fault That This Sculpture Rubbed Against Me, Królikarnia - Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, Warsaw, PL
Z głębi. Artyści Muzeum Śląskiemu, Silesian Museum, Katowice, PL
Wyspa 3.0. Mapa i terytorium, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, PL
Stance or Distance?, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, JP
The Wild West. A History of Wrocław's Avant-Garde, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Moving Images, BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
Je brûle Paris, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
Poland - Israel - Germany: The Experience of Auschwitz Today, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, Cracow, PL
State of Life. Polish Contemporary Art within a Global Circumstance, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, CN
Kolekcja dra Wernera Jerke. Wybór, Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Lodz, PL
TRUTH BEAUTY GOODNESS From the Zachęta Collection, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Gender in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, Cracow, PL
Ars Moriendi, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tarnow, PL
Vertical Reach, Art Space, New Haven, USA
Umenie na hlave. Poľské súčasné umenie / Procedures for the Polish Art Today, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, SK
2014
Progress and Hygiene, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Corpus, Zachęta, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Mystectwo ce swoboda, Lwiwskyj Palac Mystecw, Lviv, UA
Wohin werschwinden die Grenzen/Kam mizí hranice?, Fratres, Slavonice, CZ/AT
The Oxymoron of Normality, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL
Show Us Your Dreams, Open'er Festival 2014, Gdynia, PL
(Mis)Understanding Photography Werke und Manifeste, Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE
Self-love, or: Artists Love Themselves, State Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL
Grażyna Kulczyk Collection. Everybody is Nobody for Somebody, Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid, ES
Atlas of Modernity. The 20th and 21st Century Art Collection, MS2, Lodz, PL
BLACK MILK - Holocaust in Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK
Niezgodnie z instrukcją, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL
2013
Psychopapier, Piktogram/BLA Gallery, Warsaw, PL
For Encouragement to Museum. Collection of the Lodz Association For The Encouragement of Fine Arts, MS1, Lodz, PL
Nowe otwarcie, National Museum, Gdansk, PL
Preferuję bardziej zrzutę niż kulturę, Contemporary Art Gallery BWA Sokół, Nowy Sącz, PL
Minister nie aprobuje takich wypowiedzi albo metapolityka, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow, PL
British British Polish Polish. Art from Europe's Edges in the Long 90s, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Freelancer, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
How One Becomes What One Is, BWA Gallery, Tarnow, PL
Warsaw: The Day After…, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, LT
In The Heart of the Country, The Collection Of The Museum Of Modern Art In Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
IT ISN’T IMPORTANT IT’S ONLY ART…, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
Performer, Art Stations. gallery, Poznań, PL
The Naked Man, The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, HU
2012
Moc Sztuki, BWA Art Gallery, Olsztyn, PL
Broken Movie, BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
One Sixth Of The Earth. Ecologies Of Image, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, ES
Subjects of Gender and Desire. Photographs from the Collection of Joanna and Krzysztof Madelski, Museum of the City of Lodz, Lodz, PL
DOUBLE GAME, 1st International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Kiev, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, UA
Artificial Fullmoon, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL
Sport in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, Cracow, PL
2011
Revolving Dysfunction, Artisterium 2011, Europe House, Tbilisi, GE
Auditorium Moscow, A Sketch For A Public Space, Belie Palaty, Moscow, RU
Thymos. The Art of Anger 1900 - 2011, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, PL
Memoirs from a Cold Utopia, Londonprintstudio, London, UK
Box. II Odsłona, Wystawa ze zbiorów dolnośląskiego Towarzystwa Sztuk Pięknych, Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, PL
The Power of Fantasy. Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland, BOZAR, Brussels, BE
Alias. Survey, Photomonth in Cracow, Cracow, PL
Gone to Croatan - Strategies of Disappearance, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, DE
Positives, exhibition accompanying the 6th New Zlin Salon 2011, Galerie Kabinet T., Prague, CZ
6th New Zlin Salon, The House of Arts, Zlin, CZ
2010
The Last Film, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Homo Ludens, Jorge Oteiza Muzeum, Alzuza, ES
Trembling bodies / Koerper in Aufruhr, daadgalerie, Berlin, DE
I Could Live in Africa, BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
Case of Reoccurrence of Child Illness, Karlin Studios, Prague, CZ
Shifts. Collection of 20th and 21st Century Art, ms2, Lodz, PL
Apogee - New Expression 1987, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, PL
A Theory of Vision: a Review, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
I Could Live in Africa, Museum od Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
Things Evoke Feelings, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Agents & Provocateurs, HMKV Dortmund, Dortmund, DE
Nachbarn, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, PL
Early Years, Kunstwerke, Berlin, DE
Morality, Act IV: I Could Live in Africa, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
Death room. Śmierć Fest, Laznia Nowa Theater, Cracow, PL
The Dress, ZAMEK Culture Centre, Poznan, PL
Nimic important, e doar arta... / It isn't important, it's only art.., Muzeul de Arta Vizuala, Galaţi; Anaid Art Gallery, Bucuresti; Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca; Muzeul National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO
2009
History Memory Identity. Contemporary Photography from Eastern Europe, former Sant'Agostino Hospital, Modena, IT
The Hidden Decade. Polish Video Art 1985-1995, Bunkier - Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cracow, PL
Crossing Frontiers, City Gallery, Prague, CZ
Performance Art of the 80's Comparison, Galerie Vernon, Prague, CZ
The Dress, Mazovian Centre for Contemporary Art „Elektrownia”, Radom, PL
The Summit of Heroes, Bunkier Sztuki and Stainglass Museum, Cracow, PL
No Visible Means of Escape: Contemporary art, imprisonment and surveillance, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham Castle Museum, UK
Gone to Croatan, Centre Of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, PL
Na okrągło, Centennial Hall, Wroclaw, PL
Awake and Dream, Palazzo Donà, Venice, IT
WRO09, The Hidden Decade. The Polish Video Art '85 - '95, National Museum, Wroclaw, PL
Agent Absurd, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, UK
International Collection of Contemporary Art. 5th Edition, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
43rd Zagreb Salon of Applied Arts and Design, Zagreb, HR
2008
Collection of the Malopolska Foundation for Contemporary Art Collection - 5th Exhibition Former Power Plant, Cracow, PL
Gone to Croatan, City Culture Institute, Gdansk, PL
Mediations Biennale, Poznan, PL
Medium...Post...Mortem... volume 2, BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, PL
A Story Differently Told, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Demons. Contemporary Artists From Poland and Israel and the Spirits of the Time, The Ben-Ari Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, IL
Big Boys Games, Appendix 2 Gallery, Warsaw, PL
The Impossible Collection, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, PL
Fotografia w rozszerzonym polu. Artystyczne i społeczne użycia fotografii w Polsce, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Punkty odniesienia, Collection of the Foundation for Contemporary Art Collections, National Museum, Warsaw, PL
A Story Differently Told, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, PL
Update. Review of New Polish Photography, Krakow Photomonth, Cracow, PL
L'artista nella rinuncia 2. Mostra a cura della Galleria Raster, Instituto Polacco di Roma, Rome, IT
Asteism, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, PL
History Will Repeat Itself, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Depression, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cracow, PL
Ad Absurdum, Marta Herford, Herford, DE
Red Eye Effect / Polish Photography of the 21st Century, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Babylon - Myth and Truth, Pergamon Museum, Berlin, DE
Regarde de tous tes yeux, regarde, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, FR
Beyond Good and Evil, International Festival of Visual Art – InSpirations: Sacrum Profanum, The Pomeranian Dukes' Castle, Szczecin, PL
Asteism in Poland. Humor and the Power of Judgment, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, PL
Opowiedziane inaczej…, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, PL
2007
8780 h, Xray Gallery, Lubon, PL
Random in Radom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom, PL
Asteism, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Depression, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL
At Last, Something New, National Museum, Cracow, PL
Druga odsłona. Collection of the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok and the Podlaskie Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, GCK, Sektor I Gallery, Katowice, PL
Anti-Photographs, Biennale of Photography, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, PL
Attitude 2007. The House of Human Beings - Authentically Blessed Jubilance, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, JP
Lego, Space, Bratislava, SK
Manipulations. On Economies of Deceit, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Bodycheck, 10. Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, DE
2006
A Night of Cutting-Edge Contemporary Art from Poland: Video, Performance and Other Media, Consulate General of Poland in New York, New York, USA
Towards the Other. Observations and Interventions, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, PL
Polyphony of Images - A Night of Cutting-Edge Contemporary Art from Poland, Consulate General of Poland, New York, USA
Mentality, Lodz Biennale 2006, Lodz, PL
Bad News, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, PL
Polish Video Art - Come Into My World, Patio Centrum Sztuki Gallery, Lodz, PL
The Eighties. Topology, Museum Serralves, Porto, PT
Faites Vos Jeux! Kunst und Spiel seit DADA, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, DE
Broniewski, BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, PL
2005
Poles Apart: Contemporary Polish Art, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Second Present, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, HU
Broniewski, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
1st Exhibition of the Regional Collection of Contemporary Art in Szczecin, National Museum, Szczecin, PL
post_modellismus, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, AT
International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, The National Gallery, Prague, CZ
Revenge on Realism, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, AT
Falsche Erwartungen, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, DE
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Potential. Contemporary Art Collections for the Museum…, Metropolitan building, Warsaw, PL
How to talk about contemporary art?, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL
Faites Vos Jeux! Kunst und Spiel seit DADA, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz; Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin, DE
Sicht der Dinge, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, DE
Falsche Erwartung. Kunst aus Krakau, Posen, Warschau, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, DE
At the Very Center of Attention, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Dockwatchers, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, PL
2004
Privatisierungen. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Osteuropa, Kunst-Werke Berlin, DE
From My Window. Artists and Their Teritorries, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
Memoires du temps de l'immaturite, Passage de Retz, Paris, FR
Paisatges Mediatics, fundacio la Caixa, Lleida; Tarragona, ES
Under The Red & White Flag, New Art from Poland, Estonian Art Museum, Tallin, EE
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT; Nizhny Novgorod branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Arsenal, Niznhy Novgorod, RU; Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Niznhy Tagil, RU; National Centre for Contemporay Arts, Moscow, RU
2002
Dangerous Liaisons, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, PL
Upside Down, Priestor Gallery, Bratislava, SK
Mirroring Evil, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
2001
Irreligia, Museum Atelier 340, Brusseles, BE
Anteprima Bovisa Milano Europa 2000, Mediolan, IT
The Negotiators of Art, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cracow, PL
Cold War, Laznia Nowa Theater, Cracow, PL
In Freiheit/Endlich, National Museum, Warsaw, PL
2000
Na wolnosci \ W koncu. Sztuka polska po 1989 roku, Królikarnia - Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, Warsaw, PL
Scene 2000, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
In Freiheit/Endlich, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, DE
Postindustrial Sorrow, Kunsthalle, Wiesbaden, DE
After the Wall, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
What, How and for Whom, HDLU, Zagreb, HR
L' autre moitié de l'Europe, Jeu De Paume, Paris, FR
1999
Aspects I Positions, MMKSLW, Vienna, AT
After the Wall, Moderna Musset, Stockholm, SE
The Negotiators of Art, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, PL
A Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art. Current Practices, Mobile Horizons, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Generations. Polish Art at the End/beginning of the Century, Manege - Central Exhibition Hall, Pushkin Gallery 10, St. Petersburg, RU
Rondo, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU
Pink For Boys, Blue For Girls, NGBK, Berlin, DE
Absence I Presence, Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Persuasion, Lombard and Fried Gallery, New York, USA
1998
At the Time of Writing, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL Medialization, Edsvik Konst, Stockholm, SE
1996
The Thing Between, Technische Sammlungen der Stadt, Dresden, DE
1995
Antibodies, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Beyond Belief, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Z. Libera, M. Przyjemska, R. Stańczak, Skuc Galerija, Lubljana, SL
New I’s For New Years, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Universalis, 23th Biennale, Sao Paulo, BR
1994
Europa, Europa, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, DE
Videospaces, State Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL
Medienbiennale - Minima Media, Kunsthalle Elsterpark, Leipzig, DE
1993
Unvollkommen, Museum Bochum, Bochum, DE
Emergency, Aperto '93, XLV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
1992
Mystical Perseveration and Rose, State Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL
Current Situation 3:3, Otso Gallery, Espoo, FI
1991
Double Identity, Landesmuseum, Wiesbaden, DE
Kunst Europa, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE
Bakunin in Dresden, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
1990
Bakunin in Dresden, Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf, DE
Querspure Videofestival, Linz, AT
AVE Festival, Arnheim, NL
1988
Now is Now, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, PL
1987
What’s Up?, Norblin Factory, Warsaw, PL
Works in collections:
Tate Modern, London, UK
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, JP
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU
Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Rubell Family Collection, Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA
Haus der Geschichte, Bonn, DE
Maison Rouge, Paris, FR
Erste Group Collection, Vienna, AT
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
National Museum, Warsaw, PL
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Museum of Art, Lodz, PL
Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, PL
Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, Cracow, PL
Museum of Photography MuFo, Cracow, PL
National Museum, Cracow, PL
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL
The Leon Wyczółkowski Regional Museum, Bydgoszcz, PL
Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL
Mazovian Centre for Contemporary Art „Elektrownia”, Radom, PL
And in numerous private collections.
Wystawy indywidualne:
2022
Results of Selected Field Studies, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL
Sonland Nowy Teatr, Warsaw, PL
2021
Metric Measures and the Unicorn, 66P Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
2020
The Latest Anti-Concept of Documentary Photography, Mazovian Centre for Contemporary Art „Elektrownia”, Radom, PL
2015
History Restaged, Platan Gallery, Budapest, HU [with Sven Johne]
2014
Judgment Night, The Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL [with Roee Rosen]
2013
Positive, Kraszewski Museum, Dresden, DE
The Flat Reality, Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Lodz, PL
2012
New Histories, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2011
Kokatao, Piktogram Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Positives, The Leon Wyczółkowski Regional Museum, Bydgoszcz, PL
Positives, Galerie Kabinet T., Zlin, CZ
Zbigniew Libera: Open Form Studio 2008/2009, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, CZ
2010
Reality is Flat, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, PL
The Gay, Innocent and Heartless, National Museum, Cracow, PL
The Exodus of People from the Cities, Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art, Bytom, PL
Works from 1982-2008, BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
Intimate Rites, halo Gallery MOK, Olsztyn, PL
2009
Works from 1982-2008, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
2008
The Gay, Innocent and Heartless, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, PL
Futura Gallery, Praha, CZ (with Guma Guar)
Masters. Positives, BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, PL
La Vue, Fiducia Gallery, Ostrava, CZ
2007
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, AT
2006
Zbigniew Libera: Work from 1984-2004, University of Michigan, School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor, USA
What is the Messenger Girl Doing, Institut Polonais, Paris, FR [with Darek Foks]
Nouvelle impresion d’Afrique, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, FR
Photographs, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2005
Photographic Atlases and Other Publications, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
What is the Messenger Girl Doing, Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art, Bytom, PL [with Darek Foks]
What is the Messenger Girl Doing, Youth Culture Centre, Skierniewice, PL [with Darek Foks]
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, FR [with Martha Rosler]
2004
Positives, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Masters and Positives, a.r.t. Gallery, Plock, PL
Masters and Positives, State Art Gallery, Sopot, PL
Masters and Positives, Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Lodz, PL
2000
The Other Type of Prison, American/European Art Association, New York, USA
1998
Correct Me If I’m Wrong, Guy McIntyre Gallery, New York, USA
1997
Galleri Wang, Oslo, NO
Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, DK
1996
Corrective Facilities, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
1993
Works With Air and Electricity, Na Mazowieckiej Gallery, Warsaw, PL
1992
Laboratorium Gallery, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL