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About
Szymon Rogiński (b. 1975 in Gdańsk). Visual artist, photographer, author of photobooks. Lives and works in Warsaw. With photography as base for his work and practice, for more than twenty years he has been working in series, focusing on nocturnes and the material qualities of light. His work, present in a number of collections (i.e. MuFo in Krakow, the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, and the National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Warsaw), has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Outside of working solo, he enjoys collaborations, both in artistic and commercial contexts in the role of photographer/director.
Inspirations for his works range from David Lynch and road movies, pop culture and Poland (as cliché, phantasm, and place), to the Anthropocene, postapocalyptic scenarios and visions, and the man-altered landscape. Right now, he is in the process of exploring the creative uses of drone photography, photogrammetry, as well as VR.
Years of experience in theatre have taught me that an empty stage may be as creatively rewarding as working with people. The empty stage is my workspace – when all the actors have left, but the set is left for us to wander about and ruminate. I intend the places I photograph to remain enigmatic: it is not necessary to know their history. My photographs do not have the ambition to reveal any truth in the documentary sense. I photograph places that many may consider normal, obvious, and even banal; but they stop me in my tracks. It is that personal connection with the place that creates the peculiar atmosphere of my pictures. Though I mostly focus on Polish landscapes, I intend for the viewers of my large format photographs to be transposed into that place of “somewhere” – they should feel like being on an empty stage, where a play they imagine may unfold.
2023
Solastalgia, MUFO – Museum of Photography,Cracow, PL (Solo)
Here Dreams Come True, Piktogram Gallery, Warsaw, PL (Solo)
Solastalgia, SARP – Society of Polish Architects, Warsaw, PL (Solo)
Private Terrain, Architecture Museum Wrocław, PL
About Sharing. Art on the border (Polish/German), National Gallery Poznań, PL
2019
– Warsaw Under Construction 11 – Monumentomania, MOMA Warsaw, Zodiak Warsaw Pavilion of Architecture
– Beyond Architecture, SARP, Warsaw, PL
2018
– Practice of Occupation of The Work, Wrocław Contemporary Museum,TIFF Festival
– Things to learn from Facebook, Third International Tbilisi Triennal, GS
2017
– 2017 Acquisitions // Photography Exhibit, Museum of History of Photography, Cracow, PL
– Monuments, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL
– Fotográfica 2017, Museo Nacional De La Fotografia De Colombia, Bogota, CO
– Recognition, Platan Gallery, Budapest, HU (with Milán Rácmolnár)
– Neverland, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL
2016
– LUX, Archeology of Photography Foundation, Warsaw, PL
– Cities and (Velo)cities at De Markten, part of Summer of Photography 2016, 6th Biennale for Contemporary Photography, BOZAR, Brussels, BE
– Salon of New Photography, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
– Entoptic Screening, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2015
– One Eyed Jacks, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL (solo)
– Tribute to Jerzy Lewczyński, WORTH TO REMEMBER!, Asymetria Gallery, Warsaw, PL
– Exquisite Corpse of Polish Photography, Awangarda Gallery, BWA Wrocław, Wrocław, PL
– Figures of Speech. The Architectural Sculpture of Warsaw 1918–1970, Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, a division of the National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, PL
2014
– Blackness, Aleksander Bruno Gallery, Warsaw, PL (solo)
– Lost in Landscape, Mart – Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, IT
– Shock Therapy, Galeria Milli Reasurans Art Gallery, Istambul, TR
2013
– A Photo of the City. Warsaw Photography and Related Practices, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw, PL
– homeMade. Constructing Substitute Worlds, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, PL
– Love Hotel, Ego Gallery, 8th Photography Biennial, Poznań, PL
– Telling the Baltic, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, DE (with Anna Zaradny)
2012
– Camera Obscura, project made with Architecture Foundation at Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, a division of the National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, PL (with Katarzyna Korzeniecka)
– Project UFO, Photoespana/ Blanca Soto Gallery, Madrid, SP (solo)
– Wir In Dresden, Archeology of Photography Foundation, Warsaw, PL (solo)
– Sense of Place – European Landscape Photography, BOZAR, Brussels, BE
– Broken Movie. Cinematic Moments in Contemporary Art, Awangarda Gallery, BWA Wrocław, Wrocław, PL
– KRA, PF Photography Gallery, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznań, PL (solo)
2009
– Project UFO, Appendix 2, Warsaw, PL (solo)
– Take a Look at Me Now – Contemporary Work From Poland, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, EN
– Troublesome Images, 6th Photography Biennial, Poznań, PL
– Urbanity. Twenty Years Later, Praha, CZ/ Berlin, DE/ Bratislava, SK/ Budapest, HU/ Ljubljana, SI/ Warsaw, PL/ Vienna, AT
2008
– Red Eye Effect, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
– Project UFO, Artist House, Jerusalem, IL (solo)
– Project UFO, 20th PhotoBiennale, Thessaloniki, GR (solo)
– Venus, Krakow Photomonth Festival, Cracow, PL
2007
– Project UFO, Biała Gallery, Lublin, PL (solo)
– Antiphotographs, 5th Photography Biennial, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań, PL
2006
-The New Documentalists, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL/ National Gallery in Bratislava, Bratislava, SK
-The End, My Friend, Spielhaus Morrisson Gallery, Berlin, DE
2005
– Landscapes, TR Gallery, Warsaw, PL (solo)
– Revenge on Realism – The Fictitious Moment in Current Polish Art, Krinziger – Projekte Gallery, Vienna, AT
2004
– Linger, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań, PL
– Young Polish Art, Polish Embassy in Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
– AfterLIFE, selfpublished, 2020
– The Internets, (NIAiU) 2019
– Figury Retoryczne. Warszawska Rzeźba Architektoniczna 1918-1970 (Muzeum Narodowe 2015)
– Adam Mazur, Decydujący Moment (Karakter, 2013)
– Sense of Place – European Landscape Photography (Prestel, 2012)
– High Touch – tactile design and visual explorations ( Gestalten, 2012)
– Zeitgenossiche Kunstler aus Polen, Positionen Series (Steidl, 2011)
– Papercraft 2, (Gestalten, 2011)
– Małopolska. Fotografie. To niczego nie wyjaśnia (MIP, 2007)
