Józef Robakowski

♂ *1939 / Poland

Works

Contacts for the work of Józef Robakowski

Józef Robakowski

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Solo exhibitions

KONZEPTUELLE GESTEN

KunstKonsulat, Görlitz (DE)
13 Feb 2026 – 13 Mar 2026
Der Linie nach

ZAK | BRANICKA, Berlin (DE)
2 Nov 2012 – 12 Jan 2013
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MAN Museo d'arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro (IT)
10 Feb 2006 – 3 Mar 2006
A View From Elsewhere

Space Twotentwo, London (GB)
18 Mar 2005 – 3 Apr 2005

Group

Distorted Image

Chapters from the beginnings of video art

The Brno House of Art, Brno (CZ)
29 Apr 2026 – 16 Aug 2026

with Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Jiri Cernicky, Jiri David, Peter Forgacs, Izabella Gustowska, Tibor Hajas, Karoly Halasz, Jozef Jankovic, Pavel Jasanský, Julius Koller, Pawel Kwiek …
Making New Worlds Instead of Forgetting About It

Selected video works from the collection of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Centre for Contemporary Art, Warszawa (PL)
20 Sep 2024 – 19 Jan 2025

with Wojciech Bakowski, Karolina Bregula, Hubert Czerepok, Oskar Dawicki, Izabella Gustowska, Heidrun Holzfeind, Zuzanna Janin, Christian Jankowski, Anna Konik, Korpys / Loeffler, Dominik Lejman, Norman Leto …
Angular Dynamics

Persons Projects, Berlin (DE)
14 Sep 2023 – 28 Oct 2023

with Grey Crawford
A Line Has Time in It - Revision

Persons Projects, Berlin (DE)
26 Nov 2022 – 25 Feb 2023

with Niko Luoma, Jussi Nahkuri, Finnbogi Pétursson, Mikko Rikala, Ragna Róbertsdóttir
Into the Unknown

Moving Images from the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

SALT Galata, Istanbul (TR)
28 May 2022 – 14 Aug 2022

with Jananne Al-Ani, Duncan Campbell, Shana Moulton, Deimantas Narkevicius, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Agnieszka Polska
Framed. Activities for the Camera

Persons Projects, Berlin (DE)
29 Oct 2021 – 12 Mar 2022

with Grey Crawford, Hilla Kurki, KwieKulik
LIQUID MODERNITY

Persons Projects, Berlin (DE)
25 Jun 2021 – 29 Jul 2021

with Elina Brotherus, Jasmina Cibic, Saara Ekstroem, Anri Sala, Hector Zamora
Geheime Agenten

Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf (DE)
13 Mar 2020 – 21 Apr 2020

with Andrew Hammerand, Arwed Messmer, Peter Piller, Oliver Sieber
VIDEOTAPES

EARLY VIDEO ART (1965-1976)

Zacheta National Gallery, Warszawa (PL)
15 Feb 2020 – 13 Apr 2020

with Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Peter Campus, Douglas Davis, Valie Export, Terry Fox, Anna Bella Geiger, Nancy Holt, Joan Jonas, Beryl Korot …
Artists & Agents

Performancekunst und Geheimdienste

Kunsthalle Dortmund, Dortmund (DE)
26 Oct 2019 – 22 Mar 2020

with Tina Bara, Kurt Buchwald, Alba D'Urbano, Ion Grigorescu, Sanja Ivekovic, Jens Klein, Daniel Knorr, Korpys / Loeffler, Jiri Kovanda, Jill Magid, Simon Menner, Arwed Messmer …
Family Values: Polish Photography Now

Calvert 22 Foundation, London (GB)
25 May 2018 – 22 Jul 2018

with Aneta Bartos, Weronika Gesicka, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Adam Palenta, Zofia Rydet
Street Life

Fahrenheit, Los Angeles (US)
11 Oct 2014 – 18 Dec 2014

with Michel Auder
30 Jahre - 30 Stimmen

30 Jahre Videonale Bonn

Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (DE)
24 Aug 2014 – 30 Sep 2014

with Sadie Benning, Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn, Gary Hill, Dieter Kiessling, Marcel Odenbach, Johanna Reich, Gonzalo H. Rodriguez
Les Horizons

La Criée - centre , Rennes (FR)
14 Mar 2014 – 11 May 2014

with Taysir Batniji, Sabine Hornig, Ann Veronica Janssens, Bertrand Lamarche
11th edition of the Fotografia Kolekcjonerska

Centre for Contemporary Art, Warszawa (PL)
12 Oct 2013 – 27 Oct 2013

with Dorota Buczkowska, Jan Bulhak, Zbigniew Dlubak, Jan Dziaczkowski, Bogdan Dziworski, Krzysztof Gieraltowski, Teresa Gierzynska, Edward Hartwig, Bogdan Konopka, Andrzej Kramarz, georgia Krawiec, Zofia Kulik …
Through a Glass Darkly

Faces past and present

Műcsarnok, Budapest (HU)
24 Jan 2013 – 7 Apr 2013

with Peter Aerschmann, Francis Alys, Balázs Beöthy, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Maurer Dora, Rineke Dijkstra, Miklos Erdely, Marcell Esterhazy, Valie Export, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin …
Recording against Regimes Exhibition

Video art and films generated by changes in Poland in the 1980s, Germany in the

Darb 17 18, Cairo (EG)
6 Mar 2013 – 23 Mar 2013

with Egon Bunne, Hartmut Jahn
MONODROME

3rd Athens Biennale 2011

Athens Biennale, Athína (GR)
23 Oct 2011 – 11 Dec 2011

with Bas Jan Ader, Paul Chan, Tracey Moffatt, Hans Op de Beeck, Fiona Tan, Jalal Toufic
Gute Nachbarschaft?

Kunst Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
25 Sep 2011 – 23 Oct 2011

with Constantin Hartenstein, Lodz Kaliska, Zbigniew Libera, Robert Maciejuk, Laura Pawela, Aleksandra Polisiewicz, Tom Schön, Zbigniew Sejwa, Twozywo, Clemens Wilhelm, Wunderteam
A Part of No-Part: Parallelisms Between Then and Now

Chelsea Art Museum, New York (US)
7 May 2010 – 19 Jun 2010

with Kuba Bàkowski, Jiri Cernicky, Hubert Czerepok, Milena Dopitova, Lukasz Gronowski, Zdena Kolecková, Jiri Kovanda, Jacek Malinowski, Pavel Mrkus, Piotr Zylinski
...on the eastern front

video art from central and eastern europe 1989–2009

Ludwig Museum Budapest, Budapest (HU)
22 Jan 2010 – 7 Mar 2010

with Yael Bartana, Pavel Braila, Kaspars Goba, Dmitry Gutov, Ana Husman, Kai Kaljo, Sejla Kameric, Szabolcs KissPál, Damir Niksic, Adrian Paci, Radek Community, Anri Sala …
See this Sound

Versprechungen von Bild und Ton

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (AT)
28 Aug 2009 – 10 Jan 2010

with Laurie Anderson, Martin Arnold, John Baldessari, Gottfried Bechtold, Valie Export, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Gary Hill, Louise Lawler, Christian Marclay, Jonas Mekas, Michaela Melian …
SOUNDS AND VISIONS

ARTISTS' FILMS AND VIDEOS FROM EUROPE, THE LAST DECADE

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (IL)
7 Feb 2009 – 2 May 2009

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Vince Briffa, David Claerbout, Haris Epaminonda, Cyprien Gaillard, Christian Jankowski, Jesper Just, Clare Langan, Ulf Langheinrich, Steve McQueen, Deimantas Narkevicius, Guido van der Werve …
i could live in africa

Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal (DE)
15 Mar 2009 – 19 Apr 2009

with Miroslaw Balka, Jacques de Koning, Darek Skubiel, Michal Tarkowski
WITKACY - ROBAKOWSKI: Confidence Men

ZAK | BRANICKA, Berlin (DE)
6 Feb 2009 – 13 Mar 2009

with Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
Fighting Poland - video presentation of gallery lokal_30, Warsaw

Christine König , Wien (AT)
15 Sep 2006 – 4 Nov 2006

with Zuzanna Janin, Tomek Kozak, Maciej Kurak, Monika Mamzeta, Piotr Wysocki
Jeux interdits

Institut polonais, Paris (FR)
24 May 2006 – 15 Sep 2006

with Pawel Althamer, Marta Deskur, Grupa Azorro, Izabella Gustowska, Katarzyna Kozyra, Zbigniew Libera, Natalia LL, Dorota Nieznalska, Jerzy Truszkowski, Artur Zmijewski
Grey Zones

The Brno House of Art, Brno (CZ)
29 Mar 2006 – 7 May 2006

with Oskar Dawicki, Ion Grigorescu, Sanja Ivekovic, Jiri Kovanda, Mladen Stilinovic
Egocentric. Immoral. Outmoded

Zacheta National Gallery, Warszawa (PL)
20 Sep 2005 – 30 Oct 2005

with Pawel Althamer, Kuba Bàkowski, Anna Baumgart, Hubert Czerepok, Oskar Dawicki, Marta Deskur, Grupa Azorro, Barbara Konopka, Katarzyna Kozyra, Pawel Kruk, Zofia Kulik, Lodz Kaliska …
Sicht der Dinge - Positionen aktueller Kunst in Polen

Kunstforum Ostdt. Galerie, Regensburg (DE)
28 Jul 2005 – 2 Oct 2005

with Agnieszka Brzezanska, Katarzyna Kozyra, Zbigniew Libera, Dorota Nieznalska
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greengrassi, London (GB)
2 Jul 2005 – 30 Jul 2005

with Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Melik Ohanian, Lawrence Weiner
L'image arrêtée et le mouvement

Centre d'art Mira Phalaina, Paris (FR)
28 Mar 2005 – 16 Apr 2005

with Anna & Bernhard Blume, Marc Pataut
Self-Portraits

Gallery FF . Forum Fotografii, Lódz (PL)
3 Mar 2005 – 24 Mar 2005

with Piotr Komorowski, Bogdan Konopka, Natalia LL, Janusz Nowacki, Pawel Zak
Projected Visions – Video Art in Poland

Curator: Ryszard W. Kluszczynski

Goethe Institut, Thessaloníki (GR)
20 Dec 2004 – 23 Dec 2004

with Kinga Araya, Anna Baumgart, Barbara Konopka, Piotr Wyrzykowski
Collected Views from East or West and West or East

Generali Foundation, Wien (AT)
16 Sep 2004 – 19 Dec 2004

with Marina Abramovic, Harun Farocki, Andrea Fraser, Dan Graham, Hans Hollein, Julius Koller, Alan Kozlowski, Edward Krasinski, Andrea Kuluncic, Dalibor Martinis, Dora Maurer, Adrian Piper
Projected Visions – Video Art in Poland

Curator: Ryszard W. Kluszczynski

Macedonian Mus. of Cont.Art, Thessaloníki (GR)
18 Dec 2004 – 19 Dec 2004

with Kinga Araya, Anna Baumgart, Barbara Konopka, Piotr Wyrzykowski
Now Huta

Kunst aus polnischer Sicht

Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (DE)
14 Aug 2004 – 3 Oct 2004

with Pawel Althamer, Wilhelm Sasnal
Mémoires du temps de l'immaturité

Passage de Retz, Paris (FR)
25 Jun 2004 – 2 Sep 2004

with Zbigniew Libera, Artur Zmijewski
Sasiad[ka] : nachbar[i]n

Ausstellung polnischer Kunst

Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien (AT)
23 Oct 2002 – 9 Nov 2002

with Jan Berdyszak, Barbara Konopka, Irena Nawrot, Monika Wiechowska

Events

Photo London 2026

Photo London, London (GB)
14 May 2026 – 17 May 2026

with Ahmed Ali, Maurizio Anzeri, Takashi Arai, Nadim Asfar, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Anne Bean, Cecil Beaton, Bruce Bernard, John Blakemore, Celine Bodin, Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan …
Photo London 2026

Persons Projects, London (GB)
14 May 2026 – 17 May 2026

with Grey Crawford, Nanna Hänninen, Mika Karhu, Zofia Kulik, Milja Laurila, Niko Luoma, Riitta Paeivaelaeinen, Jyrki Parantainen, Jorma Puranen, Mikko Rikala, Santeri Tuori
Art Düsseldorf 2022

Art Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (DE)
8 Apr 2022 – 10 Apr 2022

with Christiane Baumgartner, Anja Bohnhof, Candice Breitz, Clegg & Guttmann , Grey Crawford, Lucinda Devlin, Anna Ehrenstein, Mitch Epstein, Thomas Florschuetz, Candida Hoefer, Georg Herold, Evelyn Hofer …
20. dresdner schmalfilmtage

Fremde Gestade

dresdner schmalfilmtage, Dresden (DE)
21 Mar 2019 – 24 Mar 2019

with Tibor Hajas, Ben Rivers, Stan Vanderbeek, Yevgeniy Yufit
imai Video Box: Über Ich

Ich bin’s. Künstlerische Selbstexperimente vor der Videokamera

Haus der Universität, Düsseldorf (DE)

with Freya Hattenberger, Thomas Kutschker, Rotraut Pape, Ulrike Rosenbach
e-flux Video Rental

KW Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin (DE)

with Judith Barry, Wilson Diaz, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Corinna Schnitt
Le corps en jeu

Centre d'art Mira Phalaina, Paris (FR)

with Dominic Angerame, Maya Deren, Valie Export, Mike Hoolboom, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Charlemagne Palestine, Ernst Schmidt