Hubert Czerepok

Graduate of the Antoni Kenar Secondary Art School in Zakopane and the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, where he studied under Izabella Gustowska and Jan Berdyszak. Completed post-graduate curricula at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht in the years 2002-2003, and at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp in the years 2004-2005. Draws, paints, creates objects and installations, shoots videos, generates animations, works on found footage films, creates multimedia projects, and remains active in public space. As part of the art duo Magisters (with Zbyszek Rogalski), produced absurd genre photographs and films. Working with Sebastian Mendez, created the strategic game Survivors of The White Cube – art world simulation. Explores connections between fiction and historical truth, with a particular focus on ways of facts mutating and undergoing formal and semantic transformation. Had multiple solo exhibitions in Poland and abroad, i.a. Początek (The Beginning) at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw; Historia i utopia (History and Utopia) at the “Arsenal” Gallery in Białystok; Lux Aeterna at the Gallery Żak | Branicka in Berlin; Devil’s Island at the La Criée centre d’art contemporain in Rennes. Showed his works at You Imagine What You Desire – the 19^th Biennale of Sydney; Cultural Transference at EFA Project Space, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; and Regress / Progress at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. Organiser of art workshops for children and young people of many years (i.a. at the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk, “Arsenal” Gallery in Białystok, and Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art in Bytom), exploring issues associated with expressing freedom and deconstructing stereotypes. Professor of the Academy of Art in Szczecin, where he is head of the Experimental Film Studio at the Faculty of Media Art.