My art is diverse in form as well in content. It carries a heavy conceptual luggage as an result of my education. I graduated from University of Zielona Gora with MA degree in 2002 where under the conduction of Wieslaw Hudon I wrote a thesis “Staging photography” on reliability of medium in context of staging photography. Being under influence of polish conceptual photographers I developed my own understanding of that medium as a fragmented reality existing in new memory-continuum. Medium itself is just a technology that allows me to alter reality, to create new fragmented continuum that earns different meanings and new contexts.
Later on I graduated again from Central Saint Martins with another MA degree in Applied Imagination.
Although photography is my main domain, I have in my portfolio also photo and video installations which are result of constant rethinking of the form of art and its content as well as evolving form of an art communication. I have been also involved in performance art since 2001 when I started artistic collaboration C.H.U.K with Dominik Zlotkowki. Since 2003 I have been exploring another fields of visual communication mostly design, which resulted in my current enslavement in advertisement.
Conscious creation with an aim to communicate with a receiver is what I consider as my art creation. Representation of a reality itself has expired long before Duchamp and in time of, what I call, Modernism 2.0, it is important for me to raise issues that are not leaving receiver amused but challenges his preconception.
Selected exhibitions etc.
2011 “Trespassing” performance art representing polish art during Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, London, Minsk.
2010 “St. Anton” The XVI Biennial of Mountain Photography, Jelenia Gora, Poland
2008 “Home is Hope” Freedom of Choice International Video and Film Peace Festival, Lisbon (Portugal), Istanbul (Turkey), Yerevan
(Armenia), Viareggio (Italy).
2008 From a series “Torn out” Museum of Contemporary art Yekaterinburg, Russia
2008 “Somebody set up us the bomb”, JavaMuseum, Valencia, Spain
2007 “Audiem”, 11th Media Art Festival Friesland, Holland
2007 “Bodyscapes”, London Photo-Month
2007 “Audiem”, 11th Media Art Festival Friesland, Holland
2007 “Bodyscapes”, Octoply, Royal Arsenal, London UK
2007 “Audiem”, Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art WebBiennail07, Istanbul, Turkey
2003 Krajowy Salon Fotografii, Zary, Poland
2002 “Adam Buczek photographs”, Gallery-Theatre Mrowisko, Poland
2001 “City Document”, BWA, Zielona Gora, Poland
2001 “Adam Buczek Selected Works”, photography exhibition, Gallery-Theatre Mrowisko, Poland
2000 “Photo installations”, Zielona Gora, Poland
2000 “Adam Buczek Installations”, Zielona Gora, Poland
1999 Krajowy Salon Fotografii, Zary, Poland
1999 “Magic moments”, Galeria Granatowa, Walbrzych, Poland
“Adam Buczek is a Polish artist, designer and writer living and working in the UK.
He graduated with an MA in Social and Cultural Animation in Film and Photography
from the University of Zielona Gora in 2002, and also has an MA in Applied Imagination/Design Studies
from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London.
Adam has had many exhibitions all over the world in the fields of photography, photo-installations, performance art, video art and interactive art and has featured in major displays across Europe, including in the National Centres for Contemporary Arts
in Ekaterinburg and Moscow, the Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art and at Media Art Friesland in the Netherlands. His works and writings were published in Camera Obscura, White Chimney, Umelec International Magazine just to name few. His influences include the conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s, and his passion is the exploration of the perception of art, rather than art itself, and its context within reality. Recently he’s been exploring and moving towards conceptual experiential art.”