Piotr Wyrzykowski Portfolio

Performance “No”, 2010.

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“Pol’s Face - screenplay v 1.3”, 12 channel video installation, Contemporary Museum Wroclaw, 2021

“The Pole’s Face” is a work in

progress, which can develop in
completely unexpected ways at
any time.
The first part, inaugurated at
Wrocław Contemporary Museum,
has the character of a shooting
script – a plan made up of
installations and video projections,
referring to subsequent scenes in
the interactive plot constructed by
Piotr Wyrzykowski. The story is set
in the desert – a paradoxical
space, described in literature as
windy and empty, offering freedom
for the spirit and captivity for the
body. The protagonist is a Nomad
and the artist himself, whose
bodies and consciousness have
been connected by an amazing
twist of fate.
" Temporar y Nation" , app, network performance,
interactive installation 2019. (with E. Ho)

Temporary Nation is a
platform for organizing
g ro u p a n d i n d i v i d u a l
per for mative sessions.
The work draws on active
participation of its
audience who become its
co-creators through the
use of an app designed
for the purposes of this
performance. Once the
app has been installed,
particpants’ smartphones
turn into light- and sound-
emitting audiovisual
gadgets that can be
operated by their users
through par ticular
gestures or
choreographies. A joint
performance of un
unpredictable symphony
turns a group of strangers
into a temporary
community.
“Temporary Nation Online Practice” series of video manuals to practice during the pandemic lockdown. 2020.
“Beta Nassau”, video tape 1993 and 4 chanell video, 2006. Work in collection of MOMA, New York and Muzeum Sztuki, Łodź.
“Wiktoria Cukt Presidential Campaign”, www, public
spaces, billboards, video, actions, installation,
1999 - 2000. by CUKT,
CUKT (Technical Culture Central Office) had run a fake
election campaign in 2000, scheduled for the entire year of
the  real presidential election in Poland.CUKT created a
candidate for the President of the Republic of Poland, who
was not only a young attractive woman, but also a fully
virtual, computer-generated being. The campaign of this
long- legged beauty started on the internet. The idea was to
promote the internet as the tool and  institution of a
democratic society
  but, of course, the artists played with the
illusion of democracy. The candidate was perfect for
everyone, as she shared every opinion submitted by official
website. Her statements were completely contradictory, so as
to please every possible
  voter. This internet project was
followed by several election meetings in major Polish cities
and Berlin, Chicago. Billboard campaign with AMS, released
exactly at the moment  when "real" candidates started to
present their own  ones. This campaign really appealed to the
Polish sense of humor, especially when the billboard of
Wictoria CUKT was shown, for instance, next to the billboard
of President Krzaklewski from the Solidarity Union. Mr.
President, whose campaign was based apparently on his
attractive look, had no chance against red-haired
Wictoria. Regardless, she lost, but so did he.
Video installation, 300x250 cm, LCD monitors, light-boxes, sound, video, quotations from Mayakovsky poems.
“Only Those Who Planed It Will Survive”, video installation, 2009

Work in a collection of NOMUS, Gdańsk

The idea of the installation is based on the
development of a form of "video-poster",
which appeared in the installation
"Communostalgie". The video is treated here
as a graphical dynamic visual element of the
whole compositions. In that case technical
drawing and typography is combine with
video of little child figures.
The work consists of six posters depicting six
different types of shelters designed as a place
to hide during a nuclear attack. Architectural
drawings are taken from the original American
publications from the period of cold war. They
were mainly design for families with their own
free-standing houses proposing a variety of
types of solutions from low-budget basement
conversions to reinforced concrete
underground structures.
Each of the posters is a standalone short
story scene of the group of children's life in
shelter. A short excerpt from their attempts to
maintain "normal" in such different conditions.
“How to Educate the Ruler? - discovered fragments form a handbook”,augumented reality interactive installation, 2011
This project simulates an
archival educational manual in
the form of an interactive
installation.
It consist of 16 pages and laws,
each page trigers the animation
- 3d scene representing
different political skill.
The work is based on
augmented reality system. The
viewer by holding the pages in
different positions can change
the point of view of the 3d
scene. The short 3d story is
rendered on the surface of the
page. The viewer can see his
hand, page and animation on
the video screen in front of him.
The laws are taken from the
Robert Greene book: “48 Laws
of Power”
“Imam”, from the “Emoticon” project, video installation, 2011, (with R. Rumas)

Work in collection of Muzeum Sztuki w Łodźi.

Bakhchisaray, Crimea, Ukraine, April 2011.
Three-channel video installation, 14’ 33”.

Visual material filmed in the town

Bakhchisaray
inhabited by Crimean Tatars. An interview
with Imam Sabri Soleymanov.

The Emoticon project, is a summing-up

of a journey we made at the beginning
of 2011 to Eastern European countries
around the Black See. We've visited
Ukraine, Turkey, Romania and Georgia.

http://www.emotikon.net/
“Shoe Copyst”, from the “Emotikon” project, video installation, 2011, (with R. Rumas)
 Istanbul, Turkey, March 2011.
Three-channel video installation, 12’00”.

Visual material filmed in a “district” of shoe makers

in the middle of the Istanbul old town.
A quarter of streets houses the last small private
shops where shoes are manufactured by hand.

http://www.emotikon.net/turkey.html
“Water Memory”, intervention in public space, app, tablets, 2013

Part of the city with AR water.
Augmented Reality app for mobile devices dedicated to open
public spaces. Application transforms the space around you in to
the underwater world with floating artefacts of the past.
Content is coming from people memories uploaded into the "digital
water" of the software.
Do you believe that water has memory?
Maybe you want to share your memories?
Dive into deep water just right next to you.
Experience this revolutionary augmented reality application turning
your surroundings into underwater world full of past messages.
Walk or run around using GPS and your device camera to find and
learn all the artefacts floating in water. By exploring your physical
environment each several meters your are going to make a jump in
time.
Watch out the waves!
“Copyright”, performance, 1995. Copyright was
a reaction to
the enactment
of new
copyright laws
in Poland in
1994. The
artist had the
internationally
recognised
copyright
symbol
tattooed on his
body. During
the procedure,
Wyrzykowski
was reading
out selected
passages from
the new law.
“Cyborg’s Sex Manual”, CD-ROM, Prints, installation, 1999.
“There is No Body”,
WWW, prints,
installation, 1996.
“Atomic Love” photo, video, 2002. (with I. Chichkan)
“Defenders”, photo, video, 2001. (with
I. Chichkan)

Gucci
 "THEY DO NOT KNOW IT, BUT THEY ARE DOING IT."

The simple phrase by Marx adequately had been his own way to
succinctly describe how human behavior is so often disengaged from a
cognition of action in structuring an illusion of ideological proportions.
When we look at the images of military officers languorously posing in
gestures of staged repose placed next to the advertising from fashion
magazines, we may simply assume a purposeful juxtaposition that clearly
alludes to a mimicry that speaks of the perversity of power. However, these
are not mere military officers neutrally staged in a visual game of war
versus dollar. They are members of an elite brigade responsible for the
launching of ballistic missiles for the Ukrainian army. Furthermore, they are
a brigade also responsible for the gross error of striking a passenger flight
overhead the Crimean peninsula during military exercises…. M. Kuzma

Hugo Boss Custo

Piotr Wyrzykowski alias Peter Style born in 1968 in Gdańsk,
is an artist, performer, and set designer.

Wyrzykowski works with mobile applications, video, multimedia

performance, photography, web projects, installation, and
screenings in public space. He studied interior design (1989–
1991), and painting (1991–1995) at the Academy of Fine Art in
Gdańsk. MA at Intermedia Studio of Professor W. Czerwonka.

Works in collection of:

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
Centre of Contemporary Art – Laznia, Gdansk
Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Centre of Media, WRO, Wroclaw
NOMUS, Gdansk.
Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine

INDYVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS SELECTION

2015 - „Shoot! Im Ukrainian”, ASP Gallery, Gdansk
2014 - “Protest”, CCA Laznia, Gdansk, Poland
2012 - “Emotikon”, National Gallery Zacheta, Warswa, Poland. (with R. Rumas)
2011 - “Emotikon”, Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland. (with R. Rumas)
2009 - “Only Those Who Planed it will Survived” Arsenal Galery, Bialystok, Poland
2008 - “Peter Style”, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
2006 - “Manhunt” CCA Zamek, Warsaw, Poland
2001 - “Defenders”, RA Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine. (with I. Chichkan)
1999 - “Promotion”, CCA Zamek, Warsaw, Poland “Protest”, app, public space, 2015.