He studied at Faculty of Pedagogy at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He is a co-creator of many independent artistic ventures, such as Kultura Zrzuty in Łódź, NAO and Sternencoch music group, and “Tango” magazine. He participated in Venice Biennale, exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, MUMOK Museum in Vienna, National Art Museum of China in Beijing, and Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels. A retrospective exhibition of his work was organised at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2009). He is a laureate of the first edition of Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Polish Film Institute and Wajda School Film Award (2011). The artist’s works are included in collections of Jewish Museum in New York, Haus der Geschichte in Bonn, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.
“Yes, That Is What You Think It Is”, 2019
photography cycle
Zbigniew Libera creates objects, installations, photographs, and videos. In his works he explores the social roles and cultural behaviour patterns, he is interested in psychological issues related to upbringing and growing into social order. The artist devotes a lot of his attention to mass culture and the media influencing perception of reality. He explores mechanisms of propaganda and other manipulation. He is one of the leading representatives of critical art. Photography is an especially important part of his artistic output. “Yes, That Is What You Think It Is” series of photos fits in with its character and theme to Libera’s previous photographic projects. The artist has referred before to reality as a projection and to a myth that we are constantly recreating, as a creation built by media and new technologies. Whether the artist refers to facts or creates his own vision can become a key question. It may have either only false answers or various answers that are all equally true.
