He studied at Faculty of Visual Arts at Mason Gross School of The Arts at University of Rutgers in the USA (1995-1997) and at Faculty of Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1987-1992). Winner of numerous scholarships and grants, including scholarship from Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2011); scholarship and artistic residence in Edvard-Munch-Haus, Warnemunde, Germany (2006); Culture Foundation grant (2002); Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship, New York (1995-1997); Batory Foundation grant (1995); Kulturkontakt grant Vienna, Austria (1992 and 1993); scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Land of Brandenburg at the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany (1992). Jacek Malinowski’s works are in collections of: Museum of Art in Łódź, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń, Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw, and others. He lives and works in Warsaw.
“Exposé”, 2019
video, 08’07’’
Jacek Malinowski focuses mainly on video and video installations. He creates film narratives that follow the general principles of film genres: documentary, horror, science fiction, etc., taking care of the objectivity and emotional restraint of the film medium, but also modifying them for his own critical needs. At the same time, he leads a certain game with the viewers and their emotions, often deliberately misleading them. His films refer to contemporary social and political affairs.
“Exposé” video has the form of a reconstructed parliamentary television broadcast, however absurd and ridiculous it sounds – roughly summarising the current human activity in a general sense. This is a critical and not entirely fictional view of the Homo Sapiens genre (“Human Project”) reduced to the form of the project. The video raises some basic questions: What was our original goal and how did we achieve it? To what point and to what conclusions did the “Human Project” lead us, how was its scale and what are its future prospects? Did we succeed in this project? What is the final profit and loss balance? Is the project going to be continued? The actor acting as a speaker points out the greatest ills of modern times. The text – given from the point of view of an ecologist, military strategist, businessman, social activist, ordinary citizen, mother etc. – makes it aware of the complexity of the project, the problems it generates and the lack of perspective to solve them, and, therefore, of the threat to the population.
