Mateusz Choróbski

Mateusz Choróbski works across various mediums and imaging techniques, including video, installation, performance, sound, and sculptures. He also creates site-specific activities in public spaces (e.g. a ‘sky’ over the city). The human body and architecture are both given equal treatment in the works of Choróbski, who takes the extreme state of their remnants under close scrutiny: extreme deconstruction, poverty, and economic crisis. The decay of once-modern architecture, the debt or that of the body lying on an anti-pressure sore mattress are the recurring motifs of his artistic practice.

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The Impermanent Four Takes on the Collection – group exhibition at MoMA in Warsaw, 2025
H.aven – solo exhibition at Éva Kahán Foundation in Budapest, 2025
H.aven – solo exhibition at Éva Kahán Foundation in Vienna, 2024
Salty Flowers – solo exhibition at the Diefenbach Museum on Capri, 2024
Ortigia Contemporanea – group exhibition during the contemporary art festival in Sicily, 2024
For Whose Good – solo exhibition at (AV17) Gallery in Vilnius, 2023
Hide and Seek – solo exhibition at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, 2023
Hide and Seek – solo exhibition at Secci Gallery in Milan, 2023
Streetfight – group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2022
Es-senze – group exhibition at the Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice, 2022
Refugees Welcome – group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2022
Blocks – group exhibition at RISO – Museo regionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Palermo, 2021
What the Barbarians Did Not Do – solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Opole, 2021
Mateusz Choróbski | Namsal Siedlecki – duo exhibition at Le Scalze in Naples, 2021
Tipping Point – group exhibition on Arndtstraße 15 in Frankfurt am Main, 2021
Manifesto For a Better Life – group exhibition at the Gallery of Salon Akademii in Warsaw, 2021
A Step Away – solo exhibition at Secci Gallery in Florence, 2020
La Fondazione – solo exhibition at the project room of La Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio in Rome, 2019
High Windows – solo exhibition at Wschód gallery in Warsaw, 2019
ArtClub 27 – group exhibition at Villa Medici in Rome, 2019
Hortus Conclusus – group exhibition at Fondazione 107 in Turin, 2019
Der Unterschied in Ahnlichkeit – group exhibition at Polish Institute in Düsseldorf, 2019
As x az y – group exhibition at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, 2019
Travellers – group exhibition at Gdańsk City Gallery, 2019
Spoilage2: Narrating What Remains – group exhibition at SALTS in Basel, 2018
the empty room of night – solo exhibition at the Labirynt Contemporary Art Gallery in Lublin, 2018
Friend of A Friend Berlin – group exhibition at ChertLüdde in Berlin, 2018
Friend of A Friend Warsaw – group exhibition at Wschód gallery in Warsaw, 2018
Autogestión – group exhibition at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, 2017
Le Premier Venu? (Nie Ma Już Bezpańskich Psów) – solo exhibition at Les Bains Douches in Alençon, 2017
Runter Von Den Marmorklippen! – group exhibition on Möckernstraße 120 in Berlin, 2017
Like A Sick Eagle – duo exhibition at Exile in Berlin, 2017
Not Fair – group exhibition at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, 2017
Raw Materials – group exhibition at Galerie Eva Meyer in Paris, 2017
Swag & Threat – group exhibition at CCA Trafo in Szczecin, 2017
A Slow Collapse of a Journey – solo exhibition at Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art in Bytom, 2016
Nice To Meet – performance action at TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, 2016
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – performance action during Manifesta 11 in Zurich, 2017
A stitch in time saves nine – group exhibition at my and my colleagues' former studio in Warsaw, 2016
DAMA – group exhibition at Palazzo Birago di Borgaro in Turin, 2016
Nic o Was Bez Nas – group exhibition at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, 2016
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – performance action at BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice and in the city of Katowice, 2015
Precipitations – group exhibition at another vacant space in Berlin, 2014
Blue Bird – solo exhibition at Zone of Contemporary Art in Szczecin, 2014
I was maddened with sunlight. I felt like laughing – solo exhibition at the Arsenał Gallery in Białystok, 2014

Hide and Seek no.1

Solo exhibition at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, Italy. Curator Pier Paolo Pancotto. Dates 09.03.–27.05.2023.

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In the large forecourt of Fabbrica del Vapore, framed by industrial buildings and next to an urban transit route, Mateusz Choróbski presented his installation "Hide and Seek", a site-specific work that links two places: the factory, where it is located, and the nearby Monumental Cemetery, which inspired him. The short journey from the production site to the silent and vast space of the cemetery is poetic and intense. The installation features 24 miniature glass houses, each of them hosting an hour of the day, represented by the streetlights laid on the ground, disused but lit – as are the bodies laid in the earth in the nearby cemetery, whose identities surface through the representations on their graves. Choróbski’s light sculptures spread across the forecourt and intercept the visitor by revealing the factory space in a nocturnal and mysterious way, as if they were a Symbolist and Romantic work. […] Maria Fratelli

Extract from the text accompanying the exhibition published in the catalogue.

Hide and Seek no.1

Solo exhibition at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, Italy. Curator Pier Paolo Pancotto. Dates 09.03.–27.05.2023.

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In the large forecourt of Fabbrica del Vapore, framed by industrial buildings and next to an urban transit route, Mateusz Choróbski presented his installation "Hide and Seek", a site-specific work that links two places: the factory, where it is located, and the nearby Monumental Cemetery, which inspired him. The short journey from the production site to the silent and vast space of the cemetery is poetic and intense. The installation features 24 miniature glass houses, each of them hosting an hour of the day, represented by the streetlights laid on the ground, disused but lit – as are the bodies laid in the earth in the nearby cemetery, whose identities surface through the representations on their graves. Choróbski’s light sculptures spread across the forecourt and intercept the visitor by revealing the factory space in a nocturnal and mysterious way, as if they were a Symbolist and Romantic work. […] Maria Fratelli

Extract from the text accompanying the exhibition published in the catalogue.

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