Mateusz Choróbski was born in Radomsko, Poland in 1987. He graduated from the University of the Arts in Poznań and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Choróbski’s art practice is characterized by an astute observation of surrounding reality and ability to draw on its selected aspects to create visual compositions defying convention. The artist works across a variety of mediums and imaging techniques, including video, installation, performance and sculpture. His multisensory pieces are embedded within the vast iconographic and conceptual framework, often inspired by the mundanity and what dictates it (everyday objects, ordinary materials, natural organisms). Paramount to Choróbski’s practice is the notion of space as well as its physical and cognitive perception.
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on view solo exhibition “H.aven”
at Éva Kahán Foundation in Budapest, 23.01–14.03.2025
upcoming group exhibition
“The Impermanent Four Takes on the Collection” at MoMA Warsaw, 21.02–05.10.2025
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As already noted, Mateusz Choróbski observes the surrounding reality and translates every aspect of it into works that are made explicit according to an articulated variety of linguistic systems: plastic, video, performative, installation. Drawing on a varied iconographic and iconological repertoire, often inspired by everyday life and by subjects that mark its dilution over time (ordinary objects, poor materials, natural organisms), these works are able to touch every aspect of the perceptual system. They solicit the viewer under the visual, intellectual and emotional profile, turning the spectator into an active participant of the art-making process; such is the triggered mechanism. […] Pier Paolo Pancotto
Extract from the text accompanying the exhibition published in the catalogue.
"As already noted, Mateusz Choróbski observes the surrounding reality and translates every aspect of it into works that are made explicit according to an articulated variety of linguistic systems: plastic, video, performative, installation. Drawing on a varied iconographic and iconological repertoire, often inspired by everyday life and by subjects that mark its dilution over time (ordinary objects, poor materials, natural organisms), these works are able to touch every aspect of the perceptual system. They solicit the viewer under the visual, intellectual and emotional profile, turning the spectator into an active participant of the art-making process; such is the triggered mechanism. […]" Pier Paolo Pancotto
"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
Form the text accompanying the exhibition in Venice, published in the catalog.
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