Selected collective exhibitions and solo shows

2023
The Five Obstructions, Skala Gallery, Poznań

(Un)told – What Lies at the Basis of Photography and Memory, Auditorium, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Gdańsk (exhibition with a catalogue)

2022
Solaris_manipulations, 8 Mediations Biennale Polska, Graphics Gallery of the University of SWPS  Wrocław, Wrocław

2020
Maybe it was like that, Galeria 5, Katowice

I’ll be Your Mirror, Krupa Gallery, TIFF Festiwal, Wrocław (exhibition with a catalogue)

2019
Traps_ Simulations_ Transmissions. Areas of Postphotography, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań

2018
Experiment! Photography at the Beginning of 20th Century in Lviv and its Polish and Ukrainian Continuators in the 20th and 21th Centuries, FF Gallery, Łódź (exhibition with a catalogue)

2017
Grains of Things, AT Gallery, Poznań (solo exhibition) 

2015
Authorities, New Media Gallery, BWA Gorzów (solo exhibition)

Captivating Parallax. Photography and its Images, National Museum in Poznań (exhibition with a catalogue)

2014
Intermediate States, Faculty of Social Sciences AMU, Poznań

6×3=25, Piekary Gallery, Poznań

2013
Withdrawal, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań (solo exhibition with a catalogue) 

Dimensions of time and space, BWA Gallery, Piła (exhibition with a catalogue)

Seen – Unspoken, Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk 

2012
Unknown Territories, Art Stations Gallery, Poznań 

Withdrawal (works from 2009–2012), FF Gallery, Łódź (solo exhibition with a catalogue) 

2011
Poz – Wro, Recognition of the place, The Museum of Architecture, Wrocław (exhibition with a catalogue)

The Praise of Difference, Gallery Nowa Przestrzeń AHEart in Łódź

Imitation, Edith Stein Museum in Lubliniec (solo exhibition with a catalogue)

Proof, Galeria Uniwersytecka, Zielona Góra

Forms of inhabitation – private and public city spaces, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań (exhibition with a catalogue)

When you plug in..., UAP Rotunda Gallery as part of the 7th Biennale of Photography, Poznań (solo exhibition with a catalogue)

Newcomers and locals, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra (exhibition with a catalogue) 

2010
Forms of inhabitation – a collective portrait of Poznań inhabitants, ASP Gallery, Poznań (exhibition with a catalogue) 

2009
Face to Face, Pf Gallery of Photography, Poznań (solo exhibition with a catalogue)

III Biennale of the Art of the Media, billboards presented in public space, Warsaw (exhibition with a catalogue)

Face to Face, Skwer – Chapter of Fabryka Trzciny Art Centre, as part of the 6th Warsaw Photography Festival (solo exhibition with a catalogue)

Entre tradition et modernité, Espace Châtelet Victoria, Paris (exhibition with a catalogue) 

2008
Forms and Unintentional Forms, S. Staszic Museum, Piła (solo exhibition with a catalogue)

Etc..., Gallery of S. Staszic Museum, Piła (exhibition with a catalogue)

Subfebrile Condition, an exhibition of faculty members of WKM ASP in Poznań, Stary Browar, Poznań (exhibition with a catalogue) 

2006
Apertures in action, Galeria Działań, Warszawa (exhibition with a catalogue)

Itinerary, Muzeum Papiernictwa, Duszniki Zdrój

Polish Photography in the 20th century, Vilnius (exhibition with a catalogue)

Polish Photography in the 20th century, PKiN, Warszawa (exhibition with a catalogue) 

2005
Gemainsame Orte – Kuns aus Polen, Automobil Forum, Berlin

Freiheit und Verantwortung, Universität der Kunste, Berlin

Ausgewählte Fotografien, Kunst und Kulturzentrum, Monschau (solo exhibition with a catalogue)

2004
Photographs, Pod schodami Gallery ASP Kraków 

2003
Apotropaic Objects, BWA – Galleries of Contemporary Art, Wrocław (solo exhibition with a catalogue) 

Apotropaic Objects, Pusta Gallery, Katowice (solo exhibition with a catalogue) 

Apotropaic Objects, BWA Art Gallery, Jelenia Góra (solo exhibition with a catalogue)

Apotropaic Objects, FF Gallery, Łódź (solo exhibition)

2002
Peripheries – postmedia photography, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań (exhibition with a catalogue)

Polish photography of the 1990s, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (exhibition with a catalogue)

Person/Zeit/Raum. Fotografie aus Polen, Rupertinum Museum Moderner Kunst, Salzburg (exhibition with a catalogue)

2001
Salon voila, Muzeum Przemysłu i Techniki, Wałbrzych (exhibition with a catalogue)

6. Internationale Fototage, Herten (exhibition with a catalogue)

2000
Third Dimension, FF Gallery, Łódź (exhibition with a catalogue)

Third Dimension II, PWW Gallery, Zielona Góra (exhibition with a catalogue) 

Afterglows, AT Gallery, Poznań

1999
Transparency, Kłodzko Art Gallery, Kłodzko (exhibition with a catalogue)

Captive Images, State Art Gallery, Sopot (exhibition with a catalogue)

Exhibition of Faculty of the Art Institute of the Higher School of Pedagogy in Zielona Góra, Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej, Zielona Góra

1998
I Biennale of Polish Photography, Galeria u Jezuitów, Poznań (exhibition with a catalogue)

Camera obscura, Miejski Ośrodek Kultury, Kostrzyn nad Odrą (exhibition with a catalogue)

1997
Photography 97, Pałac Sztuki, Kraków (exhibition with a catalogue)

In memoriam Pierre Voyeur, Galeria Teatru Polskiego, Szczecin (exhibition with a catalogue)

In memoriam Pierre Voyeur, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław (exhibition with a catalogue)

1996 
The Circle of Photography, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań (exhibition with a catalogue)

1995
Constellation II, Maximilian University, Munich

Fields of art, Higher School of Pedagogy, Zielona Góra (exhibition with a catalogue)

1994 
Transparency, FF Gallery, Łódź (solo exhibition with a catalogue)

1993 
Constellation, FF Gallery, Łódź (exhibition with a catalogue)

1992
Photographs, FF Gallery, Łódź (solo exhibition with a catalogue)

Confrontations without sanctions, BWA, Gorzów Wielkopolski (exhibition with a catalogue)

Internationale Fotoaustelung der Ostseelader und Norwegens, Rostock (exhibition with a catalogue)

1991
International Photography Symposium PROFILES, Skoki, show of works

A new generation of Polish photography, BWA Gorzów Wielkopolski (exhibition with a catalogue)

Photography of imagination, ZPAF Gallery, Warszawa (exhibition with a catalogue)

Change of guard – an exhibition of young Polish photographers, FF Gallery, Łódź (exhibition with a catalogue)

1989
Violence, sex, nostalgia, ZPAF Gallery, Warszawa

Outside bromine, BWA, Koszalin (exhibition with a catalogue)

1988
Diffuse Photography. Polish Multi-Media Photography of the Eighties, BWA Arsenał, Poznań (exhibition with a catalogue)

1987 
A photograph for the son, ZPAF Gallery, Warszawa (exhibition with a catalogue)

1986
Autopsies II, Symposium Photographers-philosophers, Skoki (show of works)

Autopsies, Symposium The Light of Silence, STK Łódź  (show of works)

1985
XV Gorzów Photography Confrontations, BWA, Gorzów Wielkopolski (exhibition with a catalogue)

1984
XIV Gorzów Photography Confrontations, BWA, Gorzów Wielkopolski (exhibition with a catalogue) 

Young people in the contemporary world – a sociological account, Bielsko-Biała (exhibition with a catalogue)

Violence and Reaction (with Rafał Drozdowski), OdNowa Gallery, Poznań

1983
Golden Amber, Contest of Polish Photography, Gdańsk (first prize)

Ubermacht und Reaktion (with Rafał Drozdowski), Barockfabrick, Aachen, FRG (exhibition with a catalogue)

Piotr Wolynski was born in Poznań, Poland in 1959. Visual Artist, active since the late 1970s in the field of creative photography. He studied philosophy and cultural studies at Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. Apart from his art project, he writes texts about art and organises exhibitions, conferences and other critical and artistic events. Since 1985, he has been associated with University of Arts in Poznań, initially as an assistant lecturer in Prof. Stefan Wojnecki’s studio, and since the 1990s running his own studio. He is the author of over ten solo exhibitions and has taken part in dozens of group exhibitions.

Piotr Wołyński (ur. w 1959 roku w Poznaniu), artysta wizualny, od końca lat 70. zajmuje się fotografią w obszarze sztuki. Studiował filozofię i kulturoznawstwo na Uniwersytecie im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Oprócz działalności artystycznej pisze teksty o sztuce oraz inicjuje i organizuje wystawy i inne przedsięwzięcia artystyczne. Od 1985 roku związany z Akademią Sztuk Pięknych w Poznaniu; początkowo jako asystent w pracowni prof. Stefana Wojneckiego, od lat dziewięćdziesiątych prowadzi własną pracownię. Autor kilkunastu wystaw indywidualnych i uczestnik kilkudziesięciu zbiorowych.

A black and white portrait of Piotr Wołyński. The artist walks to the right against a white background. He wears glasses and a dark outfit.