Jacek Malinowski

Poland

Jacek Malinowski

Jacek Malinowski

Poland

Born in 1964, Jacek Malinowski is a creative, engaging in visual arts, filmmaking, installations, sculptures, and photography. He currently resides and operates from Warsaw.

Malinowski pursued his studies at the Faculty of Visual Arts at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts in the US (1995–1997) and the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1987–1992). He took part in the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria twice, in 1992 and 1993. Malinowski has been the recipient of numerous scholarships and grants, including the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship (2011), an artist-in-residence subsidy from Edvard Munch-Haus in Warnemunde, Germany (2006), a Culture Foundation grant (2002), a Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship in New York (1995–1997), a Batory Foundation grant (1995), a Kulturkontakt grant in Vienna, Austria (1992 and 1993), and a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Brandenburg at Kunstlerhaus Wiepersdorf Schloss, Germany (1992).

Jacek Malinowski’s artworks are held in the collections of the Museum of Art in Łódź, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, and the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń.

In his films, Malinowski employs a technique known as ‘false documentary,’ aimed at deciphering the structure of reality and examining its reflection in art. This approach involves constructing, deconstructing, and simulating a subjective reality that evolves into an alternative, inverted, or parallel reality. The outcome becomes a substitute for reality, formed and authentically expressed through fiction. This unspoken docu-fiction manifesto stands as one of the most unique artistic perspectives, without an equivalent in the realms of visual arts and film in Poland.

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