Piotr Uklański

Piotr Uklański

Polish(1968)

15

Works

Uklański is a conceptual artist working across photography, painting, sculpture, and film who explores violence, spectacle, and historical memory. His 'Untitled (Dance Floor)' installations and large-scale collages of actors who played Nazis interrogate representation and cultural mythologies. His work is held in collections including MoMA, the Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim.

ContemporaryPolishConceptualPhotographyMinimalistAbstractPhotographConceptual ArtPortraitBoldMale ArtistPolish Artist
This work is number 2 from an edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof.

This work is number 2 from an edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof.

“ You know, I don’t invest meanings into the work — that’s the viewer’s job. When you are a kid growing up, you want to be a freman, doctor, policeman, and a football player —all in the same lifetime….I want to be all of the following: a modernist, a post-minimalist, a popconceptualist, a photographer, a dilettante, a painter’s muse, a political artist like Boltanski, and a film maker like Roman Polanski.” - Piotr Uklański, 2004

“ You know, I don’t invest meanings into the work — that’s the viewer’s job. When you are a kid growing up, you want to be a freman, doctor, policeman, and a football player —all in the same lifetime….I want to be all of the following: a modernist, a post-minimalist, a popconceptualist, a photographer, a dilettante, a painter’s muse, a political artist like Boltanski, and a film maker like Roman Polanski.” - Piotr Uklański, 2004

Untitled (Yan Pei-Ming)

Untitled (Yan Pei-Ming)

This work is number 1 from an edition of 5.

This work is number 1 from an edition of 5.

c-print face mounted to Plexiglas
crayon on Perspex in artist's frame
Curtain
Piotr Uklański
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