![]() Residence, Musée du Ranquet, Clermont-Ferrand, FranceĬryptograms, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan, Italia Objectif Paris, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand La Chine, Saveurs du divers (with Luo Yongjin), 1st Biennale Photoquai, ParisĪpocalypsea, Candace / Dwan Gallery, New York, USA Oeuvres au noir (with Tony Catany), Box Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Rezonans, Festival Transphotographiques, Lille, Franceįotografia 1980-2010, Fotoartfestival, Bielsko-BialaĬhine, l’empire du gris, Centre d’art Manggha, Cracovieįotogenia cziszy, Galerie Refleksy, Varsovieįotografie, subiektyw Wrzesnia, Musée de Wreszniaīeauté mortelle, Théâtre La Passerelle, GapĬhambres d’echo, The Reattu Museum, Arles, Franceĭe rerum natura, Photography Biennale, Moscow, RussiaĬhine, l’empire du gris, The Polish Institute, The Month of Photography, Bratislava, SlovakiaĬhine, l’empire du gris, Festival of Photography, Vilnius, Lithuania Ineffabilis, part II, Galerie du Roi doré, Paris, France Le temps des lucioles, Mois de la photo, Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, France La Bibliothèque polonaise de Paris, 1993-2012, Paris, FranceĬhine, l’empire du gris, Biennale Urbi & Orbi, Sedan, France La prison du Château du Roy, collection automne-hiver, Musée Henri Martin, Cahors, France Résidences, Chapelle de l’Hôpital Général, Clermont-Ferrand, Franceįotografia, performance, Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw, Pologne Paris-Wroclaw, Galerie d’art contemporain BWA, Kielce, Pologne Traces, 1918-2013, Dom Slovakia, Gorlice, Pologne Infiniment grand infiniment petit, Rencontres internationales de la photographie de Gaspésie, Québec La ville invisible,1990-2015, Festival l’Oeil Urbain, Corbeil-Essonnes, France Konstelacje 2, Galeria Asymetria, Varsovie, Pologne La petite robe, Festival du Regard, Saint-Germain-en-Layeįotografia, Galeria Korytarz, Jelenia-Gora, Pologne Small is beautiful, OFOTO&ANART, Shanghai PhotoFairs Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai His grey, poetic, somewhat surreal miniatures are saturated with personal emotions and semi-mystical energies, making their author recognizable immediately upon the first viewing. In the last fifteen years, Konopka’s works could be seen in a number of countries. The best known portion of his oeuvre includes junctures from large-format 4×5 and 8×10-inch negatives, although the artist also uses medium or even small-format cameras. ![]() Konopka’s favorite subjects are photographs of the urban tissue and landscape, although he also deals with portraits. Next, he traveled to China on five separate occasions, in an attempt to capture the centuries-old greyness of existence, now slowly disappearing. ![]() ![]() At that time, Bogdan Konopka decided to return to Central Europe and embark upon a journey to seven countries of the former Eastern Bloc, which resulted in the cycle entitled Reconnaissance, in which the artist attempted to settle account with the fallen empire. The cycle The Invisible Citybrought him an international acclaim after the exhibition at the festival in Arles in 1994, while another cycle, Paris in grey won him the European Photography Award, Grand Prix de la ville de Vevey, in 1998. Konopka continued to take photographs of cities where he came to live. However, due to the unfavorable political climate of that time, those photographs were not meant to see the light of day for many years to come. What interested him the most was the zone of shadows, both in the sense of its commonplace meaning, as well as the nature of photography itself. Born in 1953 in Poland, began taking photographs in the mid-1970s, first pointing the lens of his camera at the city where he lived and which had been, for the most part, destroyed in the World War 2 the city with double identity: Breslau - Wrocław. ![]()
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