Robert Kusmirowski

Called “the new Magician from Lublin” by critic Sebastian Cichocki, Kusmirowski had his first shows in Poland in 2002, and in 2003 was named Poland’s top emerging artist by critics and curators in the yearly ranking by the influential Internet-based art magazine Raster…

Robert Kusmirowski is one of Poland’s most interesting and most active young artists. He lives near the city of Lublin in southeastern Poland and in 2003 graduated from the Art Department of Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (degree in sculpture).

Yes, I’m wsior’ – this is a very appropriate title for my installation, meaning that the subject of my work draws on a highly rural motif – the well – which I have extracted from a village where time has stopped and which purposely links into the concept of the cistern at the Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle…’

Ornaments of Anatomy