Born in Tarnów, Poland, 1972

Studied architecture at the Cracow Polytechnic, Poland, 1992-1994
Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland, 1994-1999

Lives and works in Cracow, Poland

Solo Exhibitions

2014
Lismore Castle Arts, ‘Take Me To The Other Side’, Lismore, Ireland

2013
Anton Kern Gallery, ‘Wilhelm Sasnal’, New York NY

2012
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2011
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico

2010
Rat Hole Gallery, ‘16mm films’, Tokyo, Japan
Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland (Travelling Exhibition)
Rochester Art Center, Rochester MN

2009
CAC – Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England
Neues Museum Nürnberg, ‘Presentation in the Collection Rooms: Wilhelm Sasnal. Works from the Collection Martin’, Nuremberg, Germany

2008
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, ‘Wilhelm Sasnal. Lata Walki / Years of Struggle’, Trento, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)

2007
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, ‘Wilhelm Sasnal. Lata Walki / Years of Struggle’, Warsaw, Poland (Travelling Exhibition)
Johnen Galerie, ‘Boredom’, Berlin, Germany
Swiss Institute, New York NY
Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Fundació la Caixa, ‘Pintures’, Barcelona, Spain
Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY

2006
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England
Center of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, ‘At the Very Center of Attention Part 10: Wilhelm Sasnal – USA’, Warsaw, Poland
Foksal Gallery Foundation, ‘The Standard of the Kilogram (Wzorzec kilograma)’, Warsaw, Poland
Van Abbe Museum, ‘Wilhelm Sasnal. Paintings and Films’, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Kunstverein Frankfurt, ‘Ist das Leben nicht schön? Gruppenausstellung in 4 Kapiteln, Kapitel 2: Wilhelm Sasnal’, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

2005
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, ‘Matrix 219’, Berkeley CA
Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY
The Locker Plant, ‘Wilhelm Sasnal – Chinati Artist in Residence’, Marfa TX

2004
Hauser & Wirth Zürich, ‘The Band’, Zurich, Switzerland
Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Galerie Johnen Schöttle, ‘ZAWA SROD’, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Raster, ‘Wilhelm Sasnal – Map Trap’, Warsaw, Poland

2003
Kunstverein Münster, Munster, Germany
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England
Galleria Laura Pecci, ‘Wilhelm Sasnal – Monika Sosnowska’, Milan, Italy
Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY
MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘Interventions: Wilhelm Sasnal’, Antwerp, Belgium
Sommer Contemporary Art, ‘WISLA’, Tel Aviv, Israel

2002
Galerie Johnen und Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Parel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, Poland

2001
Foksal Gallery Foundation, ‘Samachody i ludzie / Cars and Men’, Warsaw, Poland
Galeria Raster, ‘Zzycie codzienne w Polsce w latach 1999-2001 / Everyday Life in Poland between 1999 and 2001’, Warsaw, Poland

2000
Galeria Potocka, ‘Gra planszowa / Board Game’, Cracow, Poland

1999
Galeria Zderzak, ‘Sto kawalków / The Hundred Pieces’, Cracow, Poland
billboards of Galeria Otwarta, ‘Tlok / The Crowd’, Cracow, Poland
Center of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, ‘Malarstwo / Painting’, Warsaw, Poland
billboards of Galeria Otwarta, ‘Prywatne-Publiczne / Private-Public’, Cracow, Poland
billboards of Galeria Otwarta, ‘Swieto panstwowe / A Natural Holiday’, Cracow, Poland

Group Exhibitions

2014
Tripostal, ‘Secret Passions. Private Flemish Collections’, Lille, France
The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, ‘Hate speech – I’m against!’, Warsaw, Poland
Belvedere, ‘Love Story – Sammlung Anne & Wolfgang Tize’, Vienna, Austria
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, ‘Die Beste aller Welten’, Nordhorn, Germany

2013
GEM, museum voor actuele kunst, ‘Presenting the Vincent’, The Hague, Netherlands
National Museum, ‘A Boy Grows to Become a Knight. A Discourse on Masculinity in Polish Culture from the End of the 18th Century until Today’, Krakow, Poland
CCA | Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, ‘British British Polish Polish: Art from Europe’s Edges in the Long ’90s and Today’, Warsaw, Poland
Museum of Modern Art, ‘In the Heart of the Country’, Warsaw, Poland
MARTa Herford, ‘Showing Its Colours. What Makes Art’, Herford, Germany
OK Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘ExtraKino – Wilhelm Sasnal: Short Films’, Linz, Austria
Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, ‘An Idea of Beauty’, Florence, Italy

2012
MOSTYN, ‘Dear Portrait’, Llandundo, Wales
Kunsthalle Münster, ‘About: Blank’, Muenster, Germany
Haus der Kunst, ‘Image Counter Image’, Munich, Germany
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, ‘I Wish This Was a Song. Music in Contemporary Art’, Oslo, Norway
The David Roberts Art Foundation, ‘A House of Leaves’, London, England
Art Gallery of Alberta, ‘Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe’, Edmonton, Canada
Fundación Banco Santander’s, ‘Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection’, Madrid, Spain
Art Gallery of Alberta, ‘Rearview Mirror. New Art from Central and Eastern Europe’, Edmonton, Canada

2011
ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ‘Hirschfaktor. Die Kunst des Zitierens’, Karlsruhe, Germany
Palais des Beaux-Arts BOZAR, ‘The Power of Fantasy: Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland’, Brussels, Belgium
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, ‘Painting Between the Lines’, San Francisco CA
MARTa Herford, ‘Kraftwerk Depot: Wie Kunst altert’, Herford, Germany
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, ‘Tomorrow is the Question’, Ghent, Belgium
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘ The Second Strike’, Israel
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, ‘MMK 1991 – 2011. 20 Years of Presence’, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Kunsthalle Vienna, ‘Space. About a Dream’, Vienna, Austria
The Power Plant, ‘Rearview Mirror. New Art from Central and Eastern Europe’, Toronto, Canada
BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, ‘The Power of Fantasy. Modern and Contemporary Polish Art’, Brussels, Belgium
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, MMK Zollamt, MainTor-Areal, ‘MMK 1991 – 2011. 20 Years of Presence’, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

2010
Rubell Family Collection, ‘How Soon Now’, Miami FL
Villa Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland
Schloss Marquardt, ‘XVII. Rohkunstbau. Atlantis II – Hidden Histories – Imagined Identities’, Potsdam, Germany
ZKM I Museum für Neue Kunst, ‘fast forward 2. The Power of Motion. Media Art Sammlung Goetz’, Karlsruhe, Germany
Johnen Galerie, ‘Conversation Pieces. A Chamber Play, Act III, Scene 3’, Berlin, Germany
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, ‘THINGS EVOKE FEELINGS. Selected narrations for the CCA Ujazdowski Castle’, Warsaw, Poland
Galerías Hermenegildo Bustos, ‘¡Sin techo está pelón!’, Guanajuato, Mexico
Centre d’art contemporain Passages, ‘Storytellers’, Troyes, France

2009
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘The Reach of Realism’, North Miami FL
Woxart, ‘Abstraction Warhol’, Prague, Czech Republic
Museo d’ Arte Provincia di Nuoro, ‘Something Else!!! Selected Works from the Collection of the SMAK, Gent’, Nuoro, Italy
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, ‘SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX’, Dusseldorf, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Malmö Konsthall, ‘SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX’, Malmo, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition)
MARTa Herford, ‘Hellwach gegenwärtig. Ausblicke auf die Sammlung MARTa’, Herford, Germany
Palazzo Grassi/Punta della Dogana, ‘Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection’, Venice, Italy
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection’, New York NY

2008
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, ‘Ad Absurdum – Zeitgemässe Apparate’, Nordhorn, Germany
Sadie Coles HQ, ‘Films. Lambie, Lloyd, Lucas, Sasnal, Wilcox’, London, England
Kestner Gesellschaft, ‘Back to Black. Black in current Painting’, Hanover, Germany
Carnegie Museum of Art, ‘55th Carnegie International’, Pittsburgh PA
Castello di Rivoli, ‘The Painting of Modern Life’, Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
LIFE, ‘SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX’, St. Nazaire, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Museion, ‘SONIC YOUTH etc.: SENSATIONAL FIX’, Bolzano, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
5th Berlin Biennial of Contemporary Art, ‘When Things Cast no Shadow’, Berlin, Germany
MARTa, ‘Ad Absurdum. Energies of the Absurd from Modernism till Today’, Herford, Germany
Motorenhalle, ‘Du Dialogue Social’, Dresden, Germany
Uqbar, ‘Manual CC’, Berlin, Germany
Roger Raveelmuseum, ‘Biennale van de Schilderkunst: He genot van het kijken’,
Machelen-Zulte, Belgium
Kunstmuseum, ‘Blasted Allegories. Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier’, Lucerne, Switzerland
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, ‘Red Eye Effect. Polish Photography of the 21st Century’, Warsaw, Poland
Johnen Galerie, ‘I am never at Home’, Berlin, Germany
Van Abbemuseum, ‘Heartland’, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Museion, ‘Peripheral Vision and Collective Body’, Bozen, Italy
T2 Torino Triennale, ’50 Moons of Saturn’, Turin, Italy
Johnen & Schöttle, ‘Don`t come in, be merciful’, Cologne, Germany
Site Gallery, ‘Never Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story’, Sheffield, England

2007
Southbank Centre – The Hayward, ‘Painting of Modern Life’, London, England (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunstverein Hamburg, ‘Gesellschaftsbilder. Zeitgenössische Malerei’, Hamburg, Germany
ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ‘Imagination Becomes Reality’, Karlsruhe, Germany
Museum Franz Gertsch, ‘Frisch gestrichen’, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘Who’s got the Big Picture?’, Antwerp, Belgium
Museum of Modern Art, ‘What is Painting?’, New York NY
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘AIRS DE PARIS’, Paris, France
Stedelijk Museum, ‘The Present’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Laznia Center for contemporary Art, ‘Last News’, Danzig, Poland
Thomas Dane Gallery, ‘Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative’, London, England
Kunsthal Rotterdam, ‘Painting now!’, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Kunsthaus Zürich, ‘Electronic Transformation’, Zurich, Switzerland
Hauser & Wirth London, ‘Old School’, London, England
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, ’1,2,3…Avant Gardes’, Stuttgart, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Sala Rekalde, ’1,2,3…Avant Gardes’, Bilbao, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)

2006
Zacheta National Gallery, ‘Polish Painting of the 21st Century’, Warsaw, Poland
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, ’1,2,3…Avant Gardes’, Warsaw, Poland (Travelling Exhibition)
Galerie Patrick Seguin, ‘Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Hauser & Wirth’, Paris, France
Foksal Gallery Foundation, ‘ The Exotic Journey Ends’, Warsaw, Poland
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, ‘BLIND DATE PASSAU’, Passau, Germany
ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ‘FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!’, Karlsruhe, Germany
Financial-Banking Center (HOWY SWIAT 06), ‘Precz z Alfonsami Sztuk. Down with the Pimps of Art’, Warsaw, Poland
Stedelijk Museum, ‘The Vincent 2006’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘Attributen en Substantie’, Antwerp, Belgium
Galeria Raster, ‘VILLA HOLIDAY WARSAW’, Warsaw, Poland
Anton Kern Gallery, ‘Implosion. 10 Year Anniversary’, New York NY
Sammlung Goetz, ‘Imagination Become Reality V’, Munich, Germany
Museu Serralves. Museu De Arte Contemporânea, ‘Imagens Em Pintura’, Porto, Portugal
Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘Infinite Painting. Contemporary Painting and Global Realism’, Codroipo (Udine), Italy
Sommer Contemporary Art, ‘Melancholia’, Tel Aviv, Israel
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, ‘I still love the 20th century’, Vienna, Austria
Phillips de Pury & Company, ‘Artists for Chinati’, New York NY
Leeds City Art Gallery, ‘The Triumph of Painting’, Leeds, England
Rental Gallery, ‘is it better to be a good artist or a good person?’, Los Angeles CA
Sculpture Centre, ‘Grey Flags’, Long Island NY
Museum für Junge Kunst, ‘Gut und Billig’, Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany
Van Abbemuseum, ‘Yael Bartana, Dan Perjovschi, Wilhelm Sasnal’, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2005
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘The Collection XIII – Luz’, Antwerp, Belgium
Sommer Contemporary Art, ‘Goodbye Rothchild 64, Welcome Rothchild 13’, Tel Aviv, Israel
Raster Gallery, ‘Broniewski’, Warsaw, Poland
Louisiana Contemporary, ‘On Line’, Louisiana LA
Kunsthaus Graz, ‘M Stadt. Europäische Stadtlandschaften’, Graz, Austria
Centre Cultural Andratx, ‘It takes some time to open an oyster’, Mallorca, Spain
Prague Biennale 2, International Contemporary Art, ‘Expanded Painting’, Prague, Czech Republic
Bunkier Stzuki, ‘Monuments of Nowa Huta’, Cracow, Poland
Reykjavik Arts Festival, ‘Material Time / Work Time / Life Time’, Reykjavik, Iceland
Saatchi Gallery, ‘The Triumph of Painting. Part Two’, London, England
Marc Jancou Fine Art, ‘Accrochage: Selected Works’, New York NY

2004
Galeria BWA Zielona Góra, ‘Prym’, Warsaw, Poland
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, ‘Funny Cuts’, Stuttgart, Germany
UC Berkeley Art Museum, ‘Matrix 213: Some Forgotten Place’, Berkeley CA
Westfälischer Kunstverein, ‘Nowa Huta’, Munster, Germany
Museum für Moderne Kunst, ‘Werke aus der Sammlung Boros’, Karlsruhe, Germany
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘MUHKA de collectie’, Antwerp, Belgium
Stedelijk Museum, ‘Time and Again’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York NY
Haus Gallus, ’4 Ks 2 / 63’, Frankfurt, Germany
Georg Kargl, ‘From Above’, Vienna, Austria
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, ‘Sammlung Plum’, Kleve, Germany
Art Museum of Estonia, ‘Under the White and Red Flag’, Tallinn, Estonia (Travelling Exhibition)
Contemporary Art Center, ‘Under the White and Red Flag’, Vilnius, Lithuania (Travelling Exhibition)
ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ‘Werke aus der Sammlung Boros’, Karlsruhe, Germany

2003
Hotel pod Jeleniem, ‘Hidden In A Daylight’, Cieszyn, Poland
Sommer Contemporary Art, ‘4ever young’, Tel Aviv, Israel
Johnen Schöttle, ‘Boyce, Creed, Höfer, Ruff, Sasnal u. a.’, Cologne, Germany

2002
Kunsthalle Basel, ‘Keine Kleinigkeiten’, Basel, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Basel, ‘Painting on the Move: Nach der Wirklichkeit – Realismus und aktuelle Malerei’, Basel, Switzerland
‘4th Gwangju Biennale’, Gwangju, China
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Urgent Painting’, Paris, France
Museum Viadrina – Junkerhaus, ‘Raster – Aktuelle Kunst aus Polen’, Frankfurt / Oder, Germany
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, ‘A Need For Realism. Solitude In Ujazdowski’, Warsaw, Poland
Siemens artLab, ‘Semiotic Landscape’, Vienna, Austria (parallel exhibition at Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria)
Hotel, ‘Pod Brunatnym Jeleniem’ (cur. Joanna Mytkowska, Andrzej Przywara, Adam Szymczyk), Cieszyn, Poland

2001
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, ‘New Collection of the CCA and the Loan of the Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Galeria Raster, ‘Dobro / The Good’, Warsaw, Poland
‘1st Tirana Biennale, Chinese Pavillion’, Tirana, Albania
Foksal Gallery Foundation, ‘Biurokracja / Bureaucracy’, Warsaw, Poland
Bunkier Sztuki, ‘Popelita / Pop-elite’, Cracow, Poland
Chicago Cultural Center, ‘In Between’, Chicago IL
BWA gallery, ‘Rybie of Fisheye’, Slupsk, Poland

2000
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, ‘Scena 20’, Warsaw, Poland
Edit-Russ Haus, ‘Visual Art – Simple Life’, Oldenburg, Germany
BWA gallery, ’100 % malarstwa /10 of Painting’, Poznan, Poland
BWA, ‘Narmaluj mine / Paint Me’, Zielone Góra, Poland

1999
Medium Gallery, ‘What you see is what you get’, Bratislava, Slovakia

1997
French Cultural Institute, ‘Siedmiu miodych malarzy / Seven Young Painters’, Cracow, Poland

Awards

2006
The Vincent Van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe

Film Screenings

2011
Era New Horizons Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland

2010
Anthology Film Archives, ‘Swiniopas’, New York NY
Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland
The 20th Bath Film Festival, Bath, England
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema, ‘Wilhelm Sasnal. Fallout’, London, England

2009
Cinema Riffraff, ‘Wilhelm Sasnal. Swiniopas’, Zurich, Switzerland

2008
Glasgow Film Festival, ‘Visible Cinema’, Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Scotland
Centre pour L′Image Contemporaine, ’1,2,3… Avant-Gardes. Polish Film / Art between Experiment and Archive’, Geneva, Switzerland
The 4th International Video Art Biennial in Israel, ‘VideoZone – 4’, Tel Aviv, Israel