Robert Szczerbowski, born 1959, lives in Warsaw. He began his artistic activity as a writer. However, he gradually moved away from the sphere of language, increasingly including visual elements in his works. He analyzes the social and philosophical aspects of the new born digital era, paying special attention to the consequences of the emergence of virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
"Szczerbowski's work eludes precise definitions and schematic references. The artist plays with art. He builds his own dimension of fiction regardless of the medium he uses. His books, paintings, objects and films deconstruct learned ways of perception. They shatter illusions, often evoking a feeling of absurdity. He uses the language of 'high technology' and analyses its impact on the inner space of man, his spiritual needs and imagination. In his objects and installations he uses, among others, hermetic computer programming languages, and in his paintings he refers to fractal geometry. In most of his works he strives to erase the subjective element, trying to make their fictional and apocryphal reality as credible as possible. Some of his books were published anonymously, and many of his artworks are simulacra. He creates films that discredit the mechanisms of the hypnotic reality of mainstream cinema." D. Misiuna, Chaosmos
Solo exhibitions
ID Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw 2020
Immortal Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw 2018
Movie show AT Gallery, Poznań 2007
Recent works WAA Gallery, Warsaw 2006
Movies (Pop Corn, Kane 3’10, The End, Motion Pictures, Cinema Show, The Lecture) Kino Lab CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2006
Art as simulacrum, lecture for 4 readers, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2003
Algorithms AT Gallery, Poznań 2003
Fractal paintings Gallery XX1, Warsaw 2003
Steel Life and Venus without qualities Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw 2000
Retrospective for the end of Time Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 1998
Some of group shows
Your Neigbor As Yourself Pola Magnetyczne, Warszawa 2022
Metamorphosis Pola Magnetyczne, Warszawa 2019
What they call my shadow, here on earth is my true substance CACBM, Paris 2019
Moving images Awangarda Gallery, BWA Wrocław 2015
Projection Propaganda Machine Open’er Festival, Gdynia 2013
Sick art Jerozolima, Warsaw 2012
Koans MCS Elektrownia, Radom 2009
Movie Show Rewizje, Warsaw 2007
Cinema Movie Kino Lab CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2007
Flesztival Aperitif 2007 SWPS Warsaw 2007
Mobile Academy: On the perfect illusion - Acoustic simulacra Warsaw 2006
From the archive of polish experimental film Baltic Center, Gotland 2006
Reading-rooms BUW, Warsaw 2006
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. Philosophical margins Oko/Ucho Gallery, Poznań 2006
Inc. Program Gallery, Warsaw 2004; BWA Zielona Gora 2004
Alphabet AT Gallery, Poznań 2004
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. Philosophical margins CCA Warsaw 2004
Reverse Art and Engineering Skulpturens Hus Gallery, Stockholm, 2004
Bookmorning, Galeria Dzialan, Warsaw 2003
Aporias BWA Jelenia Gora 2002, BWA Zielona Gora 2002
Irreligia Atelier 340 Muzeum, Brussels 2001
Text, Buch, Kunst Frankfurt 2000
Current Practices, Mobile Horizons CCA Warsaw 1999
Letter Word Sentence Fort Sztuki, Kraków 1998
Publications
Anthology Ha!art, Kraków 2013
Retrospective for the End of Time (a catalogue of fictitious exhibition), Warsaw 1997
Hermetic writings Hieratic Press, Warsaw 1996
Æ, hypertext for a computer reader Pusty Obłok 1996
Compositions (1977-81) KS Warsaw 1991
Æ (1985-90) KS, Warsaw 1991
The Book of Life (1979-85) Iskry, Warsaw 1990
