Marcin Dudek

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NEOPLAN, installation view, Edel Assanti, London, UK, 2023.
Biography
 
Marcin Dudek explores the politics of identity and space, conflating hooliganism, memory and the architecture of social experience. An autobiographical dialogue with his own past underpins this discussion, retracing teenage experiences as a member of an infamously violent Krakow football fanclub. Dudek’s practice spans performance, sculpture, installation and painting, repurposing salvaged materials to interrogate the psychology of group dynamics in the stadium and beyond. His research ties his personal archive to a broader history of society’s inseparable relationship to spectacle, whilst seeking an artistic vocabulary for fragmented memory, violence and trauma. 
 
Dudek (b. 1979, Krakow) studied at the University of Art Mozarteum, Salzburg, and Central Saint Martins, London, graduating in 2005 and 2007 respectively. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Marcin Dudek, Leto Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2024); Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany (2024); OOF Gallery, London, UK  (2024) and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania  (2024). Recent solo exhibitions include AKUMULATORY, IKOB Museum, Eupen, Belgium (2023); The Group, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium (2023); NEOPLAN, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2023); Ultraskraina, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France (2021); Akumulator, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2019); The Crowd Man, MWW Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland (2019); The Lure of the Arena, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2019); Steps and Marches, Edel Assanti, London, UK & Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels, Belgium (2017). Selected group exhibitions include Art of the Terraces, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2022); Collapsing, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (2022); 8th Biennial of Painting, Museum Deinze and Museum Roger Ravel, Deinze, Belgium (2022); FUCK YOU, Kunstenhuis Haralbeke, Belgium (2021); DOPPELGANGER, Entreprendre & KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium (2021); Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas, USA (2020); Giochi Senza Frontiere, Palazzo Mazzarino, Manifesta12, Palermo, Italy (2018). Dudek’s immersive installation The Cathedral of Human Labor, 2013, is on permanent view at the Verbeke Foundation, Antwerp. His work is included in international collections including MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania. Marcin Dudek lives and works in Brussels.

 

 

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Watch Marcin Dudek discuss his latest installation 'Central Contact' (2022).

In Home Fires 09, Marcin Dudek discusses his most recent monumental collage, 'Faces in the Crowd' 2020.

Marcin Dudek, The Crowd Man, 2019 at Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland.

Marcin Dudek in conversation with Professor Mark Levine, 2017.

Marcin Dudek and Petr Davydtchenko perform 'WILD VS the Dying Breed', Do Not Open Project Space, Brussels, 2013.

Marcin Dudek performs '46 Seconds' on the occasion of the opening of his exhibition 'We Stumbled as We Clambered' at Edel Assanti, 2015.
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