Marcin Dudek (born 1979) works with objects, installations, collage, painting and performance, touching upon questions of power, control and violence. As a former young member of the KS Cracovia fan club, Marcin draws on his personal archive and social sciences, to unravel the transformation of a mass of individuals into a singular volatile entity. A graduate of the University Mozarteum Salzburg and Central Saint Martins, Dudek has shown internationally at institutions including Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Salzburger Kunstverein, the Arad Art Museum, Bunkier Sztuki and the Goethe-Institut Ukraine. His installation The Cathedral of Human Labor (2013) is on permanent view at the Verbeke Foundation in Belgium.
Marcin Dudek lives and works in Brussels. Recent solo exhibitions include Psychic Wounds on Art and Trauma curated by Gavin Delahunty, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, (2020) Akumulator, Edel Assanti, London (2019), Marcin Dudek, The Lure of The Arena, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Romania (2019), Marcin Dudek, MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Poland, (2018) and a large project at Manifesta 12 Palermo (2018).
Trans Hooligans, steel, textiles, glass, plastic, steel dust, paint, 3 videos on monitor and dvd, 2 halogen led, wire, 557x370x200cm. Leto Gallery, Warsaw, 2020. Installation view. Image: Courtesy the Artist.
Akumulator, steel, wood, medical tape, acrylic paint, mirror, neon light, paper, leather, silicon, cell phone, 290x220x220cm. Edel Assanti, London, 2019. Installation view. Image: Courtesy the Artist.
Five Seconds, acrylic paint, image transfer, pigment, steel powder, medical tape, UV varnish on wood and aluminium, 450x200cm.The Warehouse, Dallas 2018. Installation view. Image: Courtesy the Artist.
Sing When You're Winning, signal smoke grenade intervention, KARST, Plymouth 2016. Image: Courtesy the Artist.
Saved by an Unseen Crack, performance documentation at Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels, 2015. Image: Courtesy the Artist.
Studio practice, Launch Pad LaB, La Charente, France. Spring 2018. Image: Courtesy Launch Pad LaB.
Preparations for performance. Residency, Launch Pad LaB, La Charente, France. Spring 2018. Image: Courtesy Launch Pad LaB.
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Mechteld Jungerius, Marcin Dudek, The Crowd Man, TLMag, June 19th, 2019.
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Eddy Frankel, Marcin Dudek Akumulator review, Time Out, London 2019. Image: Courtesy the Artist and Edel Assanti, London.
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Johanna Africot, Manifesta Biennial | Marcin Dudek’s ‘Giochi Senza Frontiere’ mirrors and shatters our past and present, Griot, June 13th 2018. Image: Courtesy the Artist.