# Szymon Rogiński

Szymon Roginski (born 1975 in Gdańsk) is a Polish photographer.

## Biography

His artistic education started with the actor’s studies at School on Wheels Derevo Theater, Germany/Netherlands (1997-1998). After graduating Artistic Photography Study in Gdańsk (1999-2000) Roginski started his professional career at Department of Photography at National Museum in Gdańsk (1999-2000) and at Gazeta Wyborcza photographic studio (2000-2004). He was twice (2010 and 2013) granted a scholarship of the Minister of Culture, and he teaches at Academy of Photography, in Warsaw (2012-2013).
He took part in several group shows in reputed art institutions in Poland and abroad, at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART) Italy (2014); BOZAR, Brussels (2012); CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2008) and had a solo exhibition, the last one at Aleksander Bruno Gallery, Warsaw (2014). Roginski made a name for himself with his UFO project, a series of staged shots developed from 2005-07 which used artificial lighting to conjure up night scenes of extraterrestrial landings.
In years 2003-2006, Roginski conceived the ‘’Poland Synthesis’’ series, a nocturnal portrait of the Polish province. The one of his last project is ‘’Black’’, that explores the photography as a medium and examines the borderline between photography and abstract painting.

## Selected group exhibitions

* Perduti nel paesaggio/Lost in Landscape, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART) (2014)
* Home Made. Construction substitute worlds. Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk (2013)
* Sense of Place – European Landscape Photography, BOZAR, Brussels (2012)
* Installation Camera Obscura (with Katarzyna Korzeniecka), Sculpture Museum Królikarnia, Warsaw;
* Broken Movie – BWA Wrocław (2009)
* Take a Look at me now - contemporary work from Poland
* Sainbury Centre for Visual Arts, England;
* Uncomfortable Images, 6 th Biennal of Photography, Poznań
* Urbanity – Twenty Years Later, Praha/Berlin/Bratislava/Budapest/Ljubljana/Warszawa/Wien (2008)
* Red eye effect, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (2006)
* The New Documentalists, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; National Gallery in Bratislava, Slovakia
* The End, My Friend, Spielhaus Morrisson Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2005)
* Revenge on Realism – The fictitious moment in current Polish Art, Krinziger - Projekte Gallery, Vienna, Austria (2004)
* Linger, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań, Poland

## Selected individual exhibitions

* Blackness, Gallery Aleksander Bruno, Warsaw, Poland (2014)
* Project UFO, Photoespana / Blanca Soto Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2012)
* Wir in Dresden, AF Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2012)
* KRA, Gallery PF, Poznań, Poland (2012)
* Project UFO, Appendix 2, Warsaw, Poland (2009)
* Project UFO, Artist House, Jerusalem, Israel (2008)
* Project UFO, 20th Photo Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece (2008)
* Project UFO, Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland (2007)

## Publications

* Szymon Roginski, Postcards from Otwock (2013, Nowy Teatr)
* Adam Mazur, Decydujący Moment (Karakter, 2013)
* Sense of Place – European Landscape Photography (Prestel, 2012)
* High Touch – tactile design and visual explorations (Gestalten, 2012)
* Zeitgenossiche Kunstler aus Polen, Positionen Series (Steidl, 2011)
* Papercraft 2, (Gestalten, 2011)
* Zdążyć przed zachodem słońca (Raster Gallery, 2004)