# Kijewski / Kocur

Marek Kijewski and Małgorzata Malinowska, Polish artists, were cooperating since 1996 as Kijewski/Kocur duo in Warsaw, Poland. They often worked in the studios of the Centre of Polish Sculpture until the artist's death in 2007. Their works, in Polish art, was inspired by pop art and it showed the most distinct example of using pop art in the era of post-modernist experiments and reactions to the new reality and new economic-cultural situation that was forming in Poland in the early '90s.
In Kijewski/Kocur works, since 1996, they fulfilled and inspired each other. By using an original and self-imposed strategy called SSS – surfing, scanning, and sampling, They freely explored different aspects of contemporary visual culture. Kijewski / Kocur were creating eye-catching collages and spatial forms out of unusual materials like Lego bricks, Haribo sweets, artificial fur, feathers, neon tubes, precious stones and 24-karat gold. They were assembling different valued materials, things commonly defined as „high value” with what is „low value”, crossing without embarrassing the boundaries between cultural orders, by constructing wild aesthetically-semantic hybrids.

## Marek Kijewski (Kijewski)

Marek Kijewski (1955–2007). He was a student of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw between 1981 and 1985. He graduated in sculpture in the class of Professor Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz. Between 1985 and 1987, he was a member of the Neue Bieriemiennost group with Miroslaw Bałka and Miroslaw Filonik. In the mid-1990s Kijowski became more interested in including contemporary visual culture, mainly mass culture into his works. He began using completely non-artistic materials in his pieces which were often everyday objects.

## Małgorzata Malinowska (Kocur)

Małgorzata Malinowska(1959–2016) in Sopot. Malinowska studied painting at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Gdańsk, where she received a diploma in 1986 from the Faculty of Painting, Graphic Art and Sculpture.
Gdańsk artistic environment led Małgorzata Malinowska to paint works which differed in presenting human figures, mainly by using vivid colors. But later on, she abandoned painting and moved to Warsaw, where she worked under her professional name “Kocur”. These changes made Kijewski close to figurative art again.

## Selected solo exhibitions

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Kijewski/Kocur, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk / Poland
2015
Golden Shot, Propaganda, Warsaw / Poland
2014
Billion and One, Propaganda, Warsaw / Poland
2008
I'm All A-tremble When I Can Shower You with Gold, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw / Poland
2005
Three Triptychs +..., CCA Łaźnia, Gdańsk / Poland
200
Marek Kijewski, Fabryka Trzciny Art Center, Warsaw / Poland
Graces, AT Gallery, Poznań / Poland
2003
Three Triptychs +..., Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań / Poland
ars@pl, Polish Institute, Rome / Poland
2001
Icons, Cameral Gallery, Słupsk / Poland
Continuum, Studio Bayer, Warsaw / Poland
Gates@pl, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw / Poland
2000
Bit Idol Sant, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok / Poland
Idolls, Manhattan Gallery, Łódź / Poland
1999
Idolls, Sektor I Gallery, Katowice / Poland
1998
Core, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko / Poland, Orońsko;
Core, Provincial Gallery, Słubice / Poland
Core, Amfilada Gallery, Szczecin / Poland
1997
SSS (sensitive), Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań / Poland
[Choco-surfing], Biała Gallery, Lublin / Poland
Sensitive, Gallery of the Old Town Hall, Gdańsk / Poland
1996
Sensitive, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków / Poland
Sensitive, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok / Poland

## Selected group exhibitions

140 Beats per Minute. Rave Culture and Art in 1990s Poland, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw / Poland
2016
Works from the Art Collection of Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielska Gallery BWA, Bielsko-Biała / Poland
Orońsko. 17 km as the Crow Flies, Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art "Elektrownia", Radom / Poland
"The Touch, BWA Municipal Gallery, Bydgoszcz / Poland
2015
"The Touch, UP Gallery, Berlin / Germany
Zbigniew Libera: It's Not My Fault That This Sculpture Rubbed Against Me, Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture "Królikarnia", Warsaw / Poland
The Touch, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko / Poland
2014
Adoration of Sweetness, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw / Poland
In Between, Propaganda, Warsaw / Poland
Left Hemisphere, Propaganda, Warsaw / Poland
2013
Small Is Big, Propaganda, Warsaw / Poland
2009
Like a Rolling Stone 2, Appendix2 gallery, Warsaw / Poland
Bifurcations, Appendix2 gallery, Warsaw / Poland
2008
Bifurcations, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko / Poland
2007
Demos Kratos – Power of the People, BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała / Poland
2006
Demos Kratos – Power of the People, Klima Bocheńska Gallery, Warsaw / Poland
2005
UN/REAL?, Wyspa Art Institute, Gdańsk / Poland
2004
9th Sculpture Quadrennial, Riga / Latvia
Friends of the Rabbit. Animals and Sculpture from the 18th Century to Present, National Museum, Szczecin / Poland
2003
Friends of the Rabbit. Animals and Sculpture from the 18th Century to Present, X. Dunikowski Sculpture Museum, Warsaw / Poland
Neuropa, XXI Gallery, Warsaw / Poland
Liberté! Sans responsabilité!? Oui!? Non!?, Est-Ouest Festival, Die / France
Contemporary Art for All Children, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw / Poland
2002
A Method of Living, CCA Łażnia, Gdańsk / Poland
Semiotic Landscape, X. Dunikowski Sculpture Museum, Warsaw / Poland
Semiotic Landscape, Charim Galerie, Vienna / Austria
Power of the People, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok / Poland
Aporie, BWA Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra / Poland
2001
International Contemporary Art Collection, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw / Poland
4 x kunst aus Polen, Kabinett Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt (Oder) / Germany
Kolmo K’ose, Dům umění, Opava / Czech Republic
Irreligia. Morfologie du non-sacré dans l’art polonais du XXe siècle, Atelier 340 Muzeum, Brussels / Belgium
Ab Ovo, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko / Poland
2000
Scene 2000. National Art Exhibition, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw / Poland
In freiheit / endlich. Polnische Kunst nach 1989, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden / Germany
Transmissions, DRAC Alsace, Palais du Rhin, Strasbourg / France
Free/Finally. Polish Art After 1989, X. Dunikowski Sculpture Museum, Warsaw / Poland
Utopia and Vision. Sculpture and Installations in the Public Sphere, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw / Poland
1999
Utopia and Vision. Sculpture and Installations in the Public Sphere, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko / Poland
Toyama Now ’99. Internal/External. The Seventh International Contemporary Art Exhibition. Poland – Japan, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama / Japan
Generations. Polish Art at the End/Turn of the Century, Central Exhibition Salon Maneż, Sankt Petersburg / Russia
Baroque and Present – Lost Paradise, Slovenska Národna Galéria, Bratislava / SlovakiaFigure in Polish Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko / Poland
1998
Transfer Polska. Nordhein-Westfallen, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
Transfer Polska. Nordhein-Westfallen, Art Bunker Gallery, Cracow / Poland
Transfer Polska. Nordhein-Westfallen, X. Dunikowski Sculpture Museum, Warsaw / Poland
1997
The Collection of Contemporary Art for the 1000th Anniversary of Gdańsk, CCA Łaźnia, Gdańsk / Poland
Transformator of Emotions in Polish Art of the 90’s, Budapest Galéria, Budapest / Hungary
3rd Biennial in Cetinje, Cetinje / Montenegro
1996
Collection 3, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw / Poland