JERZY GOLISZEWSKI
Dates of residency: March till April 2019
Year of Birth:  1981
Nationality: Polish
Lives and works: Berlin, Germany
Education: 
2008 MA Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
2002 Graphic design, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
Selected shows:
2019 Summer in the City, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw
2018 Rockets to nowhere, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw
2018 Ah! Already, Artspace, Seoul
2017 Volatile Truth, Rainbow Unicorn, Berlin

THE ARTIST
Jerzy Goliszewski practices installation art, sculpture and site-specific projects. He is a laureate of numerous prizes and stipends, including the coveted CEC ArtsLink Award in 2010, New York, the  Ministry of Culture scholarship - Young Poland in 2014 and The Kooshk Artist Residency Award in 2020, Tehran. He exhibited in institutions such as Zachęta National Gallery of Art and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, among others. Goliszewski has been residing in Berlin since 2013.

THE RESIDENCY
During his time at BAR Goliszewski developed a fascination with the wheat silo facing the residency building. Through digging through The Arab Center for Architecture’s archives he was able to discover the details of the 1970’s building, erected right before the country fell into Civil War. His compulsion with the structure led him to cast a sculpture of the building using aluminium. Goliszewski collaborated with the craftsmen of the industrial city in Lebanon to come out with his interpretation of the building, paying homage to the original structural elements while creating a unique piece.