Piotr Urbaniec (1992, Poland)is a visual and performance artist based in Amsterdam. His current research centers on waves, understood both as water glitches and optical disturbances across gridded surfaces. The project takes an allegorical turn, reflecting on the futile human attempt to control nature—especially the weather—while ultimately remaining vulnerable to its unpredictable, atmospheric forces. The only way to protect ourselves from those forces is to sharpen our senses and perception to be able to see it and recognize it.
Residency
At Bau, Piotr continues his exploration of the poetic and scientific links between visual perception and weather. He focuses on the aqueous—what flows from our eyes or drifts across our field of vision—mirroring the hyper-body of weather that surrounds us.
Bio
Piotr Urbaniec is a graduate of DAS Theatre (2023), he previously took part in De Ateliers (2018–2020), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2018), and Residency Unlimited in New York (2016). He has exhibited at Museum Susch (2023), puntWG (2022), Komuna Warszawa (2020), MOMA Warsaw (2016), and Ujazdowski Castle CCA (2016).
Piotr is a laureate of the Mondriaan Fund, Paul Deiters Stipendium and Artistic Journey of Hestia Award. His works have been shown at numerous festivals, including Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Short Waves Festival, and Giswil Performance Art. His most recent commissioned project—both video and live performance—premiered at Steirischerherbst in Graz, Austria (2024). Since 2024, he has been teaching a performance class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
Bau AIR The Grey Space
Bau and interdisicplinary art and experimentation space The Grey Space in the Middle (The Hague) collaborate once a year in a curated residency. The organizations invite an eye-catching maker who moves at the interface of performance and visual art, and would benefit from a working period in a studio. This resident will have the opportunity to work in both Amsterdam and The Hague and can relate to the arts field there. Both work periods will wrap up with a presentation to share the development of the research with the audience.
Public Sharing
The presentation of Piotr's residency starts at 20.00h. Doors open at 19.30h. Location: Bau Entrepotdok 4 Amsterdam.
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