Wladyslaw Kazmierczak and Ewa Rybska

Ewa Rybska studied at the College of Art and Design in Minsk Mazowiecki. She was for many years a curator at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, in Slupsk, Northern Poland

She began to work in performance with Wladyslaw Kazmierczak in 1997, creating the only duo of male / female performers in Poland. She has performed in Poland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Belarus, Mexico, Korea, Indonesia, Finland, Canada and USA

She now lives in Wellingborough, UK.

Wladyslaw Kazmierczak is considered to be one of Europe’s foremost performance artists. He has worked as a live artist since 1974 creating hundreds of unique performances in 22 countries around the world.

He has produced a number of political performances and his work focuses on difficult and traumatic themes; political hypocrisy, issues of oppression, freedom and elimination of the origins cultures by the process of globalization. He often uses in performances his very ironic and nihilistic attitude especially against to the empty, fashionable values.

Since 1993 he became a curator and the organiser of the International Performance Art Festival “Castle of Imagination”. www.performance.art.pl

He also now lives in Wellingborough in the south east of England.

www.kazmierczak.artist.pl