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Andrzej Awsiej (born 1963 in Kedzierzyn – Kozle, Poland) is a Polish expressionist artist [1]. In 1975 his family moved to Gdansk. In 1986-1991 Andrzej Awsiej studied at the Academy of Fine Arts PWSSP in Gdansk, at the Department of Painting and Graphics, in the studios of, among others, prof. Czeslaw Tumielewicz and prof. Witoslaw Czerwonka. In 1991 he earned a Masters of Fine Arts with a specialization in painting, in the studio of prof. Mieczyslaw Olszewski. His Graduation work "Urban Landscape" concerned the relationship between the modern city of Gdansk and the mythology of Indo-European, and in specific Baltic mythology. The work consisted of a dissertation and a series of large paintings, as well as artistic books inspired by medieval art of writing books. His field of interests encompasses: archeology, anthropology, media, video, perception, American art, Balts, Mesopotamia, Gdańsk, Danzig. Since 1996 he lives and works in the Netherlands.

Art projects in teams and groups
Kołhoźnik - skiffle band music - (Gdańsk, Dolne Miasto 1978) Yo Als Jetzt - The Street Poetry, an iconolinguistic unity - graffiti flyers (Gdańsk, Inowrocław 1986) “Wydawnictwo Kubańskie Cycki” (Cuban Tits Publishing), small press (Gdańsk, 1987) Continuous cooperation with Tranzytory Formation Totart [2] Cooperation with the Laboratory of Intermedia Pi of prof. Witoslaw Czerwonka, PWSSP Gdańsk (1988-1996) C14 Workshop Gallery (Gdańsk 1991-1992) Awsiej & Kabala (since 1986) C.U.K.T. vangdansk - (Veldhoven, Eindhoven 1996-2014)

Painting, installation, performance
1990 "A cookie of Gretschen Scheffler" installation and drawings at the group exhibition “Disagreement”, BWA Zielona Góra "Everything what has to live in the other world, must be burned. Ornamental relation. I.E.” drawing, installation, Tower in Kętrzyn 1991 "The Baltic Urn", large scale painting and artistic books; part of the inaugural group exhibition at Gallery C14, Gdańsk "The image that I will take with me to Australia" large scale painting and an art book at group exhibition “The 5th Anniversary of Totart”, Gallery Island, Gdańsk "An Anatomical Pictogram" the object and painting at group exhibition “Places”, Gallery C14, Gdańsk 1992 “Fehu – Sowilo” large scale painting, canvas, emulsion, spray, graffiti, photocopying “Solar Carriage” sculptural object, painted wood, brass “Abolition” installation during the Psychedelic Symposium “Walpurgia’s Night”, Gallery C14, Gdańsk “PAAB - Space Arche Ars Baltica” large scale painting and photography, photocopying, spray, wood, ink, bricks, brass – an outdoor installation inspired by archeology at group exhibition during ARS Baltica, a seminar on Project Island Nature-Culture-Island-Water-Present-Future, 1-3 06 1992, Granary Island, Gdańsk “Levels” objects - tiles and graffiti; Open Atelier group exhibition, The Former Bath City, Gdańsk 1993 “Time has simplified the Nike of Samothrace" large scale painting, diverse media, Arsenal Gallery Bialystok; individual exhibition 1994 “Self-Portrait - when you start to talk to the pictures” and “Polish Cross” large scale painting at “Konzeption PL” group exhibition, Gallery Münsterland [3], Emsdetten, Germany “The Body Map – Virilitas” drawings of the body system, performance; Totart group exhibition in Lublin Gallery KONT, Lublin, Performance during the spectacle of the Poetry Group "ZMŚDŚ", Club "Aquarium", Warsaw “Polish flag” action painting during “Sniff with your Nose” group exhibition, Schaumplatz Theatre, Berlin

Computer graphics for television productions
In 1992-1994, in the result of cooperation with Yach Paszkiewicz, Andrzej Awsiej has began creating graphics and computer animations to several productions of the Film Agency Profilm for public television. These have been “Bolero” program and “Lalamido” TV show series, as well as documentaries, “Totart, or cleverness of a peddler”, “Itching of plasma - Gdansk Independents Days” and “Gallery C14”. He also created the sets and graphics for videoclip of Dezerter “There is no threat”, and worked on documentary about “Leeeżeć Community” from Lodz. He made series of photographies during these two last productions.

Electronic painting
Between 1993 and 1995 an entirely computer-made movie “ChRzW” (Homemade Virtual Reality) was developed by Andrzej Awsieja, Joanna Kabala and Artur Kudłaty Kozdrowskiego. At various times Paweł Sabina, Paweł Paulus Mazur and Przemek Kryszk have joined to create graphics. Computer movies projections: "ChRzW" [1993] Lodz - Studio Theatre; Wroclaw - WRO'93; Gdynia - Galeria78, "Detergents Art"; Poznan - Gallery, "Another Book"; Wroclaw - Gallery Entropia, "Cheyenne Autumn". [1994] Gdańsk - Żak, Poetry Group "ZMSDŚ"; Warsaw - Centre for Contemporary Art; Lublin - Gallery KONT; Berlin - Theatre Schaumplatz, "Sniff with your nose", [1995] Szczecin - Pomeranian Dukes' Castle “Art in Pomerania after 1945"; Lodz - Grohman’s Palace, "Ides of March II". "The Sun in Palace. Stripes and circles." - graffiti on the wall and the computer-movie projection at group exhibition “Protein”, Artists' Museum, Lodz, 1995. "Technodemonstracja", "ChRzW", "PM"; Computer films presented at the NTSC - FORTY, Gdańsk, 1995.

Interactive interfaces
From the interest of Andrzej Awsiej in the examinations of semantic relationships between concepts and phenomena, he has started to create prototypes of interfaces. Interactive Prototypes exhibited in 1995: An interactive database prototype of Poetry Group "ZMSDŚ", media installation at international exhibition "Art between high and low technology" during Sound Basic Media Art Festival WRO`95, BWA Wrocław Awangarda 1995 "An interactive database of artistic projects", interactive desktop installation at group exhibition “Phantom”, Gallery Spiż 7, Gdańsk “The Body Map – Virilitas” - drawings of the body system presented as an interactive interface at group exhibition “Hoc est Secretis FOCUS” Gallery Spiż 7, Gdańsk

Since 1996 Andrzej Awsiej had applied his interface design experiences while websites design, working on a non-commercial art gallery online and developing digital art documents and virtual exhibitions. GALLERY 1996-2002 VAN GDANSK online: 2D, 3D, HTML, VRML, digital photography. “Panorama Veldhoven”, video 1996-1997. Body folded over public networks for Internet action zmultiplikowanej the presence of parts of the human body in the network, 1996. “The Body Map – Virilitas”, drawings of the body system, interactive interface, 1997 “The 43rd Capitalistic Art Office”: “gdannski” – an innovative transcription of the Polish language for usage on the Internet; "ReKoTeKo" the principles of artistic contacts in cyberspace, designed specially on purpose of communication with C.U.K.T. -I (HAMMEM - Hammer of the System Memory). "ReKoTeKo" is a tribute to Andrzej Partum, 1997. “Infomaja 2000” - a poetic essay about the, so-called, Modern Art. “Network Prospekt 360 Degrees Panoramic Map, the so-called Panorama of Gdansk” - Internet image composed of videos from several panoramic locations in Gdansk between 1997 and 2000. “Matrix”, a part of the group exhibition “this is, what is not that”. The exhibition was organized together by Spiż 7 Gallery and Gallery vangdansk. The cooperation model was based on the relationship between physical and virtual dimension, 2002. Since 2002 vangdansk Graphics Art Studio.