Artur Rozen
Visual artist, creator of films, installations, objects and sculptures. Graduate of the Faculty of Painting and New Media at the Academy of Art in Szczecin; he also studied at the Universitatea De Arta Si Design din Cluj-Napoca in Romania. Recipient of the scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2015). His works have been presented at collective exhibitions at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, the City Gallery in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Zona Sztuki Aktualnej and CentrumCentrum in Szczecin, among others, as well as at individual exhibitions, for instance, the Project Room of Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art and the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. He participated in the Focus+Indonesia mobile artist residency in 2014 and the residency at Schafhof – European House of Art in Germany in 2018. He lives and works in Szczecin.
URBANOCEN – DYSTOPIA OF THE COMMON AREA \ February–May
The aim of the residency at ZAMEK Culture Centre is to learn about the history of the Poznań Industrial District and its evolution from the industrial revolution to the present day. Cegielski's factory, Stomil-Poznań, Herbapol, Telkom-Teletra, Poznań Railway Repair Plant and others show the history of both Polish and the world's technical and research thought. Their development expanded the functional architecture, from modest workshops to a massive factory infrastructure, which resulted in one of the most vibrant industrial centres in Poland. The correlation between the development of technology and the impact of human activity on the environment is a constant dance between progress and the need to live in a balanced environment.
