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Born in Poznan, Poland in 1959. Studied at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. M.A. in 1986. M.A. at Ministry of Culture, Departament of Visual Arts, Warsaw in 1992. In 1998 he established The Tadeusz Kalinowski Art Foundation. Author of outdoor projects and critical texts.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

1989 Galeria Nie-Galeria, LITER-A-KCJE”, Wrocław, Poland.
1992  E-Gallery; - Kalinowski, Syska, Glowacki, Felcyn. Poznañ, Poland.
1998 „AGGREGATZUSTAND - Simple Constructions”, Umspannenwerk, Berlin, Germany.
1999 „Utopia and Vision”, Center for Contemporary Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland.
2000 „Utopia and Vision”, The Zachęta Gallery of Contemporary Art., Warsaw, Poland.
2001 „Open Space 2001”, Zlotniki, Poland, Outdoor realization.
2001 The 10th International Design Competition, Osaka, Japan, (The Bronze Prize).
2002 “Alternatywy Technologii”, Teatr Akademii, Warsaw, Poland.
2002 “Mit i Symbol”, XIII Biennale Rzezby, Arsenal Gallery, Poznañ, Poland.Outdoor realization.
2002 “Inner Spaces”, MCS, Poznan, Poland.
2003 EIGHTIES AND NINETIES of POLISH ART, L.WYCZOLKOWSKI MUSEUM in BYGDOSZCZ, POLAND
2004 A-21, International Art Exhibition, CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE, CASO Osaka, Japan.
2004 The 12th International Design Competition 2004, Osaka, Japan. (Excelllent product).
2007 Two Minds Projects; Belfast, Dublin, UK.
2008 1st London International Creative Competition; finalist in sculpture.UK.
2008 Memory, Inscription, Place: Landscape as a Transformational Process, UK.
2009 TRANSFORM, Warsaw, Poland. “PARK OF COLORED SAND”, Outdoor realization.
2009 2nd London International Creative Competition; UK.(shortlist and honorable mention).
2009 I-PARK Biennale, CT, USA. „TWIG”, Outdoor realization.
2010 SOCHA a OBJEKT XV Sculpture Festival in Bratyslava and PIESTANY, Slovakia. “THE GRAVE”, Outdoor realization.
2011 Freies Museum, The Ego and the Self, Berlin, Germany.
2012 FESTIVAL OF THE WORLD, SOUTHBANK CENTRE, LONDON, UK. “RAINBOW PARK”,  Outdoor realization
2012 MEDIATIONS BIENNALE, The Unknown, Poznan, Poland.
2013 FIRST@108 Public Art., Royal British Society of Sculpture, London, UK.
2013 CROSSING SPACE, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannower
2015 “THE INFINITE GREEN”, 2015. EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE Wroclaw 2016. Outdoor realization.
2016 “Przestrzenie Abstrakcji, Twórczość Rodziny Kalinowskich/SPACES OF ABSTRACTION – OUTPUT OF KALINOWSKI’S FAMILY”, National Museum in Gdansk, Poland,.
2016 “Besiktas Festival”, Istanbul, Turkey. Outdoor realization.
2016 “LET’S PLAY”; Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2018  POZNAN DESIGN FESTIVAL, Outdoor realization.
2019  "Kaapstadt Festival", Tilburg, NL, PITCH OF COLORED SAND https://interactive.adamkalinowski.com/pitch-of-colored-sand/;Outdoor realization.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
SELECTED ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS and OUTDOOR WORKS

1992 „Minute of silence”, Radio happening, Radio Merkury, Poznañ, Poland.
1994 „Spatial drawings and objects", Old Brewery Space, Poznañ, Poland.
1996 „Objects”, Place  for Art Gallery, Mosina, Poland.
1997 „In Stillness”, Arsenal, Municipal Gallery, Poznañ, Poland.
1998 „Spatial objects and mobiles”, BWA Gallery, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
1999  “The Zlotniki Show”, Zlotniki, Poland.Outdoor realization.
2001 „Sanctuary”, Złotniki, Poland. Outdoor realization
2002 ”Sky Reaching Cube”, Sculpture Space, USA. Outdoor realization
2002 “The Core”, Arsenal Gallery, Poznan, Poland. Outdoor realization
2004 “Sky Reaching Cylinder”, Opening of The Gallerie Track in Poznan, Poland. Outdoor realization
2004 “Sanctuary”, Orońsko, Poland, Center of Polish Sculpture. Outdoor realization
2005 “BIG EAR”, Orońsko, Poland, Center of Polish Sculpture. Outdoor realization
2009 “Park of Coloured Sand”, Warsaw, Poland. Outdoor realization
2011 “IN VOID”, dedicated to polish artist Andrzej Bereziański; Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo.
2011 "THE CORE", MIS ( Museu da Imagen e do Som), Sao Paulo, Oct. 2011 Outdoor realization
2012 “XXXXXXXxxxxxxx”, Galeria Arsenał, Poznań
2012 “XXXXXXXxxxxxxx”, Galeria XX1, Warszawa.
2013 THE CLOUDY THOUGHTS/ O PENSAMENTO NAS NUVENS O MUSEU BRASILIERA da ESCULTURA, SAO PAULO, Brazil. Outdoor realization
2013 “XXXXXXXxxxxxxx” / “THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM I”, Mazowieckie Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej „Elektrownia” w Radomiu.
2013 “THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM II”, public art installation in H.Dabrowski Public Park, Poznan, Poland.Outdoor realization.
2015 “THE DREAM CITY”, 2015, commissioned by UDC, Pearl Doha Qatar. Outdoor realization.
2015 “THE INFINITE GREEN”, 2015. EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE Wroclaw 2016. Outdoor realization.
2016 THE CLOUDY THOUGHTS, Besiktas Festival”, Istanbul, Turkey. Outdoor realization. 
2019  PITCH OF COLORED SAND, Tilburg, NL, https://interactive.adamkalinowski.com/pitch-of-colored-sand/ Outdoor realization.
2020 XYZ, online presentation, Kultura w Sieci, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland.
2022 Haiku Project, Adam KALINOWSKI’ HAIKU Project with the participation of invited authors: Anna Zepa, Daniel Minchoni, and Norbert Skupniewicz at Jerzy Piotrowicz Gallery Pod Koroną w Poznaniu. 
2022 XYZ2, Adam Kalinowski exhibition at Jerzy Piotrowicz Gallery Pod Koroną


ART RESIDENCY:

1997 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, USA.
1999 ART/OMI, USA
2001 AIR, Vienna, Austria.
2002 Sculpture Space, USA
2009 ART GENE; UK.
2009 I-PARK, USA.
2011 FAAP, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2012 Djerassi Foundation, USA.
2017 Petrified Forest, National Park, USA

 PROJECTS WITH ARCHITECTS:

2007 Two Minds Projects; Belfast, UK.

 GRANTS:

2000 THE POLLOCK - KRASNER FOUNDATION, USA.
2001 Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland.
2002 The Kosciuszko Foundation, USA.
2004 Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland.
2010 Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland.
2014 Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland.
2014 THE POLLOCK - KRASNER FOUNDATION, USA.
2020 Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland, "CULTURE IN NET".      
2022 Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 WORKS IN COLLECTION:

Center of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland.
The Leon Wyczółkowski Muzeum, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Japan Design Foundation, Osaka, Japan.
Mazowieckie Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej „Elektrownia” w Radomiu, Poland.

 PERMANENT REALIZATIONS:

2005, “Big Ear”, Center of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland.

 FILMS:

„Fluxus; The Meeting”, film produced by Polish Public TV, 2000, Warsaw.

LECTURES:

2011 FAAP University, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2016 Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
2017 University of Arts, Poznan, Poland.
2018 ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS in LODZ, Poland.