19 Facts About Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko was born on April 16,1943 and is a Polish artist known for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments.

Krzysztof Wodiczko has realized more than 80 such public projections in Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.

Krzysztof Wodiczko's practice, known as Interrogative Design, combines art and technology as a critical design practice in order to highlight marginal social communities and add legitimacy to cultural issues that are often given little design attention.

Krzysztof Wodiczko teaches as visiting professor in the Psychology Department at the Warsaw School of Social Psychology.

Krzysztof Wodiczko, son of Polish orchestra conductor Bohdan Krzysztof Wodiczko, as well having a Jewish mother, was born in 1943 during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and grew up in post-war communist Poland.

In 1969, Krzysztof Wodiczko collaborated with Andrzej Dluzniewski and Wojciech Wybieralski on a design proposal for a memorial to victims of Majdanek concentration camp in Poland.

Krzysztof Wodiczko performed with Personal Instrument in the streets of Warsaw and participated in the Biennale de Paris as a leader of a group architectural project.

In 1971, Krzysztof Wodiczko began work on Vehicle, which he tested the following year on the streets of Warsaw.

Krzysztof Wodiczko participated again in the Biennale de Paris, this time as a solo artist.

In 1976, Krzysztof Wodiczko began a two-year artist-in-residence program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Krzysztof Wodiczko emigrated from Poland in 1977, establishing residency in Canada teaching at the University of Guelph in Ontario, and began working with New York art dealer Hal Bromm, at whose Tribeca gallery Wodiczko's first US exhibition was presented in 1977.

In 1983, Krzysztof Wodiczko established residency in New York City teaching at the New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury.

Krzysztof Wodiczko began teaching at MIT in 1991, maintaining his residence in New York City while working in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Krzysztof Wodiczko applies the immediate force of performance to social and political problems.

Krzysztof Wodiczko turned one of his projectors away from Nelson's column projecting a swastika onto the tympanum of the temple-like facade of South Africa House, the South African diplomatic mission to the United Kingdom.

Later Krzysztof Wodiczko would merge his vehicles with his projections when working with war veterans.

Krzysztof Wodiczko created the Personal Instrument in 1969, his first conceptual design work taken into the public sphere.

Krzysztof Wodiczko calls xenology "a new, nomadic, and yet undeveloped form of understanding and expression".

Recently, Krzysztof Wodiczko has created projections for the interiors of cultural spaces as a metaphor for our psychological isolation from broader social and political experience.