(*1976, Leszno, Poland)
Michał Budny’s art practice is an ongoing search for simplicity, to alleviate the complexity of the human experience. He creates minimalist forms to capture the fleeting things – emotions, relationships, a state. His objects, installations, and video art register the basic concepts that structure human presence.
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
Muzeum Współczesne, Wrocław, Poland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany
Fondation National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
ING Polish Art Foundation Collection, Warsaw, Poland
Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
Berezdivin Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium
JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, New York, USA
Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Sammlung KiCo, Bonn, Germany
Kienbaum Collection, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthalle Praha Collection, Prague, Czechia
Munich Re, Munich, Germany
Sammlung Otten, Hohenems, Austria
PEAC Museum, Paul Ege Art Collection, Freiburg, Germany
Rosewood Collection, Hong Kong, China
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
SOLO SHOWS
2026
Randzone, PEAC Museum, Freiburg, DE
Night, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, AT
2024
Keyhole, annex14, Zurich / annex14bis, Zollikofen, CH
2023
Inflorescence, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2022
Spring, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, DE
Hatakma, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, AT
2021
Spiral, Perdo Cera Gallery, Lisbon, PT
Drawing, annex14, Zurich, CH
2020
Sculpture/Sculpture (with Vittorio Santoro), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, CH
Twilight (with Paul Czerlitzki), Galerie SVIT, Prague, CZ
Equivalent Arrangement (with Kajetan Sosnowski), Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2019
Neither, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2018
Everything Shines Blue, Galerie SVIT, Prague, CZ
Anonymous, annex14, Zurich, CH
2017
The Glass House, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
The Song of Skull, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, AT
Still Life, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, BE
2016
Miasto z innego snu, Galeria MBWA Leszno, PL
Trap Head, annex14, Zurich, CH
2015
Crown, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Fern Flower, Michał Budny with Jaromír Novotný, PLATO, Gallery of the City of Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ
Michał Budny, Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, Saarbrücken, DE
Primitive, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, DE
2014
Mira, Galerie SVIT, Prague, CZ
2013
Night Work, annex14, Zurich, CH
Ashamed and Shameless, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, AT
2012
Transfer, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, UKR
Apollo, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, DE
Żywica, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Big Country, National Gallery, Vilnius, LT
2011
The room upstairs, annex14, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Bern, CH
Michał Budny, Galerie SVIT, Prague, CZ
Michał Budny / Rafał Bujnowski, Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna, AT
Frischzelle_14, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, DE
Between, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
Mirror, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, AT
2010
Author, South London Gallery, London, UK
2009
Beginning, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
Returns, Galeria BWA, Zielona Góra, PL
Foreign Affairs, annex14, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Bern, CH
Works, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Światło, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2008
Romanticism, Kronika, Bytom, PL
Shot (with Zbigniew Rogalski), Jack Hanley, San Francisco, USA
Winter, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, AT
2007
Stille, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, DE
Origami, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, DE
2006
Bluebox, annex14, Bern, CH
At The Very Centre Of Attention 8, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Projection (with Zbigniew Rogalski,) Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
2005
Map, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, DE
2004
Light, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
2003
Michał Budny, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
GROUP SHOWS
2026
GALERIE NORDENHAKE 50 YEARS – Berlin,
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, DE
25, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2025
MOVING IMAGE, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
20 Jahre Frischzelle, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, DE
THE CYNICS REPUBLIC – PLAC DEFILAD, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
2024
STAY MOVING, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, AT
2023
Making the Dawn, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ
In Its Own Shadow, Arter, Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul, TR
Trzy kroki w obłoki, Mazovia Centre for Contemporary Art Elektrownia, Radom, PL
All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the river, No Name, Paris, FR
Von Geschmack eines Apfels, PEAC Museum, Freiburg, DE
2022
CALLART 1, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, PL
Sculpture Garden project, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2021
Remembering What Never Existed, annex14, Zurich, CH
2020
Sculpture in Search of a Place, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
LINEA, Galerie SVIT, Prague, CZ
It’s only Moonlight, annex14, Zurich, CH
2018
Le Bel Été, Noire Gallery, Turin, IT
If I Were the Moon, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Ansichtssache: Wie Bilder werden, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, DE
Motherland in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, PL
2017
Von Pablo Picasso bis Robert Rauschenberg, Schenkung Céline, Heiner und Aeneas Bastian, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, DE
Late Polishness: Forms of national identity after 1989, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
2016
Grün stör: Im Fokus einer Farbe, Marta Herford, Herford, DE
2015
Narrativas Monumentales, Museum de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa, Coruña, ES
The State of Life: Contemporary Polish Art within the Global Circumstances, NAMOC National Art Museum of China, CN
Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, groupshow with Gonçalo Sena, Jiři Thýn, Syntax Project Lisboa, PT
Villa Toronto, group show, presented by Raster in association with Art Metropole, Union Station, CAN
More Konzeption Conception Now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
La memoria finalmente, Art in Poland 1989–2015, Palazzina dei Giardini, Galleria Civica of Modena, IT
2014
Your city is a battleground, group show, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
As You Can See: Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
The Sky Is Blue in Some Other Way: A Diagram of a Possible Misreading, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, ES
2013
British British Polish Polish: Art from Europe’s Edges in the Long ’90s and Today, Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw, PL
Twisted Entities: Zeitgenössische polnische Kunst, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
Be like water, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
In the Heart of the Country, The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
2012
Moments suspended in Time, annex14, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Bern, CH
Aire de Pologne, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, BE
Ab in die Ecke!, Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, DE
New Order, Art Stations Gallery, Poznań, PL
Goldrausch: Gold in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, DE
2011
Polish! Contemporary Art from Poland, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Landscape of the Future, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Mir, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, PL
Transylwania 2, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, PL
Leben in Karton, Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, DE
2010
The Last Film, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Fate Away, Raster Gallery, Reykjavik, IS
Quantos Queres, Galeria Marz, Lisbon, PT
…um so mehr, Kunsthalle Göppingen, DE
2009
(Z)ART, Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart, DE
Warsaw Under Construction, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
Wolność od-zysku / Freedom from Profit, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Collapse, Collide, Combine: An Exhibition of small transitions, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, LT
The Obstacle Is Tautology, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, LT
2008
L’art contemporain en Europe: Experience Pommery #5, Domaine Pommery, Reims, FR
Illusion and consequence, Kunsthalle Mainz, DE
L’artista nella rinuncia 2: Mostra a cura della Galleria Raster, Instituto Polacco di Roma, Rome, IT
Re-Construcion: Biennial of Young Artists, Centrul Cultural Meta, Bucharest, RO
Manifesta 7: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, IT
Der große Wurf: Faltungen in der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Haus Lange und Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, DE
Art Sheffield 08: Yes, No & Other Options, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK
SITE Santa Fe’s Seventh International Biennial: Lucky Number Seven, SITE Santa Fe, USA
2007
From a Distance, Wallspace Gallery, New York, USA
Concrete Legacy: From Le Corbusier to the Homeboys, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Bodycheck: 10. Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, DE
Species of Spaces and other Pieces, Hollybush Gardens, London, UK
Black and White, IBID Projects, London, UK
Manipulations: On Economies of Deceit, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Here a change occurs, Kordegarda Gallery, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
Skulptur, Installation und Malerei aus Polen, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, and Dürer Gesellschaft Nürnberg, Nuremberg, DE
2006
Manipulations: On Economies of Deceit, Center for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk, PL
Museum as a Luminous Object of Desire, Museum of Art, Łódź, PL
Spiralen der Erinnerung, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Intimate Architecture—Abandonned Architecture, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, PL
In Poland, That Is Where?Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Das Radio empfiehlt: Budny Elsner Ziolkowski, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg, DE
Is It Better to Be a Good Artist or a Good Person? Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Skulptur, Installation und Malerei aus Polen, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE
Broniewski, Galeria BWA, Zielona Gora, PL
2005
Views 2005: Deutsche Bank Cultural Foundation Award, Zachęta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
[…], Galeria BWA, Zielona Gora, PL
More things, annex14, Bern, CH
Post_Modellismus: Models in Art / Modelle in der Kunst, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, AT
International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005, The National Gallery, Prague, CZ
Revenge on Realism, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, AT
2004
From My Window, Artists and their Territories, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, FR
Jahresgaben 2004, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE
Nowa Huta: Kunst aus polnischer Sicht, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE
Rheinschau, Johnen Galerie/Johnen + Schöttle, Art Cologne Projects, Cologne, DE
The Parallel Action, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Cieszyn, PL
At home, The Regional Cultural Centre (RCC), Letterkenny, IRL
Die leichte Arbeit, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, DE
Prym, Galeria BWA, Zielona Góra, PL
Pluzzle, galerie griedervonputtkamer, Berlin, DE