Marek Janiak
Date of birth
1955
Architect, multi-media artist, photographer. Lecturer at the Faculty of Housing, Architecture and Environment Engineering of the Polytechnic in Lodz, direction Architecture and Urban Development. Member of the ‘Lodz Kaliska’ group. Long-standing head of the Piotrkowska Street Foundation. Initially he was creating in the trend of neo-avant-garde art. In the 80s he became a supporter of combining art with everyday life. He expressed his artistic creed in manifestos written together with Andrzej Kwietniewski, among others: Manifesto of Lamentable Art, Work without Concentration, On Necessary Art, Idiotic Art. laureate of the Award of ‘Tygiel Kultury’, 2004.