Zbigniew Libera / Robert Rumas

Zbigniew Libera, b. 1959

Studies: Faculty of Pedagogy, The Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun (1 year), 1979. Arrested in 1982 for collaborating with Solidarity. After spending a year and a half in prison, he started collaboration with the Lodz creative circles described as ‘Kultura Zrzuty’, 1981-1987. The artist is considered the precursor of the so-called critical art. Since 2009 a professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He collaborates with the Roster Gallery. Performer, photographer, author of installations, video-installations, objects.

Robert Rumas, b. 1966

Studies: Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, diploma 1991. Artist, curator, designer of exhibition spaces and arrangements of exhibitions, stage designer collaborating with the largest museums, galleries and theatres in Poland, Stipends of: The Batory Foundation, Warsaw (1993); Foundation of Culture (1999, 2000); Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York (1998)’ Marshall of the Pomeranian District (2003, 2006); Self-Government of the Pomeranian District (2006). Laureate of the Award of the Gdansk Society of Art Lovers (2003).