Szymon Rogiński

His artistic education started with the actor's studies at School on Wheels Derevo Theater, Germany/Netherlands (1997-1998). After graduating Artistic Photography Study in Gdańsk (1999-2000) Roginski started his professional career at Department of Photography at National Museum in Gdańsk (1999-2000) and at Gazeta Wyborcza photographic studio (2000-2004). He was twice (2010 and 2013) granted a scholarship of the Minister of Culture, and he teaches at Academy of Photography, in Warsaw (2012-2013). He took part in several group shows in reputed art institutions in Poland and abroad, at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART) Italy (2014); BOZAR, Brussels (2012); CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2008) and had a solo exhibition, the last one at Aleksander Bruno Gallery, Warsaw (2014). Roginski made a name for himself with his UFO project, a series of staged shots developed from 2005-07 which used artificial lighting to conjure up night scenes of extraterrestrial landings. In years 2003-2006, Roginski conceived the Poland Synthesis series, a nocturnal portrait of the Polish province. The one of his last project is Black, that explores the photography as a medium and examines the borderline between photography and abstract painting.

• Perduti nel paesaggio/Lost in Landscape, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART) (2014) • Home Made. Construction substitute worlds. Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk (2013) • Sense of Place – European Landscape Photography, BOZAR, Brussels (2012) • Installation Camera Obscura (with Katarzyna Korzeniecka), Sculpture Museum Królikarnia, Warsaw; • Broken Movie – BWA Wrocław (2009) • Take a Look at me now - contemporary work from Poland • Sainbury Centre for Visual Arts, England; • Uncomfortable Images, 6 th Biennal of Photography, Poznań • Urbanity – Twenty Years Later, Praha/Berlin/Bratislava/Budapest/Ljubljana/Warszawa/Wien (2008) • Red eye effect, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (2006) • The New Documentalists, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; National Gallery in Bratislava, Slovakia • The End, My Friend, Spielhaus Morrisson Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2005) • Revenge on Realism – The fictitious moment in current Polish Art, Krinziger - Projekte Gallery, Vienna, Austria (2004) • Linger, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań, Poland

• Blackness, Gallery Aleksander Bruno, Warsaw, Poland (2014) • Project UFO, Photoespana / Blanca Soto Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2012) • Wir in Dresden, AF Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2012) • KRA, Gallery PF, Poznań, Poland (2012) • Project UFO, Appendix 2, Warsaw, Poland (2009) • Project UFO, Artist House, Jerusalem, Israel (2008) • Project UFO, 20th Photo Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece (2008) • Project UFO, Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland (2007)

Szymon Rogiński is recorded with the occupation photographer. Institutional cataloguing adds that szymon Rogiński is recorded with the gender male. Born on 1 January 1975. It is also recorded that szymon Rogiński is recorded as human.