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Sochacki Robert

In 1997 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, majoring in Painting, and in 2018 received his PhD at the same university after defending a thesis on art in public space and visual art.

A sensitive observation of everyday life has always led me and my art to public space. It is here, at the meeting point of the city, the image, the artist and the viewer, that an active interpretative space is created, both open and complementing the work. I work creatively in various artistic spaces: from stage design in theatre, VJ'ing, performance and large format outdoor projections to interactive light installations. I collaborate with various academic centres in Poland, Europe and Africa.

Awards and scholarships

2018 – Award of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, individual third degree award for scientific and didactic achievements

2014 – Funding for the project Children's Day - interactive exhibition for children from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

2013 – Audience Award, Lichtrouten Festival, Luedenscheid, Germany

2005 – Half-year scholarship of the Minister of Culture

2005 – Award and implementation in the Places competition financed by the City Hall of Warsaw

Exhibitions

2019 – #8 the festival of the light art NE TEMNO, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2018 – RGB Light Experience Roma Glocal Brightness, Rome, Italy

2016 – Interference Light Art, Tunis, Tunisia

2013 – Noche en Blanco, Lima, Peru

2011 – Bauhaus-Farbfest, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany

Conferences

2020 – Culture 2.0, Discussion - Inclusion and Ethics in Digital, St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, Russia

2019 – Digital Technologies as Tool of Cultural Reanimation of the Territory, Will the real local please stand up? At the intersection of revitalization and gentrification: role of the artists in shaping and shifting local public space, the Innovation Cultural Center of Pervouralsk and Ekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art, Russia

2018 – International Academic Conference Light as a Creative Tool combined with workshops for students in public space, venue: the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and the areas of the historic part of the Gdańsk Shipyard, originator, organizer, curator of Plenum - Young City - Gdańsk

Publications

2021 – Light as a Creative Tool, published by Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk