Konrad Pustoła was born in 1976 in Warsaw, died 14.10.2015.
His first meeting with photography was in High School in United States. Absorbed by his new passion, he attended a photography workshops conducted by Juliusz Sokolowski at the Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University. He graduated from the Department of Photography and Television Production at the Łódź Film School (2004) and in 2008 Photography at the Royal College of Art in London. Beetween 2000-2002 Pustoła co-founded the Photographers Association “Poniekąd”, was part of the photographers coalition “Latarnik” and also team creating the photography section in the web portal latarnik.pl. Together with “Latarnik” he co-organized black and white photography festival “Zooming. Photography at the Time of Noise” at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. Author of numerous photographic projects between documentary photography and photojournalism. In 2001 he was awarded the 1st Prize in the Polish Press Photography Competition in the category “The World we live in” for the photo series “Sanna”. Participated in many exhibitions including “New Documentalists” (2005) CSW Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw, Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2008) in London, “Storia, memoria, identitia” (2009) in Modena, PhotoEspania (2010) in Madrid. In 2010 he released his photo-album “Darkrooms”, which was awarded in the national competition of catalogs and albums about Reminiscences art.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2013
– Synchronicity 2013: Uzdrowisko, ul. Jazdów 5a/4, Warsaw, Poland
2012
– There are no longer Jews in Poland, FORMAT Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2011
– When was Tesco built in Swiebodzin? – 5 years before Christ, Piekary Gallery, Poznań
2010
– PHOTOESPANA, Unfinished houses, Museo de la Semana Santa, Cuenca
– Darkrooms, Contemporary Art Center “Bunkier Sztuki”, Krakow
2009
– Darkrooms, CCA Ujazdowski Castle,Warsaw, CK Zamek, Poznań, Poland
– Konrad Pustola, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico DF, Mexico
2006
– Author, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
– Warsaw, Festival of Photography, Polish Institute, Rome
– S(t)imulations, Otwarta Pracownia, Poland
2005
– Warsaw, Mala Galeria, ZPAF and CCA, Warsaw, Poland
– Subjectives im Objektiv, Hessische Landesvertretung, Berlin, Germany
2004
– T-shirt for Freedom, numerous shows in public spaces, Poland
– Warsaw, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland
– Siena, Wizytujaca Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2002
– Sanna, First Festival of Black&White Photography, Zakopane, Poland
2001
– Viva Mexico!, Museum of Paderewski, Łazienki, Warsaw, Poland
Selected group exhibitions:
2015
– Alternativa International Contemporary Visual Art Festival – Vernacularity, Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk
2014
– Mowa Nienawiści. Wykluczam wykluczenie, The Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
2012
– POSTDOCUMENT. Missing Documents. Photographs of the Polish Transformation After 1989, Centre for contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle
– Live Flash. Photography from the Collection of Cezary Pieczynski, 10. Photomonth in Cracov, Starmach Gallery
2011
– Alternativa International Contemporary Visual Art Festival, Labour&Leisure, Stocznia Gdańska
– ViennaFair 2011, art fair, Vien
2010
– ARTESANTENDER, art fair, Santander, Spain,
2009
– Storia Memoria Identitia, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena, Italy
– Disappear by the Vistula, Bęc Zmiana, Warsaw
– New Conteporaries 2009, Rochelle School,London, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
– Over and over again: 1989-2009, Centennial Hall, Wroclaw, Poland
– Der Katholische Faktor in der Zeltgenossischen Kunst, Rengensburg, Germany
2008
– Summer show, Hoopers Gallery, London, UK
– Poland Street Underground, PCI, London, UK
– Red eye effect, Polish photography in XXI century, CCA Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2007
– Incorrect, Leica Photography Prize 2007, Bielefeld, Germany
– Antiphotographs, Arsenał, Poznan, Poland
2006
-The New Documentalists, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Zielona Gora, Bratislava, Poland
– Intimate architecture – abandoned architecture, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland
– A Photographer Works on Sundays, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Cracow, Poland
– Poland now!, tour exhibition of the photographers presented by the Pozytyw magazine, Poland
2005
– Creators of European Photography, Lodz, Poland
