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Paweł Kwiek (1951 in Warsaw – 13 March 2022) - Polish contemporary artist, photographer, cinematographer and lighting director. Kwiek works with film, painting, photographic cycles and artistic actions. Participant in a wide array of exhibitions of Polish art in Poland and abroad. Author of theoretical texts about neo-avant-garde art. Kwiek was also a poet and a performer. In 1973, Kwiek graduated from the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre PWSFTviT in Łódź, Department of Direction of Photography and Television Production. Lecturer at the PWSTTviF in Łódź and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (in 1977–1978), Head of the Photography Department of the newspaper "Życie Warszawy" (1991). Lives and works in Warsaw. Affiliation: Polish Filmmakers Association, creative group Workshop of the Film Form (until 1980), Association of Polish Art Photographers, Association of Artists of Other Art Forms (until 1994), MEDIA KONTAKT, "Jewish Motifs" Association. Co-founder of the Lodz-based avant-garde artistic group Workshop of the Film Form and member of the group in the 1970s. Around the same time that the Workshop came into being Kwiek created his famous project Face (Twarz, 1971), which criticised the regime of the 1st Secretary of the Polish Communist Party KC PZPR Władysław Gomulka (soon after he resigned from his office) and mocked the figure of the former 1st Secretary. In 1971, Kwiek worked with his brother Przemysław, Zofia Kulik and Jan S. Wojciechowski on the film Open Form (pol. Forma Otwarta), whose title marks a reference to the Open Form Theory conceived by Oskar Hansen with a view to "improving communication and social individualism".