Democracies
2009 · Twenty-channel high-definition video (color, sound)
146 min.
Museum of Modern Art
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Artur Zmijewski
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Performance Art
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- Birth yearArtsy· 85%
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Artur Zmijewski stages interventions in video, performance, and photography that expose social tension, physical vulnerability, and institutional control through documentary and spectacle. Since the 1990s, his practice has centered on collective behavior and bodily endurance, often placing participants in conditions designed to reveal hidden or repressed social dynamics. His work functions as both critique and document, collapsing the boundary between artistic gesture and ethnographic record.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 27d ago
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