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Polish artist

Paweł Althamer (born 12 May 1967, Warsaw) is a Polish contemporary sculptor, performer, collaborative artist and creator of installations, and video art.^[1]

Life and work

In the years 1988-1993, he studied sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.^[2] Since the mid-1990s, he has been collaborating with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw.

In 2000, he participated in Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2004, he won the Vincent Award from the Broere Charitable Foundation in the Netherlands. In 2007, he presented the exhibition One of many with the Nicola Trussardi Foundation.

His longest-running collaboration is with the Nowolipie Group, an organisation in Warsaw for adults with mental or physical disabilities, to whom he has been teaching a Friday night ceramics class since the early 1990s.

In 2008 Althamer arranged for the group to wear matching overalls and take a trip on a biplane, which became the subject of a shor