Sochacki Robert
Theatre of Form and Object
Intermedia Graphics
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
