Bio : Born 1966 in Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
Description : This work documents the last exhibition mounted by Oskar Hansen, Polish architect, urban planner, theorist and teacher. He studied in Vilnius and Warsaw in the 1940s and 1950s, he travelled across Europe continuing his education with Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. He was a member of Team 10. Artur Żmijewski and Pawel Althamer met him at that time and later, in 2004, worked with him on mounting his last exhibition at the Foksal Gallery Foundation. The show proposed a polemic with the obtrusive form of the Stalinist Palace of Culture and Science, Althamer assisted Hansen in mounting the architectural model of a TV tower which was to counterbalance the palace. Żmijewski was likewise present, and shot this piece documenting their work. Exhausted by a long illness, Hansen passed away soon after, at the time when Żmijewski was editing his film in which he included scenes from his funeral.