Walser

Libera’s full-​length film debut. A cinematic exten­sion of the artist’s futuristic and post-​humanistic thoughts about the end of civilization of the white man, created by Libera as a result of the Film Award of the Polish Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art he has won in 2011.

Freelancer (self-portrait)

A photographic dip­tych, made for the exhibition of the same title at the Zachęta National Gal­lery in Warsaw. Zbigniew Libera him­self plays the part of the savage artist, caught by rail­waymen in the vicinity of a gated com­munity. Self-​portrait of an artist in a distor­ting mirror of today’s society.

People Burning Money

First Day of Freedom

Libera measures up to the night­marish visions of the future by illustrating fan­tasies, dreams and fears that arise in our con­siderations of what the future has to hold.

African Tales by Shakespeare

Libera refers to the history of photography, anth­ropology and colonialism to create an evocative por­trait of the ‘savage’ Europeans.

History Lesson

(Polski) Libera kreuje obrazy, które odnoszą się do nie­pew­nej przyszłości naszej cywilizacji, ale wynikają bezpośrednio z współczesnego doświadczenia historii i towarzyszących nam dziś lęków.

La Vue

Series of photographs depic­ting images, almost like abs­tract land­scapes, created between the pages of glossy magazines or photo albums.

Broniewski

(1897-1962), the Polish com­munist poet. The artist’s con­tribution to „Broniew­ski” project at Raster gal­lery – all par­ticipants of the project

Positives

Series of photographs restaging the famous historical press photos in a “positive version” – repeating the original in terms of com­position, but chan­ging the charac­ters and the general meaning of the cap­tured events. “

Mother

Mother – a piece of earth obses­sively photographed by the artist during a stay in Greece – an archetypal source that we come from, and the temp­ting abyss towards which we measure.

The Doll You Love to Undress

Lego. Concentration Camp

In the upper-​left corner of each box we find the fol­lowing statement: “This work by Zbigniew Libera has been spon­sored by Lego” – as the project was made possible thanks to the bricks presen­ted by the polish depart­ment of the Danish company.

Republica Christiana

You Can Shave the Baby

Ken’s Aunt

Christus ist Mein Leben (Christ is my Life)

The piece was first exhibited at the exhibition “Bakunin in Dresden”, Kun­st­palast Dues­sel­dorf (1990).

Somebody Else

Series of Libera’s self-​portraits employing the – unk­nown in Polish art at the time – queer genre, and at the same time, refer­ring to the clas­sical photographs of Claude Cahun.

Grandmother’s Corpse

Domestic Performance

Hrubieszów

Photographs taken at the political prison in Hrubieszów

For Art

Photograph taken shor­tly before the artist was arrested by the Security Service on the 26th August 1982.