Ryszard Wasko (Waśko) is a polish artist, who has worked in multimedia, including photography, film, video, installation, painting, and drawing. He is also known as a curator and organizer of art events. He lives and works in Berlin.
He was born in Nysa, Poland. As a child he took painting-classes planning to become a painter and wanting to study at the Art Academy in Cracow. But instead of making his childhood dream come true, he made up his min...
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Ryszard Wasko (Waśko) is a polish artist, who has worked in multimedia, including photography, film, video, installation, painting, and drawing. He is also known as a curator and organizer of art events. He lives and works in Berlin.
He was born in Nysa, Poland. As a child he took painting-classes planning to become a painter and wanting to study at the Art Academy in Cracow. But instead of making his childhood dream come true, he made up his mind and went to Lodz, where he studied cinematography at the Film School between 1970 and 1975. During that time he became a member of Workshop of the Film Form, one of the most important artistic groups in Poland in the 70s. Workshop was an avant-garde collective of painters, filmmakers, critics, poets, philosophers and scientists, working with experimental film and multimedia. Later on Ryszard Wasko became a lecturer in the departments of experimental media and photography at the Film School in Lodz.
In the 70s he took part in the XII São...
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