Fot. Michal Mrowiec

KRZYSZTOF AUGUSTIN

Born in 1950 in Warsaw. Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he received a first master's degree in Prof. Jerzy Tchorzewski’s workshop.
After leaving Poland ,between 1979-1984 he gave lectures at the faculty of Fine Arts of the State University of Veracruz in Mexico, where he ran a graphics workshop and gave seminars from history of the art. Co-creator of the University Gallery. In the years 1987-1994 cooperated with one of the most renown art galleries in Latin America, founded in 1935 by Carito Amor, galeria de arte Mexicano( GAM), where artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo and Andre Breton showed their work and where in 1940 the first surrealist exhibition outside of Europe took place. Between 1994-1995 he was a resident artist in Berlin. His stay was ended by an exhibition sponsored by the senate of the city of Berlin.
Krzysztof Augustin is an artist who occupies himself with painting and drawing. Since1998-2006 he has given classes called “Workshops of Creation” for IVth year students of the faculty of Graphics Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.


Selected individual exhibitions:



1978 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Old Town, Warsaw
1980 El Agora Gallery, Jalapa, Mexico
1981 Museum of Contemporary Art, Carillo Gil, Mexico DF, Mexico
1981 State Theatre Gallery, Jalapa, Mexico
1982 Pinacotheque of the State University of Puebla, Mexico
1983 KIN Gallery, Mexico DF, Mexico
1984 Gallery of Contemporary Art-Zapiecek, Warsaw
1987, 1989, 1992-GAM (Galeria de Arte Mexicano ) MexicoDF, Mexico
1990 Ramon Alva de Canal Gallery-Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
1994 Casa Lamm Gallery, Mexico DF
1994/1995 artist in residence , final exibition sponsored by the Senat of City of Berlin
2001 artnewmedia.pl gallery, Warsaw
2003 artnewmedia.pl gallery, Warsaw
2005 National Museum - Rabbit Palace , Warsaw

Chosen collective exhibitions:

1976 Festival of Fine Arts, Gdansk
1977 Polish Graphics , Rome
1977 Graphics of the Year, BWA, Cracow, Zacheta, Warsaw
1978 VIII Graphics Biennale, Zacheta, Warsaw
1978 III European Graphics Biennale, Mulhouse France
1978 Polish Graphics, West Berlin
1978 VII Festival of Fine Arts, Warsaw
1979 Spychalski’s Polish Painting Contest, Poznan
1980 Misrachi Gallery, Mexico DF, Mexico
1981- Pecanins Gallery - Mexico DF, Mexico
1984 KIN Gallery - Mexico DF , Mexico
1985 Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico DF
1986, 1987 Ramon Loppez Quiroga Gallery - Mexico DF, Mexico
1987-1992 GAM ( galeria de arte Mexicano) Mexico DF, Mexico
1991 "JESTESMY" exhibition, Zacheta, Warsaw
1997 „15 Contemporary Mexican Artists” Madrid, Paris, Frankfurt
2001 Prague ,Chech Krumlov, Chec Republic

His work may be found in various private collections in: Mexico, USA, France, Germany, Poland and in the Jose Luis Cuevas Gallery of art in Mexico DF