Born in Łódź, Poland, 1975. Lives and works in Warsaw.
The working process of Filip Berendt often begins with three-dimensional objects and then ends with two-dimensional photographs. He creates sculptures out of found materials: food, scrap metal, or even processual substances such as mould, in order to re-frame and re-figure our known environment. The process of abstraction to which Berendt submits his images culminates in the instantaneity of the photograph; these sculptures were never intended to be experienced in reality, and Berendt destroys these objects after he has used them. As he comments: ‘I don’t look at myself as a photographer, rather I make certain performative actions, sculptural actions, for which a photographic camera turns out to be an ideal tool’.
The Heroic Return by Dominik Czechowski
Filip Berendt in conversation with Tom Jeffreys
Making the invisible visible in Filip Berendt’s ‘Pandemic’ series by Joseph Constable
A conversation between Filip Berendt, Karolina Kolenda and Jakub Śwircz [excerpt]
Fixing Mythology to Paper, Interview by Cat Lachowskyj, lensculture
foam magazine #51: seer/believer
‘Wall Street International’, April 2015
‘OBIEG’ Magazine, December 2009
Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Silence-sounds, Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, Poland, 2016
The crisis is only the beginning, BWA, Wroclaw, Poland, 2015
Mere Formality, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland, 2015
Let the beast run, Nocturnal Activities, BWA Katowice, Poland, 2014
Alternative ending, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland, 2012
Everything is a version of something else, Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2011
Transit, Centre Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, Poland, 2010
Transit, ZPAF i s-k, Gallery, Krakow, Poland, 2009