Robert Proch
“Art is making a thing, and then trying to make a better one, and you keep doing this until you die, and that’s a pretty good life.”
09.07.1986-17.07.2019
urodzony w Bydgoszczy, zmarł w Poznaniu.
2005-201o
Wydział Komunikacji Multimedialnej ASP w Poznaniu
2001-2005
Liceum Plastyczne im. Leona Wyczółkowskiego w Bydgoszczy
also known as Tone, painter, animator, graffiti and mural artist. He graduated from Leon Wyczółkowski Fine Arts High School in Bydgoszcz in 2005, in 2010 he graduated from the Faculty of Multimedia Communication of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań (specialization: animation), where he later also worked as a lecturer.
He is valued not only for his large format painting but also for his animated films. His achievements include three short films: Fugu from 2008, Virus from 2009 and Gallery from 2010, for which he received the second prize at the Animocje Animated Film Festival in Bydgoszcz (2012) and the award for the best animated film at the Curta Cinema International Short Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro (2011).
He was one of the most recognized Polish mural and street art creators of the young generation, who left his mark on many buildings in Poland and abroad. He was the only Polish artist to have a solo exhibition in 2014 at the London gallery of Steve Lazarides, a collaborator of Banksy.
Robert Proch's work has been presented at many group and solo exhibitions in Europe and the USA.
Streetart:
Exhibition Highlights:
2019
‘(RE)COLLECTIONS’ groupshow, Openspace gallary, Paris, France
'Spring group exhibition’ Maze Gallery, London, UK
'Exposition de Robert Proch et Augustine Kofie "Graffuturisme"'’, Grenoble Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes 2019, Grenoble, France
2018
'Art Herning Artfair' Kirk Gallery, Herning Denmark
'On the move' group show, Kirk Gallery, Aalborg Denmark
'Urban Art Fair' Openspace Gallery, Paris France
'Grand Opening' groupshow, Mirus Gallery, Denver USA
'Shifted Tags' groupshow, Villa Streccius, Landau Germany
‘Altered reality’ groupshow, Openspace Gallery, Paris France
‘North Art Fair’ Kirk Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
‘New Order’ groupshow, Koneser, Warsaw
‘The new vanguard II’ groupshow, Thinkspace Gallery, Lancaster USA
‘From dusk till dawn’ duo show with Chazme718, Kirk Gallery, Aalborg Denmark
‘Nexus II’ groupshow, Thinkspace Gallery, Glendale, USA
2017
'Boccioni +100' group show, National Gallery of Cosenza, Cosenza Italy
'Urban Currents' group show, Kirk Gallery, Aalborg Denmark
'It's framed' group show, Brain Damage Gallery, Lublin Poland
'Abstrakt Forum' group show, Pawilon Letni, Kraków Poland
'SAP' group show, Willibender Crew, Walldorf Germany
'Scope Artfair Basel' Kirk Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
'Urban Art Biennale' group show, Volklingen Germany
'Polish Urban Art' group show, Trafo Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
'Scroll Era' solo show, Openspace Gallery, Paris France
'Affordable artfair' Willibender Crew, Hamburg, Germany
'Scope Artfair Miami' Kirk Gallery, Miami USA
2016
'Crossing the line' solo show, Wunderkamern gallery, Rome Italy
Scope Basel Artfair, Kirk Gallery, Basel Switzerland
'Ghosts of things to come' group show, Pretty Portal Gallery, Dusseldorf Germany
2015
'Brutalismopolis Chronicles' Duo show with Chazme718, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg Denmark
'GO!' group show, OPENSPACE Gallery, Paris France
'Art Copenhagen Artfair' KIRK Gallery, Copenhagen Denmark
'545 Days' solo show, Bastille Design Centre (OPENSPACE Gallery), Paris France
2014
'Where to go to?' Group exhibition at Gallery KIRK, Aalborg Denmark
Art Herning, Herning Denmark, with Gallery KIRK, Denmark
'Les Enfants de Kupka’ group show, PUTEAUX CITY HALL gallery, Puteaux France
Rewire Graffuturism’ group show, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Scotland
'Jednakowo różni' group show, THEOUTSIDERS Gallery, Newcastle United Kingdom
'Land without footprints' solo show, LAZARIDES Gallery, London United Kingdom
2013
Exhibition at Gallery KIRK, Aalborg, Denmark
Crunch’ group show, THEOUTSIDERS Gallery, Newcastle United Kingdom
Public Provocations V group show, COLAB Gallery, Weil am Rhein Germany
Scope Artfair, SCHWALBE&CHWALBE Gallery, Basel Switzerland
’Urban Life’ group show, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg Denmark
‘Turn the corner’ solo show, OPENSPACE Gallery, Paris France
‘L’avernir Graffuturism’ group show, WHITE WALLS Gallery, San Francisco USA
2012
Groupshow, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg Denamark
Between Dimensions, THEOUTSIDERS Gallery, Newcastle United Kingdom
Second Auction of Polish Streetart, Galeria Hotelu Harenda, Warsaw Poland
Beyond Walls, Antonio Prates Gallery, Lisbon Portugal
Stroke 06 Artfair, Praterinsel, Munich Germany
Escape the Golden Cage, Wienna Austria
Wild At Heart, Thinkspace gallery, Los Angeles USA
Unfrisierte Gedanken, Intoxicated Demons Galerie, Munich Germany
Time Lags, Warszawa Wschodnia by Mateusz Gessler, Warsaw Poland
2011
First Polish Auction of Streetart, Rempex/Galeria Senatorska, Warsaw Poland
Stroke 04 Artfair, Munich Grmany
Come inside - Street art Doping Festival, SOHO Factory, Warsaw Poland
Graffiti vs. Street art, Brain Damage Gallery, Lublin, Poland
Kont Project, Tallin Estonia
Stroke 05 Artfair, Postbahnhoff, Berlin Germany
Urban Tactics, Design Terminal, Budapest Hungary
2010
Artfairs Stroke 01, Stroke02, Stroke 03, Monachium, Berlin Germany
Neue Avangarde, Berlin, Munich Germany
Playground , Galeria ZAK, Gdańsk Poland
Jazz in free times, Openlab Gallery, Genova Italy
2009
ABSOLUT goes ART, Munich
Kunst im Tresor, Munich by INTOXICATED DEMONS
The world of Urban Art, at Galleri JenZen, Aalborg
Soloshow" Galleri JenZen Aalborg
Euro Jam2, Lublin, Poland
STROKE.01 - Urban Art Fair, München, Tyskland. Official Keyvisual and video.
International Urban Contemporary Art show, Gallery JEN|ZEN, Aalborg
Soloudstilling, Gallery JenZen, Aalborg
Euro Jam2, Lublin, Poland
STROKE.01 - Urban Art Fair, München, Tyskland. Official Keyvisual and video.
Grenoble Street Art Fest, Grenoble, France 2019