In December of 1971, a year after the workers’ unrests that toppled the Gomułka government had been put down, a group of young artists came together for a “Dreamers’ Gathering” in Elblag near the Baltic. This was the generation that put the earnest Conceputalism dominating Polish art of the 1960s behind it. Zofia Kulik and Przemyslaw Kwiek were amongst them. Earlier in the same year, they had begun collaborating as an artist duo called “KwieKulik” to produce films, objects and “actions” performed using photos and notes.
After the birth of their son Dombromierz in 1972, KwieKulik spent two years working with him. They incorporated him into their actions, documenting his daily life and relating his activities to various configurations of the general conception of art with which they were experimenting. One of the purposes in doing so was to investigate the applicability to art of mathematical logic, cybernetics and the linguistic theory of signs (this was the era of extensive semiotic analysis in the visual arts both in the East and in the West). In 1987 KwieKulik ended their existence as a duo.
Georg Schöllhammer

Zofia Kulik (born in 1947 in Wroclaw, Poland, lives in Warsaw)
Przemyslaw Kwiek (born in 1945 in Warsaw, Poland, lives in Warsaw)