Pawel Althamer
Pawel Althamer lives and works in Warsaw. In 2004 he was awarded with the Vincent Prize and his work was included in the Carnegie International with Real Time Movie, a performance with Peter Fonda. He recently participated in the 4th Berlin Biennale with the project Fairy Tale, which followed the story of Besir Olcay, a Kurdish immigrant to Berlin. His exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, entitled ‘At the Centre Pompidou’ is on until 27 November, 2006.
What images keep you company where you work?
Motion pictures (various images).
What was the first piece of art that really mattered to you?
Warsaw monuments.
If you could live with only one piece of art what would it be?
Such a piece of art does not exist.
What films have most influenced you?
Real-time movies.
What should change?
Me, for example.
What should stay the same?
Me, for example.
What music are you listening to?
To the sounds that surround me.
What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do?
Nothing.
What are you reading?
Herman Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund (1930).
What do you like the look of?
Naked Matejka (Julia M. Petelska, born in 1980, Gdansk, Poland).
What is art for?
For great pleasure.
What do you enjoy most about collaborating with others?
When other people think as I do.
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