Born in 1950 in Gdansk (Poland),
from 1976 freelance artist, from 1981 living and working in Hamburg.

About the Artist
'My artistic considerations have concentrated upon exploring wood as a material and upon understanding its structure and its core. The question, to which extent it is legitimate to influence the material by means of intervention without interfering with its identity, has accompanied my work and will continue to accompany my work.'
Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski

Dr. Christina Weiss, State Minister for Cultural and Media Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany): Quotations from the opening speech at the opening of Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski's exhibition in the main workshop of the Deutsche Bahn AG, Hamburg/Germany, 2000:
With Jan de Weryha's works the nature and the natural structure of the material form the starting point for his designs and creative processes. His works exist on the confrontation of the sculptured and raw, the touched and unaffected. At the same time he consciously disappoints the viewer's expectation, who is used to prefer processed sides of a sculpture compared to the supposedly unworked side.

Education and biography
1971-1976 Sculpture studies at the State University of Fine Arts in Gdansk (Poland);

ART AWARDS:
1971 1st prize for sculpture (competition of the State University of Fine Arts in Gdansk / Poland)
1975 3rd prize for sculpture (art competition of all universities of fine arts throughout Poland)
1978 Awarding at the sculptural form competition within the framework of the Polish Film Festival, Gdansk
1998 1st prize, Prix du Jury, at the 'Salon de Printemps 98', donated by the Luxembourg Department of Cultural Affairs (European competition of Contemporary Art in Luxembourg)

MEMORIAL:
By order of the 'Bund der Polen in Deutschland e.V.' (registered association of the Polish in Germany): A monument in memory of the deportees of the Warsaw Rebellion in 1944 for the memorial for the victims of the Nazi concentration camp Neuengamme, Hamburg/Germany - an organization of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg / Germany.

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko / Poland
National Museum, Szczecin / Poland
Museum of Modern Art, Radom / Poland

Works are besides part of numerous private collections.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (a selection):
2004 Art Forum Gallery, Antwerp / Belgium
2004 Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 'Raw Wood', Wilhelmshaven / Germany
2006 International Sculpture Triennial Poznan 2006 'Sensitivity', Poznan / Poland

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (a selection):
1998 Gallery Kunst im Licht, 'The artist and the nature, a story of a collaboration', Hamburg / Germany
2000 Ausbesserungswerk, 'Jan de Weryha-Wysoczanski. Wooden Objects 1999-2000'. Hamburg / Germany
2002 Ausbesserungswerk, 'Wooden objects 2000-2002' , Hamburg / Germany
2004 Gallery Chapel, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Oronsko / Poland
2005 Art Gallery PATIO, 'Wood Archives', Lodz / Poland
2005 Gallery Szyb Wilson, 'Epiphanies of nature in late modern world', Katowice / Poland
2005 Atrium of the building Altus, 'Sculptures', Katowice / Poland
2005 Galerie im FeuerWerk, 'Wooden Objects', Fugen / Zillertal / Austria
2006 The Museum of Contemporary Sculpture and the Centre of Polish Sculpture, 'Revelations in wood', Oronsko / Poland
2006 Gallery BWA Jelenia Gora, 'Revelations in wood', Jelenia Gora / Poland

"WOOD-ARCHIVE" permanent exhibition in GALERIEATELIER de WERYHA - Wooden objects by Jan de Weryha. Permanent exhibition with the title Wood Archive. This exposition contains many wooden objects which can be summarized under the headline "Concrete Art". In this case the artist deals with wood in the sense of its material quality, wth its structures, with the search and introduction of rythms, forms and contexts which he has before observed and studied and which are characteristic of and known in nature.

GALERIEATELIER de WERYHA
Reinbeker Redder 77 A
D-21031 Hamburg-Bergedorf
Those wishing to visit the exhibition should give prior notice by telephone:
+49 (0)172 405 32 38
Website: www.de-weryha-art.de