Sebastian Bieniek

Sebastian Bieniek (born 24.04.1975 in Czarnowąsy, Upper Silesia/Poland) is a German conceptual artist, painter, photographer, performer, author and movie director. According to the theculturetrip.com website he's one of the "Top 5 Influential Contemporary Berlin-Based Artists".

Bieniek has grown up in the Upper Silesian village Kup until he was 14. In 1989 he left Poland as a late repatriate (ger. Spätaussiedler, which means: "people with German origins that came mainly in the 80's and 90's from Poland and Russia to Germany").

In 1996 he started to study art at the HbK Braunschweig under the Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović and the Swiss conceptual artist John Armleder. 1998 he changed to UdK Berlin and continued to study art in the class of the German photographer Katharina Sieverding, where he made his first short movie "Zero".

2001 he got a grand (residency) of the DFJW in Rennes/France where he spend a half year and took part in a group exhibition called "Aux voyageurs", curated by Bettina Klein. In the same year he graduated at the UdK Berlin.

2002 he started to study movie directing at the DFFB Berlin, where he made several movies. His 2007 made full lengh movie "The Gamlbers" was part of the official competition of the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival. His 2008 made movie "Silvester Home Run" was part of the international short-film competition of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata and also shown at the Montreal World Film Festival.

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