A visual artist, film director, editor, and cultural anthropologist. In the mid-90s, he co-created an action group called Relativo, which experimented with cinema, artistic provocation and - as he called it - 'a small direction of emotions'. Around the same time, he created a collection of Phenomenal Films. He co-created with Jan Swidzinski the first festival In the Context of Art /Differences, and the result of this collaboration was his documentary debut (2006) entitled The Differences. He is the author of video projections in Krystian Lupa's famous theatre performances Persona. Marylin and Persona. The Body of Simone produced by Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw and showed worldwide. He edited several documentary and experimental films, including The Glass Trap, nominated for the European Film Award in 2009, or an impressive documentary dedicated to the work of Zofia Rydet - The Stone and Fish (2010). Lubicz is the author of a book Art of Action, which is the history and hermeneutics of pioneer performative actions in Poland. He is also the author of an audiovisual publication entitled Warpechowski. The Way of the Performer published in 2014 by National Gallery. Currently Jan is preparing PhD project at the Intermedia department in the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the University of Art in Poznan (PL)
Education & work experience
- 1999-2004 - Cultural Studies, Warsaw University (MA)
- 1999-2003 - Philosophical Department, Warsaw University
- 2000 - Editing course: Universitat Bielefeld / Asthetisches Zentrum, Vogelsanger Studios, Germany
- 2005 - Anthropology of Performance: ISTA - International School of Theater Anthropology
- 2004 - Charles University, Prague - lecturer
- 2011 - CCA Tel Aviv - lecturer
- 2011 - Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts - lecturer
- 2011 - ICC Krakow - lecturer
- 2005-2009 - Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Science - Doctoral Studies
- 2015-2017 - Waldorf Education, ISNS UW - Warsaw University, Institute of Applied Social Sciences
- 2019-now - Faculty of Multimedia Communication, University of the Arts Poznan - doctoral program
- 1990-1995 - Ochota Theater - first directed theater performance "The Story"
- 1995-2000 - Relativo - experimental film group (Antoni Nykowski, Lukasz Gutt, Daniel Bauman, JLP)
- 2000 - Assitant Scenographer - National Opera, Warsaw
- 2002-now - Art of Action Archives, postconceptual project between art and documentation
- 2006-2010 - art theory consultant at international performance art festivals (Castel of Imagination, In the Context of Art / Differences)
- 2006-2013 - Independent film studio Warszawa Centralna - founder, director and producer
- 2008-2011 - Bellmer Society, Member of the Board/Treasurer
- 2009-2012 - Dramatyczny Theater, Warsaw - video artist ("Persona" series by Krystian Lupa)
- 2018-2020 - IKONA - Instytut Kultury Ośrodek Nowej Awangardy - IKONA Art Center - main project coordinator
- 2018-2020 - LELE Art Space - President of the Foundation for the Arts
- 2020-2024 - ProMediation&ProWellness Foundation - board member, meditation teacher
Selected individual exhibitions, shows, public presentations
- 1999 Fenomenal Films - Galeria Bauman, Warsaw
- 2009 Art of Action and Film - Participatory Space Chłodna25, Warsaw
- 2009 Hans Solo – Bellmer Society, Katowice
- 2010 Change Time into Space – Klinika Lalek Theater, Wolimierz
- 2010 - The Stone and the Fish – Bellmer Society, Katowice
- 2011 - Doing it. Art, magic and the paradox of the Real - Center of Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv
- 2011 - Art of Action and Film, Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts, Tel Aviv
- 2011 - DADA Politics - International Cultural Center, Cracow
- 2014 - The Differences – In Situ Foundation, Laboratory of Culture, Sokołowsko
- 2014 - The Way of Performer, Polish National Gallery, Warsaw
- 2015 - D_E_M_O_N_TAGE - Cork Artists Collective, Cork
- 2015 - Art of Action Archives – Skibereen Art Center, Ireland
- 2017 - Rytka. Skeches - Association of Free Speech, Warsaw
- 2018 - Personal Stone, Profile Foundation Gallery, Warsaw
Selected group exhibitions, shows, public presentations
- 2009-2015 - video art in theater: "Persona. Marylin" (dir. Krystian Lupa) - produced by Warsaw Dramatic Theatre. Presented: i.e. European Theater Awards Festival, La Comedie de Reims, the Grand Theatres of Tianjin and Beijing, World Cultures Festival in Hing Kong, ad many others.
- 2010 - Work in Progress, curator: Marek Zieliński, Katowice
- 2010 - The Knot - Mobile Unit - Parcul Carol, curator: Kuba Szreder, Bucarest
- 2011-2017 - video art in theater: "Persona. Simone's Body" (dir. Krystian Lupa) - produced by Warsaw Dramatic Theatre.
- 2015 - Polish Actual Art. Miradas, Arte Kalea, curator: Ines Ruiz Artola, Balmaseda, Spain
- 2016 - 14. Leave Everything - Dynamics of Chaos, Berlin-Warsaw, Academia Theater
- 2017 - Warsaw in Construction - WWB9 "Step Forward" - curators: T. Fudala, D. Jarecka, B. Piwowarska, Studio Gallery and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
- 2018 - Nowosielski Po Śladach/Traces - BWA Olsztyn
- 2019 - The Lords of Time, Instytut Cybernetyki Sztuki - Institute for the Cybernetics of Art, Gdansk
- 2019 - Exhibition in a Suitcase, IK Projects Gallery, Lima, Peru
- 2020 - The 6th UP-ON International Live Art Festival, curator: Zhou Bin, ChengDu, China
Awards, recognitions
- Ministry of Culture of Poland Award, for the book "The Art of Action", 2007
- Nomination to European Film Award for a film edited by Jan Lubicz - "Glass Trap", 2007
- Scholarship of Masovia Voivodship, for best scholars and artists of the year 2009
- Scholarship of Adam Mickiewicz Institute, for best presentations of Polish art abroad, 2010
- Best Art Book of the Year, top 10 listed by Culture.pl, for "The Way of the Performer", 2014