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 for Krystian Lupa's famous theatre performances Persona. Marylin and Persona. The Body of Simone  were 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)
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Education & work experience

2019-now - Faculty of Multimedia Communication, University of the Arts Poznan - accepted for doctoral program

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


1990-1995 - Ochota Theater - first directed theater performance “The Story”
1995-2000 - Relativo - experimental film group
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
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-now -  


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 anf 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