Dominik Lejman’s Inclined Plane was created in Poznań, and its protagonists are Poznań-based artists. It can be interpreted as an ironic observation on the phenomenon of the so-called artistic career. The artists in the video climb upwards, only to fall off the wall at various stages of their climb and into oblivion.

Inclined Plane is a prominent example of Lejman’s oeuvre, that is work in the field of so-called video frescoes, which are open-ended film compositions that inscribe themselves into existing architecture with the help of video projections. The term fresco, although used in relation to media art, acquires a special meaning for the artist, who consistently emphasises that his work should be interpreted primarily in the context of painting, which he feels strongly aligned with.

Dominik Lejman, born in 1969 in Gdańsk, is an artist and lecturer at the UAP. Between 1989-1993 he studied at the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Arts, State School of Arts in Gdańsk. In 1996, he obtained his diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Between 1993 and 1995, he studied at the Royal College of Art in London. His studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin resulted in a photographic work created at the Pergamon Museum. Since 2005, he has been running a painting studio at the University of Arts in Poznań. Lejman combines painting with video projections, creates video frescoes and large-format projections. He is the author of numerous solo exhibitions and public projects (including permanent installations in hospitals in New York and Cleveland). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Venice Architecture Biennale 2004, Sanguine at Fondazione Prada (2019). Lejman is the recipient of several Polish and international awards, including the Polityka’s Passport Award (2001) and the Berlin Art Prize (2018). He runs the 2nd Painting Studio at the University of Arts in Poznań. He lives in Poznań and Berlin.