Artist
Casts the work jackets of dock crews in concrete, one jacket per crew, each as heavy as the docker who lent it.
Night Shift (Crew C), 2026. Installation view, R4. AI-generated demo image.
Born
b. 1979, Gdańsk
Based
Lives and works in Rotterdam and Gdańsk
Practice
Sculpture
At After Hours
Night Shift · R4 · 2026
Tomasz Wierzba worked as a crane driver in the port of Gdańsk before studying sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts there. Since 2017 he has made work with and about the night crews of the Waalhaven, borrowing their jackets, gloves and lunch boxes and returning them a year later, cast.
His sculptures are made to be the weight of a person. They are shown on pallets, at the height a forklift would leave them, and they are never lit from above.
Selected exhibitions
2026 Night Shift, After Hours, Rotterdam · 2025 Heavy Lifting, CCA Łaźnia, Gdańsk · 2023 Port Works, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Key work
One work, one label.
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Key work
Tomasz Wierzba
Night Shift (Crew C), 2026
Cast concrete, work jackets, pallet
96 × 120 × 80 cm, 81 kg
Available · price on request
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