Rob Kulisek

Rob Kulisek is an artist and photographer based in Paris. His work is marked by sensual, suggestive, and largely physical imagery. Capturing the high frequencies of bodies and interferences happening in group dynamics, his style is profoundly vibrant, and contemplative. Whether in the form of exhibitions, collaborative works, experimental magazines, music labels or installations, he plays with rigid categories to espouse soft, flexible forms, sometimes deeply sincere and spontaneous, sometimes more analytical. Part of a generation of artists who are questioning porosities between art photography and Fashion photography and shifting their commercial and aesthetic stakes, his pictures are nourished by his assiduous reading of independent fashion press from 1990s, such as Purple, and Self Service, as well as experimental fashion brands like interdisciplinary studio BLESS. Nurtured by subcultures that have emerged mostly in the 90’s and the 00’s in the indie-fashion photographic field, a large part of his practice is infused with anti-fashion, grunge, queer and porn-chic.

Since 2016 Kulisek has also collaborated with David Lieske on visual art and music under the name Kulisek / Lieske. The duo produces 299 792 458 m/s, a fashion publication that is published by Westreich Wagner.

Rob Kulisek Dissolves the Distinctions Between Rehab Patients and Staff, Timotheus Vermeulen, Frieze Issue 234