Jerzy Lewczyński/Jan Lessaer Occupational Safety and Health. The History of an Imagination 25th march 2013 to 17th may 2013 Jerzy Lewczyński BHP series 1960 ‘Watch out, accidents happen!’ The ABCs of Occupational Safety and Health If we look at the history of occupational safety and hygiene (OSH) during the People’s Poland era, we will see [...]
Sport in Art 19.05.2012-30.09.2012 Exhibition place: MOCAK Author: group exhibition Curator: Monika Kozioł, Delfina Piekarska, Maria Anna Potocka Sport in Art after History in Art, the second exhibition in the series which shows how artists see the issues that matter in people's everyday lives. Sport performs a terrific therapeutic role, relieving us of layers of [...]
No Budget Show 4 29.06.2012-30.09.2012 Exhibition place: MOCAK, Beta Gallery Author: group exhibition MOCAK contributor to preparation of the exhibition: Delfina Piekarska Exhibition design: Robert Kuśmirowski An exhibition based on a concept of the artist Robert Kuśmirowski. This is the fourth one in the series No-Budget Show, which to date have been shown, amongst other [...]
Pola Dwurnik, Apolonia's Garden: Kamil, 2010, oil on canvas Apolonia’s Erotic Garden Pola Dwurnik 29.06.2012-30.09.2012 Exhibition place: MOCAK, Galeria Alfa Curator: Monika Kozioł An individual exhibition of Pola Dwurnik will present works from the series Apolonia’s Garden. The series alludes to the libretto of Alcina, an opera by George Frideric Handel: a witch who lives [...]
An installation of abstract tree forms reminding of the meeting place of the first Jewish merchants with inhabitants of Polish lands, visualisation of theForest Gallery, part of the Core Exhibition Visualisation of Core Exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews Warsaw, 06.07.2012 An interactive and emotional tale, a journey through a thousand [...]
Shana Moulton – Whispering Pines 5, video, 2005 SHANA MOULTON – Will Power From 22 June 2012 to 23 August 2012 Opening: 18:00 Curator: Michał Jachuła Place: Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, 2 Mickiewicza St. Artists: Shana Moulton Will Power, prepared for Arsenał Gallery in Białystok, is the first solo exhibition of Shana Moulton in Poland. [...]
Agnieszka Kurant, Uncertainty Principle, 2008, Wood, foam, dried plants, electro-magnets, Courtesy: the artist, Galeria Fortes Vilaça Phantom Capital Focus Poland Project Exhibition opening: Friday, 15th June 2012 at 7 pm Curated by: Joanna Sandell Personal exhibition of Agnieszka Kurant at the CoCA Torun continues quadrennial cycles entitled FOCUS POLAND dedicated to emerging Polish artists and [...]
Radek Szlaga, "Szara strefa", 2012, photo: courtesy of Galeria Foksal Freedom Club – Trailer: Szlaga's Anarchistic Art Bomb at Galeria Foksal 06.06.2012 – 10.08.2012 Radek Szlaga's critical look at culture, history, the Polish tradition and Western consumerism takes on the form of an artistic bomb of alternative reality, tucked away in the heart of Warsaw [...]
Gabi Stamate / Me in the TV, b/w photography, 20×16 cm each, 1989 The Poetics of Politics Galeria Propaganda, Warsaw, Poland Opening: Thursday, 14th June 2012, at 6 p.m. Artists: Olimpiu Bandalac, Ciprian Chirileanu, Euroartist Bucureşti, Suzana Fântânariu, Constantin Flondor, Teodor Graur, House pARTy, Iosif Király, Sorin Oncu, Christian Paraschiv, Marilena Preda Sânc, Valeriu Șchiau, [...]
"Rainbow" on Plac Zbawiciela in Warsaw – visualisation, 2012, photo: Adam Mickiewicz Institute A Permanent Rainbow Over Warsaw Warszawa, 08.06.2012 – 09.09.2012 An interactive public installation, a multi-hued array of 16, 000 fake flowers on a 9 meter tall and 26 meter wide metal railing – the Rainbow on Plac Zbawiciela is "here for your [...]
Edward Dwurnik Paintings in interiors Splashes of paint, explosions of colour. No motif, no plot, no architecture, neither sky nor earth, neither top nor bottom. Only pure abstraction and the sheer joy of painting. Edward Dwurnik as an abstractionist? The painter of towns and cities and their typical Polish ‘face’ – yes, we have all [...]
Laura Makabresku from the The Moon Is for Adults Only series, 2010 Traces of Memory at the 10th Photomonth Festival in Kraków 17.05.2012 – 17.06.2012 The photographs ofJerzy Lewczyński, a flagship exhibition of this month's photography fair in Kraków, manifests a talent for recording reality in its most minute manifestations. These forgotten, yellowed photos trace [...]
Reynold Reynolds – Die Verlorenen- Group Portrait, Residents of Troika From a found b/w negative, 1933 4”x 5”/ 10,2 x 12,7 cm Digital pigment print, 2011 82 x 100 cm REYNOLD REYNOLDS – The Lost From 19 May 2012 to 15 June 2012 Opening: 18:00 Curator: Stach Szablowski Place: Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, 2 Mickiewicza [...]
Maurycy Gomulicki, Orphan Mary, 1997 Courtesy of Fotofestival in Łódź Subjects of Gender and Desire at the 2012 Fotofestival in Łódź 11.05.2012 – 20.05.2012 The 11th edition of the annual photography showcase in Łódź puts a focus on the representation of women in contemporary photography, drawing from the evolution of the female image over decades [...]
Slavs and Tatars, Not Moscow Not Mecca Slavs and Tatars – Not Moscow Not Mecca Vienna, 03.05.2012 – 17.06.2012 The luscious and sensual display at Vienna's Secession is the work of a group of artists whose affection for Central Asia and untamed creativity translates into a live autobiography of the vast and culturally diverse region [...]
Aleksandra Waliszewska, Portrait, 2010 Aleksandra Waliszewska's Nasty Child Launches the Pekao Project Room 24.04.2012 – 06.05.2012 The young artist's series of dark, disturbing works inaugurates an ambitious project to support young artists hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle and funded by Pekao Bank Nasty Child is a series of gouaches in [...]
A visualisation of the winning project, photo: press release, courtesy of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Sołyga, Śmiechowski and Komorek to Design Smoleńsk Monument Orońsko and Smolensk, 30.03.2012 – 10.06.2012 Andrzej Sołyga, a sculptor, Dariusz Śmiechowski, an architect, and Dariusz Komorek, a graphic designer came together to participate in an international competition [...]
Jan Berdyszak, Come into the Light, installation, source: CSW Toruń Jan Berdyszak – Thickness of Shadows – Between Light and Darkness 30.03.2012 – 13.05.2012 The installation is a unique take on manners of perceiving reality and representing space The exhibition centres around the particular phenomenon of perception of light and shadow in three ways. Shadows [...]
Justyna Kisielewicz, Mommy Dearest, 2011, courtesy of the Galeria Bielska BWA Farewell: Graduate Show from the Studio of Leon Tarasewicz and Paweł Susid Białystok, 30.03.2012 – 22.04.2012 Galeria Bielska BWA presents an exhibition of works by a group of graduates of Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts Painting Department, led by Leon Tarasewicz and Paweł Susid [...]
Untitled [still], DVD, 2 min. 37 s., 2012 Maria Szkop – Keep It Simple 28.03.2012 – 28.04.2012 Maria Szkop's works come together as a catalalogue of fundamental observations and experiences, along with a private topography of those places and people most important to her The artist uses personal experience to establish links between specific points [...]
