Valie Export: Bilder der BerÜhrung [Images of Contingence]

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Zofia Kulik's work is part of the exhibition Hold und mächtig? Das Bild der Mutter in den Kulturen der Welt. The exhibition is a joint project of Westfälisches Museum für religiöse Kultur RELíGIO and SØR Rusche collection Oelde/Berlin.

Exhibition:
May 12 – September 13, 2013

Location:
RELíGIO - Westfälisches Museum für religiöse Kultur
Herrenstraße 1-2
48291 Telgte

Vlatka Horvat's works Anatomies and Topographies are part of the exhibition Paperboats at Trapéz Gallery in Budapest.

'The works shown in the exhibition Paperboats reveal and confate formal and mental dichotomies. They express, on the one hand, a drive to come up with an articulate form, a need for an order of (geometric) composition and, on the other hand, feelings of the void appearing under one's feet, of insecurity, alienation and disappearance. It is physical presence or absence (the human body and face, often fragmented or concealed), the relation of body to personality or to its surroundings that is being interpreted in various ways; next to the objectifed (rearranged, recomposed, scrutinized) human fgures, the presented objects and landscapes gain an anthropomorph reading.'

Further participating artists:
Sári Ember, Csilla Klenyászki, and Andreas Werner.

Curated by Hajnalka Somogyi

Opening: May 7, 2013, 7 pm
Exhibition: May 8 – June 14, 2013


Location

TRAPÉZ I
Henszlmann Imre utca 3
1053 Budapest 

For further information please visit: www.trpz.hu

The exhibition Sztuka dla sztuki [Art for art's sake] consists of several dozen works by the artist Szymon Kobylarz.
The works are watercolors from the years 2012 and 2013; painted as hypothetical, dreamed up shows (utopian, impossible, probable, nonsensical). The artist put on canvas not only his visions but as well the exhibition ideas proposed by the curator; planned for the next year and a half.
The exhibition is some kind of "reality check" of imagination: the artistic fantasy will now have to wait for its actual execution or revocation.

Curated by Stanisław Ruksza

Opening: April 27, 2013

, 7 pm
Exhibition: April 28 – June 22, 2013


Location:

Kronika - Centre for Contemporary Art
Rynek 26
Bytom

For further information please visit: www.kronika.org.pl

La Station presents L’HALLALI
 - an exhibition of Joanna Rajkowska and Rémi Voche

For this exhibition, La Station chose to confront a photographic series by Joanna Rajkowska (Last Summer in Obersalzberg) and a selection of photographs by Rémi Voche, whose common motif seems to be the body conversing with nature. The artists stage themselves in a fully animal attitude: naked, in direct connection with the environing flora, they seem to apprehend the world on their own scale.

Opening: April 26, 2013, from 6 pm
Reading by Joanna Rajkowska and performance by Rémi Voche from 7 PM.
Exhibition: April 27 - June 15, 2013.


Location:

La Station Halle sud du chantier Sang neuf
89 route de Turin
06300 Nice

We are pleased to announce our participation at ART COLOGNE 2013 with works of Zofia Kulik.

We cordially invite you to visit our booth –
A - 011, Hall 11.3, NEW CONTEMPORARIES, Koelnmesse, Eingang Süd

47. ART COLOGNE 2013
April 19 – 22, 2013
Vernissage: April 18, 2012, 5-9 pm (by invitation only)



For further information please visit www.artcologne.com

Agnieszka Polska's works will be shown in April at three festivals dedicated to art & animated film.

The events are designed to be exhibitions and film festivals in one, changing the focus between geographical dimensions, the film approach as such and the artistic orientation.

Dates:

goEast-Filmfestival
13th Festival of Central and Eastern European Film
April 10 - 16, 2013
Wiesbaden, DE
www.filmfestival-goeast.de
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20th International Festival of Animated Film
April 23 - 28, 2013
Stuttgart, DE
www.itfs.de
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Kino der Kunst
April 24 - 28, 2013
Munich, DE
www.kinoderkunst.de

Hubert Czerepok's works will be shown in a solo show entitled History and Utopia at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok.

At the core of Czerepoks oeuvre are the connections between fiction, topicality and historical events. It is not the facts themselves that interest the artist, but rather the way they begin with shifts, mutations, and unimaginable formal and semantic transformations. Shown are drawings, installations, video and neon works.

Curated by Monika Szewczyk

Opening: April 5, 2013

, 6 pm
Exhibition: April 6 – May 23, 2013


Location:

Arsenal Gallery
ul. Mickiewicza 2
15-222 Bialystok

For further information please visit: www.galeria-arsenal.pl

Vlatka Horvat's work is part of the exhibition Zero Point of Meaning. Non-functional, Non-representational, Elementary, Experimental and Conceptual Photography in Croatia at Camera Austria.

Further participating artists:
Boris Cvjetanović, Petar Dabac, Sandro Đukić, Igor Eškinja, Ivan Faktor, Tomislav Gotovac, Boris Greiner, Miljenko Horvat, Vlatka Horvat, Željko Jerman, David Maljković, Antun Maračić, Enes Midžić, Marijan Molnar, Ivan Posavec, Davor Sanvincenti, Edita Schubert, Mladen Stilinović, Slaven Tolj, Goran Trbuljak, Josip Vaništa, Mirjana Vodopija, and Fedor Vučemilović.

Curated by Sandra Križić Roban and Ivana Hanaček
Assistant: Jelena Pašić
Exhibition design: Ana Dana Beroš

The exhibition “Zero Point of Meaning” seeks to explore photography as an experimental and research medium. Artists who have reached for a camera at a particular point in their artistic career (or instructed others to shoot something particular, or simply took over – appropriated – other people’s photographs) were not interested in the technical capacities of the medium or even the quality of their shots; instead, they considered photography as a sort of coordinate that functioned like an echo of some event or absent artwork, like a channel communicating the conceptualization or realization of a particular artistic idea. All this testifies to important changes in the way photography was understood and interpreted as art, all of which was influenced by the political and social circumstances from the 60s onwards.

Exhibition: March 9 – May 26, 2013

For further information please visit: www.camera-austria.at

The video work by Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat is part of the group exhibition Sweet Bitter Symphony at Künstlerhaus Bremen.

"Weather sweet pain, eloquent silence, or lovehate, all are linked by one factor: the inherent contradiction contained in these antithetical or mutually exclusive notions. As a rhetorical device such contrariness is known as an oxymoron, while in the fine arts it has always been utilised as a stylistic ploy. The oxymoron is predestined to denote ambiguous, multi-layered content, which it imparts in an incisive and gripping manner. The manifestation of “sweet pain” was at its most popular during the Baroque era, and its effects can still be felt today, for this conflicting conceptual coupling still features in many contemporary art works. One reason, perhaps, being that both suffering and enjoyment are enormously powerful physical and psychological sensual perceptions. They make such a huge impression that merely looking at a work of art interpreting individual pain can totally captivate the viewer, who is swept along and carried away by the intentionally direct impact. In that respect there is no difference between the Baroque ideal and that of the contemporary artist.
Sweet Bitter Symphony brings together video works by major contemporary artists. It considers pain as one of the most intense and yet most polyvalent human emotions. Although it can be experienced as an oppressive burden, as a cry for help from the body or mind, the feeling of pain is not necessarily negatively tinged. These works of art present pain in all its diversity: its beauty, its attractiveness, its romantic or liberating nature." (Source: press material)

Further participating artists: Sofia Hultén, Sven Johne, Ragnar Kjartansson, Liz Magic Laser

Opening: Friday, March 08, 7:30 pm
Exhibition: March 09 - May 19, 2013

Location:
Künstlerhaus Bremen
Am Deich 68/69
28199 Bremen 


Vlatka Horvat's work is part of the exhibition Die gestundete Zeit (Time deferred) at Sies + Höke gallery in Düsseldorf.

Further participating artists: Rosa Barba, Eli Cortiñas, Björn Dahlem
, Marcel Dzama, Luigi Ghirri, Jamie Isenstein, Ronny Lischinski, Gregor Schneider
, Katja Strunz, Franz Erhard Walther and Thomas Zipp.

Curated by Gesine Borcherdt

Opening: Thursday, February 21, 7-9 pm
Exhibition: February 22 – April 3, 20123

Location:

Sies + Höke gallery
Poststrasse 2+3
40213 Düsseldorf


For further information please visit:
www.sieshoeke.com

Katarzyna Kozyra is presenting her new video work Looking for Jesus at the VIDEO ROOM of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw.

The starting point for Katarzyna Kozyra was the so-called Jerusalem syndrome - an acute delusional disorder, being first clinically described in the second half of the twentieth century, where people identify themselves with biblical characters, and mostly with the Messiah. In the Spring of 2012 the artist went with her film crew to Jerusalem to find "Jesus". The main questions that she asks herself and the society are: What are the mechanisms that shape our beliefs and faith? How do we perceive reality and how do we build its view? Isn’t a critical approach and a constant verification of facts, just another kind of intuitive desire to believe in the power of reason?

VIDEO ROOM is a new long term project of the Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, which provides to the audience the best and newest creations of video art. Starting in November of 2012, every second Monday (beginning of 2013 -  every third) in one of the halls of the Ujazdowski Castle, the visitors will be able to view the works of renowned Polish and international video artists.

Opening: February 11, 2013 at 6 pm
Exhibition: February 12 – 24, 2013

Curated by Hanna Wróblewska

Location:
The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle

ul. Jazdów 2
00-467 Warsaw

The project by ŻAK BRANICKA FOUNDATION was produced with the support of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

After last years Monograph Yane Calovski: Obje’ct published by Zorlu Centre Art Collection in Istanbul, Yane Calovski is discussed in the exhibition catalogue Yane Calovski: Interlocutor published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje available from February 20, 2013.

Yane Calovski: Obje'ct
Monograph, edited by Basak Senova
With texts by Basak Senova, Astrid Wege, and Sebastian Cichocki
Published by Zorlu Centre Art Collection, Istanbul, 2012
ISBN: 978-605-63320-0-5
Available to order from the publisher

Yane Calovski: Interlocutor
Exhibition catalogue, edited by Mira Gakina
With texts by Mira Gakina, Liljana Nedelkovska, and Sebastian Cichocki
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, 2013
ISBN: 978-9989-199-56-1
Available February 20, 2013

Szymon Kobylarz's work is part of the group exhibition MILK TEETH at BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice.

Further participating artists: Tomasz Baran, Natalia Bażowska, Michał Gayer, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Bartosz Kokosiński, Daria Malicka, Dominik Ritszel, Michał Smandek, Monika Szwed, Erwina Ziomkowska.

Curated by Marta Lisok

Opening: February 1, 2013
Exhibition: February 2 – March 17, 2013

Location:
BWA Contemporary Art Gallery
Aleja Wojciecha Korfantego 6
40-004 Katowice

For further information please visit: www.bwa.katowice.pl/p/316/mleczne_zby__otwarcie_wystawy_1_lutego/

Dominik Lejman's work Skiers was selected by visual arts curator KJBaysa to accommany Chocolate Fountain, a symposium organised by Xander Ferreira, 11-13 January 2013 at Kurhaus Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

Further selected artists are Aerosyn-Lex Meštrović (USA) with Leif Trenkler (Germany)

Hubert Czerepok's video work Lux Aeterna will be shown at the VIDEO ROOM of Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw.

VIDEO ROOM is a new long term project of the Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, which provides to the audience the best and newest creations of video art. Starting in November of 2012, every second Monday (beginning of 2013 -  every third) in one of the halls of the Ujazdowski Castle, the visitors will be able to view the works of renowned Polish and international video artists.

Opening: January 14, 2013 at 6 pm

Exhibition: January 15 - 27, 2013

Curated by Ewa Gorządek

Location: 
The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
ul. Jazdów 2
00-467 Warsaw

Kunstsammlung NRW presents Katarzyna Kozyra's latest project Master of Puppets.

Especially created for the spaces of Schmela Haus in Düsseldorf and as the title already implies, the concept of Master of Puppets refers to a critical dealing with proportions, scales and sizes. The basic idea is to allow for a new reception of Kozyra's already existing works by either reducing or enlarging their respective sizes. Also the artist will work with viewing habits and reception in general integrating the given architectural characteristics into her curatorial concept.


Master of Puppets. Katarzyna Kozyra & The Midget Gallery
Exhibition: October 26, 2012 – March 10, 2013


Location:
SCHMELA HAUS
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Ständehausstr. 1
40217 Düsseldorf

For further information please visit: www.kunstsammlung.de

Michał Jankowski's work is part of the exhibition SUPEŁ (together with Basia Bańda) at Galeria Format.

Curator: Agnieszka Żechowska

Opening: Saturday, November 17, 2012, 12-8 pm
Exhibition: November 17, 2012 – January 30, 2013

Location:
Galeria Format
Emilii Plater 47
Warsaw

Katarzyna Kozyra's work is part of the group exhibition Naked Man at Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz and Ludwig Museum in Budapest.

The deconstruction of the model of male hegemony, alternative concepts of masculinity and the male body as an object of a desire, the cult and the destruction of the body are the subject of the exhibition.

Naked Man at Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
Exhibition: October 26, 2012 - February 17, 2013

For further information please visit: www.lentos.at

Naked Man at Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Exhibition: March 21, 2013 - June 30, 2013

In his paintings Paweł Książek connects different topics, creates associative references and defines new artistic space between painting, sculpture and video art. In his most recent works Książek plays with perception – using painting as a medium he first emphasizes and secondly blurs the difference between fiction and reality. He concentrates on hands as a subject and power they possess, regardless of whether they are the hands of an artist, a pianist or a murderer.

Opening: Thursday, December 6, 2012, 7 pm
Exhibition: December 7, 2012 – February 8, 2013

Location:
Polnisches Institut Berlin

Oberes Belvedere and 21er Haus are presenting the works of Agnieszka Polska. The exhibition, together with Lisa Oppenheim, is a part of the project Intervention.

Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum

Opening: Tuesday, November 20, 7pm
Exhibition: November 21, 2012 - February 3, 2013

Location:
Oberes Belvedere and 21er Haus
Vienna

For further information please visit: www.belvedere.at

Dominik Lejman's work is part of the exhibition Imaginäre Reisen at Amerika Haus at Bahnhof Zoo.

The first ArtPod exhibition invites visitors to embark on a journey taking one through the space seeing and experiencing art in unconventional ways. While traveling through the exhibition the art may trigger memories, alter moods, transform a space, play with senses or confuse perspectives, bringing you somewhere else in your imagination.

Curator: Laurie de Chiara

Opening: November 3, 2 to 5pm
Exhibition: November 3 – December 16, 2012

Location:
Amerika Haus at Bahnhof Zoo
Hardenbergstr. 22-24
10623 Berlin

For further information please visit: www.artpod.org

Yane Calovski is taking part in the research visit and presentation in the frame of OuUnPo Beirut 2012.

In the wake of the last year´s events, OuUnPo needs to move beyond its European birthplace and investigate what can be learned from events of the Arab Spring and how these can be reintegrated into European democratic and artistic processes. OuUnPo has therefore taken the first steps to develop its ties with artists, curators, scientists and institutions in Lebanon. These has been developed during the year and will end as a week-long work session in Beirut in December 2012.

For further information please visit: www.ouunpolebanon.blogspot.de

The event is organised by: Sara Giannini & Fatos Üstek

The work of Agnieszka Polska How the Work is Done is part of the 29^th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival and will be shown on Sunday, November 18, 2012.

The 29^th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival will take place from November 13 - 18, 2012 in Kassel

For further information please visit: www.kasselerdokfest.de

Paweł Książek's work is part of the exhibition FLYING at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

Flying by plane is ruining the environment. Every flight that can possibly be avoided, should be, as it helps the environment. More than 60 artists were asked to "put wings" to their ideas for the exhibition FLYING, among them many former fellowship holders at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. There was no prescribed minimum altitude. The emerging group of works are correspondingly free – despite staying in the field of painting. The exhibition arises from the yet to be released book project Flying by Stefanie Steudemann and Peter Glückstein of ‘2und50’ in which 52 artists and 52 authors explore the subject.

Opening: November 8, 2012, 7-10 pm
Exhibition: November 9 – December 16, 2012

Free admission

Location:
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Kottbusser Straße 10
10999 Berlin

For further information please visit: www.bethanien.de

Boston University Art Gallery presents Vlatka Horvat's works in the frame of her solo show entitled Also Called: Backbone, Anchor, Lifeline.

Vlatka Horvat’s site-specific installation takes its cue from the architecture of the gallery’s Art Deco railings, knobs, faux detailing, and decoration, as well as materials found near the Boston University campus and surrounding areas.

Curated by: Kate McNamara

Opening: November 8, 2012, 6-8 pm
Exhibition: November 9 – Dec 20, 2012

Location:
Boston University Art Gallery

For further information please visit: www.bu.edu/art/

For a period of three months this fall the program of Stroom, Den Haag, will be dedicated to performance art, in the broadest sense of the word. Vlatka Horvat is one of four international artists—besides Ruth Buchanan (New Zealand), Leidy Churchman (USA), and Adrien Tirtiaux (Belgium)—taking part in the project Expanded Performance.

For Expanded Performance, Vlatka Horvat is working on two new projects: a sculptural intervention in the narrow passages and stairways of the Stroom building and a three-month long project involving all the employees of the museum.

On the day of the opening, Expanded Performance will not present an exhibition in its finished form; over time the presentation will change, by means of performances, activities and visitor participation.

Exhibition: September 30 -  December 16, 2012

Opening: Saturday, September 29, 2012, 5 pm


Location:
Stroom Den Haag
Hogewal 1-9
The Hague


For further information please visit: www.stroom.nl

Hubert Czerepok's work Everything Is Darkness is part of the group show of the International Sculpture Quadrennial in Riga.

Further participants are: Adel Abidin, Andree Korpys and Markus Löffler, Christoph Faulhaber, Chto Delat?, Conny Blom, Dalibor Martinis, Erbossyn Meldibekov, Ernests Kļaviņš, Eugenio Merino, Ginters Krumholcs, IRWIN group, Isaac Cordal, Kirke Kangro, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Rimantas Milkintas, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Szabolcs Suli Zakar, and Vladas Urbanavicius.

The 11th Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2012 (SQR 2012) is devoted to the theme of Anatomy of Integration.

SQR 2012 will take place from October 5 - November 25, 2012.

For further information please visit: www.squadrennial.eu

At this year's FIAC in Paris we will present works from Carl Andre and Stanisław Dróżdż.

FiAC PARIS will take place from October 18 - 21, 2012.
Opening: Oct 17, 2012

Location:
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris

Joanna Rajkowska's work is part of the exhibition Attendance Obligatory? Few Tales about Participation
at Łódź Design Festival.

The exhibition presents artistic and research projects that have a social movement character in that they call for the active participation of the audience. The projects uncover the problems of both the participants and the authors during the process of their realization. The situation in which the project is realized (or not realized) is a diagnosis of the condition of society, showing society’s needs and the changes occurring within it. It speaks of openness and accountability for oneself, others and a shared space.

Curator: Marika Kuźmicz, Foundation ArtOn.

Location:
Festival Centre, III Floor
Targowa 35
Łódź

Opening: October 18, 2012 6 to 9 pm
Exhibition: October 19 - 28, 2012

For further information please visit: www.lodzdesign.com

Agnieszka Polska's work is part of the group show MISPLACED, DISPLACED, REPLACED at ROTWAND Gallery Sabina Kohler & Bettina Meier-Bickel.

Additional artists: 
Ilit Azoulay, Bettina Buck, Tatjana Gerhard, Jeroen Jacobs, and Mathew Sawyer
.

Opening: Saturday, October 27, 11am-5pm
Exhibition: 
October 27, 2012 - January 13, 2013


For further information please visit: www.rotwandgallery.com

At this year's FRIEZE in London Joanna Rajkowska will present a site-specific work entitled Forcing A Miracle.

Further artists commissioned to make a site-specific work for Frieze Projects 2012 are: Thomas Bayrle, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, DIS magazine, and Grizedale Arts/Yangjiang Group.

Agnieszka Polska's work is part of the group exhibition In PRL only Military Academies, Militia Academies and PWSSP arent't on strike at Galeria Pies in Poznań .

Further participating artists: Krzysztof Kaczmarek, Zbigniew Libera, Sonia Rammer, Szymon Wójciak

Opening: October 5, 2012, 6 to 9 pm
Exhibition: October 6 – 20, 2012

Galeria Pies
ul. Dąbrowskiego 25a
Poznań
Poland

For further information please visit: www.galeriapies.pl

Katarzyna Kozyra's presentation about the artist and Diva Reincarnation at MOMA, held in conjunction with the exhibition Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972.

Time: Friday, October 5, 2012, 12:00–5:00 pm

Location:
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater)
mezzanine
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
MoMA, NY

For further information please visit: www.moma.org

Kulturhuset in Stockholm presents a solo exhibition of Katarzyna Kozyra and offers an overview of her most famous and recognized works.
This exhibition includes installations, video works and photos from the mid-1990s to the present. It is the first major presentation of Kozyra's work in Sweden.

Curated by Timothy Persons and Estelle af Malmborg.

Exhibition: September 29, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Opening: September 28, 2012

Location:
Kulturhuset
Sergels torg
103 27 Stockholm

For further information please visit: www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se

Vlatka Horvat's work is part of the exhibition GOOD LIFE of the 53rd October Salon in Belgrade.

Curated by Branislav Dimitrijević & Mika Hannula.

The exhibition GOOD LIFE / ГУД ЛАЈФ – Physical narratives and spatial imaginations confronts the changes and challenges of the past 20 years. It is a collection of site-specific works that faces the dilemmas of our contemporary lives, the mess we are in, and the hopes we try to hold on to.

Exhibition: September 22 – November 4, 2012
Opening: Saturday, September 22, 1pm

Location:
The former building of the Geodetic Institute

Karađorđeva 48
Belgrade


Organizer: The Cultural Centre of Belgrade
For further information please visit: www.oktobarskisalon.org

Agnieszka Polska’s exhibition entitled Aurorite revolves around the artist’s most recent film Włosy (Hair) the premiere of which will take place in the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle.

Using the Polish hippie movement as a starting point, the artist asks questions about the character of  revolutionary ideas, which in the different social and political context of Poland, underwent transformation and got distorted with respect to its original. What is behind the evolution process of an idea and what is the catalyst of changes?

Agnieszka Polska  // AURORITE
Opening: September 7, 2012 at 7 pm
Exhibition open through: November 25, 2012
Curator: Ewa Gorządek
Gallery 2
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
ul. Jazdów 2
00-467 Warsaw

For further information please visit: www.csw.art.pl

At this year's VIENNAFAIR we will present works from Robert C.Breer, Stanisław Dróżdż, Vlatka Horvat, Allan Kaprow, Paweł Książek, Dominik Lejman, Roman Opałka and Agnieszka Polska.

VIENNAFAIR will take place from September 20 - 23, 2012.

Location:
Messe Wien
Hall A / Booth G07
Messeplatz 1
1020 Vienna

ŻAK | BRANICKA AT "ABC – ART BERLIN CONTEMPORARY"

At this year's abc (art berlin contemporary) we will present Szymon Kobylarz's most recent work Frederick the Great from the exhibition Denk-Zeichen Kostrzyn and his 2007 made installation entitled Nose Punch Machine.

abc will take place from September 13–16, 2012.

Location:  

Station-Berlin

Luckenwalder Strasse 4–6

10963 Berlin

For further information please visit: www.artberlincontemporary.com

Vlatka Horvat's work And Counting (Five) is a part of the exbition Moments suspended in Time at annex14/Raum für aktuelle Kunst in Bern.

"Catching the fugitive, keeping it in the air, giving it a shape is the leitmotif of the current group show Moments suspended in Time. Time and space in which the events develop, flash over or close in on us are therefore a very important reference points for all selected artist with all the differences of artistic approaches."

Further participating artist are: Omar Alessandro, Michal Budny, Florian Dombois, Ana Roldán, and Martina Sauter

Exhibition: August, 23 - September 29, 2012
Opening: August 23, 2012 at 6 pm

annex14
Raum für aktuelle Kunst
Suzanne B. Friedli / Elisabeth Gerber
Junkerngasse 14/Postfach 586
CH-3000 Bern 8

For further information please visit: www.annex14.com

Hubert Czerepok and Szymon Kobylarz are participating in the exhibition Denk-Zeichen Kostrzyn which is part of Kulturland Brandenburg 2012 COME TO YOUR SENSES! Friedrich the Second of Prussia. Eleven international artists have created site-specific artworks for the exhibition which has been curated by Christoph Tannert (Künstlerhaus Bethanien) and takes place in the ruins of the former fortress of Kostrzyn, where Crown Prince Friedrich was detained by his father from 1730-32 after his unsuccessful escape from Prussia.



Participating artists are Roland Boden / Hubert Czerepok / Roland Fuhrmann / Szymon Kobylarz / Via Lewandowsky / Ulrich Polster / Jörg Schlinke / Nasan Tur / URBAN ART (Anne Peschken / Marek Pisarsky) / Simone Zaugg



Opening: Saturday, July 28, 2012, 5pm

Exhibition: July 29 to September 09, 2012 (open air exhibition / free access)

Location: Ruins of the former fortress of Kostrzyn / in the inner castle courtyard



For further information please visit www.bethanien.de

A solo exhibition entitled Józef Robakowski. The Handshake at ZKM Karlsruhe offers an overview on Józef Robakowski's video works on one hand and on his activities concerning the Exchange Gallery (inaugurated in his apartment in Łódź in 1978) on the other. Video works on show include Market (1970), Attention Light (1981-2004), Art is Power (1985) and Exultation, Oratorio for Katarzyna Kobro (2011). The exhibition has been curated by Michał Jachuła and Tobi Maier.

A catalogue accompanying the exhibition (Polish/English/German) has been published with Spector Book, Leipzig. 

Exhibition: June 16 – September 9, 2012

ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie
Lorenzstr. 19
76135 Karlsruhe
Germany

For further information please visit www.zkm.de

An interview with Jozef Robakowski can be found on youtube.

We are delighted to announce that Agnieszka Polska is on the shortlist for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012. She has been selected as one of 21 out of 4200 applicants worldwide and is the only shortlisted artist from Poland.

The prize is awarded every two years and was inaugurated in 2010 by Victor Pinchuk. An exhibition of all 21 shortlisted artists will open at the PinchukArtCentre on October 27, 2012. The internationally renowned jury will then choose the winner. The Award Ceremony will be on December 7, 2012, in Kiev.

For further information about the prize please go to www.futuregenerationartprize.org

We are delighted to announce Yane Calovski's nomination as an artist in residence for this year's ORTung in Strobl / Austria. He will develop a new project which is based on his 2011 project Shkolka which has been presented for the first time in a major solo exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje. 

The exhibition of the project will follow mid 2013.

Please follow this link to find out more about ORTung: www.ortung-symposium.at

Hubert Czerepok's work is part of the group exhibition Cultural Transference at EFA Project Space.The exhibition focuses on 16 international and New-York-based artistic positions that are engaged with the transformation of culture. The exhibited works range from video and sculpture through performance and installation to collage, and craft-based projects.

Further artists: Firelei Baez, Matthew Cowan, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Pablo Helguera, Christopher K. Ho, Yoko Inoue, LoVid, Umesh Maddanahalli, Dread Scott and Kyle Goen, Allison Smith, Juliana Irene Smith, Shinique Smith, and Elisabeth Smolarz  

Exhibition: June 15 – July 27, 2012

Opening: June 15, 2012, 6 – 8 pm

EFA Project Space
323 W 39th St., 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
USA

For further information please visit www.efanyc.org

Józef Robakowski

In the retrospective solo exhibition 'My very own Cinema' Robakowski’s artistic practice is presented in a confrontation of two different but related perspectives: of ‘expanded cinema’ and ‘my very own cinema’.

Opening: June 4, 2012 8pm

(7.30 pm performance titled ‘A Shipment from Łódź’ by the artist)

Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
ul. Jazdów 2
00-467 Warsaw

Further information: 

http://www.csw.art.pl/

www.robakowski.net

Hubert Czerepok in Stettin

In the group exhibition Jądro ciemności (Essence of Darkness) the artist Hubert Czerepok shows his work 'Nie tylko dobro przychodzi z gory' (Not only good come from above) from 2008.

Academy of Arts Stettin

Duration:  01.06-10.07.2012

Hubert Czerepok and Szymon Kobylarz are part of the group show Apocalypse at 13 muz within the framework of International Art Festival Wizulanej inSpiracje in Szczecin.

Further artists: Natalia LL, Mark Morgan, Maciej Kurak, Isao Hashimoto, Gregor Graf, Democracia, Michał Bałdyga, Danuta Dąbrowska, Zofia Kulik, Peter Fuss, Oskar Dawicki, Józef Robakowski, Piotr Bosacki, Ruslan Vashkevich, Sergey Shabohin, Maciej Litkowski, Zorka Project, Gregor Schneider, Przemysław Truściński, Jakub Rebelka, Anna Orlikowska, Artur Malewski, Hubert Czerepok, Agata Michowska, Małgorzata Szymankiewicz, Kuba Bąkowski, Piotr Skiba, Bartosz Kokosiński, Aleksandra Godlewska, Anna Jochymek, Joanna Sitko, Łukasz Trusewicz, Malina Tomaszewska, Natalia Niedziela, Ola Kozioł, Paweł Żukowski, Piotr Lis, Sylwia Jakubowska, Tomasz Wlaźlak, Tymon Nogalski, Seirenes, Metrobox, Kwartet / Deutche Opera, Daniela La Luz, Chinawoman, Yannick Robyns, Satyam Dave, Cad Camouonem, Tony Oursler, Bogna Burska, Monika Szpener, Szymon Kobylarz, Rafał Milach, Magda Sakowska-Carło, Sin Sensor, Daniel Zachodni, LSR, Thom Logic, Thomas B, Chris Da Break, Sick Boy, Balestra Berlin 

Festival: June 1 – 3, 2012

Exhibition: June 1 – August 31, 2012

13 muz
Plac Żołnierza Polskiego 2
70-551 Szczecin 
Poland

For further information please visit www.en.inspiracje.art.pl

Agnieszka Polska's video Plunderer's Dream (2011) is part of the screening Fetish & Figure at ICA London on May 26 and May 27, 2012. The Screening is curated by Martha Kirszenbaum and part of the Lux Biennial of Moving Image.

Further artists: Kenneth Anger, Isabelle Cornaro, Shana Moulton, Ulla Von Brandenburg, Ursula Mayer

Screenings: May 26, 2012, 2pm, ICA Cinema 1 (followed by a Q&A with the curator)
                  May 27, 2012, 4pm, ICA Cinema 1

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall,
London, SW1Y 5AH
UK

For additional information please visit www.ica.org.uk

Katarzyna Kozyra's and Agnieszka Polska's video works are part of the group exhibition Sport in Art at the MOCAK - Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow. After History in Art, this exhibition curated by Monika Kozioł, Delfina Piekarska and Maria Anna Potocka is the second exhibition demonstrating "how artists perceive the issues that matter in people's everyday lives."

Further artists in the exhibition: Kuba Bąkowski, Andrea Bender, Olaf Breuning, Roderick Buchanan, Paolo Canevari, Leon Chwistek, Josef Dabernig, Simone Demandt, Edward Dwurnik, Margret Eicher, Harun Farocki, Richard Fauguet, Massimo Furlan, Wolfgang Gärber, Volker Hildebrandt, Vlastimil Hoffman, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Rafał Jakubowicz, Zuzanna Janin, Assa Kauppi, Justyna Koeke, Kamil Kuskowski, Robert Kuśmirowski, Antal Lakner, Sigalit Landau, Zbigniew Libera, Ulrike Lienbacher, Ingeborg Lüscher, Marcin Maciejowski, Olaf Nicolai, Jerzy Nowosielski, Kathrin Rabenort, Leni Riefenstahl, Sławomir Rumiak, Katarzyna Sagatowska, Janek Simon, Zdzisław Sosnowski, Beat Streuli, Leon Tarasewicz, Timm Ulrichs, Wunderteam

Exhibition: May 19 – September 30, 2012

Opening: May 18, 2012, 7pm

MOCAK Museum of
Contemporary Art in Krakow
ul. Lipowa 4
30-702 KRAKÓW
Poland

For additional information please visit www.mocak.pl

Hubert Czerepok's works Play Off and Lux Aeterna are part of the exhibition Final Solutions: Exhibition by Marek Wasilewski and Hubert Czerepok, curated by Monika Szewczyk. The exhibition is on view at Golden Thread Gallery's Project Space and part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.

Exhibition: May 3 – 26, 2012

Golden Thread Gallery
84-94 Great Patrick Street
Belfast, BT1 2LU
Northern Ireland

For additional information please visit www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk

Vlatka Horvat shows her most recent works in the solo exhibition Unleveling at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York. She continues her ongoing preoccupation with the problematic interplay of human body and built space, which she investigates by abstracting, fragmenting, or outright removing figuration from her pieces.

Opening: Sunday, April 29, 2012, 6 –8 pm

Exhibition: April 29 – June 24, 2012

Rachel Uffner Gallery
47 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
USA

For further information please visit www.racheluffnergallery.com

As part of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2012, we will open the exhibition Joanna Rajkowska  Born in Berlin – A Letter to Rosa on April 27, 2012, 6 – 9 pm. The work that will be presented at the gallery consists of more than 100 drawings and collages, forming a very intimate letter to the artist’s daughter. It is part of the video work Born in Berlin that Rajkowska will present at 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (Akademie der Künste).

For additional information on Gallery Weekend Berlin 2012, please visit www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de

Opening: April 27, 2012, 6 – 9 pm
Opening times during Gallery Weekend:
April 28 – 29, 2012, 11 am – 7 pm

ŻAK | BRANICKA
Lindenstr. 35
10969 Berlin

Joanna Rajkowska's most recent video works Born in Berlin and Final Fantasies will be presented for the first time at 7th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art. Both works will be on show at Akademie der Künste Berlin.

7th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art
Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin
April 27 – July 1, 2012

For further information on the Biennale please visit www.berlinbiennale.de

In cooperation with ŻAK | BRANICKA FOUNDATION
Kindly supported by the Foundation of German-Polish Cooperation and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
 

Opening: April 19, 2012, 7 pm
Exhibition: until 31 of August 2012

Polnisches Institut Berlin
Burgstrasse 27
10178 Berlin

Sumpfstadt [Swamp Town]—the phantasmagoric proposal by Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska of the raising (though in this case it might be better to use the verb ‚lowering‘) of a monument, which would not in fact add new objects to the existing urban body, but rather remove unnecessary elements. Sumpfstadt is the latest of Rajkowska‘s ‘impossible monuments‘, which grapples with the issues of amnesia, language and rituals of memory, as well as the physicality of the city, its growth and erosion.

Yane Calovski's work Tommy Rot: The Sublime Violence of Truth (2002–2012) is part of the group exhibition Aftermath, curated by Basak Senova at Akbank Art Center in Istanbul, Turkey.

Further artists in the exhibition: Adel Abidin, Almagul Menlibayeva, Ayman Yossri Daydban, Bahar Behbahani, Ceren Oykut, Constantinos Taliotis, Ipek Duben, Özgül Ezgin, Rheim Alkadhi

Exhibition: March 14 – April 28, 2012

Akbank Art Center
Istiklal Cad. No. 8  
Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey

For further information please visit: www.akbanksanat.com

Agnieszka Polska's work is part of the group show entitled Grey Peak of the Wave curated by Martha Kirszenbaum at the Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York. Grey Peak of the Wave brings together artworks from six European artists, whose practices are ingrained in geometrical constructions and abstract symbolism.

Further participating artists are: Wojciech Bakowski, Guy de Cointet, Alicja Kwade, Alexandra Leykauf, Florian and Michael Quistrebert.

Date: Thursday, March 22 - Saturday, April 28, 2012
Location: Harris Lieberman Gallery, 508 West 26th Street, New York, NY

For additional information please visit:
www.harrislieberman.com

The leitmotif for the exhibition Work in Regress presented at the Gallery AT is a Gothic cathedral vault, which was transposed and created for few seconds by a group of several dozen paratroopers, based on a draft made by the artist. The end result is registered in the form of an video.

The opening exhibition will be accompanied by performance / presentation of proper folding of a parachute.
 
Date: Monday, 19 March - Friday, 30 March, 2012
Location: GALERIA AT, Solna 4, 61-735 Poznań, Poland

Documentary Workshop with Hubert Czerepok

Through a darkly mirror

The controversial book "The Kindly Ones" (Les Bienveillantes) by Jonathan Littell and its protagonist Maximilian Aue, a Nazi and a homosexual who has lived some time in Berlin, forms the core of this documentary workshop. The workshop participants will receive selected scenes from the book in the form of an audio track and will search for traces of Maximilian. They will look deep into the topography of the city and the ghosts of the past and thus take up an intensive dialogue with history.

The language of the workshop is English.

Date: 12 to 18 April 2012
Location: Club der polnischen Versager, Ackerstr. 168, 10115 Berlin

For more information and registration (applications with CV) please contact:
filmPOLSKA @ Polnisches Institut Berlin
workshop@filmpolska.de
Tel: (030) 24 75 81 11

Joanna Rajkowska will have an artist talk with Ana Teixeira Pinto on the topic of "Context (in Art and Society)" at University of the Arts in Berlin.

Date: 09 February 2012, 6 – 7.30 pm

UdK—University of the Arts Berlin
Hardenbergstrasse 33, Raum 158
10623 Berlin

Yane Calovski's video work Hollow Land (2009) will be part of the group exhibition It's in the 'Can' – curated by Gülsen Bal – at Open Space in Vienna. The exhibition explores the possibility of a new type of politics centered in the question of what is in the ‘can’ as the title refers.

Further Artists: Heba Amin, Sanja Iveković, Christine Schörkhuber, Kamen Stoyanov

Opening: January 24, 2012, 7pm

Exhibition: January 25 – February 25, 2012

OPEN SPACE, OPEN SYSTEMS
ZENTRUM FÜR KUNSTPROJEKTE
Lassingleithnerplatz 2
1020 Wien
Austria

For additional information please visit www.openspace-zkp.org

Agnieszka Polska's work will be presented in the exhibition The Forgetting of Proper Names at Calvert 22 in London.

Further participating artists are Wojciech Bąkowski and Anna Molska.

Private View: January 24, 2012, 6–8.30pm

Exhibition: January 25 – March 18, 2012

Calvert 22 Foundation
22 Calvert Avenue
London E2 7JP
United Kingdom

For further information please visit www.calvert22.org

Katarzyna Kozyra's work is part of the group exhibition entitled Thank You for the Music: How Music Moves Us at Kiasma in Helsinki. The exhibition explores how the experiences of listening to music, watching music videos or going to a concert can appear in the life and work of an artist, a music lover, a fan.

Further participating artists are Adel Abidin (Finland), Petri Ala-Maunus (Finland), Eduardo Balanza (Spain), David Blandy (UK), Candice Breitz (South Africa), Susanne Bürner (Germany), Graham Dolphin (UK), Rose Eken (Denmark), Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard (UK), Fabien Giraud (France), Jenni Hiltunen (Finland), Jani Hänninen (Finland), Petra Lindholm (Finland), Liisa Lounila (Finland), Sophie MacCorquodale (UK), Maria Stereo (Finland), Rauha Mäkilä (Finland), Kalle Nieminen (Finland), Anneli Nygren (Finland), Pink Twins (Finland), Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland), Bojan Sarcevic (Serbia) and Terhi Ylimäinen (Finland).

Opening: January 19, 2012, 6 – 8 pm

Exhibition: January 20 – June 17, 2012

Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA
Mannerheiminaukio 2, FIN-00100
Helsinki
Finland

For further information please visit www.kiasma.fi

Partners of the exhibition: Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Lodlow 38, New York, ZKM in Karlsruhe and CEC ArtsLink, New York.

Opening: January 13, 2012, from 6 p.m.

Exhibition: January 14, 2012 - February 12, 2012

Artist talk with Józef Robakowski on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 11 a.m.

Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok
ul. Mickiewicza 2
15-222 Bialystok

Furhter information: http://galeria-arsenal.pl/en/

A selection of Agnieszka Polska's video works from the last three years will be presented as part of 12x12 – IBB Videolounge at Berlinische Galerie in Berlin during January, 2012.

Exhibition: January 4–30, 2012, Wednesday–Monday, 10am–6pm

Berlinische Galerie

Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur

Alte Jakobstraße 124-128

10969 Berlin
Germany

For additional information please visit www.berlinischegalerie.de

Yane Calovski's white drawings from the Obsessive Setting (2010) series will be presented on occasion of the exhibition White, curated by Basak Senova at CDA-Projects in Istanbul. The exhibition will allow a closer insight to the drawings of further artists such as Alban Muja, Aya Ben Ron, Ceren Oykut, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Gözde İlkin, Erik Göngrich, İlgen Arzik, and Maria Loizidou.

Opening: January 6, 2012

Exhibition: January 6 – 28, 2012

CDA-Projects
Istiklal Cad. Misir Apt. No:163 K.2 D.5
Beyoglu, Istanbul
Turkey

For additional information please visit www.cda-projects.com

Dominik Lejman´s video fresco, Double Layer,  is part of the Fossils and Gardens project  in Brussels.  Organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Cultural Institute, this project  involves beside Dominik Lejman´s work,  installations of Julita Wójcik and Maurycy Gomulicki. All three installations will be displayed in public spaces, in Brussels. Lejman´s Double Layer  will be hosted by the European Parliament building.

Opening: November 29, 2011, 3pm

Exhibition: November 29 – December 2, 2011

Venue:
European Parliament Brussels
Espace Leopold complex
Rue Wiertz/Wiertzstraat 60
B-1047 Brussels
Belgium

For additional information please visit www.culture.pl

Agnieszka Polska's series How the Work Is Done and Arton are part of the group exhibition Reworking Memories at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome, Italy. The works of the three artists on show—Agnieszka Polska, Nika Neelova and Svätopluk Mikyta—refer to the process of aquisition, reworking and distortion of historical narratives and the methods of reporting individual forgotten stories.

Opening: November 24, 2011, 7–9pm

Exhibition: November 25, 2011 – January 28, 2012

Federica Schiavo Gallery
Piazza Montevecchio 16
Rome, Italy

For additional information please visit www.federicaschiavo.com

The Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo discusses on the 14 of November several questions regarding the art scene. For example, if museums influence the form of contemporary art in their architecture, policy and strategy of expanding its collection. Or how artists can change the priorities of an institution and whether the museum has any function without artists. Moderated by Sebastian Cichocki, Shoichi Hirai and Akiko Kasuya. Participating artists are: Marysia Lewandowska, Agnieszka Polska, Jan Smaga, Joanna Rajkowska and Zbiginiew Libera.

Date: November 14, 2011
13:00-17:00 (doors open from: 12:30)

The National Art Center Tokyo
7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

For further information please visit: www.nact.jp

Alfred Jarry, an eccentric member of the Parisian Boheme, staged a play "Ubu Rex" in 1896. The play draws on absurdity and is a farce against modern men—a vulgar boor sitting down with his rump on history. 
The exhibition "Naughty Children of Alfred Jarry" pays a unique homage to Jarry by presenting historicity plunged in absurdity and eeriness, where both the tradition and the history are shown in a grotesque mirror.

Further participating artists: Jan Dziaczkowski, Tomasz Kozak, Dorota Kozieradzka, Michał Szuszkiewicz.

Opening: October 28, 2011, 6.30pm

Exhibition: October 29–November 20, 2011

Galerie Story Hotel *****

Wriezener Straße 12

13359 Berlin
Germany

For further information please visit www.nrg-studio.pl

We are pleased to announce our participation at this year's Artissima 18, where we will present Vlatka Horvat's most recent work.

Artissima 18 will take place from November 4 – 6, 2011 (Preview and Vernissage on November 3, 2011, by invitation only).

Our booth is located in Hall: Pink, Stand: PF7.

Artissima 18
Oval - Lingotto Fiere
parking entrance Via Nizza 230

pedestrian entrance Via Nizza 294

I - 10126 Torino

We are delighted to announce that Agnieszka Polska won the Grand Prix in the Geppert Award 2011 for her video-work How the Work Is Done, 2011. This First Prize of the award is sponsored by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Poland.

Further laureats: Agata Bielska, Magdalena Karpinska, Honorata Martin, Tomasz Baran

For more information please visit: www.geppert.art.pl

The ŻAK | BRANICKA Foundation  is  delighted to present  POLISH!, which was developed in cooperation with  Künstlerhaus Bethanien. This show occurs in accordance with the book POLISH!, which has been published this year, by the ŻAK | BRANICKA Foundation. The most of the  exhibiting artists are also presented in the same-titled book:  Katarzyna Kozyra, Dominik Lejman, Hubert Czerepok, Michal Jankowski, Pawel Ksiażek and Michał Budny, Rafał Bujnowski, Sławomir Elster, Roman Lipski, Piotr Urlański, Urban Art ( Marek Pisarsky+ Anne Päschen), Artur Żmijewski.


Opening: 20/10/2011, 7pm

Exhibition: 21/10-13/11/2011

Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH
Kottbusserstr.10
10999 Berlin

Michał Jankowski participates in the exhibition Krzywy Komin (The Crooked Chimney). The exhibition is the first at the new cultural space organized by Fundacja Salony at ul. Fabryczney 13 in Zielona Gora.

Other participating artists are: Ola Kubiak, Rafał Wilk, Jarek Jeschke, Basia Bańda, Marek Lalko

Opening: October 7, 2011, 6.30pm

Exhibition: October 7 – November 15, 2011

Fundacja Salony
ul. Fabryczna 13b
65-410 Zielona Gór
Poland

For more information please visit: www.fundacjasalony.pl

Paweł Książek's work will be presented in the context of the group-exhibition Halleluhwah! Hommage à CAN first at Galerie Abtart in Stuttgart and later on at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of CAN's record "Tago Mago", Christoph Tannert – director of Künstlerhaus Bethanien – curated an exhibition that shows more than fifty international artistic positions – painting, drawing, video, installation and sound-pieces – that where especially created as an Hommage to CAN in 2011.

A book with the same title, published by Christoph Tannert together with modo Verlag, accompanies the exhibition: www.modoverlag.de

Participating artists: Silva Agostini, Theo Altenberg, Josse Bailly, Matias Bechtold, Marc Bijl, Norbert Bisky, Alexander Braun, William Cordova, Josef Dabernig, Sven Drühl, Rose Eken, Mikael Eriksson, Carsten Fock, Moritz Götze, Carson Grubaugh, Eberhard Havekost, Gregor Hildebrandt, Tilman Hornig, identity shop – Henryk Gericke / Thomas Gust, Danius Kesminas / Greg Richards, Klaus Killisch, Kimberly Clark – Iris van Dongen / Eveline van de Griend / Ellemieke Schoenmaker, Paweł Książek, Tilman Küntzel, Skafte Kuhn, Michael Kutzner, Via Lewandowsky, Robert Lippok, Ronald Lippok / Bert Papenfuß, Robert Lucander, Dieter Meier, Manfred Miersch, Malcolm Mooney, Chris Newman, Carsten Nicolai, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Luc Pilmeyer, Anselm Reyle, Daniel Richter, Tanja Rochelmeyer, Dennis Rudolph, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Thomas Scheibitz, Station Rose – Gary Danner / Elisa Rose, Andreas Tellefsen, Ulrich Vogl, Maik Wolf, Ralf Ziervogel

Exhibition: September 16 to November 5, 2011

Galerie Abtart
Rembrandtstr. 18
70567 Stuttgart

For further information please visit www.abtart.info

The Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin shows the exhibition Side by Side: Poland – Germany curated by Anda Rottenberg from September 23, 2011 to January 9, 2012. For the first time around 800 historical and contemporary exhibits, displayed in 19 rooms and 22 chapters, will illustrate the thousand-year history of the complex mutual relations between Poland and Germany.

work: Stanisław Dróżdż, Between, 1977-2004, installation view

Exhibition: September 23, 2011 –  January 9, 2012

Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 | Ecke Stresemannstr. 110
D-10963 Berlin 

For further information please visit www.berlinerfestspiele.de

Opening: September 09 /2011 at 6pm

BWA SOKół Gallery of Contemporary Art
in Nowy Sącz

33-300 Nowy Sącz, ul. Kościuszki 34

Joanna Rajkowska is one of 72 participants in the 6th Curitiba Biennial in Brasil.

Exhibition: September 18 – November 20, 2011

For more information please visit www.bienaldecuritiba.com.br

Grazer Kunstverein shows Joanna Rajkowska's two-channel video work Airways on occasion of the exhibition Public Folklore: We face a constantly increasing tendency to national self-construction in culture and politics in almost every country in Europe for several years. In conjunction with these events, the project queries the function of folklorism within the formation of political belief- and valuesystems.

Other artists on show are: Eva Arnqvist (S), No Corruption (founded by Roza El-Hassan, HU), Annika Eriksson (S), Andreas Fogarasi (A), Folk Archive, detail (by Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane, GB), Jens Haaning (DK), Martin Krenn (A), Eva Linder (S), Mari Laanemets & Killu Sukmit (EST), Eva Labotkin (EST), Christian Philipp Müller (CH), Ilona Németh (SK), Audrius Novickas (LT), R.E.P. / Kseniya Gnylytska, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Lada Nakonechna, Olesia Khomenko (UA), Erzen Shkololli (KOS), Sean Snyder (USA), Helene Sommer (N), Jaro Varga (SK)

Opening: September 24, 2011, 5 pm

Exhibition: September 24 - December 7, 2011

Grazer Kunstverein

Palais Trauttmansdorff

Burgstasse 4

A-8010 Graz

For further information please visit www.grazerkunstverein.org

On the occasion of the exhibition Scenarios About Europe, the Museum of Contemporary Art (GFZK) Leipzig shows Joanna Rajkowska's work Yusuf Ağa Library (2010).

Exhibition: September 10, 2011 –  March 18, 2012

Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, GfZK-2

Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 9-11

D-04107 Leipzig

For further information please visit www.gfzk-leipzig.de

At this year's abc (art berlin contemporary) – about painting we will present Paweł Książek's most recent works from his Silent Utopia series.

abc will take place from September 7–11, 2011. 

Location: 
Station-Berlin
Luckenwalder Strasse 4–6
10963 Berlin

For further information please visit: www.artberlincontemporary.com

Joanna Rajkowska participates in an exhibition entitled For Kids and Adults at the BWA Wroclaw.

Other artists on show are: Nikos Arvanitis, Hubert Czerepok, Marko Crnobrnja, Marija Đorđević, Petra Feriancova, Karolina Freino, Nenad Jeremić, Alicja Jodko (DWF/Entropia), Vladimir Perić, Vedran Perkov, Milorad Stajčić, Katarina Šeda, Janek Simon, Kama Sokolnicka, Predrag Terzić, Miloš Tomić, Vova Vorotniov, Zorka Wollny, Martin Zet

Exhibition: September 7 – October 2, 2011

Awangarda gallery, BWA Wrocław
ul. Wita Stwosza 32
50-149 Wroclaw

For further information please visit www.bwa.wroc.pl

It is with deep regret and sorrow that we hereby announce that Roman Opałka passed away unexpectedly today, Saturday, August 6, 2011.

Our most sincere condolences to his wife and family.

The above image shows Roman Opałka giving an interview to the rbb at our gallery during Gallery Weekend 2011. 

Hubert Czerepok's work "Museum", a video in collaboration with Steven Rushton, from 2002 is on show in this context. 

Other artists on show are: Richard Artschwager, Azorro Group, Birkás Ákos, Olga Chernysheva, Mark Dion, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Flynt, Andrea Fraser, Hans Haacke, Halász Károly, Kele Judit, Kis Varsó/Little Warsaw, Kostil Danila, Oleg Kulik, Lakner László, Marysia Lewandowska, Dalibor Martinis, Menesi Attila, Ivan Moudov, NETRAF, Pauer Gyula, Allan Sekula, Kalin Serapionov, Sean Snyder, Nedko Solakov, Thomas Struth, Téreltérítés Munkacsoport, TNPU / IPUT (St.Turba Tamás), Tót Endre, Ulay

Curated by:Barnabás Bencsik, Nikolett Erőss, Kati Simon, Krisztina Szipőcs, Hedvig Turai

Exhibition: July 22, 2011 – October 23, 2011

Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art
Palace of Arts
Komor Marcell u. 1, Budapest, H-1095

For further information please visit: www.ludwigmuseum.hu

Joanna Rajkowska, the Minaret Team and the Malta Foundation will present the project Minaret on a day of meetings and presentations entitled "This Is the Story of a Minaret that Never Happened" (To jest historia minaretu, który nie powstał).

11am to 8pm on July 7, 2011 at Stara Rzeżnia in Poznan.

For further information please visit: www.minaret.art.pl

Participants of the group show

Gone to Croatan – Strategies of disappearance
04th June 2011 - 14th August 2011

Curated by Daniel Muzyczuk and Robert Rumas

Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV)
im Dortmunder U (6th floor)
Leonie-Reygers-Terasse
44137 Dortmund

www.hmkv.de/programm/programmpunkte/2011/Ausstellungen/2011_Gone_to_Croatan.php

Upcoming exhibition

As part of the group show entitled

Antje Majewski
The World of Gimel: How to Make Objects Talk

October 1st 2011 - January 15th 2012
Opening: October 1, 2011, 11am

Curated by Adam Budak.

Kunsthaus Graz, Space01
Lendkai 1
8020 - Graz, Austria

Further information can be found: www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus/exhibitions/antje-majewski

15th - 19th June 2011

We are pleased to announce our participation at ART BASEL 2011 with works of following artists of the gallery:

ART BASEL 2011
Art Statements: Agnieszka Polska; Hall 1, booth 21
Art Unlimited: Katarzyna Kozyra with The Rite of Spring, Hall 1, U61
Art Film: Agnieszka Polska, Józef Robakowski
Screenings at Stadtkino Basel: Tuesday, June 14th, and Friday, June 17th, at 10pm respectively

For further information: www.artbasel.com

CONTEMPORARY ART FROM POLAND

The ŻAK | BRANICKA Foundation is happy to present the publication POLISH!—a survey of 37 contemporary Polish artists, published in cooperation with the Art Stations Foundation and Hatje Cantz.

This book is the first of its kind to present a wide selection of 37 established, as well as up-and-coming new positions in contemporary Polish art.

For closer information please visit: www.zak-branicka.com/foundation.php

As part of a group show the work Civil Defense by Szymon Kobylarz will be presented at Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels.

The Power of Fantasy.
Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland
June 23th – September 18th 2011

Curators are: David Crowley, Zofia Machnicka, Dr Andrzej Szczerski

Centre for fine Arts
Rue Ravenstein 23
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=10343

Witkacy & Others
from the collection of Stefan Okołowicz and Ewa Franczak.
The exhibition presents a unique collection that includes a large body of photographic work by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, as well as works by other photographers active in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Opening: June 15th, 7 pm
June 16th - August 15th 2011

Orangerie, Museum Palace in Wilanów
Ul. Kostki Potockiego 10/16, 02-958 Warsaw, Poland

Detailed information: www.fundacjaprofile.pl/index.php

As part of a group show on occasion of the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

P A R T I CO L A R E. Paths of democracy
June 3rd – November 26th 2011

Curated by Andrzej Turowski and Grzegorz Musiał.

Opening: Friday, June 3rd 2011, 7 pm-12 pm
artists shall be present

Signum Foundation, Palazzo Donà
Campo San Polo 2177
30125 Venice, Italy

Online:
http://www.signum.art.pl/
http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/

As part of the group show Estrangement
Part of Alternativa International Contemporary Visual Art Festival at the Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk

29th May – 30th September 2011
Opening: 28th May 2011, 19 h

For more information: http://www.wyspa.art.pl/

As part of the group show (including Vlatka Horvat)

Passion of an Ornithologist: Myth Making
26th May 2011 - 26th June 2011
Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej BWA SOKOL, Nowy Sacz, Poland

Curated by Adam Budak.

Hubert Czerepoks Haunebu will be shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków in a group exhibition entitled History in Art. The show is curated by Maria Anna Potocka.

20th May - 25th September 2011

Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków
MOCAK
ul.Lipowa 4
30-702 Kraków, Poland

More information can be found: www.mocak.com.pl/en/exhibitions/show/41

12th – 15th May 2011

ŻAK | BRANICKA will be presenting 

Hubert Czerepok, Stanisław Dróżdż, Vlatka Horvat, Szymon Kobylarz and Joanna Rajkowska

Hall A / Stand A0207

For further information: www.viennafair.at

Vlatka Horvat - By Bending Back
11th May 2011 - 25th June 2011
annex 14 Gallery, Bern
www.annex14.com/annex/

Group show: "In the future everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes"
12th May 2011 - 18th June 2011
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
www.georgkargl.com/de/fine-arts/aktuell

"Passion of an Ornithologist: Myth Making"
26th May 2011 - 26th June 2011
Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej BWA SOKOL, Nowy Sacz, Poland
http://www.bwasokol.pl/index.htm

"No Network" - 1st Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art
27th May 2011 - 30th Sept 2011
The Atomic War Command Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
www.aptglobal.org/view/article.asp?ID=2285

"Too late, too little, (and how) to fail gracefully"
11th June 2011 - 25th Sept 2011
Fort Asperen, Netherlands
www.kunstfortasperen.nl

Dominik Lejman's video work Harnessed Swimmer will be shown at SAVVY Contemporary in a group exhibition entitled Here and now ...amnesia.

Other artists on show: Dalila Bouzar, Rebecca Loyche, Maryna Markova, Francisco Rozas

14th May 2011- 16th June 2011

SAVVY Contemporary
Richardstraße 43/44
12055 Berlin 

www.savvy-contemporary.com

The Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art in Bytom presents

Szymon Kobylarz | Magazynier | meeting point 0.5
7th May 2011 - 28th April 2012

The project is curated by Stanisław Ruksza.

www.kronika.org.pl/meeting-room/meeting-room-biezace

As part of the group show
Berlin - Choreography of a City
29th April – 12th May 2011

Dominik Lejman shows his videoinstallation To Pass Is Enough (public and side specific), 2011

Location: Forum Factory, Besselstr. 13-14, 10969 Berlin
More information: strg-k.blogspot.com

Yane Calovski's video Hollow Land (2009) will be shown at PLATAFORMA REVóLVER para a Arte Contemporânea in a group show entitled What is foregone is still changing.

12th May 2011- 23th June 2011

29th April – 1st May 2011 

As part of the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2011 we present Roman Opałka: Octagon.

For further information:www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de

On occasion of
VIDEONALE.13 - Festival for Contemporary Video Art at the Kunstmuseum Bonn
15th - 16th April 2011

Katarzyna Kozyra presents SUMMERTALE, 19"59

Opening: 14th April 2011

For more information please visit: v13.videonale.org

8th April - 15th May 2011

MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in the US by Józef Robakowski (b. 1939), a pioneer of avant-garde film and video art. This is the first presentation of Robakowski’s collaborative and relational work, emerging from his ongoing cooperation and dialogue with other artists. Through selected works and archival materials, the exhibition reveals a significant aspect of the artist’s practice, not only as a filmmaker and visual artist, but also as an initiator, curator, and organizer of art groups, exhibitions, and artistic events.

MINI/ Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38
38 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002

For further information: www.ludlow38.org

The project  Inner Circle by Hubert Czerepok is presented at Muno, the no-museum in in Zacatecas, México

Paweł Książek's video work Dream is on show at Cream Contemporary in a group exhibition entitled Zwischen Utopie und Atopie until 2nd April 2011.

Other artists on show: Dimitrij Prigov, Tony Cragg and Bettina Krieg.

Cream Contemporary
Schröderstr. 14, 10115 Berlin

More information can be found here:

www.creamcontemporary.com

The Deutsche Bank presents a part of its collection in the just reopened towers of its headquarter in Frankfurt / Main. The works of more than 60 international artists is installed on 60 floors. Yane Calovski's works Masterplan and Oskar Hansen's MOMA are part of the collection and can be visited at floor 9 of the Deutsche Bank Towers.

More information can be found here:

www.db.com/art-in-the-towers

A catalogue accompanying the exhibition can be found here: 

www.hatjecantz.de

On the occasion of the release of Artur Żmijewski's interviewbook Trembling Bodies, the daadgalerie presents an exhibition with works by Paweł Althamer, Katarzyna Kozyra, Grzegorz Klaman, Zbigniew Libera, Jacek Markiewicz, Joanna Rajkowska and Monika Mamzeta (Zielińska). 

Artists' Talk at the opening (in english) with Joanna Rajkowska, Stanisław Ruksza & Artur Żmijewski at 8pm

Opening: February 10 2011, 7pm

Exhibition: February 11 – March 12, 2011

daadgalerie, Zimmerstraße 90/91, 10117 Berlin

For further information please visit

www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de

Georg Kargel BOX will show works by Agnieszka Polska starting 13th January 2011. 

The exhibition will be entitled "Gardener's Responsibility". 

For more information please visit http: www.georgkargl.com

Katarzyna Kozyra is currently preparing an autobiographical feature film and is looking for people to perform her character in this future movie about herself. Within her solo show CASTING at Zacheta National Gallery of Art there will be a casting room, where visitors can give their own interpretation of Katazyna Kozyra after gaining an overview on her and her work at the exhibition. Aside from works such as Pyramid of Animals, Bathhouse and films from the In Art Dreams Come True cycle there will also be presented archive material and documentary films to give the viewer the opportunity to experience the artist in her wide variety of forms and incarnations; she transforms into a man, a cheerleader, a voyeur, a drag queen or an opera diva amongst others. 

The material from the casting will be on show during the exhibition (with the performer's agreement) as well as build the basis for the artist's selection of the cast and for her reworking of the film's already existing script.

For further information please visit www.zacheta.art.pl

Under the name of PROJECT SPACE: INVOCATIONS OF THE BLANK PAGE, Spike Island is showing Vlatka Horvat in a group show with Martin Creed, Ryan Gander, Gareth Long, Anna Molska and Ignacio Uriarte.

What is the space that lies between ideas and their eventual articulation as language, actions or objects in the world? How can we define those interim moments of formlessness and effervescence that hover unpredictable and light before tipping into the realm of the real? This exhibition moves between the freefall lightness of thought and the contradictory weight of words as they form on the page. The works included gesture toward or take the form of blank sheets of paper: creased and folded, falling through space, or traversed by the body.

At the heart of the exhibition lies a concern with the elusiveness of meaning, the inadequacy of language and the struggle for creative expression.

Exhibition: Jan 21 - April 10, 2011

For further informations please visit: spike-island.org.uk

2 - 5 December 2010

Hall/ Entrance: B
Stand: N28

For further information please visit www.artbaselmiamibeach.com.

Our participation is supported by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

   
Fleurs du Mal (with Marek Wasilewski)
Galeria Miejska Arsenal
 
Exhibtion: 3rd - 30th December 2010

from 7th January 2011 on the exhibition will be at Galeria BWA in Zielona Goraber.

for further information visit www.arsenal.art.pl

Dominik Lejman's work will be on display at the exhibition Not just the body, but... at ConcentArt in Berlin Kreuzberg. 

Other artists on show are Michaele Brüll, Christian Hasucha, Lila Karbowska Hanna Nowicka, Roland Schefferski, Frank Schoppmeier and Piotr Wyrzykowski

ConcentArt e.V. Kreuzbergstr. 28, 10965 Berlin

Opening: 26th November, 7pm

Exhibition: 26th November – 26th December 2010

For further information please visit www.concentart.org

Redefining Centre is the title of the first exhibition of the ARTLIGHT DOMAQUAREE, an exhibition of light art by contemporary artists, which takes place for the first time this November. The works shown at Redefining Centre deal with the effect of spaces in the light of aesthetic, content related and social aspects.

Dominik Lejman created To pass is enough especially for this event. The video work is positioned at the entrance of the Heiliggeistgasse and shows passers-by captured during the day and projected on the walkway as negative, alienated Shadows.

Exhibition: 11th - 25th November

For further information please visit:  artlight-domaquaree.de

Dominik Lejman's work My First Three Seconds meet my First Two Seconds and one of Józef Robakowski's works are part of the group show Peep Generation at Museum Sztuki in Lodz. 

Other artists on show are Joanna Biela Garrido, Brody/Paetau, Marty Deskur, Yingmei Duan, Karolina Freino, Paweł Kowyan, Kul/Mellin/Galon, Roman Polański, Karol Radyisyewski, Kama Sokolnicka, Markus Zimmermann, Alicja Żebrowska

Museum Sztuki, 36 ul. Wieckowskiego, Lodz

Opening: 9th November 2010, 6pm

Exhibition: 9th November – 19th December 2010

For further information please visit msl.org.pl or www.trwagenerowaniepodgladu.pl

5 - 7 November 2010

ŻAK | BRANICKA will be presenting
Stanisław Dróżdż, Zofia Kulik, Paweł Książek, Hubert Czerepok and Agnieszka Polska

Hall: Azzurro/ Light Blue
Stand: 2

For further information please visit www.artissima.it.

On occasion of the Festival of East European Cinema at the Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
02 - 07 November 2010

Dreams take place in the past / Sny o przeszłości
Joanna Rajkowska
Maja Gordon jedzie do Chorzowa / Maya Gordon goes to Chorzów, 2006, 27:43 min
Robert Kuśmirowski
Datamatic 880, 2007, 11:00 min
Paweł Książek
Sen / Dream, 2009, 1:52 min
Agnieszka Polska
Kalendarz / The Calendar, 2008, 6:10 min

With friendly assistance of ŻAK | BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin and Polnisches Institut Berlin.

Joanna Rajkowska is taking part in the British Council's My City program in Turkey. Her public project Walter Benjamin in Konya will be presented in the main square of the city of Konya. Other participating artists in the My City program are Andreas Fogarasi, Minna Henriksson, Mark Wallinger and Clemens von Wedemeyer.

Opening: 21 October, 2010.

For more information please visit mycity.eu.com.

In the context of the group-exhibition Von Fahnen, Farbbeuteln und Fixierungen the Motorenhalle in Dresden shows Katarzyna Kozyra's work Blood Ties. The exhibition concept focusses on the artist's view, what kind of codes do colours send and which relevancy do they have for social and behavioural structures, ideas and ideologies.

Other artists on show are Thomas Baumhekel, Anke Binnewerg, David Cerný, Susan Donath, Sándor Dóró, Igor Grubic, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Yuri Vassiliev, Sebastian Hempel, Grzegorz Klaman, Leszek Knaflewski, Rupprecht Matthies, Jana Morgenstern & Dagmar Mouton, Matt Mullican, Wolfgang Smy, Jirí Suruvka, Florian Thalhofer & Juliane Henrich, Herbert Warmuth, Karen Weinert.

Motorenhalle - Projektzentrum für zeitgenössiche Kunst, Wachsbleichstr. 4a, D-01067 Dresden

Opening: 13th October, 2010, 8pm

Exhibition: 14th October, 2010 - 15th Januar, 2011

7 - 10 October 2010

Thu - Sat 12 - 9 pm  |  Sun 12 - 7 pm

Location:

Marshall-Haus, Position 2d

Berlin Exhibition Grounds

Messedamm 22

14055 Berlin 

We will present Agnieszka Polska’s video Sensitization to Colour and the two series of photographs Death of a King and Cops and Robbers.

For more information please visit artinberlincontemporary.com.  

Agnieszka Polska's Work Three Videos with Narration is currently on show at Bunkier Sztuki in Cracow. 

Opening: 7th October, 2010, 6pm

Exhibition: 7th - 31st October, 2010

For further information please visit www.bunkier.art.pl

Joanna Rajkowska is participating in the group exhibition Hostipitality. Receiving Strangers at the Museum Sztuki in Lodz. Other artists in the show are Monica Bonvicini, Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert, Alexandra Croitoru, Jens Haaning, Agnieszka Kalinowska, Kolektyw Minaret, Adrian Paci, Doris Salcedo, Société Réaliste , Krzysztof Wodiczko.

Exhibition: September 17 - October 17, 2010

For more information please visit www.muzeumsztuki.lodz.pl.

Joanna Rajkowska is taking part in the exhibition You Can’t Get There From Here at the CCNY. Other participating photographers are Stephen Berkman, Marco Citron and Jan Dziaczkowski.

Exhibition: September 10 – October 30, 2010

For further information please visit www.cameraclubny.org.

ŻAK | BRANICKA is part of the Berlin Gallery District initiative that will coordinate public relations for the district and its resident galleries around Checkpoint Charly. A shared website will provide dates, facts and information on collective events of the more than 40 galleries.

The first of such events will launch the initiative on Friday, 10th September, 2010. 

From 6 to 9 pm the participating galleries open their doors with special exhibition openings and extended opening hours. 

Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition of Paweł Książek at the Salzburger Kunstverein, July 16 - September 13, 2009. The catalogue assembles twelve images out of the series “N.N. vs. Artists”, as well as exhibiton views and a text by 
Sebastian Chichocki. With a preword by Hemma Schmutz.



Publisher: Salzburger Kunstverein
www.salzburger-kunstverein.at/en

448 Seiten, price 29 eur, ISBN 2-906890-05-7

www.criee.org

The latest issue of FUKT Magazine for Contemporary Drawing presents Szymon Kobylarz and Paweł Olszczyński. Thirteen curators, artists and writers were invited to select one artist each within the field of drawing. Szymon Kobylarz is presented by Asia Żak, Paweł Olszczyński by Monika Branicka.

On the image above you see Szymon Kobylarz's work Robert Johnson from 2010.

FUKT Magazine for Contemporary Drawing, issue No. 8/9.

http://www.fukt.de/

http://csw.art.pl/index.php?action=aktualnosci&s2=1&id=200&lang=eng

Agnieszka Polska's work will be shown at the group show Nothing Important is Just Art at the ANAID ART GALLERY in Bucharest, Romania. The exhibition is organized by the Polish Cultural Institute in Bucharest and the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, Poland. The show is curated by Monika Szewczyk from Arsenal Gallery and all works on show are from the collection of the Arsenal Gallery and Podlachia Association for the Promotion of Fine Art.

Other artists on show are Laura Pawela, Julita Wójcik, Joanna Rajkowska, Magisters, Zbigniew Libera, Sędzia Główny, Rafał Bujnowski, Azorro, Paweł Susid, Katarzyna Kozyra, Piotr Kurak, Ewa Partum.

ANAID ART GALLERY, Str. Slobozia 34, 040524 Bucharest, Romania

Opening: 17th June, 2010, 7.30 pm

Exhibition: 17th June - 9th July, 2010

For further information please visit galeria-arsenal.pl

Kasia Fudakowski takes part at the group show Przeklenstwa wyobrazni (Curses of Imagination). Other participating artists are Hans Bellmer, Piotr Janas, Dorota Jurczak, Tomasz Kowalski, Goshka Macuga, Edmund Monsiel, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski  

Opening: June 17 2010

Exhibition: June 18 - August 29 2010

For further informaton please visit www.bunkier.art.pl

The exhibition Die kleine Improvistation – polnische Kunst heute, curated by Dorothee Bienert gives an insight on the current polish art scene.
The artists whose works are shown in this exhibition reflect the effects of the political upheaval in the 1990s on the polish society, activate their memories of their childhood and adolescence in a socialist state, question the meaning of architecture for everyday life or deal  in a humoristic way with the void between high standards and improvised reality. Thereby not only personal stories but also a critical view on policy and society realized in a diverse range of media play a key role.

The exhibition is supported by the consulate general of the Republic of Poland in Hamburg and by the ministry for education and culture Schleswig Holstein in the context of Ars Baltica.

Other artists on show: Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Sławomir Elsner, Alicja Karska/Aleksandra Went, Tomasz Kowalski, Jacek Niegoda, Konrad Pustoła, Adam Witkowski, Julita Wójcik

Opening: June 11 2010

Exhibition: June 12 – August 29 2010

Stadtgalerie Kiel, Andreas-Gayk-Str. 31, 24103 Kiel, Germany

 For further information please visit www.stadtgalerie-kiel.de

The exhibition at the Kordegarda Project in Warsaw is another part of the series Briesen, pursued by Krzysztof Zieliński since 1995. Briesen (name of the artists home town of Wąbrzeźno before 1945) is a whole series, documenting the artists personal experience of Berlin, his new domicile.

Exhibition: 10th June - 25th July, 2010
Opening: 9th June, 2010, 7 pm

Project Kordegarda, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, ul. Gałczyńskiego 3, Warsaw

For further information please visit www.zacheta.art.pl

The exhibition titled UNCANNY shows amongst others the works of artist Hubert Czerepok. Other contributing artists are Anna Orlikowska, Laura Pawela, Daniel Rumiancew, Katarzyna Skupny, Zorka Wollny, Julia Zborowska
Curator: Piotr Stasiowski

Exhibition: 1.6.2010-18.6.2010
Opening: 1.6.2010 (Tuesday) at 7PM
Opening hours: Tue - Thu, 3.00PM- 6.00PM

For further information please visit www.galeriahit.com

Agnieszka Polska's work is part of the group show I See Things That Are Not There at the Polish Institute in Rome. The exhibition is a short story about museums and their compulsive and also capricious need of collecting objects. It consists mainly of works from the Museum's collection.

The show is presented by the Polish Institute in Rome and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Other participating artists are: Wojciech Bakowski, Tania Bruguera, Oskar Dawicki, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Sanja Ivekovic, Deimantas Narkevicius, Katerina Seda, Piotr Uklanski.

Polish Institute in Rome, Via Vittoria Colonna 1

Opening: 25th May, 2010

Exhibition:  25th May – 10th September 2010

For further Information please visit: www.istitutopolacco.it

Yane Calovski's Ponder Pause Process (A Situation) is part of the Contemporary Art Society's Centenary Programme at Tate Britain.

He has treated the Contemporary Art Society’s invitation to work with and from Tate's Collection and Archive as an opportunity to start a period of research that has led him, perhaps inevitably, to question a range of preconceptions and assumptions that relate to the collection and conservation of art.
Works included are amongst others by artists Francis Alys, Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Emma Kay, Christopher Wool, Henri Matisse and Jeff Wall.

Opening: 15 May 2010
Exhibition: 16 May - 5 September 2010

On 15 May at 12:30am - 4:00pm OuUnPo (A Workshop of Potential Universes) will meet Calovski at Gallery 1 on 15 May for a discussion within the context of the installation.

For further information please visit: 

http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/

http://www.tate.org.uk

17th Biennale of Sydney

May 12 - August 1, 2010

www.biennaleofsydney.com.au

Film still from “Playoff” by Hubert Czerepok, video, 2006, Podlaska Zacheta collection.

Hubert Czerepok participates at the group exhibition A Part of No-Part:Parallelisms Between Then and Now at Chelsea Art Museum in New York. 

Other exhibiting artists: Kuba Bakowski, Norman Leto, Józef Robakowski, Milena Dopitová, Jacek Malinowski, Slaven Tolj, Jiří Kovanda, Zdena Kolečková, Jiří Černický, Łukasz Gronowski, Piotr Żyliński, Pavel Mrkus, and Dario Solman

Exhibition: May 7 - June 19 2010

For further information please visit http://chelseaartmuseum.org/

The group show Grüsse aus Zielona Góra presents works of five young Polish artists such as Basia Banda (1980), Karolina Spiak (1983), Michal Jankowski (1977), Jaroslaw Jeschke (1977) and Rafal Wilk (1979). They explore the relations between Poland and Germany, which are especially relevant in cities like Zielona Góra or Frankfurt (Oder), both situated really close to the border.

opening: April 15 2010, 6pm

exhibition: April 15 - June 27 2010

Museum Junge Kunst, Carl-Phillip-Emanuel-Bach-Straße 11, D-15230 Frankfurt (Oder) 

For further information please visit http://www.museum-junge-kunst.de/

6th – 9th May 2010

ŻAK | BRANICKA will be presenting 

Katarzyna Kozyra, Szymon Kobylarz, Zofia Kulik and Agnieszka Polska

Hal A – stand A1302

For further information: www.viennafair.at

Agnieszka Polska's work is shown at the group exhibition No Sleep! at BWA gallery in Zielona Góra.

Other Artists are:  Wojciech Bąkowski, Tymek Borowski, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Wojciech Kosma, Franciszek Orłowski, Sławomir Pawszak, Agnieszka Polska, Katarzyna Przezwańska, Paweł Sysiak, Paweł Śliwiński, Rafał Wilk, Julia Zborowska, Piotr Żyliński

Duration of the exhibition:  May 1 - May 23 2010

For further information please visit http://bwazg.pl/

30th April – 2nd May 2010

As part of the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2010 we present Paweł Książek Poelzig VS. Poelzig.

For further information: www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de

23rd – 26th April 2010

ŻAK | BRANICKA will be presenting

Dominik Lejman, Michał Jankowski, Kasia Fudakowski and Paweł Książek

Hal 3 – stand 3c-08

more info: www.artbrussels.be

A first insight into the presented works can be gained at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/galleryzakbranicka/ArtBrusselsZAKBRANICKA#

Our presentation is kindly supported by "Service culturel de l'Ambassade de Pologne en Belgique".
 

Dominik Lejman is participating in the world’s first Biennale for International Light Art that takes place from March 28 to Mai 27 in the context of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010.

http://www.biennale-lichtkunst.de/

16 December 2009 - 7 February 2010

BWA Wrocław
http://www.bwa.wroc.pl

The exhibition "KwieKulik. Form is a fact of society" presented at the BWA Awangarda Gallery in Wrocław is the first serious attempt to illuminate one of the most important artistic phenomena of post-war Polish art: the artistic duo Zofia Kulik and Przemysław Kwiek (KwieKulik) and their collective works from 1971 to 1987.

Caption: Action with a tube (detail), PDDiU, Warsaw 1975
photo by Przemysław Kwiek

6-8 NOVEMBER 2009

ŻAK | BRANICKA

with

Katarzyna Kozyra, Zofia Kulik, Agnieszka Polska, Pawel Ksiazek, Hubert Czerepok

www.artissima.it

The project "Silent Utopia" by Paweł Książek will be presented at Art Stations Foundation in Poznań.

Opening: October 1st, 2009, 7 pm

Duration of the exhibition:

October 2nd, 2009 - December 31st, 2009

Art Stations Foundation
ul. Półwiejska 42
61-888 Poznań
Polen

For more information visit:

www.artstationsfoundation5050.com

 Opening on Friday, September 25, 2009, 6-9 pm

ZAK | BRANICKA with Dominik Lejman

Opening: Tuesday, September 22, 200, 7 pm

www.artberlincontemporary.com

exhibition "Anabasis. Rituals of Homecoming"

curated by Adam Budak

opening: 5 September at 5.00 p.m. till 6.00 a.m.

Ludwik Grohman Villa, ul. Tylna 9/11
Book Art Museum, ul. Tymienieckiego 24
production: Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures

5.09-4.10.2009

artists: Lida Abdul, Helena Almeida, Mieke Bal, Yael Bartana, Rita Sobral Campos, Jonas Dahlberg, Edith Dekyndt, Elmgreen & Dragset, Famed, Jarosław Fliciński, Kasia Fudakowski, Lothar Hempel, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Marine Hugonnier, Danilczyk & Krakowska, Susanne Kriemann, Agnieszka Kurant, Sharon Lockhart, Ernesto Neto, Adrian Paci, Mai-Thu Perret, Agnieszka Polska, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Mathilde Rosier, Esther Stocker, Dieter Roelstraete, Andriej Tarkowski
  

ECHELON70 is the new project of Szymon Kobylarz to be on display until 18 October 2009 at Galeria Kordegarda (Zacheta - National Gallery of Art) in Warsaw.

 Opening: September 4, 2009

 www.zacheta.art.pl

Opening:  15th July 2009, 8 p.m.

16.7.2009 - 13.9.2009

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Katarzyna Kozyra is participating in the exhibition XVI. Rohkunstbau at Schloss Marquardt in Potsdam.

Opening:  11th July 2009, 4:30 p.m.

12.7.2009 - 13.9.2009

www.ROHKUNSTBAU.de

Michal Jankowski, Pawel Ksiazek and Zofia Kulik are participating in the exhibition Menschenbilder 1620/2009 at Museum Abtei Liesborn in Wadersloh-Liesborn. 

21.6.2009 - 16.8.2009

www.museum-abtei-liesborn.de

In two secutive exhibitions, Zorka Wollny,  Laura Pawela and Hubert Czerepok are presenting movies, videos, photos and installations, which are expressing their sense to globalisation

The exhibitions are supported by ŻAK | BRANICKA Gallery

"Der Blick aus dem Cockpit 1" (Zorka Wollny and Laura Pawela)

Opening: 9th May 2009, 8pm

9 May - 26 June 2009

 "Der Blick aus dem Cockpit2" (Hubert Czerepok)

Opening: 26 May 2009, 8pm

26 May - 09 August 2009

www.weltecho.eu

European Kunsthalle, Köln

October 2-10, 2009

Yane Calovski: Master Plan/Hollow Land is presented within the exhibition series "Appearance/Auftritt", with Julia Scher, Katja Davar, Miriam Bäckström and Yane Calovski, September 11-October 10, 2009. See also www.kunsthalle.eu

At Art Basel Statements 2009 ŻAK | BRANICKA will be presenting a solo show with Paweł Książek Silent Utopia.

Please visit our booth: Hall 1, Booth S3
10-14 June 2009

www.artbasel.com

Paweł Książek’s project Silent Utopia is a speculative fantasy regarding the infiltrations and connections between Eastern European modernism in architecture and German silent film of the 1920’s. The Art Basel Statements presentation focuses on Metropolis, the 1925 film by director and architect, Fritz Lang, and the implementations of such prominent architects of the period.
Paweł Książek examines the connections between this architecture and the film and based on these connections, he proposes a hypothetical analogy for the existence of a sensibility common to that era of creators and thinkers. Upon examining both aesthetics, he wonders whether there were visual markers that could have been prognostic of the impending catastrophe.  Książek speculates about how a film could look, and how its content would be altered or maintained, when Czech, Hungarian or Polish architecture replaces the scenography. What would it look like if the film was made in Prague with the Bata Shop building in the background (Ludvik Kysela, Bata Store, Prague 1929), or in Brno in front of Josef Kranz’s 1929 Café Era, using the building’s neon E-R-A sign to light the street on a Metropolis night? In fact, why wasn’t the film shot on Warsaw’s “Ulica Przyszlosci” (“Future Street”) designed by Lech Niemojewski in 1925?
Paweł Książek’s paintings and photomontages function as his tools in effacing the border between document and fiction. By juxtaposing and overlaying these two historical phenomena, connected by a trust in the future and contemporaneously created in different places in Europe, Pawel Książek has built his own fake vision of the past.

Hubert Czerepok's solo exhibition Devil's Island opens May 22, 2009 at La Criée - Centre d'Art Contemporain Rennes.

22.05.2009 - 26.07.2009

http://www.criee.org/

At the core of Czerepok`s oeuvre are the connections between fiction, topicality and historical events. It is not the facts themselves that interest the artist, but rather the way they begin with shifts, mutations, and unimaginable formal and semantic transformations.

For Devil’s Island (2009), the video installation on show at La Criée, the artist visited the rocky islet off the coast of Kourou in French Guiana, famed for the penal colony to which many French political prisoners – including Alfred Dreyfus – were condemned. The images he brought back are projected onto a hexagonal sculpture referencing another form of disciplinary power: the Panopticon. Part of a circular prison building, the Panopticon allows full-time surveillance of prisoners without their knowing if they are being watched or not, the result being a sense of invisible omniscience.

The exhibition also includes a series of drawings, Seances, which brings together media images relating to some tragic current event, spiritualist séances or sexual scenes. The initial Seances series retained only a minimal trace of the originals, while the images made for the Rennes exhibition combine areas of flat black with line drawing. Here Czerepok pays tribute to Goya’s Disasters of War engravings and their demonstration of all the atrocious cruelty mankind is capable of. In this new look at glamorised, mass-produced media violence, the artist forces the image back into its genuinely traumatising, critical role.

The Devil’s Island exhibition comprises a highly diverse selection of works that lead us to reflect on different forms of power, the way they are depicted and the impact of this depiction on our lives.

The solo exhibition of Michał Jankowski Twilight opens May 29, 2009 at Kronika Bytom.

29.05.2009 - 11.07.2009

 http://kronika.org.pl/

Szymon Kobylarz is participating in the exhibition Fifty Fifty. Art in Dialog with the 50s in Wien Museum Karlsplatz.

14/5/2009 - 11/10/2009

www.wienmuseum.at

Paweł Książek is a participant in the exhibition Von Liebeslust und Lebenslast - der inszenierte Alltag, in which 17th century Dutch painting meets contemporary figure painting.

10 May - 23 August 2009

www.schloss-corvey.de

Agnieszka Polska is participating in a group exhibition Breathless curated by Adam Budak in Vienna.

Opening: May 7th, 2009, 7pm

8 - 30 May 2009

WIEN MITTE

Landstr. - Hauptstr. 1c

1030 Vienna

www.breathless.at

Atlas Sztuki in Lodz (Poland) has just opened the exhibition: ZOFIA KULIK presents KwieKulik: Dobromierz X.

The exhibition will be open from November 21st, 2008 until January 11th, 2009, Tue- Fri 4 P.M.- 8 P.M, Sat- Sun 11 A.M – 5 P.M..

Atlas Sztuki
Ul. Piotrkowska 114/116
90-006 Lodz Poland
http://www.atlassztuki.pl

07. to 10. May 2009

ŻAK | BRANICKA participates in ViennaFair 2009 with Michał Jankowski, Kasia Fudakowski, Agnieszka Polska, Józef Robakowski, Yane Calovski.

Please visit our booth: Hall A, Booth 1103

May 1st-3rd, 2009

www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de

02.04.2009, 19:00 Uhr
RYNEK, 5 min., 1970
IDĘ..., 3,5 min., 1973
TANIEC Z DRZEWAMI, 3 min., 1984
PAMIĘCI L. BREŻNIEWA, 9 min., 1982
O MOICH PALCACH..., 6 min., 1981
BYŁEM CHŁOPCEM W NOWYM JORKU, 4 min., 1989
SZTUKA TO POTĘGA !, 9 min. 1984
OJEJ, BOLI MNIE NOGA, 4 min., 1992
Z MOJEGO OKNA 1978-1999, 19 min., 2000
MOJE VIDEOMASOCHIZMY, 5 min., 1990

An exhibition review Das Komikkorrektiv. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz and Jozef Robakowski at ŻAK | BRANICKA by Dominikus Müller has just been published in artnet Magazin.

You are cordially invited to the exhibition of Hubert Czerepok entiteld "Haunebu" at The Peenemünde Historical Technical Information Center.

The exhibition is open from 12th february 2009 to 19th April 2009.

Opening: 12th of Ferbuary 2009, 3 P.M. 

17449 Peenemünde

GERMANY

www.peenemuende.de

Gallery BWA in Wroclaw (Poland) cordially invites you to the solo show of Laura Pawela, entitled "It Hurts Me Too".

Duration of the exhibition: 22 January - 15 March 2009.

BWA Design Gallery, ul.Swidnicka 2-4, 50-067 Wroclaw, Poland

http://www.bwa.wroc.pl/

Gallery BWA Zielona Gora cordially invites you to the solo exhibition of Michał Jankowski entiteld Zachodźże Słoneczko.

Opening: Tuesday, 6th January 2009 at 6 pm

BWA Zielona Góra
ul. Niepodległości 19
65-048 Zielona Góra, Poland
www.bwazg.pl 

Zofia Kulik is participating in the exhibition Menschenbilder 1620/2009 at Museum Abtei Liesborn in Wadersloh-Liesborn.

21.6.2009 - 16.8.2009

www.museum-abtei-liesborn.de

Gallery TÄT cordially invites you to the exhibition of Kasia Fudakowski and Marco Meiran entiteld Birne.

Opening Friday, November 14th 2008, 6.00 P.M.

TÄT
Schönhauser Allee 161A 
Berlin

www.tät.net

Hall 18, booth 147 

31.October - 3.November 2008

ŻAK | BRANICKA with: Zofia Kulik, Kasia Fudakowski, Jarosław Flicinski, Paweł Książek, Dominik Lejman, Sławomir Toman, Jozef Robakowski.

www.art-forum-berlin.com

Booth concept: Is Ornament a Crime?

It seems that we fell so deeply in love with Modernism that we have forgotten the seductive power of the Ornament, its antithesis. And maybe it is not concerned with forgetting but rather with a type of shame about the lack of content in the Ornament and the favor, which we sense when we allow a look into this rhythmic slip. But the Ornament, which in the beginnings of Modernism was compromised and even sometimes proscribed as criminal, is today reborn in a new form. We long for the emotion that it arouses, we dream of it and of refreshing this visual delight. Today, Adolf Loos’ excommunication of this is no longer relevant: the Ornament is not a crime. It is rather a passion. The chosen works are arranged such that they are mutually enervated, and so that their visual power – just as that of the Ornament – is also reciprocally supported by its surroundings. The viewer should be physically satisfied, involved in visual bliss: quietly losing focus, they are taken by a dizzying Vertigo. There is sufficient motivation to be freed from the shame of the Ornament. The choice is not an attempt to locate the border between the figurative and abstract. Rather, here we are shown the importance of the blurred transitions and the impossibility of an existence without these supporting inspirations.

You are cordially invited to the cooperative project EUROGUM, the first german solo exhibition of Piotr Jaros.

Curated by: Barbara Steiner and Arnold Bartetzky.

The exhibition takes place at different locations at the same time:

10/24 - 10/26  2008 | 10 am - 7 pm | GRASSI MUSEUM Johannisplatz 5 - 11, Leipzig
MADE IN CHINA // object- and video installation  

10/24 – 11/21/2008 | 11 am – 12 pm | Galerie für Zeit- genössische Kunst/Cafe| Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 11, Leipzig
BIAC // short film

10/25/2008 [Sat] | 6 pm – 7 pm | Pierogi Gallery | Spinnereistraße 7, Leipzig | Hall 10
POLISH // performance

10/26/2008 [Sun] | 7 pm | Polnisches Institut Leipzig | Markt 10, Leipzig | free entrance
HABITUATION HOUSE // photo- and video installation

10/28/2008 [Tue] 5 pm | Polnisches Institut Leipzig | Markt 10, Leipzig |  Films.

The Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam e.V cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition ”Bewegte Stilleben- junge polnische Videokunst” with Rafał Bujnowski, Hubert Czerepok, Wojtek Doroszuk, Laura Pawela, Agnieszka Polska, Zorka Wollny.

Curated by Astrid Mania.

Opening Saturday, September 27th 2008, 7.00 P.M.

Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam e.V.

Brandenburger Straße 5

Potsdam, Germany

The exhibition will be open from September 28th until November 19th, 2008, Tuesday- Saturday 12 A.M.- 6 P.M.

Katarzyna Kozyra, Summer's Tale

Opening: Friday, 31.10.2008, 6 - 9 pm

Exhibition: 01.11.2008 - 10.12.2008 

www.mdf-berlin.de

04-07.September 2008 

ŻAK | BRANICKA with Katarzyna Kozyra

Press Release

www.artberlincontemporary.com

Supported by: EIDOTECH

„Gutes Rad war teuer“ is the article about ŁUKASZ SKAPSKI‘S series, "The Machines", published in DIE ZEIT (Zeit Magazin Leben) on the 28th of August, 2008.

Online version:

http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/35/bg-traktoren

SETS 

The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition of Paweł Książek entitled Sets

Opening: Friday, June 6th, 2008, 6.00 P.M.

pl. Szczepanski 3a

Cracow, Poland

The exhibition will be open from June 7th untill July 6th, 2008, Tuesday-Wednesday, Friday-Sunday: 11.00 A.M. -6.00 P.M. Thursday: 11.00 A.M. - 8.00. P.M.

www.bunkier.com.pl

ŻAK | BRANICKA has participated at the ViennaFair 2008, that took place from 24 until 27 April 2008. ŻAK | BRANICKA has present an exhibition of works by Hubert Czerepok, Szymon Kobylarz, Paweł Książek and Krzysztof Zieliński in Hall A, booth A0114.

www.viennafair.at

Concept

The true fiction / the fictional truth

The exhibition presented at the ŻAK | BRANICKA stand focuses on one side, on how deeply we believe in the fulfillment of those promises of a future that will always remain utopic and on the other hand, on how much we doubt the probability of phenomena, that most likely are real.
We had belived in a future so much, but it proved to be a catastrophy even before it was fully manifested. Everything that Modernism had promised us has remained unfulfilled, and the dream of the splendit future has turned out to be fiction. The topic of the utopia of Modernism is taken up in the work of Szymon Kobylarz in the model of a building that has been built after the L´Unite d´habitation de Marseille of Le Corbusier. This building stands today in the industrial city of Katowice (Poland), while the original no longer exists. In the work, Superjednostka the artist has sentenced the building to destruction.
To the past refers also Krzysztof Zielinski, who has photographed his primary school built in the 60´s. In his works the harshness of the socialistic epoch becomes cozy. Even deeper into the past reaches Pawel Ksiazek as he refers to the exclusive aesthetic of De Stjil, and exposes its affiliations with the visual culture of the Black Metal. These works deal with the way the blending of high culture into mass culture proceeds.
The project of Hubert Czerepok is a classic reenactment of events that took place in the 70´s, in a small village in Poland. Even if we believe in conspiracy theories, we don´t want to believe in the landing of an UFO, even if it could be true.