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Catalogue: Paweł Książek. N.N. vs. Artists
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
Monographie: Hubert Czerepok - Devil`s Island
448 Seiten, price 29 eur, ISBN 2-906890-05-7
Szymon Kobylarz and PaweŁ Olszczyński in FUKT Magazine
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://csw.art.pl/index.php?action=aktualnosci&s2=1&id=200&lang=eng
Agnieszka Polska in Bucharest
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 at Bunkier Sztuki in Krakau
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
Kasia Fudakowski, Szymon Kobylarz, Katarzyna Kozyra and Łukasz Skąpski in Kiel
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
Krzysztof Zielinski at Kordegarda, Warsaw
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
Hubert Czerepok at Galeria HIT in Bratislava
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 at Polish Institute in Rome
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 at Tate Britain
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:
Katarzyna Kozyra at Sydney Biennale
Hubert Czerepok in New York
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/
Michal Jankowski at Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder)
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/
ViennaFair
ZAK|BRANICKA - VIENNAFAIR
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 at BWA gallery in Zielona Gora
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/
ZAK|BRANICKA - Gallery Weekend Berlin
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
ZAK|BRANICKA - Art Brussels
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".
Art Brussels
Dominik Lejman at Biennale for International Light Art
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.
Agnieszka Polska and KwieKulik in KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Opening: February 27, 2010, 5 – 10 pm
Duration of the exhibition: February 28 – May 2, 2010
For further information:
www.kw-berlin.de
KRZYSZTOF ZIELINSKI IN POZNAN
"Palac" at Zamek
Opening: 18.00 on 8th March
Duration of the exhibition: 9.03.10 - 30.04.10
For further information: www.zamek.poznan.pl
"Everything Alright?" at Starter
Opening: 19.00 on 12th March
Duration of the exhibition: 13.03.10 - 28.03.10
For further information: www.starter.org.pl
Agnieszka Polska in Aarhus
Agnieszka Polska participates in the group show The Good Old Days at The Aarhus Art Building. The work of the invited artists takes on the inevitable uncertainties and assumptions of re-historicisation as they place themselves within the very structures that their work critiques.
Duration of the exhibition: 6th February - 17th March 2010
More information can be found here:
http://www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk/
Hubert Czerepok in Poznan
Duration of the exhibition: 5th February - 13th April 2010
More details can be found here:
http://www.artstationsfoundation5050.com/en/
The Past is a Foreign Country
Duration of the exhibition: 23rd January - 7th March 2010
For further information please visit:
http://csw.torun.pl/
KwieKulik. Form is a fact of society
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
ARTISSIMA
6-8 NOVEMBER 2009
ZAK | BRANICKA
with
Katarzyna Kozyra, Zofia Kulik, Agnieszka Polska, Pawel Ksiazek, Hubert Czerepok
PAWEŁ KsiĄŻek in Poznan
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
Dominik Lejman
Opening on Friday, September 25, 2009, 6-9 pm
art berlin contemporary
ZAK | BRANICKA with Dominik Lejman
Opening: Tuesday, September 22, 200, 7 pm
www.artberlincontemporary.com
Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures
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
Szymon Kobylarz in ZachĘta
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
Yane Calovski "MASTER PLAN / HOLLOW LAND"
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
PAWEŁ KSIĄŻEK at Kunstverein Salzburg
Katarzyna Kozyra: XVI. Rohkunstbau
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
Menschenbilder 1620/2009
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
Aktuelle Positionen aus Polen -> at Weltecho, Chemnitz
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 ZAK 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
KATARZYNA KOZYRA
PaweŁ KsiĄŻek at ART | BASEL Statements
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
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: Devil's Island
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
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.
MichaŁ Jankowski: Twilight
The solo exhibition of Michał Jankowski Twilight opens May 29, 2009 at Kronika Bytom.
29.05.2009 - 11.07.2009
Szymon kobylarz: FIFTY FIFTY
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
PaweŁ KsiĄŻek in Schloss-Corvey
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
Agnieszka Polska: Breathless
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
ZOFIA KULIK presents KwieKulik: Dobromierz X
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
ViennaFair 2009
07. to 10. May 2009
ZAK | BRANICKA participates in ViennaFair 2009 with Michał Jankowski, Kasia Fudakowski, Agnieszka Polska, Józef Robakowski, Yane Calovski.
Please visit our booth: Hall A, Booth 1103
http://www.viennafair.at/
Zbigniew Rogalski
JÓzef Robakowski Films at the Brotfabrikkino
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
JÓZEF ROBAKOWSKI AT THE BERLINALE
The film will be screened as part of the "After Winter Comes Spring" Short Film series at the Zeughauskino in the Deutsches Historisches Museum on Sunday, February 8th at 9pm and on Friday, February 13th at 6:30pm.
Exhibition Review: WITKACY–ROBAKOWSKI
An exhibition review Das Komikkorrektiv. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz and Jozef Robakowski at ZAK BRANICKA by Dominikus Müller has just been published in artnet Magazin.
www.artnet.de/magazine/reviews/mueller/mueller02-11-09.asp
HUBERT CZEREPOK "Haunebu"
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.
The Peenemünde Historical Technical Information Center17449 Peenemünde
GERMANY
LAURA PAWELA "IT HURTS ME TOO"
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
KRZYSZTOF ZIELINSKI IN POZNAN
"Palac" at Zamek
Opening: 18.00 on 8th March
Duration of the exhibition: 9.03.10 - 30.04.10
For further information: www.zamek.poznan.pl
"Everything Alright?" at Starter
Opening: 19.00 on 12th March
Duration of the exhibition: 13.03.10 - 28.03.10
For further information: www.starter.org.pl
MICHAŁ JANKOWSKI: ZachodŹŻe sŁoneczko
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: Menschenbilder 1620/2009
Zofia Kulik is participating in the exhibition Menschenbilder 1620/2009 at Museum Abtei Liesborn in Wadersloh-Liesborn.
21.6.2009 - 16.8.2009
Kasia Fudakowski "Birne"
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
ART FORUM Berlin
Hall 18, booth 147
31.October - 3.November 2008
ZAK | BRANICKA with: Zofia Kulik, Kasia Fudakowski, Jarosław Flicinski, Paweł Książek, Dominik Lejman, Sławomir Toman, Jozef Robakowski.
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.
PIOTR JAROS: EUROGUM
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.
”Bewegte Stilleben- young polish videoart”
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.
European Month of Photography Berlin 2008
Katarzyna Kozyra, Summer's Tale
Opening: Friday, 31.10.2008, 6 - 9 pm
Exhibition: 01.11.2008 - 10.12.2008
art berlin contemporary
Krzysztof ZieliŃski "Millennium School"
You are cordially invited to the exhibition of Krzysztof Zieliński entiteld "Millenium School" at Center of Contemporary Art in Torun.
Curated by: Joanna Zielińska
The exhibition is open from Nov 14, 2008 to Jan 31, 2009.CoCA
Waly gen. Sikorskiego 13
Torun, Poland
Video tour of the exhibition:
ŁUKASZ SKĄPSKI in "DIE ZEIT"
„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:
PAWEŁ KSIĄŻEK Sets
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.
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ViennaFair 2008
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.
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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.
T for Turkey
Friday, May 9th 2008, 8 p.m.
An evening with film and music, presented within the "Kronika´s Alphabet" project organized by Centre for Contemporary Art Kronika, Poland.
The participants: X and Y
The project has been supported by the Polish Institute in Berlin, The Ars Cameralis Silesiale Superioris