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Wolf Kahlen "Video Tapes 1969-2010"
Wrocław, WRO Center, September 9 - October 29, 2010 The restrospective exhibition Video Tapes 1969-2010 is the first survey of Kahlen's work to be presented in Poland. Marking Kahlen's 70th birthday, the show has been prepared jointly by the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, the Folkwang Museum in Essen, the Ruine der Künste in Berlin and the WRO Art Center. It includes 163 restored and digitalized video and film works, media installations, video sculptures, photographs and documentation of performances and conceptual actions...
2nd Biennale Ars Polonia "In Space"
Opole, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, September 11 - October 24, 2010 The conceptual title refers to a concept of "space" as a specific area, not only in the physical sense, but also or maybe first of all, as an environment embracing and engrossing in its peculiar structure, a sphere often imposing certain behaviours and creating multidimensional associations. The event will cover installations, objects, video projections, paintings as well as concrete poetry and performance...
Anette Messager "On Show (Faire Parade)"
Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, September 10 - November 14, 2010. The monographic Annette Messager exhibition in Zachęta is the first retrospective of the artist's work in Poland. Annette Messager's creative journey began in the end of the 60s, when the world of art was dominated by men and Messager was grappling with the 'woman-artist' label. Today, she is one of the most important French artists...
Maciek Wójcicki Goes Retail
London, Urban Outfitters store, 200 Oxford Street, September 18 - October 10, 2010 London product designer Maciek Wójcicki has been invited by high street retailer Urban Outfitters to prepare an exhibition of his work in its Oxford Street branch in London. He employs a considerable margin of freedom in bestowing everyday objects with creative forms and functions, which highlight the interaction between the object and the user in a rather emotional way...
Mediations Biennale 2010
Poznań, September 11 - October 30, 2010 The main theme of "Medians Biennale" is the interdisciplinary dialogue between civilizations, arts and cultures presented through the medium of contemporary art from all over the world, including the newest quests of the artists from Eastern Europe. The event showcases around 150 artists from over 30 countries...
Musical Inspirations Across Genres
Kraków, National Museum, September 10, 2010 - January 2, 2011 The exhibition presents several dozen works inspired by the music of Fryderyk Chopin, including new works by Janina Kraupe-Świderska and other artists in the National Museum's collection. The theme centres around how sound serves as a source of inspiration within the creative process across genres and disciplines...
Child's Play: Design for Kids
Stalowa Wola, Regional Museum, September 4 - October 17, 2010 The collection includes both unique and individual projects, items produced in short, limited series as well as manufactures produced on a high industrial scale: from cuddly toys and books to furniture, rugs and lamps. Many of these things were created because the parents-cum-designers couldn't find anything relevant for their kids at the local toy store. Others are the result of fascination of a child's imagination or an attempt to return to childhood...
Plakat: World Cinema Through the Eyes of Polish Graphic Artists
Canada, Toronto, September 1 - September 18, 2010 Running alongside this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the "Plakat" Polish Film Poster Exhibition features a substantial collection of cinema posters past and present, putting posters by Jan Lenica, Andrzej Pągowski, Waldemar Świerzy in the limelight once again. The Polish Poster School, which burgeoned in the '60s and '70s, became a global movement, expressing the essence of a product, film or theatrical performance through one unique, iconic image...
Sosnowska's "Staircase" to Israel
Herzliya, Israel, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, September 4, 2010 - January 15, 2011 The renowned Polish installation artist has gained considerable recognition worldwide for her complex, architectural, site-specific works as she conducts an ongoing dialogue with the contemporary urban and suburban landscape in her native Poland and abroad. Her latest work, a monumental installation entitled "The Staircase", is now on show in Tel Aviv...
"A Theory of Vision: A Review"
Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, September 13 - November 1, 2010 "A Theory of Vision: A Review" presents issues relevant to the "physics and metaphysics of visuality" - visibility, perception, observation and visual cognition - across diverse ideological and technological configurations. The title refers to Władysław Strzemiński's 1936-1958 treatise on capturing a visual image of memory and transferring it onto the canvas.
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Touched in Liverpool
Liverpool, September 18 - November 28, 2010 First presented at the Venice Biennale in 1980, "Embryology" is on show for the first time in the UK as part of the "Touched" international exhibiton at the prestigious Liverpool Biennial . Abakanowicz's installation confronts spectators with an ambigious and disturbing realm between bodies and amorphous organic matter, which evoke both the imagery of the natural landscape and post-industrial elements of trade and warehousing...
Ceramics by Hanna and Leszek Nowosielski in Italy
Italy, Faenza, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, , September 2 - October 3, 2010 Hanna and Leszek Nowosielski were artists of their own avant-garde who made use of the static and conservative materials of ceramics and porcelain to create unexpected forms and themes across such genres as frescos, reliefs, figures and vases.The Nowosielskis' broad legacy of fine works in porcelain and ceramics are on show in Italy, making its first stop in Faenza...
Zorka Wollny and Grzegorz Kowalski at "Postmonument"
Italy, 14th International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, September 4 - October 31, 2010 The exhibition at the latest edition of the International Sculpture Biennale in Carrara explores the process of de-monumentalisation, a movement that aims to release sculpture from its typically commemorative, panegyric functions, through the works of four artists: Vanessa Beecroft, Nevin Aladag, Grzegorz Kowalski and Zorka Wollny. These diverse works take monuments down from their pedestals and expand the extemporary dimension of sculpture within its environment and scope of expression outside of the boundaries of time...
"Project Próżna 2010"
Warsaw, ul. Próżna 7/9, August 29 - September 5, 2010 The exhibition centres around the topic of mankind's entanglement in historical processes, both global and personal, and the problem of the manipulation of historical record and memory. This year artists, historians, critics and authors are taking part in the event, creating installations in various spaces along Próżna street.
7th "Singer's Warsaw" Jewish Culture Festival
Warsaw, August 28 - September 5, 2010 Among the many artists taking part in the 7th edition of the "Singer's Warsaw" Jewish Culture Festival are legendary clarinettist and saxophone player Giora Feidman, cantors Yakov Lemmer, Benzion Miller, Jakob Motzen and Alberto Mizrachi, conductors Krzysztof Penderecki and John Axelrod, along with the extraordinary Nigel Kennedy and the Kroke band duet. Top avant-garde musicians from Poland and abroad are also taking the stage, including Raphael Rogiński, Mitch and Mitch, Kruzenstern & Parahod, as well as masters of improvisation Boris Malkovski and Paweł Szamburski.
Follow the White Rabbit to Kraków
Kraków, Bunkier Sztuki, September 9 - October 24, 2010 The title comes from Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" as an invitation for audiences of all ages to travel into the rabbit's burrow. By the same token, children are invited to travel into a different dimension through the medium of art, which introduces young people to a world of unfettered imagination, ruled by its own laws and logic...
"Light and Movement" in Venice
Venice Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà, August 26 - October 16, 2010 The "Luce e movimento" show at the Signum Foundation in Venice is devoted to the question of kinetic art and the interdependence between light and motion in art. Curated by Grzegorz Musiał, it presents a number of works, from reliefs and sculptures to installations and films in which light and movement become essential elements of the artistic composition, exploring the avant-garde origins of the movement and its influence on the art of today.
10th "Era New Horizons" International Film Festival - Movies on Art
Wrocław, July 22 - August 1, 2010 Photo gallery...
"Tarnów, a 1000 years of modernism" - Prologue
Tarnów, August 29 - August 31, 2011 "Tarnów, a 1000 years of modernism" recalls of the vision and fantasies that inspired the city's architects and builders in the Twentieth Century, displaying Tarnow's modernistic aesthetics in the context of European and Polish architecture.
Preview of the exhibition "Abakanowicz. In Warsaw at Last!"
Warsaw, The Royal Garden of the Royal Castle, June 12, 2010 Photo gallery...
Joanna Zastróżna
Born in Gdynia in 1972, Zastróżna graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1997). Her interests include fine-art and advertising photography, without making strong distinctions between the two fields, as well as easel painting, the latter allowing to focus on other issues than those offered by photography.
"UNPOLISHED 5" - Young Design from Poland
Denmark, Copenhagen, BC Design Center, August 30 - September 30, 2010 From folk-inspired pieces from Gogo, Aze and Krystian Kwieciński to innovative space-age gadgets by Moomoo Architects, DBWT and Puff-Buff, Poland's young artists are shuttling to the forefront of global design. Most of the designers and groups presented in the "UNPOLISHED" series are thirty-somethings. Educated after Poland's political transformation, most of them are involved not only in the design of their projects, but also in their production and promotion. This group show of major achievements in contemporary Polish design has traveled all over Europe - from Brussels to Berlin and Neumünster - landing in Copenhagen at the end of August...
Agnieszka Kurant
Visual artist. Born in 1978 in Łodz. Lives and works in Warsaw.
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The screening of two Maciej Drygas' films, followed by a Q&A with the director, will take place on September 28, at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London.
On Monday, September 20, the first Polish arena for the Euro 2012 Cup will open in Poznań. The official ceremony will be honoured with a concert featuring Sting performing with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Steven Mercurio.
Until September 25 (except for Sundays and holidays), the John the Baptist Archcathedral in Warsaw will host daily organ recitals as part of the 7th edition of the "Grand Organ of the Archicathedral" Festival.
"Dotyk człowieka/Beruehrungen" is the title of the exhibition presenting works of six Polish contemporary artists displayed at the German Embassy in Warsaw (Jazdów street): on view until September 27.
On October 17, the National Museum in Poznań will host the first public presentation of Claude Monet's "Beach in Pourville". The painting was stolen ten years ago. The painting returned to the museum in January 2010 after the folice found the thief.
Jazz pianist Chick Corea will give his only Polish solo concert on November 8 in Zabrze.
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