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Paweł Leszkowicz: The Male Nude in the Culture of the People’s Republic of Poland
The encounter with Paweł Leszkowicz has been organised by MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art and the Foundation Culture for Tolerance. It will take place at MOCAK-u on Tuesday 29 May 2012 at 6 pm as part of the project The Rose-coloured Spectacles of the People’s Republic of Poland. Queer Cafe, focused on LGBT issues in the PRL.
The Birthday of Political Critique at MOCAK
On Saturday 26 May 2012 at 4, ul. Lipowa at 5 pm – to mark the 10th anniversary of the magazine – there will be a debate run by Political Critique and MOCAK, with the participation of the philosophers Michael Walzer and Marshall Berman. The debate will be chaired by the founder and editor of Political Critique – Sławomir Sierakowski.
Meet Simone Demandt and Rafał Jakubowicz
On Saturday 19 May at 2 pm visit the Goethe-Institut to meet Simone Demandt and Rafał Jakubowicz, artists taking part in the exhibition Sport in Art. Led by: Delfina Piekarska, one of the exhibition’s curators.
2012 Night of Museums at MOCAK
The opening of Night of Museums and new exhibitions, including Sport in Art, will take place at MOCAK on Friday 18 May at 7 pm. For this reason, only the MOCAK Collection III will be opened for visitors until 6 pm and then there will be an hour-long break. The cash desk will be opened until 5 pm.
Slow Art Day 2012
Slow Art Day is an international museum action which aims to enable viewers to find their own way of responding to art and internalising it at a gentle pace. In every museum participating in the action a number of temporary or permanent exhibits will be selected for viewers to spend a few minutes on leisurely contemplation of each of them.
Whose history?
Whose History?, is a year-long site-specific artwork and curatorial project by artist Joshua Schwartz. The project uses an advertising billboard in the city of Oswiecim, Poland as an exhibition space for a series of artists to present works that confront the city’s conflicted past. The exhibition runs till 25th April.
The Library Opening!
On Saturday 31 March at 11 am the MOCAK Library will open. The event will be accompanied by the workshop Return of the Book, organised in collaboration with the project Salt as well as a guided tour of Mieczys aw Porębski’s Library.
Washing, hanging out to dry, ironing and polishing
Preparation of the elements of Marek Chlanda’s installation Funeral of a Sardine and their reconstruction.
Guided tour of the EVA & ADELE exhibition
On Thursday 8th March at 6 pm you are cordially invited to the curator-guided tour of the EVA & ADELE exhibition: Artist - A Work of Art.
Lynn Hershman Leeson at MOCAK
On Tuesday 13 March at 5 pm, you are cordially invited to a meeting with the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson which will take place at MOCAK and to a projection of her film !Women Art Revolution. The meeting, conducted in English, will be hosted by Matylda Szewczyk of the Institute of Polish Culture at the Warsaw University. Do come! Entry free.
