Overview
OVERVIEW
EXHIBITIONS
from 30.09.2012
Coordinator: Monika Kozioł
The MOCAK Collection
The exhibition of MOCAK’s collection, extended by numerous photographic works and other works of Fluxus.
Mieczyslaw Porębski's Library
Arrangement: Jerzy Porębski
It is a permanent exhibition of MOCAK and an authentic library. The paintings of the Krakow Group of artists are hung just right to the Professor’s book collection, which include nearly four thousand volumes.
Jiří Kolář
Collage with an Ermine
19.10.2012–27.1.2013
Curator: Maria Anna Potocka
Coordinator: Katarzyna Wąs
It is the first such large monographic presentation of works of Jiří Kolár’s, one of the most prominent Czech artists in Poland. The works reflect, in their complex structure, a diversity of the author’s interest.
FLUXUS
The lunatics are on the loose...
European Fluxus festivals
1962 - 1977
Curator: Petra Stegmann and Peter van der Meijden, Henar Rivière, Heike Roms, Caroline Ugelstad
Coordinator: Delfina Piekarska
It is an exhibition summarizing the activities of the international artist network Fluxus during festivals organized in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition includes: photographs, interviews with artists, visualizations, presentations documenting local art events and installations (Do-it-yourself Fluxus Installations).
Imprints of Memory
The project presents different aspects of human memory. It consists of two exhibitions:
Anita Glesta
Guernica
Curator: Delfina Piekarska
Anita Glesta, an American artist, in her multimedia installation evokes the tragedy of bombed Guernica. The most important part of the project are the interviews carried out five years ago, with the residents of the city who survived the bombing.
Wojciech Wilczyk
Post-industrial spaces
Curator: Monika Kozioł
The individual exhibition of Wojciech Wilczyk, "Post-industrial spaces", presents several photographs from the series "Postindustrial". The works present industrial constructions located mostly in Poland.
What is art for?
Curator: Katarzyna Wąs
It is a cyclical presentation of the works of the students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. It is a summary of the seminar, conducted during the year, within the project What is art for? - a project whose aim was to search for answers for this important question.
MOCAK EDU
EDUCATIONAL AND ARTISTIC PROJECTS
reCYCLING vol. 2
1.9.2012
The second part of the "reCYCLING" action, launched in June by MOCAK. The participants had a possibility to brush up their bikes, deepen their knowledge about their vehicles, visit the exhibition Sport in art and test their abilities in a bicycle marathon Schwinn Cycling. A special guest of the event was a street-art group Massmix.
Workshops during the 11th Podgórze Open Doors Day
29.9.2012
As part of the local campaign, MOCAK organised workshops for families with children – A Walk Along Lipowa, as well as active tours for kids - Museum full of secrets.
Action 60+ Culture
29–30.9.2012
During the action, a guide took the seniors visitors to the Sport in art exhibition and showed them other exhibitions at the Museum
CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
Nature under the protection of art
20-26.9.2012
Workshops for the winners of EDUeko competition. During the workshops, children created installations of gardens, forests and lakes in the area surrounding the MOCAK building and in its interior. The project was realised in cooperation with IKEA.
Fun with books
22.9.2012
Workshops with a book Samotny Jędruś authored by Wojciech Widłak and Joanna Rusinek. The event was organized in cooperation with the publishing house Czerwony Konik.
A new character in the game
27.9.2012
Workshops with the artist Arek Pasożyt, during which children saw the exhibitions at the Museum, learned about the artist’s works and created their own works of art.
MOCAK Club
Happy to help
17-30.9.2012
Arek Pasożyt’s artistic and social project Happy to help, within the framework of the project
Pasożyt staje się żywicielem/ A parasite becomes the provider. The artist lived in MOCAK and helped local residents.
A screening of the film Marina Abramović: artystka obecna/ Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
28.9.2012
A pre-premiere, free screening of the film Marina Abramović: artystka obecna/ Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present organized in collaboration with the Association Nowe Horyzonty.
11th Podgórze Open Door Days
29.9.2012
As part of the local campaign, MOCAK organized educational workshops, visits to Mieczysław Porębski’s library and guided visits to the exhibitions. For this occasion, the art curator opened his studio and advised visitors how to care for valuable objects.
First release of the magazine “Miasta”
4.10.2012
The panel discussion devoted to the issue of housing in Poland and the future of the magazine "Miasta" with the participation of Anna Okońska - Walkowicz (vice-president of Krakow), Dorota Wnęk (The Right to the City/Prawo Do Miasta, Association of Tenants' Rights Protection /Stowarzyszenie Obrony Praw Lokatorów), Łukasz Dąbrowiecki (Occupy Kraków), Pawła Kubickiego (a sociolog, Jagiellonian University), SARP representative and the audience. Led by: Joanna Erbel, Marta Żakowska (magazine “Miasta”).
Post-body – discussion on a new issue of “Autoportret”
12.10.2012
The meeting accompanying the new issue of "Autoportret" (a magazine issued by the Malopolska Institute of Culture), devoted to the issues of changes that occur within human body under the influence of new technologies. Participants: Rossano Baronciani (Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino) and Emiliano Ranocchi ("Autoportret").
Unbribable eye
Galeria Akumulatory 2, 1972 – 1990
15.2-28.4.2013
Curators: Bożena Czubak, Jarosław Kozłowski
Coordinator: Katarzyna Wąs
Presentation of a history of an uncommercial gallery which for 18 years had been presenting art from the entire world basing it on the rule of the artistic facts exchange. Before the exhibition was presented at Gallery Zacheta in Warsaw.
Everything for always today
Projects of the sustainable future
15.2-28.4.2013
Curator: Henrietta Thompson
Coordinator: Monika Kozioł
In the exhibition, new solutions and innovations by contemporary designers and architects will be presented. The exhibition co-organized by British Council.
Piotr Blamowski
15.2-28.4.2013
Curator: Delfina Piekarska
The exhibition will present the objects by Piotr Blamowski and video by the group Design Generation established by the artist and Michał Sterzyński.
MOCAK Forum
Published by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
Editorial Team:
Julita Kwaśniak (editor-in-chief)
Roma Sendyka (editor-in-chief of this issue)
Maria Anna Potocka
Elżbieta Sala
Katarzyna Wąs
Roman Krzysztofik (publisher)
Małgorzata Kuśnierz (editing and proofreading)
Mariusz Sobczyński (editing and proofreading)
Rafał Sosin (artwork, DTP)
Ewelina Czechowicz (promotion)
Katarzyna Pielacha (promotion)
The magazine is created by the MOCAK team.
The editorial team reserves the right to alter the title, lead and to shorten and edit texts, unless such alterations distort the meaning of the original.
Address:
MOCAK Forum
ul. Lipowa 4, 30-702 Kraków
Phone no. +48 12 263 40 55/32
Fax no. +48 12 257 10 34
mocak.forum@mocak.pl
www.mocak.pl
Distribution:
Kamila Kowerska
kowerska@mocak.pl
Phone no. +48 12 263 40 17
Printing:
Skleniarz Printing House, Kraków
ISSN 2083-1374
Circulation: 700 copies
Logotype and vignette:
Anna Zabdyrska
Cover design:
Kama Sokolnicka – (born in 1981) visual artist, a graduate of Fine Academy of Arts in Wrocław. A scholar of the Ministry of Cultural and National Heritage (2011). She works on processes related to images as a function of memory, territoriality, perception and the need of orientation in space.
The collage used in the cover Word image is embedded in a convention with which content or the works apparent in this “MOCAK Forum” enter into interaction. This is a multicontextual convention, not foreign to the other works of the artist who works with images which not so long time ago with strength probably bigger than reality, formed the imaginations of inhabitants of Central East Europe about the West.
Publisher:
Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
ul. Lipowa 4, 30-702 Kraków
Phone no. +48 12 263 40 01
Fax no. +48 12 257 10 34
office@mocak.p, www.mocak.pl
