Timeline
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.
The MOCAK Collection III
The Collection III – while retaining a dozen or more works from the previous edition – broadens its scope with numerous photographic works. We aim to demonstrate the breadth of artistic statement available to the medium.
Sport in Art
Sport in Art after History in Art, the second exhibition in the series which shows how artists see the issues that matter in people's everyday lives. Sport in Art, an international exhibition which presents over forty artists, takes on board the interpretion of the central theme as widely as possible – in terms of both content and the range of media used. We will show classical painters, film makers and objects as well as artists who put their lives at risk in confrontation with extreme sports.
While Men Are at War
An exhibition of the controversial Ukrainian photographer Sergey Bratkov, presented as part of the 10th anniversary edition of Photomonth in Krakow 2012. Two series of photographs will be on display:Kids and Army Girls.
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.
Contemporary Silesian architecture
On Wednesday 29 February at 6 pm, MOCAK and Autoportret (ed. by MIK) invite you to a session Contemporary Silesian architecture − Post-1989 Identity. The identity of Silesia, its modernism and neo-modernism – these will be the topics which Dorota Leśniak-Rychlak will be discussing with Przemo Łukasik (medusa group) and Anna Syska (Silesian Centre of Cultural Heritage).
The Artist = A Work of Art
EVA & ADELE are a couple of German artists who live and create ABOVE GENDER BOUNDARIES . Their guiding principle is: WHEREVER WE ARE IS MUSEUM! They want to impose on the world their vision of FUTURING. EVA & ADELE function in public space as an art work. The artists treat their own bodies as living sculpture, streets – as galleries and grand artistic events as a museum.
Transit
Transit, the exhibition of the work of Marek Chlanda, a Polish sculptor and graphic artist, presents over a hundred of his works – paintings and sculptures which combine into four well-meshed sequences. Dark visions create a cycle without a consistent narrative, creating a feeling of disquiet and loss in the viewer.
Comics: Urban Myths
The works shown at the exhibition are somehow related to the phenomenon of urban myths – the artists create brand new myths or transform existing ones. Urban myths describe disturbing and incredible events, which stem from common fears, and some of them are cautionary tales. All the works employ the technique of the comic strip, with its characteristic strong narrative quality.
