Timeline
Traditional Photography in the Era of Digital Media – a lecture by André Rouillé
A lecture by a professor of art, philosophy and aesthetics at the Paris 8 University dealt with the function and status of traditional photography in the era of digital media and image inflation, as well as the related increasing interest in photography as art and its commercial success.
Does Krakow need a Women’s Museum?
What role could a Women’s Museum play? An archive, a research centre, a place where feminism – that still has the status of a niche activity – meets the public at large. Or, perhaps, a new institution which collects relics of prominent female citizens and artists as well as documenting the transformations of the social mores and life in the community.
A film showing: Świecie 2009 – directed by Artur Żmijewski
Świecie 2009 is the documentation of a sculptors’ plein air organised by Żmijewski, inspired by the Biennale of Spatial Forms in Elbląg in 1965. On this occasion, the participants were seven artists as well as workers from the steel fabrication factory in Świecie.
EU Textiles
The artist Małgorzata Markiewicz has designed the national costume for the citizens of the European Union. The costumes of particular member states only differ in the type of material that they are made of, and the trimmings. The exhibition in MOCAK is accompanied by a catalogue presenting the idea of the project, individual costumes and samples of the textiles used.
Viennese Actionism: The Opposite Pole of Society
The exhibition Viennese Actionism: The Opposite Pole of Society presents works from the collection of the Essl Museum in Austria. The selection of the works presented highlights socially involved artistic stances. It shows art as a tool of social negotiation against the backdrop of the social and political transformations which have been taking place from the 1960s.
All the World's Women Are in Me!
All the World's Women Are in Me! is a male edition of a feminist exhibition. It shows woman's presence in the world, her versatility and her ability to adapt to all circumstances. The exhibition highlights commonly prevailing stereotypes in the treatment of women and their helplessness in standing up to them.
Some Thoughts on Contemporary Photography – a lecture by Michael Fried
Michael Fried is one of the most prominent critics and historians of contemporary art and his writings include the well-known essay Art and Objecthood. Currently lectures at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Book launch: Not Geese: Polish Graphic Design 1919-1949
Not Geese is the first such broad attempt to reconstruct the process of the shaping of Polish graphic design. The book serves as a map of the areas of visual communication – it aims to enable the reader to visualise the idiom of images at any particular time and its successive transformation.
Jugoslavia 1961–1973. The History of New Tendencies and Bit Magazine
The artists of New Tendencies operated against the background of concrete art, constructivism, op-art and kinetic art. Moreover, they were some of the first to use the computer not so much as a useful tool, but as a completely new medium of creative art.
Open Throne – presentation of the catalogue of an exhibition that never was
The exhibition Open Throne. Contemporary Art and the Phenomenon of John Paul II was intended to provide a collection of stories and objects related to the spiritual amnesia, void and disappearance of any traces of the cult of John Paul II.
