Timeline
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.
Nefarious Memes – a lecture by Magdalena Kamińska
What is the shape of today’s Cyberculture? What phenomena combine to create its media space? Cyber-gossips, auction web sites, netspeak, chatspeak, Cyber-churches and fan forums – these have all become part of the landscape.
Transformation Sites
The film was shot on location in Berlin, Gdańsk and Kjiv – cities that are symbols of systemic transformation – both political and economic.
Polish Tanztheater?
The increasingly popular in Poland phenomenon of ‘dance theatre’ is quite different from the German Tanztheater. A new generation of dancers and choreographers has appeared in Poland, for whom the German approach to dancing is not a fundamental point of reference.
