Timeline
Awkward Objects – a session dedicated to Alina Szapocznikow
The meeting revolved around Alina Szapocznikow’s book: Awkward Objects (ed. Agata Jakubowska). The publication accompanied Alina Szapocznikow’s exhibition Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 presented in the WIEKS Centre of Contemporary Art in Brussels in September 2011.
the Journey to the East
Artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Poland will be invited to take part in the exhibition "Journey East". We shall neither attempt to group works according to their nationality, nor pretend that the issue of national identity and national belonging is invisible...
Arbeitsplatz/A Blue Line. Bałka/Krasiński – studios
The session explored the photographs of Mirosław Bałka’s studio taken by Professor Jarnuszkiewicz as well as the series A Blue Line (documentation of the flat of Edward Krasiński) by Jan Smaga and Aneta Grzeszykowska.
Mariusz ‘Wilk’ Wilczyński – a retrospective, fragments
Presentation of selected animated films by Mariusz ‘Wilk’ Wilczyński, to date the only Polish artist to have had a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
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.
