Timeline
Actions in Nature
The exhibition Actions in Nature is part of a series of presentations by artists whose works can be found in the MOCAK Collection. We will be showing a selection from the dozens of drawings we hold from 2016–2020, as well as new photographs and videos.
Thursdays with Artists from the MOCAK Collection. Marcin Berdyszak
In February and March 2023, we show an interview with Marcin Berdyszak. The artist talks about the beginnings of his artistic work and his time as a student of art and his work as a teacher, and he discusses the main motives behind his work and his dialogue with the works of other artists.
See You Soon! End-of-Exhibitions Guide Tours in Polish and English
On Sunday 19 February, you have the final opportunity to visit the exhibitions ending that day: Bruno Schulz: Sex-Fiction and Janina Turek Life Recorded in 745 Notebooks. Do visit!
The Art of Storytelling. We will be discussing the Notes of a Madwoman by Aleksandra Młynarczyk-Gemza
On Saturday 11 February, at 6 pm, MOCAK and the Department of Contemporary Criticism of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University invite you to a discussion about Aleksandra Młynarczyk-Gemza’s Zapiski wariatki [Notes of a Madwoman]. The session will be held in Polish.
Notes of a Madwoman: Exhibition opening and performative reading of fragments from the book
On Thursday 9 February at 6 pm you are invited to the opening of the exhibition Aleksandra Młynarczyk-Gemza Notes of a Madwoman. The opening will start at 6 pm in MOCAK audiovisual room with the artist giving a performative reading of fragments of her book of the same title. The session will be conducted in Polish.
Notes of a Madwoman
Notes of a Madwoman is also the title of the artist’s debut novel (Znak, 2022). The book reveals experiences relating to different aspects of life: being a woman, an artist and someone with a diagnosed mental illness. The works on view in the MOCAK Library are illustrations for selected chapters of the novel.
Paintings from the MOCAK Collection at the AGH University of Science and Technology
In our selection, we have taken into account the specific circumstances of the exhibition. The selected works are intended for young and ambitious people facing a professional challenge. The tests that await them require strength, concentration, critical thinking, and determination. Crossing paths with art has a marked impact on the need to define oneself.
Thursdays with Artists from the MOCAK Collection. Paweł Susid
In November and December 2022 and January 2023, we show an interview with Paweł Susid. The artist talks about his philosophy of art. The screening of the interview complements the exhibition of the painter’s works, which is currently part of the exhibitions of the MOCAK Collection and Politics in Art.
The Art of Storytelling. Discussion of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
On Saturday, 14 January at 6 pm, MOCAK and the Department of Contemporary Criticism of the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University would like to invite you to a discussion of the book Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace’s. The session will be conducted in Polish.
The Curatorial Atlas of Events. Meet Aneta Szyłak
On Thursday, 12 January 2023 at 6 pm please join us in MOCAK audiovisual room for a lecture and presentation by Aneta Szyłak, curator and theoretician of contemporary art. The meeting will be held in Polish.
