Timeline
Active Reading: Konik i Koninka
On Saturday, 19 November, at 12 noon, children aged up to 8 are invited with their accompanying adults to an active-reading session of the book Konik i Koninka (He and She-Horse). Workshop conducted in Polish.
Guided Tour (in Polish) of Janina Turek exhibition Life Recorded in 745 Notebooks
On Thursday 10 November 2022 at 12 noon, Anna Jeznach, the co-ordinator of Janina Turek exhibition Life Recorded 745 Notebooks, invites you to a guided tour in Polish.
Bruno Schulz: Sex-Fiction
The exhibition at MOCAK will show several dozen drawings and prints by Bruno Schulz. We have also prepared an experiment with self-portraits. We have cut out representations of the artist’s face from larger compositions and arranged them in a sequence analysing his psyche.
Erotic Provocations
Natalia LL, a prominent contemporary artist considered one of the pioneers of feminist art, died on 12 August 2022. Her work had roots in conceptualism and was also part of the body art movement. The MOCAK Collection contains more than 40 works by Natalia LL, dating from 1964 to 1993. This collection of her works has never before been presented in its entirety at MOCAK, the exhibition is thus a premiere, but is above all a tribute to an outstanding artist.
Life Recorded in 745 Notebooks
Janina Turek was born in Krakow in 1921 and died there in 2000. She spent most of her life at 6 Parkowa Street in the Podgórze district of the city. On the face of it, she was an ordinary housewife. Yet for 57 years – in secret from her loved ones – she kept a diary. The object of her observations was everyday life, the simplest human activities, to which we often pay little attention. After Janina Turek’s death, her diaries, written almost throughout her life and hidden in her flat, were found by her daughter. The core of the exhibition will be a presentation of notebooks that have been in the MOCAK Collection since 2016. The exhibition will be complemented by photographs from the family archive, as well as postcards that the diarist collected and a film interview with Janina Turek’s daughter.
Thursdays with Artists from the MOCAK Collection. Franciszek Orłowski
In September and October, we show an interview with Franciszek Orłowski. The artist talks about the beginnings of his creative path and the factors that influenced his choice of the dominant medium in his work. He discusses some of his works, including the project This Blood is for You.
Active Reading: Phillip and His Mother Who Had Forgotten
On Saturday 15 October at 12 noon children up to the age of 8 are invited along with the adults in charge to the active reading of the book Phillip and His Mother Who Had Forgotten. The workshop will be conducted in Polish.
Stories We Have Heard Workshop with audio-description for children aged 6–12
On Saturday 8 October at 12 noon, children aged 6–12 and their accompanying adults are invited to a workshop with self-description. The workship will be conducted in Polish.
Artistic Resistance in Dissonance. Guided Tour in English on Politics in Art exhibition
On Sunday 2 October at 4 pm MOCAK invites you for guided tour in English on the exhibition Politics in Art.
