Timeline
Meet the Artist: Shahar Marcus
Shahar Marcus’s works The Boxer and The Curator can be found in the MOCAK Collection. The artist will be talking about his life and art as well as present fragments of his most acclaimed performances and video works.
International Art Hang-Out at MOCAK – 3rd Edition
On Sunday, 12 November at 3 pm youth and adults are welcome to attend a session in English. The participants will familiarise themselves with the exhibition Artists from Krakow: The Generation 1970–1979 and take part in art workshops.
Artists from Krakow: The Generation 1970–1979
Artists from Krakow: Generation 1970–1979 is the second in our biennial series, in which we show the most important trends in Krakow’s contemporary art. The artists presented in the current exhibition graduated at the turn of the 20th century. The majority are familiar on the international art circuit and some are lecturers at art academies.
Nonsense Technologies
Since 2015, Przemysław Jasielski and Rainer Prohaska have been working on their concept of ‘nonsense technologies’; in joint exhibitions, they have shown their works which ironically combine art and sciences. At MOCAK, we will be showing interactive objects and installations from 2009–2017.
![Leon Chwistek, untitled [Self-portrait], 1920s – 1930s, ink / papier, 34 × 21 cm, private collection](https://d1uip03pwa14dd.cloudfront.net/system/images/22526/3558326032_box120.jpg)
New Trends in Art
In the history of Polish art, Leon Chwistek has made his name as a trend setter. He was a philosopher and logician but he was also fascinated by the avant-garde tension of his time. Endowed with considerable intellectual and artistic potential, he saw it as his duty to influence the shape of the changes to come. First, he became involved in the formist movement, becoming its intellectual spokesman.
Lagertheater
Between 1939 and 1945, in concentration camps and POW camps there was theatre. Much has been written about the artistic activities of the prisoners in such camps but we do not have much information about performative creativity. The present exhibition provides the first-ever opportunity to take a close look at theatrical activity in the camps.
Play on Meanings
The exhibition has been devised by Jarosław Kozłowski. Professor invited his ex-students to show their works at the Re Gallery.
Exhibition opening
On 19th October at 6 pm we would like to invite you to the opening of the following exhibitions!
Poetry and Art on the Brink of Nazism
Joachim Ringelnatz (1883–1934) is one of the classics of German poetry. Snippets of his humorous verse that distances itself from the reality are still popular today as topical aphorisms. In Cuxhaven, a town with close links to the poet, there is the Ringelnatz Museum. Ringelnatz was also a painter; his paintings, however, have not been very well known.
A Special Event. Day of German Unity
On 3 October at 6 pm we invite the residents of Krakow to a celebration of the Day of German Unity.
