Timeline
Open Your Eyes! Open Your Ears! Collective Composition: Workshop for Young People and Adults
On Sunday 19 November at 12 noon and 3 pm you are invited to the workshop Collective Composition: Workshop for Young People and Adults: Collective Creation of a Piece of Music Using Samples and Electronic Tools Prepared Earlier, produced in collaboration with the Musical Co-operative as part of the series Open Your Eyes! Open Your Ears!
Try to make it real. But compared to what?: Contemporary Art from Lithuania
The exhibition presents the most important trends and figures in contemporary Lithuanian art. Its leitmotif is paradox in art. It has been organised in collaboration with the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in Vilnius and is based both on the collections of this institution and private collections.
Agnieszka Osiecka’s Photographic Gift
Osiecka did not take photographs with the intention of making them public. She treated photography as a tool for observing others. She refers to her taking photographs in her Diary. Some of her photographic concepts had a deliberate artistic slant. For example, a series of photographs from New York in which something red appears in the frame.
Island
Krystian Lupa studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and is still drawn to the image, as evidenced in his excellent video stage sets and in his drawings, these days mainly digital. As if this were not enough, he also practises autobiographical writing, analysing himself and those close to him. Since he is open and unabashed, these stories have the power of confession.
Painting – Art’s Golden Medium: MOCAK Collection
Painting is a contract between the vision of a painting and the hand. It is there that the content, meaning and beauty can be conjured up. But when the hand does not feel the idea or when it is technically clumsy, the image is distorted. In this exhibition – through four themes – we show paintings from the MOCAK Collection that demonstrate a successful concord between hand and image. Some of these works emphasise the subject while others tone it down. Painting is a versatile medium.
Opening
On Thursday 26 October at 6 pm MOCAK invites you to the opening of the following exhibitions
History and Oskar Schindler
MOCAK has prepared a publication in Polish, Hebrew, English and German entitled Schindler’s Factory Then and Now, in recognition of the man as a human being and the importance of his achievements. The exhibition presented here is based on the materials that had been collated for this publication.
Responsibility for Memory: The Role of Art in Holocaust Remembrance
The exhibition Responsibility for Memory: The Role of Art in Holocaust Remembrance highlights the importance of art for the remembrance of the Holocaust today through the work of three generations of artists, who had experienced the Holocaust and responded to it in their art. The exhibition – arranged chronologically in seven sections –focuses on the artist and witness Yehuda Bacon, who survived the liberation of the concentration camp at the age of 15.
See You Soon! End-of-Exhibitions Guide Tours in English, Polish and Ukrainian
On Sunday 24 September you have the final opportunity to visit the exhibitions ending that day: Artists from Krakow. The Second Krakow Group and Jakub Julian Ziółkowski You Are Mine.
Audio Walk through the Exhibition Artists from Krakow: The Second Krakow Group
On Saturday 23 September, jointly with the Spółdzielnia Muzyczna we invite you to three audio walks organised in the area of the exhibition Artists from Krakow: The Second Krakow Group
