Wojciech Krukowski Dies
Wojciech Krukowski, co-founder of the Akademia Ruchu theatre company and a long-term director of the CCA Ujazdowski Castle, has died - announced the Ministry of Culture on Saturday.
Wojciech Krukowski (b. 1944) worked as the director of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle for two decades - from 1990 until 2009, when he decided to leave the post. At the time he said:
My tenure here has been prolonged too much; I wasn’t planning to hold my position for this long. However, the perpetual feeling that I still hadn’t done everything I had planned was making me stay one year after another.
Before leaving the director’s position, he was awarded the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture from the Polish Minister of Culture.
After retiring, he devoted his time to working with the Akademia Ruchu theatre company, which he co-founded back in 1973. Akademia Ruchu is a group functioning on the border of theatre, visual arts, and moving image. Krukowski acted as its director and artistic director until the end of his life.
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Wojciech Krukowski graduated from the Art History department of the University of Warsaw in 1970. In the 1980s, he was involved in the independent culture movement. In 1987, he founded Obieg – a magazine for visual arts which remains one of the most influential publications on the subject to this day.
When working at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle, he curated numerous exhibitions, among them an extensive presentation of the Centre’s collection of contemporary art. Krukowski was succeeded by Fabio Cavalucci, an Italian curator and art critic who won the international call for applications and has worked as the institution’s director up to now.
Source: PAP (Polish Press Agency), transl. AM 18.01.2014
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