The exhibition is divided into seven sections that develop the idea of Open Form through the main areas to which Hansen applied it. The sections are intertwined so the way of visiting the show largely depends on the viewer, making the exhibition itself a kind of Open Form experience. Architect as a Curator addresses Hansen’s dual role as an architect and curator. Politics of Scale is dedicated to Hansen’s utopian and socialist approach to urban planning. Counter-Monument explores one of the first public discussions centering on the application of Open Form principles to memory, monument, and sculpture. Architecture as Events presents Hansen’s research in the field of cybernetics — liaisons of architecture and the media — as well as mobile architecture. House as Open Form explores — via a house and an apartment designed by Hansen and his wife, Zofia Hansen — a number of progressive architectural concepts developed during its construction. Art and Didactics looks at Hansen’s teaching methods during his tenure at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. In Tradition of Open Form, various approaches to the idea of Open Form are presented through the works of Grzegorz Kowalski, Artur Żmijewski, Paweł Althamer, KwieKulik, and Pawel Kwiek, among others.
The exhibition at the YSoA is the third edition of a show curated by Soledad Gutiérrez, Aleksandra Kędziorek, and Łukasz Ronduda of Poland. It is organized and produced by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in collaboration with Culture.pl as part of the Campus Project. The exhibition was designed by Centrala. The show was previously exhibited at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona in 2014 and at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto in 2015.
A related symposium titled Transit Point: Mitteleuropa will take place Sept. 8-9 at YSoA. The event is organized by Kędziorek and Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, associate professor of architecture at Yale, and supported by the J. Irwin Miller Fund.
The Campus Project
The Adam Mickiewicz Institute (AMI) is a national cultural institution aiming to strengthen Polish cultural impact and to enrich international cultural exchange. Launched by AMI in 2012, the Campus Project aims to foster relations between Poland and selected American academic institutions that span theater, music, visual arts, film, literature, architecture, and the social sciences. The Campus Project and all other activities of AMI are carried out under the flagship brand Culture.pl.
Yale School of Architecture
The Yale School of Architecture’s exhibition program is supported in part by the James Wilder Green Dean’s Resource Fund, the Kibel Foundation Fund, the Nitkin Family Dean’s Discretionary Fund in Architecture, the Pickard Chilton Dean’s Resource Fund, the Paul Rudolph Publication Fund, the Robert A.M. Stern Fund, the Rutherford Trow- bridge Memorial Publication and the School of Architecture Exhibitions Fund.
Source: press materials