Photo: Dries Verstraete, Art is Dangerous by Enrique Marty, courtesy DEWEER Gallery, Belgium
A project organized by 10 young curators chosen by acclaimed curators, producers, and activists from Poland and abroad.
The project’s authors will interpret the art for social change slogan in different ways, using a variety of media and spaces. They’ll show their collages, video works, objects and performance installations, but they will also invite the audience to partake in a journey through Wrocław, inspired by the “Wrocław: the meeting place” slogan, which will investigate the historic and contemporary contexts of the city’s multicultural nature.
Among the exhibited works we’ll find a neon sign spelling in Russian “House of Energetic Culture,” created by Claire Fontaine, an installation titled “Art is dangerous,” created by Spanish artists Enrique Marty, questioning the social status of art and the values of the Western art world, and the documentation of Antoni Abad’s long-term project, realized in multiple locations around the globe, with the help of people from marginalized and excluded communities.
The audience will also have a chance to take part in “The Feast”, prepared by Josefine Lyche, Oliver Laric and Paweł Jarodzki, to spy on Cezary Bodzianowski , to witness walking lessons organized by Roman Ondák, or – thanks to the Slovenian collective prostoRož – to fulfill a dream to became a movie star. Among other participating artists and artistic groups are: Eva Koťátková, Ján Mančuška, Prinz Gholam, Rossella Biscotti, Aleksandra Domanović, Anna Ostoya, Superflex, Eduard Freudmann, Ivan Jurica, Ivana Marjanović, U We Claus, Anna Tretter, Milan Adamčiak, Michal Murin, János Sugár.
Is art really dangerous?
The first answers to this question can be find at the vernissage in the Four Domes Pavilion, on September 8, at 7 p.m.
Project curators: Joanna Mytkowska (Poland), Dorota Monkiewicz (Poland), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Switzerland, England), Maria Lind (Sweden), Charles Esche (Netherlands), Adam Budak (Poland, Austria), Marta Kuzma (Ukraine), Laura Stašāne (Latvia), Zora Jaurova (Slovakia), Aneta Szyłak (Poland)
Project coordinators: Joanna Stembalska, Piotr Stasiowski
Partner: BWA Wroclaw-Galleries of Contemporary Art
This event is part of Attention Culture!, the Cultural Program of the 2011 Polish EU Presidency, which comprises a six-month series of exceptional events and artistic projects, including the European Culture Congress, held as a part of the Polish presidency in the EU Council.
Organizers: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, National Audiovisual Institute
Patrons of Presidency: PKO Bank Polski, PZU S.A.
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