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The exhibition at Poczta Główna is a project of the University of the National Education Commission, the co-organizer of the 13th edition of Cracow Art Week KRAKERS
artists: Adrianna Gajdziszewska, Gabriela Gilewska, Tomasz Kawecki, Diana Lelonek, Lidia Maślanka, Agata Polak, Aleksandra Przybysz
curators: Aleksandra Hurek, Aleksandra Klimek, Cezary Luty, Magdalena Ohl
location: Poczta Główna * Westerplatte 20
opening: 19.04.2024 – 19:00
availability: 20–26.04.2024 – 16:00–19:00
links: https://www.facebook.com/events/793863652624641/
At first we were awakened by the Great Silence. It crept into the cracks, crept under our feet, wrapped around our minds. It carried the memory of something independent. Something that is no longer ours. I don’t know how much time has passed since we lost consciousness. We could barely move. When we let the Light in, we realized that the End had achieved a great triumph. The End had created the New, which mercilessly murmured, whispered, pranced and flexed. In this dance of its own, it surrounded us dangerously, making us submit. It demanded obedience from us. Then we realized that this World no longer belonged to us.
Time without a watch
artist: Mariia Varlygina
curator: Dorota Halberda
location: Galeria Baszta / Centrum Kultury “Dworek Białoprądnicki” * Papiernicza 2
opening: 20.04.2024 – 17:00
availability: 22–26.04.2024 – 10:00–17:00
21.04.2024 – by appointment: 609 939 177
Links: www.facebook.com/basztagaleria , www.instagram.com/galeria.baszta
The audiovisual installation, also known as “Maria – a song of scream and sounds of the past,” uses autoethnographic poetry with the artist’s moving flashbacks as its axis. In an act of flashback, Mariia evokes images of her native Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odessa and Kiev. The title of the work is a metaphor by Jean-Paul Sartre, in which a magical entity becomes apparent, like the reverse of a watch on the artist’s index finger, where time changes according to her mood. The exhibition is an experiment by the curator, who simultaneously creates her podcasts on music, culture and art.
Mariia Varlygina (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Anthropologist, researcher of visual culture, curator. Since 2017, she has been working with YermilovCentre, MOKSOP, Chekachkov Photo Academy. Since 2022 chief curator of site-specific gallery Baszta (Cracow), realizes projects in Ukraine, Poland, Germany. Academic interests: time studies, metamodernism and narrativization of history. Editor, writer for the Contemporary Art Center “YermilovCenter” in Kharkiv (2020-2022) and previously art manager of culture there. For three years social media manager and community manager at the Chekhov Academy of Photography (2017-2020).
UNCANNY VILLAGE
Links: https://instagram.com/porosty_zaskorski , https://www.instagram.com/ultra_kuku/
The exhibition will present drawings by Jagoda Czarnowska and Bartosz Zaskórski, who create in the spirit of twisted reality and bizarre fiction. Uncanny Village is a mixture of peculiar dreams, vague memories, references to Moebius, Junji Ito, Ligotti, Le Guin, Cronenberg, Lynch, as well as small drawing details and horror vacui.
In addition to original boards from comic strips made for the Italian publishing house “Hollow Press,” other drawing series by Bartosz and Jagoda will be on display. The exhibition will be accompanied by an original soundtrack composed by Zaskórski.
Bios
Bartosz Zaskórski, born in 1987. He draws, makes music, records radio plays. He comes from the village of Żytno. For several years he has been working with the Italian publishing house “Hollow Press”, where he has published three comic books. As a visual artist, he has exhibited in Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, Leto, Piktogram and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art. As a musician, he is active under the name “Porosty” (until recently “Mchy i Porosty”). His music could be heard in the “Cyberpunk 2077” game , Krzysztof Garbaczewski’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” or for the animation “SHOW” by Jagoda Czarnowska. He loves mongrels.
Jagoda Czarnowska, born 1997. Graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Creator of richly detailed stories based on her dreams, which she dresses up in the forms of comics, animation and acrylic painting. She loves tree rings, rhythmic patterns, crocheting and when Audrey from “Twin Peaks” dances.
Lunacy
Links: https://fb.me/e/1QheaSaSY
I can’t control myself. My senses are out of control. I am like a scream in silence, like a lost opportunity. I feel that what I do, what I think, doesn’t matter at all. I don’t think anything matters anymore. Paranoia seeps through my mind like a thief, stealing my power. I feel like the whole world is turning against me. Maybe it’s time to take a risk and cross the line? Maybe it’s time to give in to the madness? What can happen?
The “Madness” exhibition is the result of the annual open competition held as part of the ARS LATRANS Festival. This year, the theme that inspired the organizers is NOIR – a trend in American cinema, characterized by a dark atmosphere, complex characters and often ambiguous endings. Twenty-one outstanding works were selected from numerous submissions. The opening will feature a musical performance by the duo Blake x Listopad.
Give me everything. An exhibition of Teresa and Andrzej Starmach’s gift to Cracow museums
Links: https://bunkier.art.pl/wystawy/daj-mi-wszystko/
In the autumn of 2023 Teresa and Andrzej Starmach donated a large part of their art collection to two Cracow institutions. Their gift for MOCAK and MuFo and, in fact, for Cracow is one of the most spectacular transfers of art from the private to the public sphere.
The exhibition venue is non-accidental. The show at the modernized Bunkier Sztuki headquarters will honor the nearly 60-year history of the gallery, which is one of the most important Polish institutions presenting contemporary art and at the same time inaugurate its return to exhibition activities.
The show will feature, among others, Tadeusz Kantor’s Everything is Hanging by a Thread, Magdalena Abakanowicz’s War Games and Jerzy Nowosielski’s theatrical designs.
Hiroshige 2023
paid entry 2 PLN – the password is KRAKERS
Links: https://manggha.pl/
The Manggha Museum is holding an exhibition focusing on one of the greatest ukiyo-e artists, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), who largely contributed to changing the visual language of Western art in the 19th and 20th centuries and the rise of the phenomenon known as Japonisme. The Feliks ‘Manggha’ Jasieński Collection comprises nearly two thousand woodblock prints of his design.
Even though Hiroshige came from a samurai family, he rather identified with the urban culture of Edo. The artist was famous primarily for his numerous landscape series, especially The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi), One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), and The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō (Kisokaidō rokujūkyū tsugi no uchi). He was a true master at depicting landscape at various times of the year and the day, in changing weather conditions. He continued to experiment, developing original ploys in pictorial composition, new devices with respect to the treatment of space, and intriguing ways of representing reality.
Light touch
curator: Anna Petelenz
location: Momentum Gallery * Chopina 17/3
availability: 24.04.2024 – 18:30–20:00 * 24–28.04.2024 – by appointment : franciszek.araszkiewicz@apkunstart.org
Links: www.apkunstart.org
The senses can be fooled. Talk to a chatbot. Fall in love with an avatar.
Eat a pill instead of a meal. In a world presented to us, the veracity of events is uncertain. Magritte’s Ceci n’est pas une pipe takes on new meanings. The international exhibition Light touch thus focuses on what is close and accessible. The corporeal, though fleeting. Created by the work of hands. Light touch is also a journey into the world of sensual light, glimpses of parts of reality that do not have to have a function – they can only be an impression, an experience of beauty, tranquility, weariness.
The rich interior of MuFo – guided tour of MuFo Józefitów
availability: guided tours only: 22–24.04.2024 – 10:00/11:00/12:00 * 25–26.04.2024 – 16:00/17:00/18:00 * 20.04.2024 – 11:00 – appointment only: edukacja@mufo.krakow.pl
Links: https://mufo.krakow.pl/
In most museums around the world, you can see the collections only in exhibitions, showing curator-selected objects hung on the walls and arranged in display cases. At MuFo Józefitów, you’ll see with your own eyes what hides behind the doors that are usually closed to visitors, learn how we decide which works will be included in the Museum’s collection, and how we take care of delicate photographs from more than a century ago! A visit with us is also an opportunity to learn some of the museum’s “know-how” about storing and organizing photographs.
To be Adam Karaś
availability: 20–21.04.2024 – 11:00–19:00 * 23.04.2024 – 11:00–19:00 * 24–26.04.2024 – 10:00–18:00
Links: https://mufo.krakow.pl/
The exhibition “To be Adam Karaś” presents a surprising universe created by the title character: a Cracow photographer who ran his studio for more than half a century, portraying successive generations of city residents. Adam Karaś’ adventure with photography did not end at all with portrait photography – he created fotoratury (photomontages using photographs), experimented, documented the life of the city, and together with his brother also founded the film studio Bracia Karaś Film. The legacy of this remarkable man was placed in the collection of the Museum of Photography in Cracow after his death.
Bereś
availability: 21.04.2024 – 11:00–19:00 * 23–26.04.2024 – 11:00 –19:00
Links: https://www.cricoteka.pl/pl/
The exhibition of Jerzy Bereś at Cricoteka, realized in cooperation with the Maria Pinińska-Bereś and Jerzy Bereś Foundation, takes place on the 60th anniversary of the artist’s first solo exhibition organized on the initiative of the Cracow Group at the Krzysztofory Gallery. It is a continuation of Cricoteka’s program line of exploring the possibility of updating, securing and presenting the archives and legacy of artists dealing with ephemeral art, somehow organically intertwined with the person of the artist, and at the same time presenting artists and phenomena within the orbit of Tadeusz Kantor’s work. In the case of Bereś, this dialogue and discussion with Kantor was intense and significant during the lifetime of both artists, and was an important part of the activities of the Krzysztofory Gallery – the cradle of the Cracow (and not only) avant-garde.
Kantor. Correction
availability: 20–21.04.2024 – 11:00–19:00 * 23–26.04.2024 – 11:00–19:00
Links: https://www.cricoteka.pl/pl/
The “Tadeusz Kantor. Spectres” exhibition is a confrontation of the viewer with the difficult past worked through by the artist in all fields of his creation. It is also an attempt to face the question of how the experience of events in the general history of the 20th century: both world wars, the Holocaust, totalitarianism, mass movements and ideologies, socio-cultural transformations, displacement and migration, influenced the artist’s work and biography.
Homo furniture. Human swallowed by couch
availability: 20–21.04.2024 – 11:00–19:00 * 23–26.04.2024 – 11:00 –19:00
Links: https://www.cricoteka.pl/pl/
The “Human swallowed by couch” exhibition is a story about the user’s complicated relationship with household appliances, mainly with furniture, but also with trinkets, which are usually anonymous and relegated in the hierarchy of everyday objects. Stoically accepting their status, they silently waited for the moment when they would manifest their independence. In the disturbing reality of the exhibition, the domestic environment finally emancipates itself and begins to dominate the man, essentially consuming him in some way. These are sculptures/hybrids, surreal figures somewhat from another, parallel world.
Bartosz Mucha’s Intervention in the Room of Tadeusz Kantor
availability: 22–24.04.2024 – 11:00–18:00
This is an artistic action in Tadeusz Kantor’s room – a space filled with furniture used on a daily basis by the Cricot 2 creator. The new objects intervene in this space quietly, with respect for the place: the creator’s last apartment. Bartosz Mucha’s intervention in Tadeusz Kantor’s room-workshop is the fourth in a series of interventions by contemporary artists into the living and creative space arranged by Kantor. At the same time, it is the second such presentation taking place on the occasion of Kantor’s birthday anniversary. Tadeusz Kantor’s Room is a permanent part of the exhibition.
Art laboratory – curatorial tour of the “Heart” exhibition
artists: Magdalena Daniec, Marta Bożyk, Katarzyna Morstin-Surzycka, Julia Jarża-Brataniec, Elżbieta Kwasek-Stefańska, Agnieszka Dobosz, Kinga Wnuk i inni
curators: Monika Błażewicz, Bożena Błażewicz-Tomczyk
location: MOBO ART GALLERY * Józefa 3
event date: 19.04.2024 – 19:00–21:00
Links: https://www.facebook.com/artMOBOgallery/
Art laboratory – curatorial tour of the “Heart” group exhibition . During the guided tour an art laboratory will be organized, the participants together with the artists will become creators themselves.
Curatorial tour of the “To be Adam Karaś” exhibition with translation into Polish Sign Language
location: Muzeum Fotografii w Krakowie * Rakowicka 22A
event date: 20.04.2024 – 16:00
paid entry: 5 PLN * online: bilety.mufo.krakow.pl / bilety@mufo.krakow.pl *phone reservations: 12 3957042 (internal number 1226) – Tuesday-Wednesday
Links: https://mufo.krakow.pl/
The exhibition “To be Adam Karaś” presents a surprising universe created by the title character: a Cracow photographer who ran his studio for more than half a century, portraying successive generations of city residents. Adam Karaś’ adventure with photography did not end at all with portrait photography – he created fotoratury (photomontages using photographs), experimented, documented the life of the city, and together with his brother also founded the film studio Bracia Karaś Film. The legacy of this remarkable man was placed in the collection of the Museum of Photography in Cracow after his death.
Tour by Marta Miskowiec – cultural anthropologist. Author and curator of exhibitions, author of texts, author and organizer of meetings and lectures. She conducts research on amateur photography, deals with social photography and the social meaning of photography.
Translated into Polish Sign Language by Jakub Studziński.
Time without a watch
artist: Mariia Varlygina
curator: Dorota Halberda
location: Baszta Gallery – “Dworek Białoprądnicki” Cultural Center * Papiernicza 2
opening: 20.04.2024 – 17:00
availability: 22–26.04.2024 – 10:00–17:00
free entry, 22–26.04.2024 – 10:00–17:00 * 21.04.2024 – by appointment: 609 939 177
Links: www.facebook.com/basztagaleria , www.instagram.com/galeria.baszta
The audiovisual installation, also known as “Maria – a song of scream and sounds of the past,” uses autoethnographic poetry with the artist’s moving flashbacks as its axis. In an act of flashback, Mariia evokes images of her native Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odessa and Kiev. The title of the work is a metaphor by Jean-Paul Sartre, in which a magical entity becomes apparent, like the reverse of a watch on the artist’s index finger, where time changes according to her mood. The exhibition is an experiment by the curator, who simultaneously creates her podcasts on music, culture and art.
Mariia Varlygina (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Anthropologist, researcher of visual culture, curator. Since 2017, she has been working with YermilovCentre, MOKSOP, Chekachkov Photo Academy. Since 2022 chief curator of site-specific gallery Baszta (Cracow), realizes projects in Ukraine, Poland, Germany. Academic interests: time studies, metamodernism and narrativization of history. Editor, writer for the Contemporary Art Center “YermilovCenter” in Kharkiv (2020-2022) and previously art manager of culture there. For three years social media manager and community manager at the Chekhov Academy of Photography (2017-2020).
“Obsessions”. Agata Duda-Gracz gives a tour of the author’s gallery of Jerzy Duda-Gracz
entry fee 1 PLN * maximum capacity: 30 FULLY BOOKED
Links: https://nck.krakow.pl/jerzy-duda-gracz/
Agata Duda-Gracz will give a tour of her dad’s author gallery. She will talk about the thematic obsessions of Jerzy Duda-Gracz. About how he poured his feelings, fears and phobias onto canvas. About painterly confessions and painted prayers. About portraits of the human soul.
Stradom House Art Journey – a guided tour of the contemporary art collection at Stradom House
collection availability: 19–26.04.2024 – 06:00–22:00
free admission guided tour by appointment rafal.stanowski@stradomhouse.com
Links: www.stradomhouse.com
A hotel that is a work of art
A visit to the five-star Stradom House Autograph Collection in Cracow will delight those who love contemporary art. The meticulously designed interiors conceal a collection of exquisite works, attracting attention with works by artists such as Wilhelm Sasnal and Bronisław Chromy. The works can be viewed in accessible, communal spaces such as the lobby, library, restaurants and Hedwig’s club.
The spectacular historic building, whose history dates back to the Middle Ages, reveals absolutely unique spaces to guests and residents of Cracow. Located near the Wawel Castle, the place has been carefully renovated by Angel Poland Group, revealing to guests beautiful frescos and numerous historical elements, some still remembering the 14th century, when a monastery of the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, founded by Casimir the Great, existed here. Stradom House Autograph Collection was created through the collaboration of world-class architects, artists and craftsmen. Its interiors captivate with stunning design with local touches and uncompromising attention to detail.
The walls of the rooms in Stradom House are decorated with an impressive collection of contemporary art, purchased especially for the building, the selection of which was overseen by Swiss curator Francesca Gavin. In cooperation with the investors, she selected works by many renowned, mostly Polish artists, such as Wilhelm Sasnal, Anna Głogowska, Radek Szlaga, Dorota Buczkowska, Bartek Materka and Tomasz Kowalski. In the hotel’s patio you can admire the unique sculpture “Musician Mountaineer” by Bronislaw Chromy himself. The latest acquisition is the work of renowned Israeli artist Itamar Gilboa from the “Food Chain Project” series, also presented at the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (new exhibition “Food in Art”). The objects, set up in the space of the Stradomska 12 restaurant, located in Stradom House, raise awareness of the social consequences of individual consumption choices, as well as the global problems of waste and hunger.
The spectacular interiors of Hedwig’s club, located in a former desacralized chapel, feature a triptych by Israeli painter Gideon Rubin, a reference to the memorable Polish movie “The Last Day of Summer.” The opposite wall of Hedwig’s is adorned with a tapestry created by Jonas Wood, a renowned Los Angeles-based artist.
The Stradom House Autograph Collection, which is part of the global Marriott chain, is where Cracow’s heritage meets global trends.
FEELING THE THEATER! – sensory workshops
curator: Anna Litak
location: MICET Museum of National Stary Theatre in Cracow * Jagiellońska 1
entry fee 1 PLN * by appointment daniel.arbaczewski@stary.pl
Links: micet.pl
Some say that performances are watched, but is that what it is? Some things that happen on stage are not everyone’s TASTE. Maybe something SMELLS provocative and that’s what makes the performance LOUD? Because the stage is smell, sound, image and taste. During the sensory journey in the spaces of the MICET Museum, this time everything will sound, itch in the nose much stronger. Maybe we’ll see what we don’t see every day.
Open tour of the “Food in Art” exhibition (language: Polish)
free entry with a general admission ticket No reservation required. Please arrive at the front desk 5 minutes before the start. The tour will take about 90 minutes
Links: https://www.mocak.pl/
On Tuesday, April 23, join MOCAK for a guided tour of the “Food in Art” exhibition.
I feel the animal
FULLY BOOKED
Links: Juliajarza_art
workshops conducted by Julia Jarża, Weronika Szmuc
A graphic design workshop aimed at children aged 7-12, addressing the theme of empathy in the human-animal relationship. Using mixed graphic techniques such as tetra-print, linocut, stenciling, we will try to support the expression of the youngest artists.
Light touch
curator: Anna Petelenz
location: Momentum Gallery * Chopina 17/3
availability: 24.04.2024 – 18:30–20:00 * 24–28.04.2024 – by appointment : franciszek.araszkiewicz@apkunstart.org
Links: www.apkunstart.org
The senses can be fooled. Talk to a chatbot. Fall in love with an avatar.
Eat a pill instead of a meal. In a world presented to us, the veracity of events is uncertain. Magritte’s Ceci n’est pas une pipe takes on new meanings. The international exhibition Light touch thus focuses on what is close and accessible. The corporeal, though fleeting. Created by the work of hands. Light touch is also a journey into the world of sensual light, glimpses of parts of reality that do not have to have a function – they can only be an impression, an experience of beauty, tranquility, weariness.
Stradom House Art Journey – a guided tour of the contemporary art collection at Stradom House
collection availability : 19–26.04.2024 – 06:00–22:00
free admission guided tour by appointment rafal.stanowski@stradomhosue.com
Links: www.stradomhouse.com
A hotel that is a work of art
A visit to the five-star Stradom House Autograph Collection in Cracow will delight those who love contemporary art. The meticulously designed interiors conceal a collection of exquisite works, attracting attention with works by artists such as Wilhelm Sasnal and Bronisław Chromy. The works can be viewed in accessible, communal spaces such as the lobby, library, restaurants and Hedwig’s club.
The spectacular historic building, whose history dates back to the Middle Ages, reveals absolutely unique spaces to guests and residents of Cracow. Located near the Wawel Castle, the place has been carefully renovated by Angel Poland Group, revealing to guests beautiful frescos and numerous historical elements, some still remembering the 14th century, when a monastery of the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, founded by Casimir the Great, existed here. Stradom House Autograph Collection was created through the collaboration of world-class architects, artists and craftsmen. Its interiors captivate with stunning design with local touches and uncompromising attention to detail.
The walls of the rooms in Stradom House are decorated with an impressive collection of contemporary art, purchased especially for the building, the selection of which was overseen by Swiss curator Francesca Gavin. In cooperation with the investors, she selected works by many renowned, mostly Polish artists, such as Wilhelm Sasnal, Anna Głogowska, Radek Szlaga, Dorota Buczkowska, Bartek Materka and Tomasz Kowalski. In the hotel’s patio you can admire the unique sculpture “Musician Mountaineer” by Bronislaw Chromy himself. The latest acquisition is the work of renowned Israeli artist Itamar Gilboa from the “Food Chain Project” series, also presented at the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (new exhibition “Food in Art”). The objects, set up in the space of the Stradomska 12 restaurant, located in Stradom House, raise awareness of the social consequences of individual consumption choices, as well as the global problems of waste and hunger.
The spectacular interiors of Hedwig’s club, located in a former desacralized chapel, feature a triptych by Israeli painter Gideon Rubin, a reference to the memorable Polish movie “The Last Day of Summer.” The opposite wall of Hedwig’s is adorned with a tapestry created by Jonas Wood, a renowned Los Angeles-based artist.
The Stradom House Autograph Collection, which is part of the global Marriott chain, is where Cracow’s heritage meets global trends.
Dark ecology eats us quietly as we dance OPEN MIC and exhibition
open mic 25.04.2024 – 19:30
free admission
Links: https://www.facebook.com/events/3550556501822751/
We invite you to an ephemeral event in the garden space of the Sarego 10 art studios, in order to experience the surrounding layers of the world together as part of a return to Krakers roots. In addition to the outdoor exhibition, Open Mic awaits you. We invite all poets and those wishing to co-participate in reading and improvising an outdoor performance inside a secret garden. The intimate one-day event deliberately refers in its form to the first editions of Krakers, reminiscent of spontaneous exhibitions, where the main value was common meetings in unusual places, not normally accessible. The opening of an art studio and the airing of paintings, inviting other artists to come together to exchange inspiration or share their normally inaccessible work, is the backdrop for the meeting with contemporary poetry in this year’s edition. Open mic also invites people to share their work in an uninhibited form, without judgments, in a wave of spontaneous performance.
The event is of an ephemeral, outdoor character.
The public is asked to keep the garden clean and not to damage the plant tissue.
You are encouraged to bring a poem/text/something for the shared Krakers Table.
Open tour of the “Food in Art” exhibition (language: English)
free entry with a general admission ticket No reservation required. Please arrive at the front desk 5 minutes before the start. The tour will take about 90 minutes
Links: https://www.mocak.pl/
On Thursday, April 25, join MOCAK for a guided tour of the “Food in Art” exhibition – in English.
OFF MOVIE SCREENING
19:00 movie screening | KIKA CINEMA, KIKA room (ground floor)
20:00 multimedia show | Siedemnasta :46 Gallery + courtyard
Links: www.iszid.uken.krakow.pl
https://www.facebook.com/events/1404803210157302/
University of National Education Commission – Faculty of Art | UNEC Faculty of Art and Design | The Film Form Center
The OFF MOVIE SHOW presents the work of students of the UNEC Faculty of Art and Design in Cracow – projects carried out in a variety of media: from film, installations and happenings to audio art and experimental music.
Standing in the center of the event, we feel the power of the media sucking us into a vortex of sensations, cutting us off from reality. It’s not just an exhibition, it’s a visual-reactive tsunami that rips us from stagnation, forcing us to plunge into the current of new experiences and reflections. Nowadays, we uncontrollably participate in the rush, lacking awareness of the sense of the passage of time. In a rush, we begin to lose ourselves in layers of reality. We displace situations from the past, just to move on. OFF MOVIE SHOW is a progressive journey into the environment of different media. Through various art forms we try to tell about our experiences, often hazy and completely blurred, and sometimes all too perceptible. We try to understand and let ourselves experience anew.
Curatorial text: Julia Florczyk
AUDIOVISUAL SCREENINGS | Siedemnasta :46 Gallery | start 8 PM
✧ Experimental A/V set using unconventional homemade instruments synchronized with video.
Jan Mroziewski, Bartłomiej Uryga
✧ The Dark Night Sky Goes* – a short movie, in which we return to childhood; to beautiful, carefree and nostalgic moments, as well as those difficult and unpleasant ones.
* We encourage you to bring your childhood photos, after the screening we will provide an album for you to record your emotions. We begin – you end.
Aliaż Collective (Bartek Bytowski, Julia Florczyk, Kasia Mazur, Mateusz Rzepka)
✧ TRIBAL VON BINGEN – concert-ritual on the edge of meditative ambient and tribal sounds. Nicola Łeppek, Mateusz Rzepka, Michał Wójcik
✧ Backstage of consumption – a happening in which the artist invites participants to explore the idealized world of TV commercials in the context of anthropocentrism.
Kamila Rzymek
MOVIE SCREENINGS | KIKA Cinema| start 7 PM
Artists:
✧ Sofiia Bulbotka, Julia Florczyk, Wiktoria Kalinowska, Wanesa Kidacka, Zuzanna Kozioł, Nina Lewandowska, Małgorzata Lis, Kacper Mazela, Jan Mroziewski, Mateusz Rzepka, Katarzyna Sidor, Wiktoria Smorąg, Weronika Wyrobek
✧ OFF MOVIE WORKSHOP team: [Gleb Andreev, Weronika Chrobak, Jan Czwartkowski, Piotr Graff, Yunna Honchar, Bartłomiej Kurnik, Wiktoria Malczyk, Kacper Mazela, Emilia Oleksy, Mateusz Rzepka, Lizaveta Shlyk, Alina Svadronava, Piotr Szewczyk, Weronika Wyrobek]
Animation show from the animation film studio of the Academy of Fine Arts
The event is a unique chance to see animated films from the Animation Film Studio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow on the big cinema screen. 9 works, 9 authors, 9 looks. Each animation is a separate story that draws on the rich tradition of cinema noir in its narrative, style, themes and/or symbolism. Daria Godyń has curated this unique hour-long selection, which fits with the theme of this year’s ARS LATRANS Festival. You can expect suspense, mystery and dark atmosphere.
Movie list
Julia Siuda – “Furia”/”Fury” (2021) – 5:29, Antoni Kuźniarz – “Corvine Orphans” (2021) – 2:41 Anna Waćkowska – “Daj spokój”/”Give it a break” (2020) – 11:31 Aleksander Józefczak – “Punkt obserwacyjny”/”Vantage point” (2019) – 9:35 Betina Bożek – “Ojezu”/”Oh God” (2017) – 3:49 Alicja Kot – “Red Light Train” (2019) – 9:36 Weronika Kuc – “Beautiful” (2018) – 7:00 Oliwia Rosa – “Smell of the ground” (2023) – 7:47 Mateusz Leśniak – “Detektyw”/”Detective” – 3:47
„Wyspia” od środka. Spacer z Kingą Nowak
Links: https://wawel.krakow.pl/
“Feel, feel, keep feeling” is the motto of Cracow Art Week KRAKERS 2024 – a project aimed at promoting contemporary art in the space of Cracow. As part of the 13th edition of this event on April 26, Kinga Nowak, author of the art installation “Wyspia” will talk about her thoughts, feelings and inspirations regarding the unique work – presented on Wawel Hill.
Kinga Nowak – a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, a recognized artist whose works are in the collection of the National Museum in Cracow, the Museum of Photography in Cracow, the National Museum in Gdańsk, as well as the Krupa Art Foundation and other private collections.
“Za linią cienia” – spotkanie z Michałem Kortą
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We invite you to feel and experience together during a meeting with Michał Korta. Amidst non-obvious nocturnes, where the boundaries of visual and verbal communication blur, we will contemplate, discuss, analyze, pose questions and seek answers. We will consider the interplay between the worlds of humans and animals: how does their intuition work, how do they communicate, are their relationships similar? Together we will strain our eyes and listen to the captured emotions.
The event accompanies the exhibition “The Untamed Has No Words. Michał Korta”.
Otwarte oprowadzanie w języku ukraińskim po wystawie “Jedzenie w sztuce”
free entry with a general admission ticket No reservation required. Please arrive at the front desk 5 minutes before the start. The tour will take about 90 minutes
Links: https://www.mocak.pl/
On Friday, April 26, join MOCAK for a guided tour of the “Food in Art” exhibition – in Ukrainian.