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Rafael Jablonka is an art dealer, collector, curator, and a gallery owner. For 30 years he was the owner of ‘Jablonka Galerie’ – one of the most renowned institution in Germany, operating on an international level. He is one of the most important contemporary art collectors in Europe, focusing mostly on works created after 1980. During the talk with his friend, Adam Zagajewski, he will tell about the beginnings of his collection, his experience in owning a gallery and share his opinion on the opportunities and risks connected to the art market and about the role and the meaning of a patron.

2. | 10am–7pm | 9–14th of April | Ethnographic Museum of Kraków | 1 Wolnica square | TRWA_NIE a temporary exhibition in a permanent display in Ethnographic Museum of Kraków | Entrance fee 1PLN with the password 'Krakers'

A museum is not a storage space. It gathers people together, clashes the past with the future and gives an opportunity for discussion, polemic and an author’s commentary. During this year’s edition of KRAKERS, The Ethnographic Museum of Kraków would like to invite students and graduates of the Department of Artistic Education of the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow to an artistic experiment. Young creators will have a chance to personally explore the museum’s collection, searching for the topics and aspects that resonate with them. The works created during the TRWA_NIE project will become a part of the permanent exhibition of the Ethnographic Museum and the authors will guide the audience through the space conceived in the experiment. Monika Nęcka from the Academy of Fine Arts will be the curator, while the coordination of the project is a task given to Katarzyna Piszczkiewicz from the Ethnographical Museum.

3. | Open-air exhibition | National Museum in Cracow – Main Building, The Józef Czapski Pavilion, The Feliks Jasieński Szołayski House, The Center of European Culture EUROPEUM | no.1, 3 maja alley, 12 Piłsudskiego street, 9 Szczepański square, 6 Sikorskiego square | The Power of Nature. Henry Moore in Poland | curators: Hannah Higham, Agata Małodobry | free entrance

Henry Moore (1898 – 1986) has been called the classic of modernity while still alive. Many specialists call him the greatest sculptor of the XXth century. This exhibition is a project created by the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsk, the Henry Moore Foundation and National Museums in Cracow and Wrocław. The concept of an open-air exhibition being a route of a stroll allows us to reflect on the role of sculpture in the city. It is also a symbolic connection between different departments of the National Museum, spread widely around Cracow.
During the Cracow ArtWeek, we offer the chance to experience this exhibition in the fullest way possible – through a walk between the Museum’s departments with the curator, Agata Małodobry and through dance improvisation workshops conducted by Zofia Noworól.

4. | 11am–7pm | 9–14th of April | MICET Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theater | 1 Jagiellońska street | exhibition | Nirwana Krystian Durman | free entrance

The author sees acting and climbing as schools of life, requiring courage to cross his own limits, developing the need to express himself and creating a sense of mission. His lonely expedition reassured his conviction that harsh conditions lessen the needs and tighten the bonds between people. It also teaches humility, respect for the forces of nature, opens us for other people and other worlds. The exhibition is accompanied by an interactive installation made of Buddhist flags meant to introduce the energetic harmony to the surrounding space.

5. | 11am–7pm | 9–14th of April | MICET Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theater | 1 Jagiellońska street | VR Dream Adoption Society, NOTHING | Entrance fee included in the price of regular MICET ticket

A virtual meditation over Kazimierz Malewicz’s Black square on a white background and poetry by Bolesław Leśmian. This installation is set up as a contextual act for the Krzysztof Garbaczewski’s play in the Stary Theater entitled NOTHING.

6. | 11am – 7pm | 9–14th of April | The Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor CRICOTEKA | 2-4 Nadwiślańska street | Tadeusz Kantor. Part Four. Sculpture | free entrance (free tickets available at the register)

The exhibition Tadeusz Kantor. Part four. The sculpture shows a selection of objects from the Cricoteca collection, called sculptures by Kantor himself. What do the works of Tadeusz Kantor have in common with other sculptures from the history of contemporary art? What is their form? How do they influence the spectators and what is the relation between them? The starting point for Part four is to take a look at the sculptures as autonomic works of art, lacking their theatrical biography, and exposing their independence. Those objects subjugate their surroundings, affect other items and enforce a spontaneous reaction on the spectator.

7. | 9:30am – 5pm | 9–14th of April | Zwierzyniecki House | 41 Królowej Jadwigi street | exhibition | Suburbian | Free entrance

The exhibition on display in the Zwierzyniecki House is devoted to suburbs and the people who live there. It is a search for the answer to the question – does Cracow have suburbs, and if yes – where are they and how does the life look like there? It is a part of the ‘przeMieszczanie’ project, started as part of the celebrations of the 120 anniversary of the Cracow History Museum.

8. | Various opening hours | 9–14th of April | The History of Nowa Huta | 16 os.Słoneczne street | exhibition | Citizen of Nowa Huta | Free entrance

This exhibition is a tale of a contemporary citizen of the Nowa Huta district, a person living in a postindustrial area of Cracow. It focuses heavily on showing the difficult nineties, a time of the transformation of the political order in the country. For many years the role of this period in shaping the identity of a citizen was marginalized. The exhibition is a part of the ‘przeMieszczanie’ project, a celebration of 120 anniversary of the Cracow History Museum.

9. | 12am–6pm | 11–14th of April| Open studio| Kukla/Gromniak | 3/1 Legionów Piłsudskiego street | artistic studio | Free entrance

This studio was opened by two artists sharing an almost identical lineage – Kukla and Gromniak. They were both born in 1989, both are qualified graphic designers, graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and both turned to painting and experimental music in their art. They have recently opened a studio and gladly invite guests into it to show their latest works.

10. | 4pm | 28 Żabiniec street | A meeting in the Atelier of Gabi Buzek, accompanying the Portraits of Women exhibition | free entrance upon signing in through email: cracowartweek@gmail.com

The exhibition is a part of the celebrations of the Year of Women in the Academy of Fine Arts and will display large-format paintings showing scaled up fragments of a woman’s body. This means the portrait will not be as obvious as usual – instead of the face, we will see other parts of the body. This doesn’t mean those portraits will be monotonous. This work is related to a series of photographs under the same title I took in 2002 and which showed shoes of women I knew.

11. | 4pm | 4 Konfederacka street | A meeting in the studio of Kinga Burek, 'To be thrown off a cliff' project | free entrance upon signing in through email: cracowartweek@gmail.com

Kinga Burek draws inspiration from the idea of a scapegoat and its multiple meanings. As part of the ‘To be thrown off a cliff’ project, she is preparing a series of paintings and collages related to an old-testament ritual of cleansing, during which an animal sacrifice was being thrown from a cliff. But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness.

12. | 6pm | 13 Jan Matejko square | The Auditorium of the Academy of Fine Arts | The official opening of Cracow ArtWeek KRAKERS 2019 | #cinema #cosmos | Showing of Jagna Firek’s film Landing | Showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 | A lecture by Piotr Kletowski | free entrance

The flight to the Moon is one of the most prominent themes in science fiction cinema and literature. Since 1902, when the first public screenings of Georges Méliès’s Le Voyage Dans la Lune took place, this topic returns to the big screen almost every year. What is interesting – the space odyssey trope didn’t disappear after the successful landing of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. On the contrary – this leads to an increase in the number of books and films with action taking place in space. The silver globe stimulated the imagination even more and the star travel has established itself as a metaphor for many various stances defining the condition of humanity and the civilization it created.
During our showings, we will present 3 outstanding works related to man’s journey to the moon. All of them, besides having a lot of cinematic charm and being examples of great craft can also be analyzed from the technological, philosophical, psychological and religious point of view.

13. | 5pm | Main Building of the Cracow National Museum | 1 3rd of May alley | A walk through the Power of Nature. Henry Moore in Poland exhibition | guide: Agata Małodobry | Free entrance

14. | 7pm | A textbook for the citydwellers | 7 Adam Asnyk street | The opening of the Verena Blok's Job exhibition | Free entrance | The exhibition will be opened from 10th to 15th of April, between 7pm and 9pm

On this exhibition, the Polish audience will have the first chance to see ‘Job’ a movie created by Polish-Dutch artist Verena Blok. This work shows an intimistic approach to the lives of two brothers, who the artist met some time ago during her holidays in Poland. While observing those men she focuses on their attitude towards the body and the language they use to describe the world around them. She sees that it multiplies the same prejudices they face when working abroad.
Besides the movie, pictures taken by the artist will also be shown.

15. | 6pm | 13 Jan Matejko square | The Auditorium of the Academy of Fine Arts | #cinema #cosmos | Showing of Na Srebrnym Globie, 1987 | A lecture by Piotr Zdybał | free entrance

23. | 1:30pm | The Regional Public Library in Krakow | 1 Rajska street | Curatorial walk through the Into the unknown exhibition | Free entrance

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24. | 2pm | The History of Nowa Huta | os. Słoneczne 16 | A walk through the Citizen of Nowa Huta exhibition | Free entrance

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25. | 5pm–6pm | MICET Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theater | 1 Jagiellońska street | A walk through the Nirwana exhibition of Krystian Durman | free entrance

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26. | 6pm | Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology – The EUROPA Gallery – Far East | 26 Maria Konopnicka street | The opening of the Koji Kamoji Retrospective. Silence and the will to live exhibition | Free entrance

Contemporary Japanese artists acquired western styles and techniques in a way that created a phenomenon of universal art, consciously relating to various aesthetic traditions and culture codes. It is art with slowly diminishing national characteristic. Koji Kamoji is a very interesting example of this trend. He works in Warsaw, in the Foksal gallery, and is continuously joining the Japanese aesthetic sensitivity with western avant-garde.

27. | 6pm | Dydo Poster Gallery | 1 Focha alley (formerly Cracovia Hotel) | The opening of the Experiments Agnieszka Ziemiszewska Posters exhibition | Free entrance | Gallery is opened everyday between 2:30pm and 6:30pm

The exhibition will show 50 posters by Agnieszka Ziemiszewska, created at various times and places and for different reasons. Posters for festivals, exhibitions, contemporary topics, and personal matters – each is a kind of an experiment. You will have to decide whether they were a success or not.
Agnieszka Ziemiszewska – designer, curator, lecturer. She’s won many awards and commendations, she was a part of the jury in many national and international graphic design contests and had workshops and lectures in Poland and abroad. She is also the author of the Poster/Blog. www.ziemi.art.pl

28. | 7pm | The Atelier of Gabi Buzek | 28 Żabiniec street | The opening of the Portraits of Women exhibition | Free entrance

29. | 8pm | Olympia Gallery | 24/4b Limanowskiego street | One, two, three, four – Four leaps into the future – part I (video) | Artists: Wiki Królikowska, Zbigniew Olszyna | Curators: Zbigniew Olszyna, Wiki Królikowska | Free entrance

Every day, each of us makes thought leaps into the future. Scientists, journalists, analysts and fortune tellers – who will you trust? Wiki Królikowska and Zbigniew Olszyna decided to trust themselves and create an idea that two artists might curate their own work. He is a painter and a photographer and she is a performer and a compositor. Together they form an exceptional duo, connected by the admiration of the camp and pastiche aesthetics joined with a sensitivity for social matters, and lifestyle. The difference between them is the preferred form of expression – Olszyna paints and draws while Królikowska appears in VTL (video, tune, lyrics) and stands in front of the audience. In One, two, three, four they decided to take a bite of the food of the future. Nowadays we hear ‘eat this’, ‘eat that’, ‘don’t eat this’ coming from everywhere around us. Trends for modified soybeans are mixed with the hate towards GMOs. Who will you trust? Wiki Królikowska and Zbigniew Olszyna decided to turn themselves into a psychic, a journalist, a scientist and a CEO of a pharmaceutical company so that every spectator can decide for themselves if a leap to the future makes any sense at all.

30. | 9pm THE ORGANIZER HAS MODIFIED THE START TIME TO 7 PM | 18 Meiselsa street | Hevre | M3LAN2 2.0 (only stars) | Albatros, Artvstka, antu.a, Marek Bro, ehh hahah, FFF, Glitchsquid, Aśka Grochulska, Jaś Kapela, Martyna Konieczny, Paszka, Jarek Płonka, splndr, TBA, Zerowaste, virtual geisha and others | Curator: Roman Dziadkiewicz | Producers: Natalia Początek, Sandra Pasławska | tickets needed

Those not jumping are (cut)!

During a dance, jumping is one of the most important activities of a human being. Processes taking place In the brains of the participants are often described as space flights. It needs to be added that all the attendees are on the ground for the first and the last time – which is why it is important to jump, see them, listen to them, clap and high five or fist bump them.

31. | 10:30am – 12:30pm | In front of the entrance to the People's Theater | os. Teatralne 38 | The rock from the Moon. Detective walk through Nowa Huta for children (7–9 years old) | Guide: Łucja Malec-Kornajew „Fishka Krakow Tours” | Free entrance after signing up through email fishkakrakow@gmail.com

Would you believe me if I told you that I have almost touched the Moon? Would you laugh at me if I told you that the Moon is hidden in Cracow? I will tell you a secret – many years ago a small piece of the Silver Globe arrived in our city. They say that it was hidden in the most unexpected place, probably for safety reasons. The only problem is – I don’t know where. Only the most cunning detectives will be able to face this challenge. Will they find out where is the rock hidden and who brought it to Cracow?

We invite you for a detective’s walk through Nowa Huta, during which we will see such beautifully designed, exceptional places like the People’s Theater and Lord’s Ark.

32. | 11am | The Square of the Ghetto Heroes | KULTOUR: FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF CRACOW'S GALLERIES – PODGÓRZE | guide: Ewa Kawecka | Free entrance

In the age of the crisis of direct contact between people…come and visit art yourself! Art that is already established and appreciated, but also temporary, parked or moored here just for a while. Let’s discover, touch and talk!

We’ve chosen routes that will allow the participants to find out about the circle of galleries, ateliers and other places being a part of the contemporary art environment – and there are lots of those! Some are deeply hidden in the city’s tissue, others are placed by the most representative streets and known for a long time. You might be surprised, how close and how strong the pulse of art beats in Cracow, conquering the most unexpected areas. Our meetings will allow us to take part in the unique, direct dialogue with people creating and maintaining those places and with the artist who fill them with their works. Let’s give our smartphones a rest, and let us meet. Take a chance to touch the city.
We hope to give you a set of hints on how to find art in the future.

33. | 11am | Nowy square | KULTOUR: FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF CRACOW'S GALLERIES – KAZIMIERZ | guide: Katarzyna Piętka | Free entrance

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34. | 11am | The entrance into the Krakowski park |Invalids square | KULTOUR: FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF CRACOW'S GALLERIES – KROWODRZA | guide: Robert Domżalski | Free entrance

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35. | 12am | Olympia Gallery | 24/4b Limanowskiego Street | One, two, three, four – Four leaps into the future - part II (performance) | Artists: Wiki Królikowska, Zbigniew Olszyna | Curators: Zbigniew Olszyna, Wiki Królikowska | Free entrance

36. | 1pm | The courtyard of the EUROPEUM Cultural Center| 6 Sikorski square| open dance and improvisation workshops accompanying The Power of Nature. Henry Moore in Poland exhibition | lead: Zofia Noworól | Free entrance

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37. | 1:30pm – 3pm | International Cultural Center, The Panoramic Room | 25 Main Market Square | ArtistTalk: Janek Simon | Free entrance

A meeting with Janek Simon – the creator of interactive installations, videos, objects, and artistic actions, drawing his inspiration from video games and the Internet. In his works, Janek uses elements of predicting the future, catastrophic themes, and the oncoming doom. His debut took the form of Carpet Invaders – a simple computer game, whose level is the picture of a carpet projected on the floor. His other work, a well-known movie ‘Departure’, shows as one by one antique towers of Cracow’s buildings take off into the air, creating a new, flat cityscape. The main point of the meeting will be a presentation of the artists’ projects – those which already exist and those that are planned for the future.

38. | 3pm – 9pm | 17 Czysta street | PUNKtatt artistic project – KRAKERS TATTOO TOUR | artists: Małgorzata Wielek-Mandrela, Przemysław Wideł |more information available on cracowartweek.pl

KRAKERS TATTOO TOUR is an idea of a mobile exhibition – tattoo parlor. A camping truck, rented for the Krakers Weekend will become a roadshow of drawings made by Małgorzata Wielek-Mandrela. Inside you will not only be able to see the drawings, but also take one with you forever, keeping it on your skin. Our idea for a leap is to exceed the phenomenon of an exhibition and what the spectator can take out of it. In the case of our action, if the guest will decide to make the leap, he or she will be able to take a piece of presented art with them, forever, on them.

39. | 3:30pm – 5pm | International Cultural Center, The Panoramic Room | 25 Main Market Square | Panel discussion 'Finding the croupier' | Moderation: Piotr Sarzyński | Guests: Bartolomeo Koczenasz, Jakub Woynarowski, Michał Zawada | Free entrance

40. | 10:30am | Main Building of the National Museum in Cracow | 3rd of May alley 1 | An English walk through The Power of Nature. Henry Moore in Poland exhibition | Guide: Anna Sokulska | Free entrance

41. | 11am | Tourist Information by the Wawel Castle | 11 Powiśle street | KULTOUR: FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF CRACOW'S GALLERIES – THE OLD TOWN | guide: Łucja Malec-Kornajew | Free entrance

42. | 11am | The Lajkonik Square | KULTOUR: FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF CRACOW'S GALLERIES – DOWNTOWN | Guide: Robert Domżalski | Free entrance

43. | 11am | Szczepański square | KULTOUR: FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF CRACOW'S GALLERIES – DOWNTOWN II | Guide: Ewa Kawecka | Free entrance

44. | 11am | Krzysztofory Palace – Museum of Cracow | 35 Main Market Square (entrance from number 2 Szczepańska street) | The Art on Mars – workshops for children between 6 and 12 years old | lead: Mirosława Bałazy, „Artmine” | free entrance, limited places available, participants need to sign up through email: artmine.warsztaty@gmail.com

What is contemporary art? How will art look in the future and what techniques will the artists be using? During the workshops, we will take a trip to find new ways of expression. Space lies before us and the possibilities are limitless. We will create new techniques and use them to make art. We will also take a look at the works of modern artists and have them inspire us.

45. | 12am | The Main Building of the Cracow National Museum | 3rd of May alley no.1 | Curatorial walk through the Situation has changed exhibition | guide: Magdalena Czubińska | Free entrance

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46. | 3pm – 5pm | In the shadow of the St.Mary's church, from the Floriańska street | FUTUREWALK for adults | Guide: Łucja Malec-Kornajew, „Fishka Krakow Tours” | Free entrance, signup needed through email: fishkakrakow@gmail.com

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47. | 3pm - 9pm | 8 Na zjeździe street | PUNKtatt art project – KRAKERS TATTOO TOUR | Artists: Małgorzata Wielek-Mandrela, Przemysław Wideł | More information available on cracowartweek.pl

48. | 4pm | 8 Na Zjeździe street | A picnic in the Salt Depot - CSW Wiewiórka | Free entrance

The back of the Salt Depot is a space where we observe the metamorphosis of the Zabłocie district. The last old barracks in the front and dense, new residential buildings in the background do not reflect the postindustrial character of the area. We invite you for a picnic, a DJ set, and pizza.

49. | 6pm | Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology | 26 Konopnicka street | The opening of the Unusual stories from Poland and Japan on the hundredth anniversary of diplomatic relations between Poland and Japan | Free entrance

Polish – Japanese contacts, just like between any other nations, are created through official, diplomatic and political, social, cultural and military relations. Nowadays we can also add scientific and business dealings to this list. What is exceptional are relations between individual people. Through these 100 years there were many fascinating, even cinema-like stories.

50. | 6pm | Outsider Art Research Station | 29 Kalwaryjska street | A lecture about art brud, accompanying the exhibition Free Area of Imagination by Adam Nidzgorski | free entrance

Outsider Art Research Station was organized by the Psychiatry and Art Society in 2018. Since October to this day, we’ve made six exhibitions and artistic events with national and multinational range. In our gallery, we promote cultural, artistic and educational initiatives. We represent both mainstream and outsider artists, we promote the knowledge about the psychopathology of expression, art brud, and art therapy. We conduct research, promotion, and information.

51. | 4pm – 7pm | Huta Sztuki Gallery by the C.K.Norwid Cultural Center | os. Górali 5 |Ateliers of Nowa Huta | Free entrance upon email signup: fishkakrakow@gmail.com

In the fifties, Nowa Huta saw the beginning of an extraordinary artistic and social phenomenon. Tens of artists came to the city to live and work there. They were given access to city-owned ateliers some of which remain active to this day. How did they look like in the times, when the only thing the system required from the artists is to form a better tomorrow? How do those places work today? We will find out during the meeting in the Ironworks of Art gallery and other places where a collection of works by Nowa Huta’s artists is stored.

52. | 4pm | 4 Konfederacka street | A meeting in the atelier of Kinga Burek, the To be thrown off a high cliffproject. | Free entrance upon email signup: cracowartweek@gmail.com

53. | 6pm | Garage by 28 Św. Jacka street | The opening of Matúš Pius Niemiec's exhibition A Ladder to Heaven | Curators: Aleksandra Weronika Powęska, Małgorzata Marczewska | Free entrance

Ignoring Armstrong’s mission we prefer our own method to reach the sky. By climbing the ladder, we jump straight into the baroque trying to reach the top through the holy intercessors. Will the martyrs, bishops, and presbyters, who were protecting us for hundreds of years, be able to carry the weight of XXIst century pick-ups? Facing this question, a painter from Slovakia states ‘All is old as hell. There is nothing modern here’. The title of the exhibition was taken from an old Polish Lent song.

54. | 6pm | The Kasprowicza House| 5/5 Jana Kasprowicza street | A lecture: Marcel Duchamp in a box. The totality of creation described from inside of La Boîte-en-valise | Free entrance

In 1936 Marcel Duchamp created the first minimuseum in a box. Inside there were reproductions of his most important works plus one original as a bonus. It was the beginning of a series of over 300 objects, which will become works of art themselves. We will enter one of those boxes and from it we will guide you through Duchamp’s art. You will also find out how many copies there are of the famous Fountain, and why so many. The lecture will be given by an art historian Aśka Warchał-Beneschi, the curator of the All my white cubes exhibition.