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Ghosts, Spectres, Phantoms & the Places Where They Live
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 Mobile Academy Warsaw, Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non - Knowledge, 2005, fot. Marta Orlik |
Down With the Pimps of Art!
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 copyright Henryk Gajewski |
In Poland, meaning where? The exhibition makes an attempt to answer the question: what are the relations between art and space - cultural, geographical, political - where it comes to existence? The main visual motif is an aristic vision of city and architucture, the city as the territory of history and memory, as a space of medernist and postmodernist experiments.
The exhibition presents: painting, sculpture, photography, films, archival materials, architectural and urban plannings, projects, artistic actions documentation.
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 Zofia Kulik, Kurgans of Fame and Infamy, 1993, photograph, courtesy Center for Contemporary Art |
Paulina Ołowska, Rainbow Brite: films, paintings Alongside Robert Kuśmirowski, Katarzyna Kozyra, Piotr Uklański, Paweł Althamer and Cezary Bodzianowski; Paulina Olowska and Wilhelm Sasnal belong to a new generation of Polish artists perceiving art as an intensification of imagination. This attitude determines those artists' deep filtration with the whole phantasmal background of art, its paradigmatic media, its postulated autonomy, etc. However, they exploit those qualities in a very conscious, tactical way. They are effecting a peculiar revitalisation of the notion of imagination, so strongly present in the field of Polish conceptual art in the 1960s (impossible art) and in the 1970s (e.g. Natalia LL and her strategy of art as an artificial reality, Marek Konieczny and his Think Crazy strategy of city happenings of Akademia Ruchu). On the one hand, they strive to restore imagination to everyday live, while, on the other , analysing the various aspects of the imaginary dimension of art. The practice of those artists is situated on Vincent Crapanzano's postulated border/passage between the "here and now of obtrusive reality and the space-time of the wish-expressing and fulfilling (in all of its deceitful directness) imagination."
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 Wilhelm Sasnal, film still, courtesy Center for Contemporary Art |
Hot/Cold – Summer Loving Hot/Cold - Summer Loving is an exhibition that presents the pluralistic character of love and the diverse ways in which contemporary artists relate to it, both in the context of intimate individual experiences and that of love relations in the wider socio-political sphere. The exhibition’s title makes reference to the changeable scale of emotional temperatures and simultaneously the season when the show takes place, a season when love seems especially sought after and desired.
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 Pilar Albarracín, I Will Dance on Your Grave, 2004, video still, courtesy of the artist |
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| International Poster Biennale Poster Museum 3 June - 17 September more info: www.postermuseum.pl Agnieszka Brzeżańska – Warsaw For Amateurs: photographs Kordegarda Gallery 8 July – 3 September 2006 more info: www.zacheta.art.pl Łukasz Gronowski – The Casting: films Zacheta National Gallery 13 June – 27 August 2006 more info: www.zacheta.art.pl Josef Sudek – Dialogue with Silence: photographs Zacheta National Gallery 20 June – 27 August 2006 more info: www.zacheta.art.pl |
Summer in the Muranów Cinema – film festival The Muranów Cinema 1 July - 31 August 2006 more info: www.muranow.gutekfilm.pl Fantastic Cinema Summer – film review Kino.Lab Cinema 1July - 31 August 2006 www.csw.art.pl/kino_lab From the Ashes of Sobibor - multimedia exhibition The History Meeting House 1July - 15 September 2006 more info: www.dsh.waw.pl |
Raster Mini Guidebook Getting there and away low cost carriers: Blue1 Centralwings EasyJet Germanwings Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA SkyEurope Wizz Air further carriers: Air Europa Air France (F) Alitalia (I) Austrian Airlines (A) British Airways (GB) KLM (NL) Lufthansa (D) PLL LOT (PL) SAS SN Brussels Airlines (B) Swiss International Air Lines (CH) Train The Polish Railways: www.pkp.pl The central station (Warszawa Centralna) is located in the very centre of the city International trains arriving at the station: From Germany: From Austria, Czechia: From Hungary, Slovakia:
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Places to Stay Hotels: The Jan III Sobieski Hotel (four-star hotel) The Kyriad Prestige Hotel The "Premiere Classe" Hotel The Campanile Hotel The Harctur Hotel |
The Helvetia Hostel The Oki Doki Hostel
The Harenda Hotel The Ibis Hotel The Gromada Hotel Le Royal Meridien Bristol Hotel (five-star hotel) The Rialto Hotel (five-star hotel) The InterContinental Hotel (five-star hotel) |