Autor: Paulina Olszewska

Nothing Gets Lost, Nothing Is Wasted

Artist: Rocco Ruglio- Misurell 

25.10 – 19.11.2019

JAK ZAPOMNIEĆ KRAKÓW 

Photos: courtesy of the artist

In his artistic practice, Rocco Ruglio-Misurell uses simple everyday materials and prefabricated elements from construction sites. These could be seen as waste, or useless remains, but in his hands, they become a specific kind of object trouvé. The artist recycles or merges them, transforming into installations, spatial compositions, objects and sculptures.
This way, traces, elements or cracks are the starting point for creating an exhibition narration. He finds those elements in his own closest surroundings: in his studio, gallery, apartment or on a street in his neighborhood.
He takes a similar approach in his work with the Jak zopomnieć exhibition space, to which he introduces a fragment of his Berlin studio.
The exhibition also presents new ceramic pieces made during his residency in Oxbow in Saugatuch (Michigan) this August. Their shapes recall useful objects, but they deliberately lack any function, losing any utility during the uncontrolled process of firing. Their surfaces are imprinted with pieces of scrap metal and a dismantled laundry basket, or shells found in the studio. Together these form different grid patterns.
The intentional imperfection of these shapes and fragmentation bring to mind an archeological site. Surprisingly they don’t recall the past and traces of non-existing cultures but instead create an archeology of our everyday life.

Apolonia’s Twelve Husbands

Artist: Pola Dwurnik 

20.09.– 15.10.2019

KRUPA GALLERY TEMPORARY SPACE 
Plac Konstytucji 6, Warsaw

“Apolonia’s Twelve Husbands” is the latest series of paintings by Pola Dwurnik, as well as her first individual exhibition in Warsaw since 2012.
The artist refers to her earlier series entitled “Apolonia’s Garden”, in which she portrayed her ex-boyfriends personified as animals. This time, referring to the history of painting, she has created twelve male portraits as allegories of the twelve months. Each of the artist’s “imaginary husbands” is not merely a representation of a different season, but also of a distinct stage in a woman’s life as well as a concept of an ideal partner. Dwurnik combines her own experiences with the expectations and fantasies of other women, resulting in twelve metaphors of contemporary society. And while she approaches the subject matter with the sense of humour typical of her entire oeuvre, it doesn’t deprive the series of its significant – or occasionally even dire– nature.

The exhibition was part of the Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2019.

24H BRL/POZ

Artists: Stephan Alber, Piotr Bosacki, Laure Catugier, Vanessa Enriquez, Agnieszka Grodzińska, Diana Lelonek, Ula Lucińska i Michał Knychaus (Inside Job), Edith Kollath, Magdalena Starska, Oskar Zięta

18 – 19.05.2019

PASAŻ 47 POZNAŃ

Photos: Marek Zakrzewski

24H is an ephemeral art project created by Paulina Olszewska- Berlin curator and realized by the Krupa Gallery from Wroclaw, private art institution, which makes art projects, supports young artists and art education.
24H Project consists of short (only two days) actions, which attack spaces unusual to present art: empty apartments and buildings or places in the process of transformation. After Warsaw, Wrocław, Nürnberg, Gdańska and Lublin 24H series is coming to Poznań and will take place in pavilions located in shopping passage Pasaż 47 on the Św. Marcin Street, main street of the city of Poznań.

The leitmotif of this edition of 24H is Objectivity and an object itself, with its physical, defined form, function and meaning. But what will happen if these object turns into an art work, gaining new additional meaning and at the same time losing its utilitarian character? What if then those objects, connected to our everyday life and surrounding, start to be comment on our reality?
In this case the context of the exhibition venue: shopping passage plays important role. The exhibition will be located between regular stores and service points but in empty and non-rented out spaces, which still carry marks of previous use.
Therefore the exhibition will raise questions about dependance in the system of production, distribution and trade as well as about our part in it: as recipients and consumers within.

In the exhibition the artists connected to Poznań and Berlin will take part and show their works.
The event is a part of Poznań Design Festival and the Museum Night.

Organized by: Krupa Gallery, Wrocław
Partners: Pasaż 47, Poznan Design Festiwal, Goethe Institut, Warsaw, School of Form Uniwersytetu SWPS, lokal_30 , Warsaw, COLLECTIVA Galerie, Berlin, Rodríguez Gallery, Poznań

Zauberberg

Artists: Róża Duda & Michał Soja

12.04 – 14.04.2019

KRAKAUER HAUS NÜRNBERG 

Photos: courtesy of the artists

Róża Duda and Michał Soja, last year’s graduates of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, are the most promising Polish artistic duo, whose works have already been appreciated multiple times in Poland and abroad.
In their creations, they very consciously construct a modern human being, for whom the time, divided into past and future stops existing while it turns into a stream of stimuli and events, experienced here and now. The artists are mostly interested in the state of contemporary subjectivity suspended between individual dreams and aiming for self-sustainability, and collective coexistence based on the relation of power and strength. This identity becomes a construct built from many different, sometimes even contradicting aspects of the globalized world deprived of a universal pattern. The project shows this complicated and ambiguous reality in which the now becomes nothing more than modifying the past events, or reprogramming them to be more precise.
Zaubenberg is a project created by Róża Duda and Michał Soja in the space of the Krakauer Haus in Nurnberg. It takes place as a part of and in the same time as Cracow ArtWeek, giving the citizens of Nurnberg a chance to participate in this event and to see, for the first time, works created by this young duo. Both new and older creations which, for just a few days, will change the Krakauer Haus into an Internet-like space, hung outside of a particular time and space.

As a part of Cracow Art Week Krakers 2019 

Dry Crust and Oceans of Liquid Matter

Artists: Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová, Lucy McKenzie & Markus Proschek, Filip Rybkowski, Ariel Schlesinger and Michał Zawada

18.03 – 14.04, 2019

HORSE & PONY, BERLIN 

Photos: courtesy of Horse & Pony

The so-called revolutions of 1848 were but poor incidents — small fractures and fissures in the dry crust of European society. However, they denounced the abyss. Beneath the apparently solid surface, they betrayed oceans of liquid matter, only needing expansion to rend into fragments continents of hard rock. Noisily and confusedly they proclaimed the emancipation of the Proletarian, i.e. the secret of the 19th century, and of the revolution of that century.

Karl Marx, Speech at the anniversary of the People’s Paper, April 14th, 1856, London

The exhibition concentrates on a question what is an art work, understood as a created object in the context of art history? How were history and the theory of art formed by particular visions and imagination, which then influence our own perception and understanding, taste and style?
The object of art is the result of a complex process of creation. It gains solid and physical form, which is the embodiment of abstract ideas, associations, patterns of thought and the transformation of these. In the exhibition, this creative process will be compared to a phenomena from nature: a volcano. Its structure and way of functioning unites two physical contradictions: liquid, heated matter which is in permanent transition on the inside and a cooled, firm layer on the outside, which keeps this undefined substance within a solid framework.
Furthermore, a volcano can be seen as a metaphor, especially in the context of the nineteenth century revolution and the social and political changes rooted in romantic literature and the Socialist movement.
This comparison of volcano and social revolution, which occurs beneath the solid surface of legitimized social constructs appears in writings by Karl Marx or in poems by Adam Mickiewicz, Poland’s 19th-century national poet & activist, a supporter of the Polish independence movement.

The exhibition relates also to current context of social and political crises and this permanent tension and interaction between two different ideas or visions about our future.
The concept of the exhibition and its structure is also strongly influenced by the space itself. The metaphor of a volcano, seen as a process of matter transformation, will be translated into the space of the Horse & Pony Fine Arts.
The narration, which begins in lower parts and moves to the upper space of the Horse & Pony Fine Arts, carries several ideas. Firstly, it represents the creative process itself: from an abstract, undefined idea to a final physical form. Then it poses the question of how art and its history have been created and shaped? And how does that influence participants’ and viewers’ understanding? At the end it also relates to the phenomena of revolution, seen as lava, which tries to escape and extinguish the hard structures we see. 

Exhibition concept: Michał Zawada, Filip Rybkowski & Paulina Olszewska

Exhibition partner: Cultural Department of the City of Cracow

Special thanks to Gregor Podnar Berlin

24H BRL/LUB

Artists: Ola Eibl, Nadine Fecht, Fernarda Figuereido, April Gertler, Aneta Kajzer, Anna Kott, Nina Maria Küchler, Alanna Lawley, Ann Oren, Azar Pajuhandeh, Sara Wallgren, Julia Lia Walter, Witte Wartena, Katarzyna Bielak, Jakub Ciężki, Magdalena Franczak, Alena Hrybianchuk, Stanisław Kamiński, Piotr Korol, Mikołaj Kowalski, Robert Kuśmirowski, Małgorzata Pawlak, Joanna Polak, Szymon Popielec, Mariusz Tarkawian, Agnieszka Zawadzka

19 & 20.01.2019

ŁADNO PRACOWNIA LUBLIN

Parallel event: Agnieszka Polska, The New Sun at Piękno Panie Gallery

Photos: courtesy of Piotr Korol 

Title: IN–A4

There are many theories connected to the etymology of the name of Lublin and Berlin. According to one of them name „Berlin“ transformed from an ancient slavic world br’lo, which means nothing more than a swamp or a marsch and describes a city settled on swamp. It is also possible that the name of the capital of Germany evaluated from a forename of its founder: probably somebody named Bral or Bratoslaw, which is marked in an „-in“ suffix consisted in the name of the city.
A similar etymology could relate to the name of Lublin, which probably has been founded by a person, which name could have been shorten as „Lubla“, so it could be somebody called Lubomir, Lubosław, Lubomysław or Lubowid (a typical ancient Polish first names).
That is why this suffix „in“, which is the same for both cities could be a sign for a similar history in a process of settlement. But for the purpose of this exhibition will be used to unite those both cites.
A piece of paper in an A4 format will be another element important for the show. To be more precise it will be its measurements: 210 x 297 mm, standardized at the beginning of the 20th century by two Germans. Until today there is an institution called DIN: Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Norms Institutes), which supervises and standardizes German reality. Therefore in German language this ordinary sheet of paper is called DIN–A4.
This piece of paper, present in our daily life, will become a reference for all artists invited. Through its standardized and limited measurements it seems to be a kind of restriction. But this restriction on the other hand could be seen as the beginning for creative process and very individual approach towards the settled rules.
In this case this given normalization will get out of control, showing that it is possible to find a crack even in a stiff and settled systems, which at the end are not capable to reflect and relate to our reality, although there are part of it.

The exhibition was made in collaboration with Krupa Gallery, Wroclaw.
Partners: Goethe Institut e.V., Fundacja Sztuki Polskiej ING 

24H NUR/KRK/BER/WRO

Artists: Marta Antoniak, Karolina Balcer, Antonia Beer, Adam Cmiel, Thilo Droste, Max Frey, Jan Gemeinhardt, Ganna Grudnytska, Janine Hönig, Sejin Kim, Karina Kueffner, Kinga Nowak, Iza Opiełka, Jochen Pankrath, Potencja, Olaf Prusik-Lutz, René Radomsky, Rocco Ruglio-Misurell, Filip Rybkowski, Pirko Julia Schröder, Swojskie Tropiki, Radek Szlęzak, Markus Wüste

2.06 – 3.06.2018

KRAKAUER HAUS NÜRNBERG 

Photos: Łukasz Narożny & Swojskie Tropiki

Exhibition text in German:

24 Stunden lang kann man im gesamten Gebäude des Krakauer Hauses am 2./3. Juni Kunst entdecken: Künstler aus den vier Städten: Nürnberg, Krakau, Berlin und Wrocław (Breslau) entern für ein Wochenende das gesamte Gebäude und zeigen ihre Arbeiten.
Nach Warschau und Wroclaw (Breslau), wo 2017 Ausgaben von 24H stattfanden, kommt das Projekt nun nach Nürnberg. Durch die Verbindung der unterschiedlichen Künstler entsteht eine wahrlich explosive Wohngemeinschaft, die ein ganzes Wochenende lang in das Krakauer Haus einfällt und das gesamte Gebäude in Beschlag nimmt. Kunst wird dabei an überraschenden Orten im Gebäude platziert sein, auch dort wo niemand damit rechnet: von den Büros über die Toiletten bis hin zur Abstellkammer, vom Erdgeschoss bis unter das Dach.
Anders als es bei klassischen Ausstellungsräumen der Fall ist, muss man die Kunst suchen und finden: Türen müssen geöffnet werden, durch Fenster muss geschaut werden, Gegenstände, die auf den ersten Blick nichts mit Kunst zu tun haben, müssen genauer betrachtet werden. Die gesamte Veranstaltung soll die Gäste dazu einladen, mit Kunst zu spielen und Berührungs.ngste zu verlieren.
Zugleich möchte das Projekt den Nürnbergern Lust machen, das Krakauer Haus aus neuer, unbekannter Perspektive kennenzulernen und dort reinzuschauen, wo sie normalerweise keinen Zutritt haben. Sie können das Gebäude neu entdecken und so mancher kommt nach langer Zeit mal wieder vorbei.
Die Veranstaltung wird musikalisch von Nürnberger Musikern begleitet, die live musizieren und improvisieren werden.

Am ersten Juni-Wochenende fällt die Energie der Kunst über das Krakauer Haus her und so schnell wie sie auftaucht, verschwindet sie auch wieder, um sich in einer völlig anderen Stadt, an einem völlig anderen Ort niederzulassen. So eine Gelegenheit darf man einfach nicht verpassen.

Die Idee stammt von Paulina Olszewska, Kuratorin und Managerin aus Berlin, die dieses Projekt kuratiert. Dabei unterstützen sie Kasia Mlynczak (Krupa Gallery) aus Breslau und Kasia Prusik-Lutz (Krakauer Haus) aus Nürnberg/Krakau.

24H BRL/LUB

Artists: Michał Bączyński, Wojtek Bońkowski, Jagoda Dukiewicz, Małgorzata Goliszewska, Amanda Korol, Magdalena Sakowska-Carło, Barbara Szczepanik, Ilya Noé (MX)

19. – 20. 12. 2014

GLOGAUAIR BERLIN 

Photo: Marta Marta Madej

Towards the West an exhibition with students from the Academy of Art Szczecin & Ilya Noe as a part of Open Studios event, GlogauAir, Berlin. The exhibition presents a selection of works made by students from Department of Painting and New Media from Szczecin Academy of Art. It is thought as a symbolic journey from Szczecin to the West, to Berlin considered as the artistic and cultural capital nowadays. The paradox of Szczecin is based on its location. On one hand it is easier and quicker to get from there to Berlin, then to Warsaw, the capital of Poland. On the other, for the Warsaw art scene it is too far to the West and for Berlin is still seen as the East. Szczecin, sometimes called ‘the forgotten sister of Berlin’, lies somewhere off the track and remains undiscovered. But it seems like the West is its obvious direction and Berlin gives the source of inspiration and offers a platform for the presentation, confrontation and creating the network.

Who Stole the Tarts?

Artist: Cezary Poniatowski 

15.09 – 28.09.2013

OKAZI GALLERY BERLIN 

Photo: courtesy of Nina Maria Küchler 

In his first solo exhibition in Berlin the Polish artist presents the latest works on paper prepared during his last one-month-visit in the city. In his works Cezary Poniatowski gives a critical comment to the contemporary world, which he finds decadent and uncertain. For this reason he treats his drawing as a response to the visual chaos, which surrounds us and in which we so easily lost ourselves.

The exhibition title comes from the famous „Alice in Wonderland” book but should not be seen as a straight reference to the shown works. It was conceived as an abstract question, which should be left open and indefinite. It lets the recipients create their own interpretation of the works and they are welcome to do so.

A part of The Lange Nacht der Bilder Art Festival