Art Department
9 – 24 November 2013
Biedronka supermarket
61 A Kołłątaja St., Otwock
In November, we would like to invite you to visit the Biedronka supermarket at 61 A Kołłątaja St. in Otwock and participate in a series of meetings for both young and adult audiences, called "Art Department" and devoted to contemporary art. Together with our invited guests we will discuss if and how contemporary art is interconnected with the daily life of residents of Polish cities. We will talk about issues related to contemporary art from the perspective of the problems and challenges faced by clients of Biedronka discount shops, that is – broadly speaking – all of us.
Do works of art have an expiry date? If I sometimes believe that "I can do it too", am I really right? Since public space belongs to no one in particular, who does it actually belong to and what can you do with it? Are products in Biedronka also designed? What do artists live on? And why exactly you mustn't touch the exhibits? We will look for art in our immediate environment. We will treat it instrumentally to check if we really need it. We will evaluate it without any preferential treatment, from the perspective of a supermarket rather than a gallery.
Talks on contemporary art will be given by: ProfessorMaria Poprzęcka , art historian, Sebastian Cichocki , curator and deputy director of The Modern Art Museum in Warsaw, Łukasz Gorczyca, co-founder of Raster gallery, Daniel Muzyczuk, curator of the Polish Pavilion exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale, Joanna Warsza, curator of the Georgian pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Joanna Erbel, urban activist, Mikołaj Iwański, doctor of economics, Krystyna Łuczak-Surówka, design specialist, and Jacek Czarnowski, Director of the Otwock Centre of Culture.
The meetings will be held in a special tent-pavilion added to the Biedronka supermarket. For two weeks it will become a venue of art workshops, meetings and demonstrations, targeted at different age groups. A detailed program coming soon.
"Art Department" has been created as a joint project of the Biedronka supermarket chain in collaboration with Open Art Projects, which together with sculptor Miroslaw Balka has, since 2010, organized the "Otwock" project, a series of artistic interventions in the real and imaginary fabric of the city.
About: Culture.pl
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"Art Department" is organised by Open Art Projects and Jeronimo Martins Poland .
Magda Materna is the author of the concept, while Karol Sienkiewicz is the author of the event’s programme.
The programme is co-organised by the National Centre for Culture and the Otwock Centre of Culture.
The programme has been launched under Honorary Patronage of Professor Jerzy Hausner. The events in Otwock are also organised under the patronage of the Mazowieckie Voivodship Marshal, the Otwock District Staroste,
and the Mayor of Otwock.
Partners: National Library of Poland, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Museum of the Otwock Region, Otwock "Open Door" Third Age University.
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Media partner: Linia Otwocka, Raportcsr.pl
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