07-15.10.2017 at Studio 1

Opening 07.10. at 7 p.m.
Daily open from 12 noon to 7 p.m.
free admission

Born in 1968 in Gdansk.

Wawrzyniec Tokarski graduated From State Art Academy in Karlsruhe (studio of prof. Helmut Dörner), State Art Academy in Stuttgart (studio of prof. K.R.H. Sonderborg and Joseph Kosuth) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. In his painterly work, he deliberates on the contemporary condition by employing media related motives. His works are in many international state and private collections.

Please find an interview with Tokarski under the menu button “Essays”.

Performance Active Poetry
Studio 1 | 7 p.m.
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Meeting point at Studio 1 | 6 p.m.
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Agnieszka Brzeżańska was born in Gdańsk in 1972 and lives and works in Berlin and Warsaw. She studied at the Academies of Fine Arts of Gdańsk and Warsaw and at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. In her work, she uses a variety of media such as painting, drawing, photography, film and ceramics to explore elusive links between different fields of knowledge. These range from physics and philosophy to contemporary ecology and systems of cognition marginalized by modern science, such as alchemy, parapsychology, esotericism, native knowledge or matriarchal traditions. Her recent solo exhibitions include Ma Terra, Vera Munro, Hamburg (2015), It will all come easily with grace and joy, Marlborough Contemporary, London (2015), Ziemia rodzinna, Aleksander Bruno Gallery, Warsaw and Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław (2014) Kobayashi Maru, Nanzuka, Tokyo (2014) Matrix-Stratrix, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw 2016. Agnieszka Brzezańska is represented by Nanzuka in Tokyo, Vera Munro in Hamburg and Kasia Michalski in Warsaw.

During the studio visit the artist will present her new Project, FLOW. FLOW is a project in collaboration with Ewa Ciepielewska and the Pamoja Foundation, organized as a transdisciplinary artistic action on the river Wisła and other flowing locations.

“FLOW generates an unconventional open platform for mobile artistic residence, moving on the river Wisła, generating change not only in terms of coordinates, course and speed, but above all in terms of perspectives and relative reference points. Both the position of the boat and the group of participants and artists are in a constant state of flux, highlighting the flowing nature of our current reality.”

(Patrycja Ryłko)

Glocal Heroes – Formen des künstlerischen Protestes
8 p.m. | free admission

Discussion in German

Ein Gespräch über die aktuelle Situation der polnischen Künstler*innen im In- und Ausland sowie über die Formen des künstlerischen Protestes von der ästhetischen Auseinandersetzung bis hin zum (partei)politischen Engagement.

Mit Ingo Arend, Renata Kamińska und Jan Verwoert, Moderation: Jagna Anderson und Berenika Partum

• Ingo Arend ist Historiker, Politologe, Autor und Kritiker. Seine Themengebiete sind Kunst und Politik, Kunst und Geschichte, Kunst und Kultur in der Türkei und im MeNaSa-Raum. Mitglied des Präsidiums der neuen Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Mitglied diverser Jurys. Weblog: Ästhetik und Demokratie. www.ingo-arend.de

• Renata Kaminska untersucht in ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit soziale, kulturelle, politische, ökonomische und sprachliche Hintergründe von Missverständnissen in der Kommunikation in unserer Gesellschaft, die innerhalb von privaten wie öffentlichen Beziehungen. Sie nutzt hierfür verschiedene Medien, indem sie mit sozialen Skulpturen, Site-specific Installationen, Fotografie, Video und Performance arbeitet. Kaminska ist Mitglied der polnischen Oppositionspartei RAZEM.

• Jan Verwoert, zur Zeit Gastprofessor an der UdK, ist ein in Berlin lebender Kritiker und Autor, der sich mit zeitgenössischer Kunst und Kulturtheorie auseinandersetzt. Er ist Mitredakteur des frieze magazine, und seine Texte sind in verschiedenen Zeitschriften, Anthropologien und Monographien erschienen. Er war Professor for Theory an der Oslo National Academy of the Arts, er lehrte am Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam und war Gastprofessor an der Royal Academy in London.

Meeting point at Studio 1 at 7 p.m.
free admission

Renata Kamińska was born in Hrubieszów-Poland, in 1974 and lives and works in Berlin. She studied art in Lublin-Poland, Zürich-Switzerland and Leipzig-Germany and finished her MFA in Fine Arts at the Art Institute, Maria Curie Skłodowska University (prof. Mikołaj Smoczyński) in Lublin and at the Academy of Fine Arts, HGB (prof. Astrid Klein) in Leipzig. Since the year 2000 her work has included social and site-specific sculptures, installations, photographs, videos and performances. In 2009 she started her artistic project BEL ETAGE, which she continues to develop annually.

Her work examines the social, cultural, political, economic and linguistic bases of misunderstanding in communication within private and public relationships in society. Kaminska’s work operates on the visual level of a discursive practice, focusing on analyzing and uncovering, shifting and perhaps even overwriting cultural codes and signs. The artist frequently uses “everyday materiality” such as daily newspapers or ad hoc press articles. Her work is shown nationally and internationally.

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Dominik Lejman was born in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin and Poznań. He studied painting and graphic art in London at the State College between 1989-1993 and at the Royal College of Art between 1993-1995. He has lead the painting workshop at the University of the Arts in Poznań since 2005. Lejman’s artistic practice focusses on painting combined with video projections, making video-frescoes and large-scale projections. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and public projects (including installations in hospitals of Cleveland and New York). He has participated in many collective exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2004, and he has won several prizes in Poland and abroad.

One of his most famous works is the video-fresco “Let us offer each other the sign of peace/Przekażcie sobie znak pokoju”(2007). This piece is part of the video projection cycle “The hospital as a landscape of smaller spectacles”/”Szpital jako krajobraz małych spektakli” (since 2002), which shows a large church crowd awakening from total stillness for 4 seconds. “Double Layer” (2011) is a negative film projected onto the floor of the entrance hall to the European Parliament in Brussels which comments on current media reports. “Katedra 60s.” (2011) is a video-fresco showing parachute jumpers in free fall reproducing the vault of Durham Cathedral just before the parachutes are opened.

Presentation of the new work „Płot”.

Performance “Solidarity Born of Despair”
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Aleks Slota was born in Poland in 1978 and lives and works in Berlin. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. He has exhibited solo at Exgirlfriend Gallery in Berlin and A&M in Texas-USA, he has also shown his work at The Polish Museum of America, Chicago-USA. He has performed in Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Poland, Italy, France, and attended artist residencies in Finland and Sardinia. He has published an album with the noise project OKO, created music videos for the experimental metal band Locrian and sung in the metal band Hexacron. He has curated two sound-art festivals in Berlin, Quiet Violence and Underdog.

Slota describes his working process as one of ‘extreme lucidity,’ an approach that he applies to both performance and sound art. It is with extreme lucidity that he distills the artistic idea to its core, creating projects that are clear in their intention and precise in their execution, which achieve their objective with minimal actions and very few materials. His practice addresses the themes of the public persona, systemic and interpersonal violence, and internalized and externalized power structures, which he explores in the contexts of religious intolerance, internet anonymity, substance abuse, family history, loneliness, hedonism, linguistics, nationalism, state surveillance, sexuality, migration and the artist’s ego among others. His work often creates situations that test the audience-performer barrier, seeking an intimate engagement with the public while at the same time playing with an uncomfortable and awkward atmosphere. Truth and lies coexist in this emotional push and pull and each individual spectator is left to decide about how far they want to engage and question their comfort zone. Slota is a member of the Association for Performance Art in Berlin.

Performance: “Solidarity Born of Despair”

We are the light in the dark, what is the “dark” and who are “we” is shifting, but the light remains the same, it is good. A performance of: faith, leading, joining, losing hope, abandoning, despair, and ultimately violence.

Performance obsessio//stupor 6 – 9 p.m.
admission free and possible at any time

Jagna Anderson was born in Lublin-Poland, in 1969 and lives and works as a multidisciplinary artist and art historian/ curator in Berlin. Her work includes vocal performance art, choreography, space installation and performative interventions in the urban space. She is interested in the dynamic interplay between structures and actions. It allows her to reexamine conditioning, internalized power structures and superficial identifications while simultaneously inquiring into the nature of freedom. Anderson focusses on the body as the main material and storage medium for these processes. She is the founder of p.u.r.e. – performative urban research ensemble (2016) which maps Berlin with its participative p.u.r.e.-walks. She is a member of the vocal quintet Medulla (directed by Ulrike Sowodniok), which is opening up new fields for the voice in the context of contemporary experimental music. Anderson is the director of impro.per.arts since 2015 – a research and production platform for interdisciplinary improvisation. jagna-anderson.de

Performance obsessio//stupor is an archaeology of a mystic’s voice. Its field of exploration is the material and sensuous body, between austerity and ecstasy, autonomy and coercion. The durational vocal performance and space installation reinterpret the accounts of the life and visions of Dorothy of Montau (14^th Century) while creating a 3D archive and performative reconstruction of the embodied voice of a female seer.

Performance at 7 p.m.

& artist talk with Theaterscoutings Berlin
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The aim of Dziemaszkiewicz’s transgenic and transsexual work is to integrate opposites and raise questions about the borders between animalism and humanity. His theatre explores feelings, instincts and emotions and gives paramount importance to honesty. Nudity is a frequent element, manifesting happiness, naturality and spontaneity. Dziemaszkiewicz lives his art in the day to day. His work stands out in the contemporary art landscape for its bold combination of drag, ritual, dance and cabaret as an enactment of the role imposed by everyday life. Dziemaszkiewicz sees theatre as life and as something that can happen anywhere. The unique and unusual language of his artistic practice emerges out of beeing free from the boundaries and compromises of social groups and other limiting definitions. The artist himself is the embodied artwork created in the name of the freedom of each and every human being. (Grzegorz Welizarowicz)

Film premiere “Unmögliche Oper”
Studio 1

Artist Talk with Edit Molnár and Marcel Schwierin (Directors of the Edith Russ Haus in Oldenburg) about the new work “Unmögliche Oper/Impossible Opera”
Presentation of the Magazine Contemporary Lynx with the founder and director Dobromiła Błaszczyk

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Zorka Wollny was born in Kraków in 1980 and lives and works in Berlin. Her work inhabits a space between art, theatre, contemporary music and dance and is always closely connected to the historic and functional profile of specific architectural sites. Wollny understands architecture not simply as material figuration, but rather as a cognitive movement-dependent space, an expression of cultural conditions and a scene for performative interventions. For her installations, videos, choreographic live-performances and concerts she follows her critical interest in cultural codes, gestures and structural modes of behavior, surveying the fields of art production and reception and post-industrial work environments. Her work deploys feminist and de-constructivist approaches to explore the thresholds and superpositions of private, public, subjective and institutional spaces and narratives.

Zorka Wollny was awarded her PhD in Fine Arts at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts and is a visiting lecturer at Szczecin Art Academy. Her works have been shown at the most prestigious contemporary art institutions in Poland, such as the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2013), the Museum of Art in Łódź (2012), the Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk (2011) and the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujadowski Castle in Warsaw (2008). Moreover, she has participated in international exhibitions at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (2013), at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig (2012), at Turner Contemporary in Margate (2011), at the Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art (2011) and at the Outpost Gallery in Norway (2010). She was a nominee for the Deutsche Bank Award to the best Polish emerging artist in 2009 and in 2010 the art magazine Arteon elected her Artist of the Year.

Performance at 6 p.m.
Studio 1
free admission

Ania Nowak’s choreographic practice approaches vulnerability and desire as ways towards reimagining what bodies and language can do. She is currently interested in love as a strategy to generate knowledge and also as a dance-making tool. Her works have been presented at Sophiensaele and Akademie der Künste in Berlin, New Theatre in Warsaw, the Art Stations Foundation Grażyna Kulczyk in Poznań, Het Veem in Amsterdam, Arts Santa Mónica in Barcelona and Kulturhuset in Stockholm, amongst others. Nowak received an Einstiegsförderung grant from the Berliner Senat in 2017 and a DanceWeb scholarship at the Impuls Tanz Festival 2014 in Vienna. She graduated from “Dance/ Context/ Choreography” at HZTBerlin. technologiesoflove.tumblr.com

interview with the audience in the frame of mapping dance berlin

raw lecture performance / light at 6 p.m.
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Anna Nowicka is a dance maker, pedagogue and psychologist, with degrees from Warsaw University, Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and Ernst-Busch / HZT in Berlin. In recent years, she has developed a methodology for artistic creation based on her long-term interest in working with dreams, imagination and physical actions. Her focus lies on attention, imagination, creativity and the body as a field of infinite potential in a state of constant becoming. Nowicka aims at weaving intuitive creation with conscious choreographic decisions. Her works cannot be affiliated to specific aesthetics, but rather share the interest of challenging the gaze and leading it towards the unseen and unknown. Since 2010 her choreographic practice has been connected to the Art Stations Foundations by Grażyna Kulczyk. Nowicka was awarded a DAAD Preis, the Preis der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and a Tanzstipendium by the city of Berlin. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Polish Film School in Łódź and a dreaming practitioner at “The School of Images”, intensively developing image work with Bonnie Buckner and joyfully researching the possibilities of the moving body with Rosalind Crisp. She spreads her life between Berlin and Warsaw.

raw lecture performance / light

choreography/ dance: Anna Nowicka
music: Klaus Janek
light design: Aleksandr Prowalinski
photos: Katharina Szugajew

interview with the audience in the frame of mapping dance berlin

Performance (self)PORTRAITS at 6 p.m.
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Gosia Gajdemska is a choreographer, dancer, performer, and dance educator.  She was born and raised in Poland, but Gajdemska has long been intellectually and artistically associated with the German artistic community. She has lived and worked in Berlin for three years. Gajdemska studied in Poland (Animation Culture at the University of Zielona Góra, Choreography in Kraków), in Germany (Institut für Tanz und Bewegungsdynamik in Essen), and in England (Laban Movement Analysis Training at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London). She received an Alternative Dance Academy 2017 scholarship from the Art Stations Stiftung of Grażyna Kulczyk. Since April 2016 Gajdemska has been a member of the managing board of the alternative cultural center K77 Studio e.V. in Berlin.

She has created dance and theatre performances and site-specific dance pieces and she has worked in socially and politically engaged artistic projects. She has collaborated with both professionals and amateurs, and people with hearing and sight disabilities. Her dance projects include: ConTexts, Definitionen des Körpers, Improvisation im Tanz, Bild in Bewegung, Tanz.Re:Animation, inVISIBLE, Dancebody.Installation, C2.WRONG, 12 minus 1, (self) PORTRAITS and I”M. In her work Gajdemska combines various dance techniques (contemporary, modern, Contact Improvisation, improvisation) with somatic practices and visual-art elements. At the core of her artistic pursuits is the understanding of choreography as visual art. Her work explores the visual aspects of the body and of language and the relationship between image and identity.

Performance: (self)PORTRAITS

choreography/ dance: Gosia Gajdemska
music: Michał Talma-Sutt

interview with the audience in the frame of mapping dance berlin

Performance (self)PORTRAITS at 6 p.m.
free admission

Michał Talma-Sutt studied piano and composition at the Academy of Music in Lodz-Poland (1990-1995). Between 1998 and 2001 he completed postgraduate composition studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart. He attended a one-year course in composition and computer music at the IRCAM in Paris (1995/96) and physical modelling synthesis at ZKM in Karlsruhe (1999/2000). Michał Talma-Sutt has twice received a First Prize at the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music: First Prize in the ‘under-30s’ category for What Nostradamus has kept only for himself (1998, Vienna) and First Prize in the general category for Light and Shade (2000, Madrid). He has received a grant from the Witold Lutoslawski Foundation (1995-2001).

The combination of acoustic instruments and electroacoustic computer-generated sounds created by the composer is a key element in his work. Michał Talma-Sutt has used this approach to compose a large amount and variety of music, from solo pieces to orchestra symphonies with electroacoustic sounds. His music has not only been played extensively in Poland, but also in festivals and concerts in various European countries, as well as in the USA and South Africa. The composer lives currently in Berlin, where his most recent work includes music for dance and performance projects.

Performance: (self)PORTRAITS

choreography/ dance: Gosia Gajdemska
music: Michał Talma-Sutt

interview with the audience in the frame of mapping dance berlin

Meeting point in front of the building
at 7 p.m.
free admission

Michał Martychwiec was born in 1987 and lives and works in Berlin. He creates conceptual series of photographs, films, drawings, neon lights, objects, and mix-media installations and environments. He received a Distinction for his MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London. He is a visiting lecturer at the Russian Institute of Art History (Russian Academy of Sciences) in St. Petersburg and the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Martychowiec’s œuvre employs mixed media and has an existential grounding. He applies a conceptual framework to explore history, historic narratives, and the resulting establishment of cultural symbols and archetypes. From this point of departure, he constructs an individual artistic language and narrative. His practice sources ideas from philosophy (both oriental and occidental), history, history of art, history of religion, literature, contemporary culture and communication.

Guided Tour at the Gallery Zak Branicka
at 5 p.m., meeting in the gallery
free admission

Solo Show
Elements of Peaceful Engagement | sugar in the ashes | Official Capacity
Curator: Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

Marlena Kudlicka (b. 1973 in Poland) lives and works in Berlin. Her works have been exhibited in international institutions such as the MWM in Wroclaw (2016), the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten in Marl (2016), the Kunstmuseum Bochum (2016), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (2016), the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw (2015), the Museum of Modern Art Lodz (2014) or the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela (2012). She also had residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Schloss Solitude Akademie in Stuttgart and the International Residency Program Location One in New York, among others.

Marlena Kudlicka’s work is based on the space she describes as the “container of counterpoints”. She sees it as an objective frame, such as a grid or a technical drawing. Enriched nonetheless by a formal artistic gesture, her perception takes on a subjective nature. The space around Kudlicka’s sculpture thus becomes a place of mental processes – projection, communication, reception – and the so-called counterpoints that form space become the bases of the mechanisms of understanding and of action of the human being in space. The universal language of mathematics used by the artist captures space in a perceptible form, showing the dynamics that occur between the work and the viewer. This process named by Robert Morris “the present tense of space” emphasizes the immediacy of its experience and the consciousness of its reception. Kudlicka’s works rethink form as a technical protocol, where numbers and other mathematical symbols explain the parameters of a given idea. Like an identification plate, the sculpture explains the origin and the meaning of the artistic gestures and the decisions contained in the closed space of the exhibition space.

Text from Zak Branicka website/ based upon Anna Tomczak’s text for the exhibition sugar in the ashes. Official Capacity at LaBF 15, Lyon, FR

Meeting point in front of the building at Schwedter Str. 232, at 7 p.m.
atelier No. 12, ground floor, backyard
free admission

Wojtek Hoeft was born in Gdynia-Poland, in 1967. He studied Sculpture at the Visual Communication Department of the Bielefeld Polytechnic High School between 1992 and 2000. In 1996 he received a DAAD scholarship in Florence. Between 2005 and 2008 he was a board member of the artists’ atelier community Milchhof e.V. in Berlin. In 2008 he founded the artistic collective KernForm in Berlin. He has won several public sculpture competitions including the commission competitions for a municipal sculpture in Bad Oeynhausen in 1994 and for a monument of Haller Willem in Halle in 2000. He was also short-listed for the Sächsischer Skulpturenpreis in 2007 in Chemnitz, the Kunst für Dr. Caligari prize in 2008 in Berlin, and the Gustav Seitz Prize in 2014.

Hoeft has participated in the following international symposiums: Symposium of Bronze Sculpture in Csongrád-Hungary (2002), Polish-German Symposium and Ceramic Workshop in Szczecin-Poland (2006). He has shown his work at individual exhibitions such as  Schwebe in Galeria Schmidt Marc in Berlin and Powrót wielkoludów / Rückkehr der Riesen in Städtische Galerie in Gdansk-Poland. He has also shown his work as part of the following collective exhibitions: Kunst jetzt draußen! in Gallery Nord Kunstverein Tiergarten in Berlin;  Witajcie, 4 Artistes de Pologne in Gallery Chybulski in Vile sur Jarnioux-France in 2014.

Artist Talk at 5 p.m.
at the Gallery M + R Fricke
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Ewa Partum was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki on March 25th 1945 and lives and works since 1981 in Berlin. She belongs to the first generation of Polish neo-avant-garde artists and she is a precursor of European feminist and conceptual art. She is engaged in linguistics, institutional critique and feminist art. Between 1963-1965 she studied at The State High School of Fine Arts in Łódź and between 1965-1970 at the Painting Department of Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She sees her artistic practice as a logical development from conceptual art to conceptual feminism. She refers to 1974 as the turning point when she formulated her own artistic language and embarked upon the practice of feminist art. In her numerous actions, performances, photographs, installations and experimental films she has investigated the structure of art language and worked to develop her own idiomatic expression of conceptual art.

Already in her early works in the 70s she was pointing out the subordinate position of the female subject in both artistic and public discourses. In the following decade, she went on to develop her feminist critique further in a series of photo-collages and radical feminist performances. Throughout the 80s her work developed a language of conceptual feminism through performance art and aleatory actions in which she appropriated texts of so called high culture. In the early 70s Partum founded the independent art gallery Galeria Adres in Łódź. She organized numerous exhibitions and meetings of Polish and international conceptual artists, mail artists and Fluxus artists. The gallery has become an important part of the transnational mail art network and enabled exchange between Western European and Eastern European artists.

Partum has participated in many individual and collective exhibitions including: Jesteśmy at Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw in 1991, Wack! Art in the Feminist Revolution at MoCA Los Angeles in 2007, European Contemporary Art Biennale Manifesta 7 in Italy in 2008, re.-act. – feminism – performance art of the 1960s and 70s today at Akademie der Künste in Berlin, REBELLE. Art and feminism 1969-2009 at Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Arnhem, Gender Check. Femininity and masculinity in the art of Eastern Europe at Museum Moderne Kunst in Vienna in 2009, Promesse du passé at Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2010, Intense Proximity, La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2012, 18^th Sydney Biennale in 2012-13, Bigger Splash Painting after Performance at Tate Modern in 2012-13, Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960-1980 at MoMA in 2015-16.

Meeting point in front of the building
Studio visit at 6 p.m.

Following: Two Times Twice concert

Anna Krenz was born in Poznan in 1976 and has lived and worked in Berlin since 2003. She is an artist and editor and holds a first degree from the Department of Architecture of the Poznan University of Technology and Energy, and a postgraduate degree on Environment & Sustainable Design from the Architectural Association in London. She has worked since 2001 for Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, Denmark, as a freelance creative member. Krenz has shown her work in international solo- and collective exhibitions. Her artwork focusses on social and political issues, gender, environment, stereotypes and religion. She uses a variety of artistic expressions and media, from drawings, paintings, photography and video to net-art and performance. Krenz performed with “the Curators”, a band making experimental improvised music. Between 2000 and 2002, she was a member of Sinus_3 – female architecture design studio, developing projects based on sustainable architecture and urban theory for public spaces (installations, happenings and video). Together with Jacek Slaski she has run Galerie ZERO in Berlin, an exchange and exhibition platform for Eastern European artists with a focus on Polish art which has hosted over 100 exhibitions and countless concerts and performances with artists from all over the world. Between 2007 and 2009 she was Editor-in-Chief of the Polish design magazine “VOX Design” and later “RE: design “. As a freelance journalist, she specializes in architecture and urban theory and collaborates with major Polish cultural magazines.

Anna Krenz is founder of the Berlin branch of Dziewuchy Dziewuchom (2016), a Polish women’s grassroots network which supports Polish women and actively fights for women’s (human) rights. Dziewuchy Dziewuchom Berlin has organized many demonstrations in the city, like the Black Protest on October 3rd 2016 and the International Women’s Strike on March 8th 2017 among others. The organizers of the Black Protest were honored with the European Citizenship Award 2017. In 2016, Krenz was also an active member of the Committee for the Defense of Democracy (KOD), a Polish civic society movement also active in Berlin, co-organizing demonstrations and protests using artistic means.

Meeting point in front of the building
at 7 p.m.
free admission

Pola Dwurnik was born in 1979. She works with paint, drawing and collage and has also been active as a self-publishing artist, editor and song writer. She studied painting and drawing at her parents’ studios: Edward Dwurnik, painter and Teresa Gierzyńska, photographer. Between 1998-2003 Pola Dwurnik studied Art History at Warsaw University, where she also founded the art magazine Sekcja and ran Galeria Zakręt, a debut gallery for many young Polish artists. Between 2004 and 2005 she was Artist-in-Residence at Stiftung Laurenz-Haus in Basel.

In 2008 she was nominated for the Henkel Art Award 2008 for Contemporary Drawing (international final) in Vienna. In 2010 she was Artist-in-Residence of The Knot, a mobile platform for art in Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest. She has published four art books: “Świetlica” (2003, Galeria Raster), “Living in Basel” (2007, Christoph Merian Verlag), “Kronika Towarzyska” (2008, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle) and “A Song for Wojtek” (2016, Wrocław Contemporary Museum). In 2013 Dwurnik published “Girl on Canvas”, an art book about her painting and its reception including intellectual and emotional responses to her paintings from over thirty different contributors. In 2014 “Girl on Canvas” received a Distinction in the competition The Most Beautiful Books 2013 at the Polish Book Publishers Association in Warsaw. Pola Dwurnik has been a member of BERLINERPOOL Arts Network and Mobile Archive in Berlin since 2012. Dwurnik’s works are part of the collections of the National Museum in Gdańsk, the Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK in Kraków, the Contemporary Museum Wrocław in Wrocław and of private collections worldwide. Since 2015 the artist has been cooperating with Galerie Idea-Fixa in Basel.

Meeting point in front of the building
at 7 p.m.
free admission

Jerzy Goliszewski was born in Warsaw-Poland, in 1981 and lives and works in Berlin. Jerzy Goliszewski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2008 and since then he has been awarded numerous prizes and stipendiums, including a CEC ArtsLink Award in New York (2010) and a Ministry of Culture scholarship – Young Poland (2014). He has shown his work, amongst other venues, in Zachęta National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw together with Martin Boyce, Thea Djordjadze, Wade Guyton, Monika Sosnowska, Tatiana Trouvé, Slavs and Tatars, and also internationally, including Japan, US, Germany, the Netherlands and France. He works with installation art, sculpture and site-specific projects.

Concert-performance at 9 p.m.

Kasia Justka was born in Poland in 1981 and lives and works in Berlin. She is an independent multimedia artist and performer. Her work is based on lighting up darkness with sounds, intensifying silence with images, making music out of cooking, regulating frequencies and generating energy out of waste. Her art stimulates both imagination and sensitivity. Her work conjures up the vast power of electronic systems and networks. Justka deconstructs structures and creates dynamics and forms of primitive entropy rearranging order out of chaos. Electricity is her passion. Her audio-visual live performances and exhibitions have been shown in international galleries, festivals and theatres. She is also directing the experimental lab Monoshop.