MEDIATIONS BIENNALE WILL BE HELD IN POZNAŃ FOR THE SECOND TIME.
Mediations Biennale is the largest exhibition of contemporary art in Poland and
one of the major events of the kind in Central Europe. Biennale’s idea is the
dialogue between civilizations, between culture and art, presentations of
achievements in the latest art from remote corners of the globe, as well as
artistic explorations of Central European artists. Although the event is still
young (the first edition was held in 2008) – since the outset grand scale was
its middle name. This year, some 150 artists from 30 countries participate in
the undertaking. 12 curators supervise the presentation. The works will fill 5
specific venues and open spaces in various locations in Poznań to boot.
Biennale should vibrate with life and approach contemporary discourses and
discussions as near as possible – says Matthias Reichelt, one of the curator of
the „Erased Walls” exhibition. – On the other hand, it should not yield to
what is canonised by museum and what enjoys demand on the art market – he
stipulates.
The main programme comprises two exhibitions: “Beyond Mediations” and “Erased
Walls”. These are accompanied by three events shown at the “Arsenal” Municipal
Gallery.
www.mediations.pl
www.erasedwalls.eu
All exhibitions open on 11th September 2010
preview schedule
12:00 – National Museum in Poznań
14:00 – „Arsenał” Municipal Gallery
15:00 – ZAMEK Culture Centre
17:00 – container building – ZAMEK Culture Centre car park, Św. Marcin Street
19:00 – building complex in E. Orzeszkowej Street
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MAIN PROGRAMME
_BEYOND MEDIATIONS
[venues] ZAMEK Culture Centre/ National Museum in Poznań
[duration] 12.09.-30.10.10
[curators] Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Tsutomu Mizusawa
[artists] Keith Armstrong & Chris Barker (AU), Małgorzata Borek (PL),
Dorota Chilińska & Andrzej Wasilewski (PL), Luc Courchesne (CA), Jonas Dahlberg
(SE), Smadar Dreyfus & Lennaart van Oldenborgh (Il/UK), Inga Fonar Cocos (IL),
Paula Gaetano Adi (AR), Hossein Golba (IR), Ken Feingold (US), Masaki Fujihata
(JP), Naoya Hatakeyama (JP), Sanja Iveković (HR), Jakub Jasiukiewicz (PL),
Eduardo Kac (US), Kimsooja (KR), Bart Koppe (NL), Masato Kobayashi (JP), Daniel
Koniusz (PL), Kamil Kuskowski (PL), Konrad Kuzyszyn (PL), George Legrady &
Angus Forbes (CA/US), Marie-Jo Lafontaine (BE), Dominik Lejman (PL), Julien
Maire (FR/DE), Wade Marynowsky (AU), Yuiko Matsuyama (JP), Hidetoshi Nagasawa
(JP), Jean-Christophe Norman (FR), Zbigniew Oksiuta (PL), Anna Orlikowska(PL),
Adrian Paci (AL), Mateusz Pęk (PL), Geoffrey Alan Rhodes (US), Józef Robakowski
(PL), Yukina Sakai (PL), Chiharu Shiota (JP), Christa Sommerer & Laurent
Mignonneau (AT/FR), Konrad Smoleński (PL), Calum Stirling (UK), Michelle Teran
(CA/DE), Ultra-red (US), Paul Vanouse (US), Magnus Wallin (SE), Apichatpong
Weerasethakul (TH), Marc Tobias Winterhagen (DE/PL), Wu Jian'an (CN), Piotr
Wyrzykowski (PL), Kijuro Yahagi (JP)
The exhibition Beyond Mediations is the outcome of the dialogue between two
curators: Tsutomu Mizusawa from Japan (director of Yokohama Triennale; deputy
director of MOMA in Kamakura and Hayama in Japan) and Professor Ryszard W.
Kluszczyński – an eminent expert in media art. The curators agreed a list of
almost 60 creative names.
In this exhibition – which is a remarkably rare occurrence – the traditional
genres of contemporary art (painting, sculpture, drawing etc.) will co-exist
with the new media on an equal footing. The presentation aspires to overthrow
the ever-persisting division between them.
“By juxtaposing paintings and interactive installations, one achieves the sharp
and clear outline of dissimilarities found currently in the world of art, a
manifestation of the diversity predominating there” – Prof. Kluszczyński
writes. And adds: “In Beyond Mediations, the direct effect of this media-genre
coexistence is also the parallel presence of various kinds of experience that
art is capable of providing today.
Apart from artworks which engender experience engaging one in a profound,
contemplative penetration of autonomous worlds that these works call to life,
there are also interactive realisations inviting the audience to co-create the
experienced form, works which offer experiences which possess the structure of
a network connecting various aspects of reality, which invite to enter a social
and political discourse (as well as actions), which encourage to perceive art
as a tool with which to analyze the present and even as a means of its
transformation. The works of artists invited to the exhibition reveal that
contemporary art is ready to abandon the autonomy it had had until recently,
that it enters into elemental relationships not only with media technology but
also with the worlds of science and many other social discourses, creating new,
multidimensional languages of expression, which are adapted to the hybridity of
the contemporary reality, to the complexity and multiformity of the world we
live in.
The exhibition’s tremendous diversity, the multitude of its inherent issues,
themes and discourses, as well as the extensive spectrum of form with which
they are expressed might appear chaotic. But this is how it should be! The
world is chaos, once unleashed from the corset of order-imposing ideologies.
And art only can restore the ability and joy of experiencing the world in its
untidy state, in its creative disarray”.
_ERASED WALLS
[venues] container building – ZAMEK Culture Centre car park, building complex
in E. Orzeszkowej Street
[duration] 12.09.-30.10.10
[curators] Georgi Begun, Noam Braslavsky, Juraj Čarný, Nika Kukhtina, Matthias
Reichelt, Sławomir Sobczak, Raman Tratsiuk & Volha Maslouskaya, Marianne
Wagner-Simon, Tomasz Wendland
[artists] Alternazione (IT), Arena Online (Internet), Yossi Attia and Itamar
Rose (IL),
Ariella Azoulay (IL), Group BLOCK (HU), Ondrej Brody (CZ) and Kristofer Paetau
(FI, BR), Pasko Burdjelez (HR), Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová (CZ),
Costantino Ciervo (IT, DE), Ronald Dagonnier (BE), Plamen Dejanoff (BG, AT),
Alexandra Dementieva (RU, BG), Democracia (ES), Tomáš Džadoň (SK, CZ), Richard
Fajnor (SK, CZ), Clemens Fürtler (AU), Grupa 4! (PL), Robert F. Hammerstiel
(AU), Rudolf Herz (DE), Rafał Jakubowicz (DE), Karl Heinz Jeron (DE), Sandy
Kaltenborn & Pierre Maite / Image-shift (DE), MK Kaehne (LT, DE), MK Kaehne
(LT, DE) & Andrei Loginom (BY, DE), Uri Katzenstein (IL), Peter Kees (DE),
Cezary Klimaszewski (PL), Thomas Kilpper (DE), Folke Köbberling & Martin
Kaltwasser (DE), Paweł Kowalewski (PL), Christine Kriegerowski & Christoph
Tempel / Gated Community (DE), Oliver Kunkel (DE), Maciej Kurak (PL), Michael
Kurzwelly (DE, PL), Marek Kvetan (SK), Otis Laubert (SK), Ola Lewin (LT, DE),
Volker März (DE), Stano Masár (SK), Tamara Moyzes (SK, CZ) & Shlomo Yaffe (IL,
CZ), Johan Muyle (BG), Vladimir Nikolič (RS), NO-MED (PL), Andrzej Pepłoński
(PL), Dominik Popławski (PL), PSJM – Pablo San Jose Moreno (AU, DE), Cynthia
Vera Perez (ES, DE), Peter Puype (BG), Ariel Reichman (ZA, DE, IL), Don Ritter
(CA, DE), Roman Sakin (RU), Roland Scheffersky (PL, DE), Ruti Sela & Maayan
Amir (IL), Marcus Shahar (IL), Krzysztof Sołowiej (PL), Haim Sokol (IL, RU),
Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag (DE), Małgorzata Szymankiewicz (PL), Koen Theys (BG),
Jean Toche (BG, US), Jaan Toomik (EE), Ilya Trushevsky (RU), Maxim Tyminko (UA,
DE), Tomáš Vaněk (CZ), Koen Vanmechelen (BG), Oleg Yushko (BY, DE), Jakob Zoche
(cały świat).
The exhibition is shaped by 10 curators, who develop narration around
problematics and history of Central Europe, a narration which nevertheless
departs from the experience of the “Round Table” revolution and the fall of the
Berlin Wall.
„Erased Walls”, as Tomasz Wendland writes in the foreword to the catalogue,
narrows its reflective focus to the creative work after 2000, with an emphasis
on the latest art, yet without geopolitical constraints. Erasing of the
frontiers does not apply exclusively to our region anymore. All over the
world, the walls that were physically erased, have been replaced by invisible
ones – all the more efficacious and poignant because of their imperceptibility.
Political divisions are now being exchanged for new ones, those associated with
the dominance of the capital, social supremacy, poverty, media manipulation,
the feeling of solitariness and exclusion. The artists, by constructing an
image, arrive at reflections otherwise unattainable, which cannot be devised by
means of language or document. An image is frequently a close-up quotation from
reality, which, having been extracted from the mundanity and then presented in
a different light shed by art, becomes surprisingly distinct. Erased Walls is
an ironic question: have the last walls really fallen?”
The “Erased Walls” project may be appreciated in its entirety only after the
consecutive modules of the exhibition have been seen in Freies Museum and
Concentart in Berlin (7-30.10) and during the Crazycuratos Biennale in
Bratislava (4-30.11.).
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