The SPORES exhibition - a collection of the greatest works by contemporary Polish artists – has been launched. In the bare interiors of the Szczecin office building OXYGEN you can watch an unusual presentation of works from the Regional Collection of Zachęta Contemporary Art Association in Szczecin.
There are over 60 works of art presented at the SPORES exhibition: sculptures, photographs, DVD films, paintings and installations that have never been presented before in such a number and configuration. A lot of them will be shown in Szczecin for the first time.
The works of art which have been gathered look outstanding in the cool, bare interiors of the office building and harmonize with the elements of the construction structures. The exhibition has been organized as a result of cooperation of the Academy of Art in Szczecin, Zachęta Contemporary Art Association, the National Museum in Szczecin and Echo Investment.
“The title of the exhibition – SPORES – has been taken from a work by Piotr Kurka, which enriched the collection last year and so far has not been shown in Szczecin,” emphasizes Agata Zbylut, - “the curator of the exhibition. It is a multi-element sculpture presenting two naked boys holding a showcase with a model of a warship overgrown with poisonous mushrooms. On the boys’ heads there are hats in the shape of mushrooms. The work raises the issue of identicality representing exclusion but also the birth of power in opposition to imitative mechanisms duplicating a myth. Apart from the work by Piotr Kurka it will be possible to see at the exhibition such significant names in Polish modern art as: Natalia LL, Zofia Kulik, Izabella Gustowska, Łódź Kaliska, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Katarzyna Górna and many others.”
All works shown at the exhibition come from the Regional Collection of Zachęta Contemporary Art Association. The collection includes 250 artistic works by 80 artists and constitutes a set that is representative for the Polish art since 1989.
Full list of presented works (artist’s name, work title):
- Piotr Kurka, Spores
- Balazs Kicsiny, Seven Sailors
- Ryszard Tokarczyk, The XIX ABC Symptom
- Kuba Bąkowski, RAT-CATCHER
- Kijewski, Ancient Languages
- Tomasz Wilmański, from the EMOH series
- Leszek Lewandowski, QUESTION MARK; I WILL BE BACK SOON; plus minus
- Zofia Kulik, INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC (II); PATTERN 01_MORRIS 15-17; PATTERN 04_CHINESE 08-5; PATTERN 07_CMATKA
- Katarzyna Górna, MADONNAS
- Anna Tyczyńska, NO TITLE, MARE VAPORUM
- Wojciech Duda, POLISH QUALITY
- Hubert Czerepok, ENEMY IS BORN
- Izabella Gustowska, LIFE IS A STORY
- Natalia Lach-Lachowicz, CONSUMPTION ART; POSTCONSUMPTION ART, ANIMAL ART
- Monika Wiechowska, No Title
- Bogna Burska, ALGORITHM
- Aneta Grzeszykowska, No title no. 16; no. 17; no. 18
- Elżbieta Jabłońska, DOMESTIC GAMES; SPIDERWOMAN, BATWOMAN, SUPERWOMAN
- Leszek Knaflewski, RAINCARNATION
- Konrad Kuzyszyn, A TRIPLE BOW
- Łódź Kaliska, SISTERS, SISTERS 10 YEARS Later, SISTERS 20 YEARS Later
- Paweł Łubowski, Ż MORSKI Z ODPŁYWEM,
- Jadwiga Sawicka, TO PUNISH; I HATE YOU; WE HAVE LOST
- Zuzanna Janin, from the FOLLOW ME series, CHANGE ME, IT IS TIME
- Marcin Berdyszak, THE CULTURE OF APPROPRIATING THE UNEXPECTED,
- Wojciech Zieliński, THE DAWN; THE DUSK
- Krzysztof Sołowiej, ORIENTAL CODE
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[Oxygen] is a modern, 9-storeyed office building, located in the very center of Szczecin, at the junction of Malczewskiego street and Wyzwolenia avenue, offering a total leasable area of approx. 13,700 sqm.
In the building modern technological solutions were applied. The office building was equipped, among others, in: high class teleinformatic lines, security system and monitoring and access control systems.
The size of a typical floor (more than 1 640 sq. m.), works out very well in the „open space” office convention. Its functonal layout also gives wide possibilities of arrangement of space for various groups of leaseholders, including also those interested in small office modules.
Occupants of the building shall be able to use additional services like, among others: medical clinic, coffee bar, press lounge and fitness club. Employees and clients of the office building shall have at their disposal 181 parking places at surface and underground parking lots.
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Akademia Sztuki (Academy of Art) in the first public university of arts in Poland (and one of few in Europe) combining in its structures faculties and studies related to different fields of art. In the first year of our operations our students will be able to study Graphics, Interior Design, Instrumental Studies and Music Arts. Our plans for the following years include studies in such fields and specializations as: Animation of Theatre Movement, Culture Management, New Media, Scenography and Lighting Direction. Their launch depends on obtaining suitable ministerial entitlements. Academy of Art is also the first independent public, university of arts in Szczecin. The backbone of the Academy of Art consists of the current academic teachers of the Szczecin branch of the Academy of Music in Poznań, the Department of Art Education at the University of Szczecin and the Higher School of Applied Arts in Szczecin. In addition to local academic teachers endorsing these fields of studies, we are also running negotiations concerning cooperation with artists and lecturers from all over the continent. Numerous conservatoires and academies of art all over Europe announced their content-related patronage and support. In the first year the Academy of Art will educate approx. 380 students in three locations: the Palace under the Globe, the current seat of the Academy of Music in Poznań on Grodzka street and in the current building of Higher School of Applied Arts on Kolumba street.
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Zachęta Contemporary Art Association was registered in 2004. The impulse for establishing the association was the ‘Signs of Times’ National Cultural Programme announced by Mr Waldemar Dąbrowski, the Minister of Culture, in March 2004. The programme was a response to a long time of neglect regarding modern art collecting in Poland, which resulted in breaking off the social dialogue and weakening intergenerational ties.
Zachęta Contemporary Art Association in Szczecin comprises of art critics, artists, people connected with the local media, economists and lawyers. Our aim is collecting and protecting modern works of art, restoring the tradition of artistic patronage as well as encouragement and support with regard to building private art collections. A significant part of the programme is the preparation of culture and modern art audience.
Thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the West Pomeranian Province and the Municipality of Szczecin we have been building the Regional Collection of the Zachęta Contemporary Art Association. In five years of the association’s operations we have gathered nearly 200 works of art which we have bought or received from 80 artists.
The association also cooperates with the Municipality of Szczecin in order to set up Trafostacja Sztuki Szczecin as a municipal institution of culture.
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