Oczy szukają głowy do zamieszkania

Museum of Art in Lodz

30 th September – 11 th December 2011

Eyes Looking For a Head to Inhabit

80th Anniversary of the Collection


"Oczy szukają głowy do zamieszkania"
30 września – 11 grudnia 2011

ms2, Ogrodowa 19
Archiwum Państwowe, Pl. Wolności 1
ms1, Więckowskiego 36 / Biblioteka
ms cafe, Wieckowskiego 36

Otwarcie: 30 września 2011

Projekt Oczy szukają głowy do zamieszkania wiąże się z historycznym wydarzeniem, jakim była inauguracja Międzynarodowej Kolekcji Sztuki Nowoczesnej grupy „a.r.” w Miejskim Muzeum Historii i Sztuki w Łodzi 15 lutego 1931 roku. Podstawą tej, wówczas lokalnie niedocenionej inicjatywy, były idee międzynarodowej awangardy rozwijane przez Władysława Strzemińskiego i Katarzynę Kobro i ich walka o społeczne uznanie nowej sztuki. W rezultacie 80 lat temu powstała nowa instytucja – Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, pierwsze muzeum sztuki nowoczesnej w Europie, które istnieje do dziś.

Artyści, którzy wezmą udział w wystawie: Nevin Aladağ, Victor Alimpiev, Francisco Infante-Arana, Merce Cunningham / John Cage, Valdis Celms, Anetta Mona Chişa / Lucia Tkáčová, Welemir Chlebnikow / Aleksej Kruczonych / Kazimierz Malewicz / Michaił Matiuszyn, Le Corbusier / Edgar Varese / Iannis Xenakis, Andrzej Czarnacki, Josef Dabernig, Valie Export, Wojciech Fangor, Stano Filko, Vadim Fiškin, Leszek Golec / Tatiana Czekalska, Barbara Hammer, Haus-Rucker-Co, Rebecca Horn, Nikita Kadan, Frederick Kiesler, Katarzyna Kobro, Julius Koller, Paweł Kowzan, Yuri Leiderman, El Lisicki, Artur Malewski, Daniel Malone, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, László Moholy-Nagy, Carsten Nicolai, Roman Ondak, Ruth Oppenheim, Anna Orlikowska, Gabriel Orozco, Walter Pichler, Agnieszka Piksa, Klaus Pinter, Adrian Piper, Jerzy Rosołowicz, Jadwiga Sawicka, Łukasz Skąpski, Władysław Strzemiński, Marijke van Warmerdam, Monika Zawadzki.
Kuratorki: Aleksandra Jach, Katarzyna Słoboda, Joanna Sokołowska, Magdalena Ziółkowska

DESIGN FOR FREEDOM — FREEDOM IN DESIGN

DIK Fagazine covers and POMADA poster will be featured in:

DESIGN FOR FREEDOM — FREEDOM IN DESIGN

GRAPHIC DESIGN IN POLAND 1981 – 2011

25.08 – 11.09.2011

Made My Day Gallery

Torstraße 66, 10119 Berlin, Germany

13.10 – 23.10.2011

CLASKA 8F The 8th Gallery 1-3-18 Chuo-cho

Tokyo, Japan

Design for Freedom — Freedom in Design Exhibition. Graphic Design in Poland 1981 – 2011 is a presentation of the design of the last 30 years, during the system transformation in Poland covering the period from socialism to post capitalism.

The project shows design as forms of organizing the national sub-​consciousness into political, economic or artistic visual presentation. Graphic arts present the symbolic meanings and the hidden social emotions using the language of pictures, signs and various aesthetics. It becomes the unaware or targeted expression of political struggle, economic constraints or one among very few ways of escaping and creative expression. The role of a Polish graphic designer and citizen during the historical changes seems to be ambiguous. It is characterized by paradox: anarchy and conformity, individualism and yielding to trends, rigorism and autonomy, rationalism and romanticism. In a reaction to the dynamic changes and unstable standards of the various political and economic systems in the last 30 years in Poland, the designers developed an entire spectrum of creative attitudes and adequate styles.

The exhibition will show rarely presented posters, newspapers, books, packaging, signs and graphic arts produced between 1981 — 2011. It is going to be the first time the output of Polish design from the period of a 30-​year-​long transformation is presented in the context of struggle and conflict of political and social awareness. The selected works are the most representative and significant for those occurrences. When presented as a cycle they become a story about a drastic change of life models, priorities, ambitions, codes and ways of approaching that reality, that affected Polish people as well as changing visual culture.

The exhibition will be presented as an open working space hosting activities and events connected with practical and theoretical aspects of the Polish graphic design.

www.design-freedom.​pl

Desire is WAR

DIK Fagazine is featured in the "Desire is WAR" exhibition at The Contemporary Art Gallery of The National Brukenthal Museum (Sibiu, Romania). More installation pics of the show (all by Stefan Jammer) you can find here: www.karolradziszewski.blogspot.com

POMADA posters in The Poster Museum

POMADA posters are featured in the huge show at The Poster Museum in Wilanow

The 15th Polish Poster Exhibition
7 July – 4 September 2011
The Poster Museum, Wilanow (Muzeum Plakatu w Wilanowie)
Warsaw, Poland

The Polish Poster Exhibition is a periodic, nation-wide display organised every two years by the Poster Museum in Wilanow. The Exhibition concentrates the most celebrated poster artists based in Poland.

Nearly 100 artists, over 500 works can be seen in The Poster Museum’s both galleries in Wilanow. The display accounts for the greatest applied graphics review in the country, because the posters mirror not only the latest trends in the graphic design, but also – inevitably – the whole cultural life of our country from the last two years.
Actually, not only this determines the uniqueness of our exhibition. Spontaneity and vigorousness of The Polish Poster Exhibition – these are the key issues for us, the artists and the organisers. Diversity, opulence of colours, spectacularity, freshness – these expressions reflect the exhibition’s character the best… The display immediately captures all what is happening in the Polish art and culture. That is why some people even mention guerrilla art – artistic guerrilla movement in the context of The Polish Poster Exhibition.


Exhibition curator: Rafal Nowakowski

THE ONLY GAY IN THE VILLAGE

DIK Fagazine is happy to invite you to the exhibition:

'THE ONLY GAY IN THE VILLAGE'

MEIKE MARTIJN (NL /DE), ERIK ALKEMA (NL ), MARION M. MORRISON (NL /US), REMIE VAN OS (NL ), HARM WEISTRA (NL), ROBERT VAN HERPEN (NL), DIK FAGAZINE (PL), XAVIER STENTZ (DE), ZELJKO BLAĆE (B&H/HR), JOSE BEGEGA (ES), SILAS (NL)

Opening: 21 July 2011 (Thursday) at 9pm

exhibition open until: August 21

Roodkapje

Meent 119-133, Rotterdam

www.roodkapje.org

Do big, specifically gay events such as Gay pride and the Eurogames contribute to the acceptance of homosexuals in the Netherlands or do these in fact lead to segregation ?

On the whole, the Netherlands has embraced the gay community, only a small percentage of the population does not acknowledge it. Gay couples can marry, adopt children and gay characters are no longer absent from TV programmes and respectable suburban neighbourhoods. Is the image presented by the gay community and the media still accurate these days ? In 'THE ONLY GAY IN THE VILLAGE' artists reflect on the current status of homosexuals.

TERAZ POLIŻ Dekameron

Znacie je z POMADY – Grupa Artystyczna TERAZ POLIŻ to bez wątpienia jedna z najważniejszych rodzimych żeńskich formacji teatralnych. Jej twórczynie zdecydowanie opowiadają się przeciwko dyskryminacji, handlowemu traktowaniu i przemocy wobec kobiet oraz tworzą spektakle po auspicjami Amnesty International i Centrum Praw Kobiet.
Tym razem TERAZ POLIŻ rozprawi się z Boccacciem. Oczywiście w rolach głównych – czcigodne, cnotliwe białogłowy u ramienia mądrych, dwornych mężczyzn, w tle wiejska posiadłość – a żniwo zbiera zaraza. Rzecz jednak w tym, że relacje żeńsko-męskie zobaczymy w obsadzie wybitnie żeńskiej. Choć nie zabraknie prężącego się konia. Pięć aktorek zmienia płeć na pstryknięcie palca i realizuje pikantny „Dekameron”– jak to TERAZ POLIŻ ma w zwyczaju – bez zbędnego asekuranctwa, z całym swoim naturalnym wdziękiem.

Miejsce – Muzeum Pałac w Wilanowie
Osoby:
Reżyseria – Natalia Sołtysik
Scenografia – Anna Czarnota
Muzyka – Aleksander Brzeziński
Foto – Alina Gajdamowicz
Obsada – Grupa Artystyczna TERAZ POLIŻ w składzie: Dorota Glac, Marta Jalowska, Adrianna Kornecka, Dominika Strojek, Kamila Worobiej

więcej info: www.terazpoliz.com.pl

Ganc POMADA party