Polish Photo Art Today

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Group Exhibition

10.9.2022 – 1.1.2023

Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Gallery Ground floor

 

/ Filip Berendt / Kuba Dąbrowski / Karolina Gembara
/ Weronika Gęsicka / Aneta Grzeszykowska / Magda Hueckel
/ Paweł Jaszczuk / Irena Kalicka / Anna Kieblesz / Zuza Krajewska
/ Adam Lach & Dyba Lach / Diana Lelonek / Michał Łuczak
/ Rafał Milach / Igor Omulecki / Anna Orłowska / Witek Orski
/ Zosia Promińska / Agnieszka Rayss / Łukasz Rusznica
/ Michał Siarek / Michał Szlaga / Dominik Tarabański
/ Łukasz Wierzbowski / Karolina Wojtas / Piotr Zbierski

 

“State of Emergency. Polish Photo Art Today” is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in Germany devoted exclusively to Polish Photo Art. It is not so much an overall show as it focuses on the generations of photographers who grew up, began their studies and started their careers in the Third Polish Republic after the end of communism.

The participating artists take a comprehensive look at contemporary life in Poland, telling not only of freedom and informality in a neighboring European country, but also of new restrictive developments. Their works represent an immediate, authentic, anarchic, diverse, queer and cheeky Poland, as they also show those people on the fringes of society whose biographies ran into the void after 1989. “State of Emergency” tells fascinating stories from our neighboring country that are often absent from the big new narratives about Poland. The works live from the tension between realism and staging, between direct access and artistic distance.

 

 

Curated by Grażyna Siedlecka and Jens Pepper

 

 

Logo Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Made possible with funds from “Hauptstadtkulturfonds”.
With the kind support of the district development funds of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe

Logo fresh from poland

Fotografischer Bildausschnitt auf ein stark geschminktes Auge mit rosa Stoff, der das Gesicht um das Auge verdeckt
Abb.: Rafał Milach, aus der Serie Strajk, 2020/2021, courtesy Rafał Milach, Jednostka Galerie, Warschau, Magnum Photos

The exhibition will be accompanied by a book of the same name published by Mitteldeutscher Verlag, with approximately 160 pages in German and English along with an insert in Polish. Price: 25 € (tbc)

 

Press contact: Nadine Dinter PR | Fasanenstrasse 70, 10719 Berlin
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Das lange Gebäude der Alten Kaserne, Foto: Zitadelle Berlin, Friedhelm Hoffmann

Location

Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst // Alte Kaserne

© Franz Thöricht

Veranstaltungen

Fotografischer Bildausschnitt auf ein stark geschminktes Auge mit rosa Stoff, der das Gesicht um das Auge verdeckt
Lublin 06.03.2021 "Nasze Cia?a krzyczaþ - DOS«C«" V Manifa w Lublinie / Lublin 06.03.2021 "Our Bodies screem -ENOUGH" The fith feminist protest in Lublin a town located in eastern Poland.