Tango on 16 square metres explores ways of intensifying space, meandering between past and present, Polish realities and global phenomena. The exhibition investigates precarious urban dwelling conditions and their architectural responses through the lense of Zbigniew Rybczyński’s Academy Award-winning short film Tango from 1980.

How does a building work? What are the first impressions it makes? What do we see in subsequent visits? What is the impact of the building on the employees? And finally, what is it as a declaration of a company? Going beyond the questions asked in the abovementioned study, one may ask about the meaning of the senses, in experiencing, in feeling architecture, and analyse buildings from the perspective of the body.

This will be the retrospective presentation of the rich heritage of the Japanese artist Koji Kamoji, who has been living and working in Poland since the 1960s. It comprises paintings, drawings, installations, spatial objects (including minimalist and ascetic works), as well as abstract compositions. Over the years, by carefully selecting the subject matter of his works  Kamoji has developed a catalogue of his favourite and most important motifs.

The project Amplifying Nature is based on the premise that architecture is part of processes occurring on a planetary scale. According to the authors of the exhibition—curator Anna Ptak and architects Małgorzata Kuciewicz and Simone De Iacobis of the CENTRALA collective—it serves not only to offer protection from nature, but is inherently connected with phenomena such as gravitation, water circulation, or the day-night cycle.

I create spatial objects and installations. I also work with paintings, artistic graphics and designs. My abstract objects are open to a variety of levels of interpretation. I am interested in the imperceptible, illogical reality, superfluousness and surrounding environment. I am occupied with time, movement and matter. My works do not contain any unambiguity, since I care more about the questions than the answers.

This exhibition is one of the events accompanying the 40th anniversary of the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. It will present the works of the Faculty’s founders: Jerzy Sołtan, Lech Tomaszewski, and Andrzej Jan Wróblewski.