year of publication: 2009
edited by: Magda Kulesza, Jarosław Suchan, Hanna Wróblewska
graphic design: Dorota Karaszewska
publisher: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, The Zbigniew Raszewski InstituteRaszewskiego
ISBN: 978-83-60713-34-1

An exhibition prepared at Zachęta in co-operation with the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw and the Jerzy Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, as part of the celebrations to mark Grotowski Year. Elements from Grotowski’s work will be shown through the prism of the visual arts: film documentation of rehearsals, performances, actor exercises and interviews with the director will be placed alongside works by artists who are linked to him by a common inspiration or similar approaches to art, the body and spirituality.

The exhibition grows out of the need to reconsider Grotowski’s work as a phenomenon essential, not only in the perspective of the development of the theatre, but also in the wider context of the cultural changes of the second half of the 20th century to which the visual arts, theatre and literature all testify.