Anna Karasińska
Open Room (in Polish)

Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
admission included in entrance fee, noon–8 p.m., performance

In 2018, Anna Karasińska took advantage of the moment exhibitions were being changed out and invited viewers to a performative guided tour of the empty rooms. In each room, she offered visitors a different kind of perception — the material to be ‘viewed’ was the presence of the viewers themselves, observed from different perspectives. The artist drew the viewer’s attention to themselves, their physical presence, relationship to the group, but also to the mechanism of attention and perception of time.

‘Karasińska is a vigilant and sensitive observer, and her works encourage the viewer to adopt a specific attitude: to see the obvious, as if for the first time’.

 (Marcelina Obarska, Piotr Policht, Oswajanie Zachęty, Culture.pl, 2018)

This year’s Open Room is an expansion of selected elements of the work from the previous year. The artist and performers invoice the audience to one of the rooms of the Zachęta Gallery, which will be open for this purpose.

concept, text, production: Anna Karasińska
performance: Karolina Harris, Natalia Oniśk, Michał Salwiński

event accompanying the exhibition
  • 27.07 – 22.11.2019
    Project X
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Upcoming events
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  • 19.07 (Sat) 12:15
    Watch the exhibition together! Guided tour in plain Polish
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  • 19.07 (Sat) 14:15
    Saturday ArtWalk
    Guided tour in English
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  • 19.07 (Sat) 16:00
    Екскурсія українською мовою
    (in Ukrainian)
    Захента — Національна галерея мистецтв.Захента — Національна галерея мистецтв.
  • 20.07 (Sun) 12:00
    Food / Memories. Perservation
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  • 20.07 (Sun) 12:15
    Sunday guided tour
    (in Polish)
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  • 20.07 (Sun) 20:00
    Sonic Horizon: struktura współbrzmienia // Hanna svirska
    Zachęta | entrance from ul. Burschego (down the stairs)Zachęta | entrance from ul. Burschego (down the stairs)
  • 22.07 (Tue) 12:30
    Rzeźbimy! Sensoryczne tworzenie dla najmłodszych. Otwarte warsztaty dla dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym
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  • 22.07 (Tue) 17:30
    Od koncepcji do odbitki. Otwarte warsztaty z linorytu dla dorosłych
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  • 22.07 (Tue) 18:00
    Zabawy ruchowe w Zachęcie!
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  • 23.07 (Wed) 18:00
    Se(a)ns sztuki
    (in Polish)
    Zachęta | cinema room (entrance from Burschego street)cinema room
  • 24.07 (Thu) 12:15
    Thursday guided tours of current exhibitions
    (in Polish)
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  • 25.07 (Fri) 12:00
    Open Archive. Archive duty in the Zachęta Reading Room
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