Between the Two Easts: Learning from Residency Program in Warsaw and Tel-Aviv Jaffa
Discussion accompanying the Warsaw Gallery Weekend
Zachęta / workshop room (entrance through the main hall)
free entry
The discussion will focus on residency programs in Warsaw and Tel-Aviv Jaffa.
The participants will present different models of residency programs for contemporary artists working with different practices and in different environment and how each city (culturally, politically, economically, etc.) effects both the process and the outcome of the program.
The last part will be focused on the idea of collaboration, exchange and partnership between the institutions and the two cities.
The speakers:
Vardit Gross, director of Artport (http://www.artportlv.org) a residency program for Israeli and international artists.
Ewa Chomicka, manager of the Laboratory of Museum Practices at Polin Museum (http://www.polin.pl/en/residencies)
Marianna Dobkowska and Anna Ptak, curators of U-jazdowski Residencies programme at Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary art (http://u-jazdowski.pl/en/programme/residencies)
Sarmen Beglarian and Sylwia Szymaniak, curators of Polish Modern Art Foundation (http://fundacjapsn.pl)
Moderator: Stanisław Welbel, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
The discussion will take place on the 24th of September (Sunday) at 15:00 at Zachęta - National Gallery of Art and will be in English and open for the public.
The discussion is organized as part of the events celebrating the 25th anniversary for the cooperation between Tel-Aviv and Warsaw.
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