Hypertext 10 years of Centrala

01.12.2011 – 05.02.2012 Hypertext 10 years of Centrala

Kordegarda Project

curator of Projekt Kordegarda: Magda Kardasz
co-operation: Adam Repucha

The Centrala collective operates in the field of architecture, interior design and architectural criticism. The group was founded by Krzysztof Banaszewski, Małgorzata Kuciewicz and Jakub Szczęsny in 2001. Design is defined by them as a creative process which cannot be fully understood in isolation from contemporary philosophical thought and other fields of art. Centrala creates not only architectural and urbanistic designs, but also artistic projects which serve as critical statements on local public spaces. Centrala achieved recognition after successful competitions for temporary pavilion for Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Cervantes Institute in Warsaw or sports venue in Bieruń as well as press provocations concerning the revitalisation of Warsaw Central railway station, Rotunda and Chemia Pavilion.

The exhibition in Projekt Kordegarda was created due to the tenth anniversary of Centrala existence and presents designs and the main themes of their work: the blurring boundary between architecture and landscape design in urban-planning projects, raising the awareness of the architectural legacy of the postwar modernist avant-garde, public-space interventions serving to stimulate local activism, sensory installations, experimentation with new materials, educational activities as well as the design of furniture, small objects, and highly individualised interiors. Both the creation of thematic lines (Building the Identity of Warsaw, Pleasure: Sensory Projects, Large-scale Transformations, Vistula River, The Radical Customization of Space, Soft Structures) and the arrangement of the exhibition space which resembles the neural structure of brain refer to different ways of perceiving urban space and represent the diversity of ideas and personalities among the members of Centrala.

Centrala 2001–2011: Krzysztof Banaszewski, Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Jakub Szczęsny, Simone De Iacobis, Maciej Abramczyk, Sebastian Bałut, Ofer Bilik, Katarzyna Brzezińska, Eifo Dana, Tomasz Gancarczyk, Piotr Fabirkiewicz, Jadwiga Fedorowicz, Zygmunt Fit, Jacek Jaskólski, Michał Jońca, Stephan Kluth, Anna Kotowska, Maria Anna Kowalska, Marek Krukowski, Katarzyna Kuźmińska, Borys Lewandowski, Robert Nowicki, Anna Pawłowska, Jakob Spriestersbach, Thor Olav Solbjor, Jan Strumiłło, Dominik Strzelec, Krzysztof Syruć, Marzena Wytrykusz, Piotr Zbierajewski.

The show is a summary of ten years of Centrala’s work and was specially arranged for the interior of Projekt Kordegarda. The exhibition took form of the conceptual construction which was designed by Krzysztof Syruć.

 

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Hypertext
10 years of Centrala
01.12.2011 – 05.02.2012

Kordegarda Project
ul. Gałczyńskiego 3, 00-362 Warszawa

sponsor of the exhibition: Samsung
sponsor of the KORDEGARDA PROJECT: Benq
sponsors of the opening ceremony: Freixenet, Chocolissimo
media patronage: Gazeta Wyborcza, TOK FM, The Warsaw Voice, Stolica