Essay

“Where did the unfinished, sketchy, coarse form come from in Mariusz Wilczynski’s animations?” — Adriana Prodeus is on a quest to find the roots of Kill It and Leave This Town author’s animation style.

“The exhibition of Japanese avant-garde art of the 1950s and 1960s organized at Zachęta is particularly important to me. The beginning of its story is my long stay in Tokyo, combined with my studies, in the mid-1990s.” —curator Maria Brewińska writes in her essay from the catalogue Between Collectivism and Individualism.

Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska writes in the book Women live for love about the creative path of Teresa Gierzyńska and her formal search in the medium of photography.

On art and political pressure…  Karolina Zychowicz writes about the legendary director of Zachęta.

“Kowalska, the long-time head of the Department of Education, was one of the key people in this process, shaping new forms of educational activity and ways of teaching about art in the second half of the 20th century. It was she who created and implemented many innovative solutions and educational methods in the field of contemporary art, which were successfully developed in subsequent decades.” − Aleksandra Zientecka writes about another heroine of the Patronesses, visionaries, activists project.

A social activist, a generous patron… Zofia Rojek writes about who Ludwika Górecka was − the first important woman in the history of Zachęta.

“When we look at Socialist Realist images today, in the 21st century, each of us having different social experiences and political sympathies, we ask ourselves many questions […] defined by Stalinist and post-Stalinist dictatorships — exhibition’s curatiors write in the introduction to the book accompanying the Cold Revolustion.

The latest issue of the magazine opens with a text by Zbigniew Libera from the book accompanying the exhibition Sculpture in Search of a Place.

“…I find us orienting our capacities and vulnerabilities, denizens of Rhizopolis” – writes Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman in an essay accompanying Joanna Rajkowska’s exhibition.

“It is only possible to imagine nature if you are outside of it” – these are the words of the native Brazilian activist Ailton Krenak.

The last issue of 2020 refelcts the bittersweet atmosphere of the ending year. We start with an essay by Przemysław Strożek, which accompanied the exhibition Gardens.

The protagonists of the latest issue of our magazine are women: fighters, scandalists, anarchists. And we start with a text by Agnieszka Kościańska from the book Glass Houses (2018).

Writer and philosopher Mira Marcinów adressed Joanna Piotrowska’s photographic serie, which documents cages and zoo enclosures.

The exhibition Panoptykon from 2005 was a story about architecture and theater of prison. We recall an essay by Hanna Wróblewska from the exhibition catalog.

Philosopher Joanna Bednarek writes about Joanna Piotrowska’s photographs.

Magdalena Komornicka, in 2018, wrote about the ever-changing Zachęta and the unalterable square in front of it. The text accompanied the Plac Małachowskiego 3 exhibition.

Gabriela Świtek writes about Monika Sosnowska and her fascination with the engineering projects of Vladimir Shukhov.

The latest issue of our magazine focuses on Monika Sosnowska, whose exhibition has just opened at Zachęta. Curator Maria Brewińska writes about the artist and her works.

In the latest issue of the magazine we recall, among others, the exhibtion Alienations. Andrzej Wajs writes about alienation from philosophical point and relates it to the current global issues discussed in the exhibition.