Texts

“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.

“Something that was triggered by various coincidences has become an enduring value. And we’ve been working to make it permanent. Twenty years is a span of one generation. Even for that reason, I believe it’s been a success.” —says the former president of DB Polska, the founder of the Views award.

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

“My life can be divided into two periods: before and after last year’s revolution. Then I drifted from the art world towards activism and it turned out to be very difficult” —  says the artist and co-creator of the “Minute shout for Belarus” temporary monument.

“Social media has made everything always about you, your attitude to something, a comment, an action. From this relationship comes engagement and a sense of empowerment, a sense of community, but also frustration and confusion” says the artist, who in her practice focuses on the issues of technological progress and its impact on man and nature.

The artist associated with Tuchów in Małopolska talked with Ewa Łączyńska-Widz about his artistic activity in the landscape, nature walks as an art medium and time.

“The community of imagination is one of the most effective weapons of propaganda. I therefore believe that it is our duty to disarm it” – says painter and performer Mikołaj Sobczak, winner of Views 2021.

“When he was an art critic, he didn’t paint. When he started painting, he gave up criticism. When he received students at home, they were amazed at his stacks of books. There were also rows of vinyl records. He didn’t like CDs, didn’t want to use the technologoy. He was quite old-fashioned about it.”

Daniel Kotowski talks to Nadia Markiewicz — winner of the Europe Beyond Access competition — about the normativity, exclusion and unusualness of bodies.

The authors of this year’s Małachowski Square summer programme talk about sensitive language, radical sensitivity and intersectional feminism.

“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.

Cecylia Malik and Urszulka talked during the exhibition in 2020 about activism, ecology and the shared inspirations of mother and daughter.

Sara Herczyńska, co-curator of the show Live Storages: Didactics, talked to Andrzej Tobis about didactics and the A-Z series (Educational Cabinets).

In the issue devoted to the portrait and self-portrait, we go back to 2015 and the exhibition of Tamy Ben-Tor and Miki Carmi and recall an interview given by the artists to the curator Magdalena Komornicka.

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.

On the occasion of the premiere of the book about the historical collection of Zachęta’s Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, we invite you to read an interview with the author of the study – Roman Olkowski.

We’re back! In the latest issue of the magazine we talk about our current exhibitions. We begin with an interview, where the artist of Rhizopolis talks with a botanist.

In the first issue of 2021, we invite you to take part in a virtual movie marathon. We begin with a conversation with Jacek Malinowski, accompanying his exhibition Bi-polar.

“…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.

On December 13th 1860 the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts was established and Zachęta was brought to life! We are kicking off the anniversary issue of the magazine with conversations with some of the most pivital figures in our most recent history.

While waiting for the opening of Sculpture in Search of a Place exhibition, this issue is devoted to… sculpture. We begin with an interview with Roman Stańczak about the his Venice Biennale project – Flight.

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.

We begin the latest issue of our online magazine with the texts accompanying the exhibition Frowst. Magdalena Komornicka talks with the artist about spaces, relationships and human touch.

In the 14th issue of our magazine, we talk about collecting. We start with the ING collection and an interview conducted on the occasion of the Art in Our Age exhibition.

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 this issue, which is dedicated to our collection and collecting in general, we recall an interview with Barbara Dąbrowska and Maria Krawczyk (previously Domurat) about how the Zachęta collection got started.

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.

From a whisper to a scream. We begin the latest issue of our online magazine with an interview with Koji Kamoji, his daughter Monika and Janusz Czapiński accompanying the exhibition Silence and the Will to Live.

The new issue of the magazine is devoted to architecture. We begin with an interview with Dominika Janicka, curator of the Fair Building exhibition presented at the Polish Pavilion at the 15th Architecture Biennale in Venice.

In the sixth issue of the magazine – just before the Children’s Day – we recall exhibitions not only for children. To start with, here is an interview with a psychologist Ula Malko.

New issue of the magazine, and a new topic – time. In 2016, during the exhibition 2066, Maria Brewińska asked Rafał Bujnowski, among other things, about midlife crisis, maturity and, of course, painting.

The theme of this issue is the relationship between art and music. We start with an interview with John Lurie – an excellent American musician who, in 2015, we also got to know as a painter.

The third edition of Zachęta Online magazine will focus on travel – in all its forms. Here is an interview with Anna Jermolaewa – a reminder of the 2015 exhibition Good times, Bad times.

In the second issue of our magazine, we focus on performance. And we start with a conversation between Dominik Kuryłek and Zbigniew Warpechowski – the godfather of performance art in Poland.

I’ve always been interested in slapstick comedy. In particular the early silent era short film comedies. What I really like about them is the simplicity – says the Danish artist, whose exhibition we presented in 2013.