Open Museum 2011
The program of the Open Museum has been inspired by Oskar Hansen’s concept of Open Form.
We stress the importance of mutual learning to replace traditional hierarchical passing of knowledge. We aim at continuous translation of specialist knowledge into categories understandable for all. Not afraid to assume a role of an amateur, we trespass on closed areas of specialist knowledge, and make them open for the public. It is vital for us to build a common dictionary for professionals from different areas and establish cooperation among them. The Open Museum is a museum of open knowledge.
By invitation of Mirosław Bałka, a new professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the Museum has moved a part of its educational program to the main hall of the Academy located at Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. This cooperation is a challenge for both the young Museum and the changing Academy – it is also an opportunity for tightening relations between young artists and the Museum.
The series organized as part of the second edition of the Open Museum:
Where is the Museum?
The series prepared by Joanna Mytkowska and Sebastian Cichocki is dedicated to methodological and ideological changes that have taken place for the last decades in museums throughout Poland and abroad. The series explains the reasons and the manner of this change and explicates why we need new museums in Poland so badly.
The Conspiracy of Culture
Edwin Bendyk asks his guests why contemporary culture legitimizes neoliberalism. The program includes a debate with Agnieszka Arnold and Witold Orski, the starting point of which is the movie “How It Is?” – a document illustrating the condition of the Polish culture, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as a meeting with Tadeusz Gadacz and Barbara Fatyga.
Mister of Warsaw 50 years later
A series of lectures by young critics and historians of architecture introduces the audience to the major phenomena of Polish architecture and design during the time of communism.
Performative turn
A series of meetings dedicated to relations between theater, dance and visual arts, prepared by Ana Janevski – curator at the Museum and Joanna Warsza — independent curator of theatre and dance.
Ana Janevski – curator at the Museum
Joanna Warsza – independent curator of theater and dance.
Re:Form: Between Cinema and Art
Hosted by Łukasz Ronduda and Kuba Mikurda, Re:Form: Between Cinema and Art is a series of meetings with the most interesting Polish film directors. The series puts attention on the analysis of theoretical and practical aspects of film form – both in its professional or cinema variation and its artistic or avant-garde variation.
After photojournalism
A series of lectures “After Photojournalism”, given by Krzysztof Pijarski, is dedicated to the problem of distance in contemporary photography. During the lectures the audience is introduced to the work of artists who distance themselves from the present, in an attempt to bust the myth of a universal and instant access to the world.
Cut – workshops in Szydłowiec
“Museum/Szydłowiec” is a part of the project “Cut”, to which the Mazovia Center of Culture and Arts invited three large institutions from Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, Political Critique and Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, as well as artists Artur Żmijewski and Paweł Althamer. The most important aspect of the project is the mutual exchange between art animators from the small town of Szydłowiec and the representatives of the “center”. This is to combine the internal and external perspectives in the reflection about the grassroots forms of creativity, which are embedded in the cultural and economic context of Szydłowiec and its vicinity.