WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 6
The City of Artists
 (11 October – 9 November 2014)

  • WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 6

So far, the WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION festival has dealt with architecture and its creators, advertising in the public space and participation processes. Now the time has come for the artists.



Warsaw AD 2014 is a focal point of Poland’s artistic life. Here the most important cultural institutions, commercial galleries and culture magazines have their registered offices. Each month several exhibitions are opened, presentations of books, performances, discussions and film screenings take place. Warsaw’s art finds its way onto magazine covers and the capital’s residents have entrenched opinions about it, largely owing to symbolical realizations present in the public space (Joanna Rajkowska’s Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue, Julita Wójcik’s Rainbow). The artists themselves, through their lifestyles, set new trends that become a certain code over time and begin to be copied by the society or its certain groups. Therefore, artists and their art play an important role in emancipation processes.

Visual arts circles trigger numerous discussions devoted to artists’ economic situation and their inclusion into the social insurances system. Gentrification processes and availability of ateliers make up important themes as well.

For the very beginning the WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION has been a festival aimed at describing the city. This year visual artists, whose role in the creation of Warsaw’s image is still being underestimated, will be talking about the city. They were often the pioneers of new urban lifestyles that now attest to the capital's attractiveness.

On 11 September, a month before the opening of the festival, we are publishing descriptions and locations of five exhibitions and an accompanying programme.

The festival has been organised in collaboration with the Museum of Warsaw.
 

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Other archival events from that cycle:

DzieńGodzinaNazwa wydarzeniaMiejsce wydarzenia
Cycle WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 6City of Artists
20:00 Vernissage The Rag-Ball Opening of the WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION Festival Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
ul. Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 37/39, Warsaw
12:00 Excursion Where Does an Academy Student Go?Excursion The Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 5, Warsaw
13:00 Workshops They Teach Art Here. The Atelier FoundationMeeting with the Founders of Atelier Foksal Foksal Atelier
ul. Foksal 11 (II piętro), Warsaw
13:00 Workshops Art’s Natural ResourcesWorkshops for children The Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 5, Warsaw
18:00 Performance It takes more than eyes to be enthralledPerformance actions Workshops at Inżynierska Street
ul. Inżynierska 3, Warsaw
18:00 Meeting Warsaw’s Facilities To AteliersDiscussion about artists' workshops Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Lecture Making UseA meeting as a part of "Artist as an urban being: occurence, habits and policy Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
20:00 Film screening MinoTAur Cinema „The Phantom Carriage” ("Körkarlen") directed by Victor Sjöström Workshops at Inżynierska Street
ul. Inżynierska 3, Warsaw