Open Museum 2013/2014

  • Open Museum 2013/2014

The Open Museum is a programme of lectures, workshops, meetings and screenings organised by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

The agenda of the Open Museum has been inspired by the Open Form theory by Oskar Hansen. In the same spirit, we focus on the process of collective learning which replaces the hierarchical model of knowledge transfer. We are also inspired by the Hansenian negation of the primacy of professionals, the continuous strive to translate their knowledge into commonly understood categories. We are not afraid to get inside the reserved “black boxes” of professional expertise, merely as a “public amateur”, and dismantle them on behalf of our audiences. Another important thing is to build a common vocabulary for professionals from various areas and cooperation among them. The Open Museum is a museum open towards knowledge.

Our Autumn/Winter edition of the Open Museum is almost entirely devoted to the exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, entitled "In the Heart of the Country”. Works presented in the exhibition constitute a multi-layered story about how contemporary art comments on and accompanies the modern times, trying to describe and cope with them. While communicating, these works create narratives and thematic axes which infiltrate one another: complement or criticise one another. Every new interpretation has a potential to broaden this area: making it more complicated or consistent, in response to the questions raised by the collection: When does the present become history? How to describe the past in order not to lose track of its timeless potential? How to preserve an active attitude both towards the past and the present, in order to be able to shape and comprehend them in a conscious manner?

Therefore, first of all: the WORKS, secondly: the NARRATIVES, and thirdly: TIMELINESS.
 

See also:

Archival Events from that cycle:

DzieńGodzinaNazwa wydarzeniaMiejsce wydarzenia
18:00 Lecture Exercises in timelinessLecture by prof. Terry Smith
In cycle „Timeliness”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Meeting Narration: Points of ViewPolitics of institutions – politics of art Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Lecture Works. Everything you wanted to know about...\"Gramophone\" by Wojciech Bruszewski Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
17:00 Lecture Political or social? (Marxism-related problems in art history)Prof. Andrzej Turowski
In cycle „Marxism and Art”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Meeting Narration: Points of ViewLove, capitalism, art – Madame Bovary today Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Lecture Exercises in timeliness\"Before\" and \"after\"?
In cycle „Timeliness”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Meeting Works. Everything you wanted to know about...Ruth Ewan Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
17:00 Lecture Karl Marx as a poet of modernityProf. Agata Bielik-Robson
In cycle „Marxism and Art”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Lecture After the New InstitutionalismAlex Farquharson
In cycle „The landscape of Art after the New Institutionalism”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Meeting How to make art with the history of cinema?Meeting with Philippe-Alain Michaud
In cycle „Narration: Points of View”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
17:00 Lecture The unbearable durability of the aura. Benjamin’s attempt at Marxist aesthetics reconsidered Prof. Adam Lipszyc
In cycle „Marxism and Art”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Meeting Narration: Points of ViewLecture by Rosalyn Deutsche Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Meeting Exercises in timelinessAttention à la Peinture!
In cycle „Timeliness”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Meeting Exercises in timelinessDieter Roelstraete talks with Goshka Macuga
In cycle „Timeliness”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Meeting After the New InstitutionalismMeeting with James Lingwood
In cycle „The landscape of Art after the New Institutionalism”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
18:00 Meeting Photography: The Art of IncertitudeMeeting with Régis Durand
In cycle „Narration: Points of View”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
17:00 Lecture Marxist Totalität - György Lukács and the Budapest SchoolDr Magdalena Radomska
In cycle „Marxism and Art”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
17:15 Lecture Strzemiński and MarxismLecture by Luiza Nader
In cycle „Marxism and Art”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Small Auditorium
Pańska 3, Warsaw
17:00 Lecture Differentiating the Canon. Feminism, Marxism and Psychoanalysis in the Theory of Art by Griselda PollockLecture by Ewa Majewska
In cycle „Marxism and Art”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Small Auditorium
Pańska 3, Warsaw
19:00 Lecture After the new institutionalismGrizedale Arts
In cycle „The landscape of Art after the New Institutionalism”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Small Auditorium
Pańska 3, Warsaw
17:00 Lecture Stefan Morawski – constitution of one’s own philosophical subjectivityLecture by Prof. Zofia Rosińska
In cycle „Marxism and Art”
Old BUW
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, S. 108, Warsaw
18:00 Lecture Death and Rebirth of (Outsider) ArtLecture by James Brett
In cycle „The landscape of Art after the New Institutionalism”
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Emilia Pavilion
ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw