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The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
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Vive la revolution surrealiste!
Open Collage Workshop with Bożka Rydlewska
Age group and language
This event is open to everyone and recommended for ages 12 and up. Join us anytime!
Location
Auditorium
Admission
Free admission thanks to cooperation with Audi
Leonora Carrington, "Noah's Ark," 1969
Oil on canvas. Private collection. © ADAGP, Paris / ZAIKS, Warsaw.
In the mood for some creative rebellion? Come on July 11 between 12:00 and 15:00 to the Auditorium of the Museum of Modern Art for an open collage workshop accompanying the new exhibition “You Are at the Heart of Change. Surrealism and Anti-Fascism”!
The event is open to everyone—we welcome teens, adults, and children under the watchful eye of their parents. Join us at any time. Together, we’ll create collages, put together a giant zine, and play the surrealists’ favorite game!
Instead of learning rigid rules, we’ll use art to take action. The historical Surrealists strongly believed in the slogan “changer la vie”—which simply means “to change life.” They rejected boring rules and looked at the world from a completely new perspective. During our workshop, we’ll do exactly the same thing! We’ll explore the revolutionary side of surrealism, let our rebellious imaginations run wild, and create our own manifestos.
What will we be doing?
Together with artist Bożka Rydlewska, we’ll encourage you to create your own collage manifesto. In the Auditorium space, we’ve set up three main creative stations for you:
- Your own manifesto: We’ll create collages about issues that are truly important to you. Ecology, social issues, politics—or perhaps pure, humorous fantasy? It’s all up to you!
- A collective zine: We’ll compile our manifestos into one big zine, which we’ll put together and create as a group during the workshop.
- A game of “The Exquisite Corpse”: We’ll try out the Surrealists’ most famous parlor game! Each person will draw their own element on a long sheet of paper, without seeing exactly what the person before them drew. In this way, from our collective drawings—right after we unroll the paper scroll—a mysterious figure will emerge: the true Spirit of the New Surrealist Revolution!
Bożka Rydlewska
Bożka Rydlewska – visual artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, surrealist. She also studied at Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk in Gothenburg. She explores the fields of graphic art, illustration, and collage. In her work, she readily draws on the traditions of surrealist imagery, as well as botany and literature. She also creates paper sculptures, drawing inspiration from pop-up book techniques. She has shown her work at numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad (including at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Trafostacja Sztuki in Szczecin, the Illustrative Festival in Berlin, Wanted Design in New York, and Landmark North in Hong Kong). She has been teaching art for several years. She designs and leads her own workshops for numerous cultural institutions, foundations, and associations throughout Poland (she has collaborated with, among others, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Warsaw Uprising Museum, the Ars Cameralis Cultural Institution, the HumanDoc Foundation, and the Mindset Institute). During her classes, she encourages participants to view the world and their own lives through the lens of the soul, art, intuition, and imagination.
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