Collection in action

Education space for kids

01.06–31.08.2015

The Museum is open

Place

“Collection in action” is the Museum’s first attempt to create an education space for kids based on a collection of contemporary art.

The selection of works and their display was a result of our educators’ observations and experience gathered during previous shows featuring the Museum’s permanent collection: “In the Heart of the Country” and “In the Near Future.”

For the Museum, it’s a chance to sum up the educational activities that have been conducted since 2013, but it is also an opportunity to welcome a new audience, one that is yet to be introduced to contemporary art. The exhibition is an invitation to learn about works of art made by contemporary artists — films, sculptures and installations presented in an interactive space, where gaining knowledge about art is fun.

“Collection in action” is mainly addressed to three groups of our visitors: the youngest guests of the Museum (kids aged 3–6); young visitors, usually coming to the Museum during school trips (kids aged 7–12); and their adult caregivers (encouraged to actively engage in education activities with children).

The education program is realized within the framework of the Ministry of Culture and National Hertitage’s program “Kultura Dostępna.”

The works presented are either from the Museum’s collection, the Filmoteka archives, or have been lent from artists.

CURATED BY

Francis Alÿs

"Sleepers", 2011, 80 35 mm slide carousel projection, format: variable (collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw)

Wojciech Bąkowski

"I See Things That Are Not There", 2009, sound installation, 280x280x240 cm (collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw)

Piotr Bosacki

"The Grim Reaper", 2008, video BETA SP, duration: 2'50'' (Filmoteka Muzeum)

Oskar Dawicki

"Snowman of Quotes", 2008, installation: snow, engraved metal buttons, freezer, format: 200x80x70 (collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw)

Ruth Ewan

"We Could Have Been Everything That We Wanted to Be", 2011, metric clockwork, steel, plexiglas, format: diameter 100 cm, depth 31 cm, (collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw)

Yona Friedman

"Iconostase (Protenic Structure – Space Chain)", 2010, installation, format: variable (collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw)

Wiktor Gutt & Waldemar Raniszewski

"Grand Conversation", 1976, video HD, duration: 1'33'' (Fimoteka Muzeum)

Oskar Hansen

objects from the "W kręgu Formy Otwartej" exhibition at the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, exposition copy, own technique, 1986 / 2014, format: variable