Bródno Sculpture Park. Chapter 9
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    Recreation of Paweł Althamer's "The Garden of Eden", May 2017, photo by Sebastian Cichocki

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw invites you to the 9th edition of the Bródno Sculpture Park.

The 9th edition of the Bródno Sculpture Park is a “repeat” of museum materials. We review the 8 previous editions of the exhibition, revisiting our dear old friends: artists, works, realized and unrealized concepts. This year’s edition also includes preparations and cleanup before the jubilee 10th edition of the project.

The program for the 9th chapter of the Bródno Sculpture Park launches on 24 May and lasts until 30 September 2017, when the cast of the work Mieszczenie z Bródna (Location from Bródno), executed at the Polish Sculpture Centre in Orońsko, will be installed. The design for the sculpture was worked on last year by various groups of Bródno residents: athletes, local officials, parishioners, artists, refugees….

This year’s program includes initiatives helping stakeholders get to know one another better—museum staff, local audiences, tourists, recreational users of Park Bródnowski—and critical reflection on the functioning of the sculpture park here on the east side of the Vistula. This will include hikes from the Museum on the Vistula (in the Powiśle district) to the Bródno Sculpture Park, inspired by Situationist dérives (“drifts”); social consultations in the form of picnics; a flying university of art landing at community centres, libraries, prisons; and visits by artists who realized their works in previous editions (such as Monika Sosnowska, Katarzyny Przezwańska and Paweł Althamer).

A “re-enactment” group will also function at the park, recreating works of art from the 20th and 21st centuries instead of historical battles. This is art history in practice, drawing for example from the artistic resources of the “instructions” from the Museum of Arte Útil compiled by the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera.

Another feature of the program will be conservation and research on the works collected in the park. A new site for the Bródno Sculpture Park will be launched soon, gathering together texts, maps, photographic documentation, audio descriptions and educational materials about all of the previous editions of this exhibition of contemporary art as it has grown from each year to the next.

The Bródno Sculpture Park was launched in 2009 as a joint initiative of the artist Paweł Althamer, the Targówek District, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The park functions as an evolving exhibition of contemporary art, presented outdoors and accessible to visitors 24 hours a day.
 

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Exhibition and other archival events connected:

DzieńGodzinaNazwa wydarzeniaMiejsce wydarzenia
17:00 Meeting WHERE WILL THE BURGHERS OF BRÓDNO STAND?Meeting Bródno Sculpture Park
Kondratowicza/Chodecka, Warsaw
12:00 Meeting RECONSTRUCTION GROUPMeeting no. 1 MUSEUM on the Vistula
Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 22 (Skwer Kpt. S. Skibniewskiego "Cubryny"), Warsaw
12:00 Walk DRIFT FOR STUDENTS OF THE RUDZIENKO YOUTH SOCIO-THERAPY CENTER Bródno Sculpture Park
Kondratowicza/Chodecka, Warsaw
18:00 Lecture FLYING UNIVERSITY AT THE SCULPTURE PARKTeahouse Park Rzeźby na Bródnie, Domek herbaciany
Kondratowicza/Chodecka, Warsaw
10:30 Lecture THE AVANT-GARDE AT THE REMAND CENTER Remand Centre Warszawa-Grochów
Chłopickiego 71a, Warsaw
18:00 Lecture FLYING UNIVERSITY AT THE SCULPTURE PARK. EARTH WORKSGrating Bródno Sculpture Park
Kondratowicza/Chodecka, Warsaw
12:00 Walk EARTH MOVEMENTS, OR, WHY ARE SIDEWALKS IN BRÓDNO CRUMBLING?A geological drift with Katarzyna Przezwańska Bródno Sculpture Park
Kondratowicza/Chodecka, Warsaw
18:00 Lecture FLYING UNIVERSITY AT THE SCULPTURE PARK. EARTH WORKSLecture and reconstructions Bródno Sculpture Park
Kondratowicza/Chodecka, Warsaw
11:00 Workshops A PICNIC IN BRÓDNOguided walk and workshops for children Bródno Park
Kondratowicza/Chodecka, Warsaw