Theatrum Magicum

Theatrum Magicum
A movie by Marcin Giżycki and Czarny Karzeł.
Recorded at the theater of the Palace in Ostromecko, Poland.
Cast: Marcin Połoniewicz ( Pan Ząbek), Diana Rönnberg, Kordian Lewandowski, Grzegorz Pleszyński.
Music: Sławomir Szudrowicz, Kordian Lewandowski.
Premiere in 2016-2017.

Photographic documentation behind the scenes by: Kamil Milewski

En lo mas profundo del Norte/ /Deep into the north

             

Terms of falling, D. Rönnberg

     Katarina Pirak Sikku and Liselotte Wajstedt

    Katarina Pirak Sikku

 

Exhibition was part of the IX International Biennial of Art, SIART-Bolivia 2016.
Supported thanks to The Embassy of Sweden in La Paz.

http://www.swedenabroad.com/sv-SE/Ambassader/La-Paz/Aktuellt/Nyheter/Svensk-konst-pa-Biennalen-i-La-Paz-sys/

Participating artists: Valerie Montti Colque, Kristina Müntzing, Victor Lizana, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Diana Rönnberg, Merzedes Sturm-Lie and Liselotte Wajstedt

Curator: Martin Schibli

Venue: Museo Costumbrista Juan de Vargas, c. Apolinar Jaén S/N, La Paz, Bolivia.
 

  

The view on Sweden, from the Swedes themselves, and from others, is
often that it is seen as a rational modern welfare state. And still, the
forest and the nature is for most people very important, not only for
their leisure time. On the contrary, the nature, the forest and the sea
is too many people a place of wellbeing, a sense of a “natural”
belonging. For many people the nature is more defining than culture.

This is probably the reason why many artists in Sweden has taken the
nature as a popular motif, it says something about Swedish people. In
the work of DIANA RÖNNBERG the nature is the scenario for the human
condition, to be in a twilight zone between the rational and the belief
in something bigger. The realization that the modern welfare state in
the end cannot provide the answers for all the existential questions.
This sense that something that is lost in the modern society, is also
stressed in the work of LISELOTT WAJSTEDT _the only one_, there the
artists search for the roots of her grandmothers’ roots. In this case
it is not just the search of the individual, but also for one of the
minorities within Sweden, the Sami Culture.

One might think that Sweden – that has been an important voice for
democratic right around the world - would also be in forefront of
accepting it’s owns minorities. On the contrary, the Sami culture has
for centuries been under pressure from the Swedish State, and the Sami
Language was accepted as an official language in Sweden in year 2000 as
a minority language. Actually there was a paradox in the Swedish 20th
Century at the same time building a welfare state, it also excluded the
Swedish minorities. The Paradox might be due to the ideology of the
welfare state aimed to include people, even if the result was to erase
cultural background. The Sami culture was seen as something exotic –
and important to present in Museum as Swedens cultural history, and at
the same time it was often treated as an obstacle for development. The
works of Katarina PIRAK SIKKU deals with this context in her work, i.e.
how Sami minorities was studied in the early 20th century in what today
is called Racial biology.

However, Sweden is also strongly linked to the global economy, and as
most countries in diversified when it comes to different cultural and
religious background. Today, the globalization which contains of several
parallel processes – and sometimes as a paradox – both have open up
for a new cultural phenomena when people meet from different
backgrounds, like in the work of VALERIA MONTTI COLQUE and KRISTINA
MÜNTZING. Different cultural expressions starts intervening with each
other and they meet in the suburbs and in the social media. At the same
time this could also mean a loss of culture. Or rephrased in other
terms, the identification becomes more from the perspective of the
consumer, especially in a loss of habitat. The newer generation, have
lost the contact with their roots, in replace it by a fast consuming of
products and cultural expressions. It creates new forms of identity
construction, important for the individual, but also often shallow. The
work of VICTOR LIZANA is an example of this strive for identity and
belonging to the consumer society. However, the globalized world offers
also a higher possibilities of new constructions of identities; the
artists MERZEDES STURM LIE has found one in the female version of a
pirate, exploring the world and make its her own.

Martin Schibli

Me, You, We, They/ Let's Get Together!

http://6th.moscowbiennale.ru/?locale=en

http://6th.moscowbiennale.ru/special_parallel_program

Curator: Martin Schibli
Co-curator: Evgeniya Veselova
Artists: Kalle Brolin, Johanna Karlin, Jörgen P. Platser, Diana Rönnberg, Ninia Swerdrup, Daniel Segerberg, Swetlana Heger, Merzedes Sturm-Lie, Alba S. Enström
Venue: GROUND Peschanaja
Address: Novopeschanaya str., 23, buil 7, Sokol metro station
Dates: August 19 –October 16, 2015

HATI HATI HAT - Kraków, Jakarta, Warszawa

HATI HATI HAT (‘hati hati’ – w języku indonezyjskim – ‘uwaga!’)
to projekt, w którym polscy artyści otrzymali po jednym kapeluszu korkowym z Azji Południowo-Wschodniej. Będąc wyraźnym śladem kolonialnych czasów, kapelusze stały się w rękach artystów przedmiotem krytycznego re-designu. Prezentowane w Księgarni | Wystawie są wstępem do projektu, który będzie kontynuowany podczas wystawy “Social Design for Social Living” w Gelerii Narodowej w Dżakarcie (we współpracy z CSW Zamek Ujazdowski w Warszawie). Zaistnieją jako punkt wyjścia do kolejnych aktywności w Indonezji z mieszkańcami, lokalnymi środowiskami aktywistycznymi i twórczymi, które będą relacjonowane podczas trwania wystawy w Krakowie. Budowany w ten sposób kapitał symboliczny stanie się przedmiotem aukcji na stronie internetowej projektu, umożliwiając zbieranie środków na rozwiązanie realnego problemu na terenie Indonezji.
Praca w relacji z Indonezją wpisuje się w wypracowaną przez Fundacje Razem Pamoja dydaktykę współpracy. Współdziałanie między Europą a daleką Indonezją ma na celu poszerzenie horyzontów, uwrażliwienie na kwestie społeczne oraz walkę z postawami egoistycznymi poprzez wspólne tworzenie i opisywanie świata. Nierówności społeczne, szczególnie te wynikające z pozycji zajmowanej na globalnym rynku, są reprodukowane zarówno na poziomie materialnym, jak i dyskursywnym. Kapelusze symbolizujące dawne kolonialne czasy przywołując niesprawiedliwość, mówią jednocześnie o obecnej nierówności ekonomicznej między krajami Globalnej Północy a Globalnego Południa. Dzięki projektowi HATI HATI HAT na polu sztuki nastąpi uświadomienie istniejących zależności poprzez dekonstruowanie symbolu władzy i niesprawiedliwości. Jednocześnie powstanie przestrzeń realnej zmiany społecznej dzięki aukcji, materializującej kapitał wytworzony w symbolicznych gestach odczarowywania.
Projekt jest realizowny przez Justynę Górowską i Adama Grubę, reprezentujących Fundacje Razem Pamoja (we współpracy z Bartoszem Przybył-Ołowski).

ARTYŚCI/ARTISTS:
Paweł Althamer i przyjaciele, Marta Antoniak, Bogusław Bachorczyk, Natalia Bażowska, Filip Berendt, Michalina Bigaj, Rahim Blak, Martyna Borowiecka, Karolina Breguła, Marek Broszkiewicz, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Marek Chlanda, Wojtek Dada, Włodek Dembowski, Monika Drożyńska, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Jarosław Fliciński, Jakub Gliński, Leszek Golec/Tatiana Czekalska, Arti Grabowski, Adam Gruba, Pat Guzik, Małgorzata Goliszewska, Zuza Golińska, Justyna Górowska, Agnieszka Gratza, Zuzanna Janin, Natalia Janus, Marcin Janusz, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Irenka Kalicka, Andrzej Karoń, Iza Koczanowska, Bartosz Kokosiński, Olga Kowalska, Zofia Krawiec/Łukasz Ronduda, Robert Kuśmirowski, Przemysław Kwiek, Gabrysia Lasota, Magdalena Lazar, Diana Lelonek, Zbigniew Libera, Artur Malewski, Małgorzata Markiewicz, Krzysztof Maniak, Bartek Materka, Karolina Mełnicka, Jan Mioduszewski, Indi Orlando, Franciszek Orłowski, Błażej Pindor, Polen Performance, Marek Raczkowski, Diana Ronnberg, Łukasz Roth, Katarzyna Siwczyńska, Aleksandra Ska, Magda Starska, Łukasz Surowiec, Mateusz Szczypiński, Paweł Szeibel, Marika Szewczyk/Kamil Kuitkowski, Stach Szumski, Pan X, Piotr Urbaniec, Joanna Warchał, Xawery Wolski, Alicja Wysocka, Nastia Vorobiova, Ewa Zarzycka, Bartosz Zaskórski/Maciek Cholewa i przyjaciele.

HATI HATI HAT (hati hati in Indonesian attention!) is a project in which Polish artists received one South-East Asian pith helmet each. The distinct trace of colonial times will now become in the hands of the artists a piece of critical re-design. Thus created hats, as part of the exhibition Social Design for Social Livingat the National Gallery in Jakarta (in cooperation with Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw), will make their appearance as a mere starting point for subsequent activities in the context of post-colonial social and economic inequality. During the exhibition selected hats will turn into a piece of interaction with the residents of Jakarta in a common performance, search for meaning and magical deconstruction of negative aspects of reality. Thus fashioned symbolic capital will become an auction piece, available on the project’s web-site, providing funds to solve an actual problem in Indonesia. Work related to Indonesia corresponds to the pedagogy of cooperation elaborated by the Razem Pamoja Foundation. Cooperation between Europe and distant Indonesia aims to broaden horizons, sensitise to social issues and combat egoism through common creation and description of the world. Social equalities, in particular, stemming from the position on the global market, are reproduced as much on the material as on the discursive level. Hats as symbols of former colonial times invoke injustice, simultaneously speaking of the present economic inequality between the countries of the Global North and the Global South. Thanks to the HATI HATI HAT project, the art field will be made aware of the existing dependencies through a deconstruction of the symbol of power and injustice. Simultaneously, a space of actual social change will emerge through the auction to materialise the capital created in symbolic gestures of disenchantment.
The project is realized by Justyna Górowska and Adam Gruba, representatives of the Razem Pamoja Foundation (in cooperation with Bartosz Przybył-Ołowski).


http://www.hatihatihat.com/


https://zacheta.art.pl/pl/kalendarz/aukcja-hati-hati-hat-na-letnim-trasie-miejsca-projektow-zach