Miejsce
Galeria Labirynt – Plaza Shopping Centre, Lipowa 13 (entry from Ofiary Katynia Street)
19:00-0:00 opening of the exhibition “No painting taken” by Małgorzata Pawlak
20:20 – 22:30 Performance Art Meetings
Galeria Labirynt ks. J. Popiełuszki 5
19:00-0:00 – “Close your eyes!” – an exhibition for children
19:00-0:00 – “Uporczywe upodobanie”// Unwavering Predilection
“No painting Taken”
Małgorzata Pawlak (b. 1991) is last year’s graduate of Painting at Maria Curie Skłodowska’s Faculty of Arts. “No painting taken” is her first individual exhibition, at which she’s presenting her most recent works created in the years 2015-2017. Her works are a reflection on the significance of painting and being a painter. The artist experiments with forms, producing non-banal solutions to traditional painting issues, such as colour, light or texture.
Performance Art Meetings
intimate meetings with performance that feature renowned artists and beginners who experiment and look for new forms. On Night of Culture, we will see members of Labirynt Gallery Performance Art Studio. The Studio is an experiment outside academic structures. It was established by Waldemar Tatarczuk and is completely nonformal. The Studio mainly work in the public space. The students who work with PAS realise ephemeral actions and video performances. The actions will begin at 20:20 in front of the Gallery in Plaza Shopping Centre and will head towards the Old Town
Close your eyes!
Basia Bańda and Tomasz Relewicz, Monika Drożyńska, Zuza Golińska, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Zofia Kiciński, Karolina Mełnicka, Magdalena Starska
Curators: Anna Szary, Agata Sztorc
The works on display have been designed specifically for “Close your eyes!” The works were created with children in mind. They encourage to use all senses in appreciating art and draw our attention to the power of imagination that comes alive when we close our eyes. We close our eyes when we sleep but we can also close them when we want to escape reality and teleport to the land of dreams where anything is possible. The exhibition is accompanied by an educational programme for organised groups and individual visitors. We also have exercise books available on site. They are a guide around the exhibition.
Unwavering Predilection // Uporczywe upodobanie
Mirosław Bałka, Wojciech Bąkowski, Monika Zadurska-Bielak, Tomasz Bielak, Olaf Brzeski, Barbara Formella, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Katarzyna Kozyra, Zuza Krajewska, Robert Kuśmirowski, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Diana Lelonek, Jacek Malinowski, Tomasz Mróz, Aleksandra Ska, Karolina Żyniewicz
Curators: Paulina Kempisty, Aleksandra Skrabek
Unwavering Predilection is an exhibition inspired by the phrase “delecatio morosa” drawn from medieval scholastics that refers to the temptation of sin. The reinterpreted phrase has become a point of reference for works of contemporary Polish artists. Saint Thomas of Aquinas in the 12th volume of Summa Theologica entitled “On flaws and sins” analysed the origins of sinful thoughts and how the mind and extra-intellectual factors contribute to them. In Polish, “delectatio morosa” is translated as “thoughts halting on forbidden pleasure”. What shape such an unclear, sinful thought can take, how can it become reality?