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review View of the exhibition "Kantor. Vision Therapy" at Cricoteka. Photo by Szymon Sokołowski

Who Gets to Decide What We Preserve? Single-Artist Museums Rethink the Artist-as-Genius Myth at Cricoteka in Krakow

Along the Vistula River in the historic part of Krakow, over a surprisingly sunny two days in October, an international group of scholars, artists, art historians, curators, critics, and more gathered at the contemporarily designed Cricoteka to try to untangle and deconstruct the ever-pervasive myth of the artist as genius against the past, present, and future of the single-artist museum.

Joanna Pottle Oct 15, 2026
Interview Luísa Bacelar, Wisdom Tooth, view of the projection at Kinomural Festival 2026. Photo by Jerzy Wypuch

When Cleaning Becomes an Obsessive Ritual. In Conversation with Luísa Bacelar

A woman tries to get through her daily routine, but she cannot leave the bathroom — this is the basic premise of Luísa Bacelar’s unsettling hand-drawn animated short Wisdom Tooth, in which cleaning becomes an obsessive ritual and a mirror for the protagonist’s anxious thoughts.

Sophia Kalinowska-Werter Oct 14, 2026
Interview Agnieszka Mastalerz, The Props Assist the House, exhibition view at Villa Torlonia in Rome. Photo by Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio

“I don't want to reach for tools simply because they're trendy.” In Conversation with Agnieszka Mastalerz

For the Warsaw-based artist, bodies are human and non-human, individual and collective, merging with computers and machines. In no mental scars, no nursed grudges, organic execution is partnered with learned computer programming, as an anthropomorphic robot performs a similar choreography to the dancers, yet memorises it through a different method.

Maggie Kuzan Oct 13, 2026


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