EXHIBITIONS 2015
THE NEW YEAR’S SUMMARIES
The end of the year is the perfect time to stop and make a top ten list. The year provided many projects. The huge family of Contemporary Lynx comes from 155 countries and speaks in over 139 languages and we all need art everyday!
Xs ON THE LIPS
After the great retrospectives of Hamilton (2014) Lichtenstein (2013) and Hirst (2012), this year, we have been granted a presentation of artists who are largely outside the mainstream, at least as far as London’s perspective is concerned.
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ. EXPERIENCING THE ORGANIC
The show gathers artists from all around the world. The centrepiece of the exhibition belongs undoubtedly to the master of contemporary textiles – Magdalena Abakanowicz.
ELEKTRO MOON VISION AND TADEUSZ KANTOR
The Polish-Hungarian duo, Elektro Moon Vision, creates innovative visual art based on digital technologies. Their latest project is being exhibited in the Platan Gallery in Budapest.
KANTOR’S RETURN: MARC GLÖDE ON HIS EXHIBTION ‘INBETWEEN STRUCTURES’
2015 is the Year of Tadeusz Kantor and the artist and master of theatre have come as far as Edinburgh, taking part in the Fringe Festival’s Summerhall exhibition Inbetween Structures.
THE TIGHTNESS OF THE EARTH
The memory of home remains forever, the location of bed, the kitchen and the garden bench…; someone’s smile, gesture, a person who leaves a deep mark in us; a seemingly banal memory form an ordinary day at school…
FEMALE PERCEPTIONS AND EMBODIED IDENTITIES: THEM IN BERLIN
Dismembered, deconstructed, dissolved, constrained, fractured, mechanised, isolated. Does not sound appealing, does it? But THEM, a group show bringing together over dozen works…
CITIZENS OF THE WORLD
Dobrila Denegri talks about her relation to Polish art and the latest exhibition at the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun entitled “Act or Perish” – Gustav Metzger’s retrospective – the first extensive overview of the oeuvre…
IS GLOBAL CULTURE A DAY DREAMING? ‘STATE OF LIFE’ – CONTEMPORARY ART IN BEIJING
The National Art Museum of China in Beijing recently held an exhibition entitled ‘The State of Life’, show of Polish art after the year 1989
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ: BAMBINI
‘When examining man, I am in fact examining myself… My forms are the skins I strip off myself one by one, marking the milestones along my road. Each time they belong so much to me and I belong to them (…)’
PROCESS AND ART. OSKAR HANSEN AND HIS CONCEPT OF VARIABLE ARCHITECTURE
Oskar Hansen, along with his team including Svein Hatloy, Barbara Cybulska, and Lars Fasting, took part in a competition for the design for a building to house the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje.
ARE POLES AND SLOVAKS BROTHERS?
Agnieszka Jankowska-Marzec in conversation with Andrzej Szczerski, curator of exhibition: The SLOVAK-POLISH Union.
On November 27th an exhibition featuring…
