Nature is my Homeland

NATURE IS MY HOMELAND

Nature is my Homeland – creative activities (drawing, installation, graphics, intermedia activities) focused on the concept of an ancient homeland which is nature, based on cultural anthropology, art history, and natural sciences. During workshops, meetings and lectures, artists and scientists will analyze models of human contact with nature and their reflection in art. The search for analogies between historical and contemporary understanding of nature in Polish, Serbian, German and American culture will play an important role.

The creators will reflect on important contemporary questions: Is nature transnational and do ethnic maps coincide with biotopes? Are the plants political? Can you outline inspirational parallels between processes? occurring in the plant world and society? What is the migration and colonization of living organisms in the context of urban development? Does Nature look at history indifferently? What is the imaginary of our culture in the context of the schematization of the perception of Nature? Can Art save the Earth?

Project is holding international: WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS with participation of specialists, artists, pedagogues and students from Krakow, Trier, Tuscaloosa, Belgrade; EXHIBITIONS, SYMPOSIUM involving participants from Poland, Germany, Serbia, United States of America and from other countries and PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHY.

We have invited the following artists to get involved in our exhibitions and publications:

The Elements

Artists from Serbia: Marija Andjelković, Radoš Antonijević, Adam Pantić, Milivoj Pavlović, Simonida Rajčević, Svetlana Volic, Katarina Zarić

Artists from Krakow: Marlena Biczak, Kacper Bożek, Marta Bożyk, Bartłomiej Chwilczyński, Paweł Krzywdziak, Piotr Panasiewicz, Marian Surzycki, Tomasz Winiarski

The Vistula is Burning

Zuza Banasińska, Michalina Bigaj, Luka Cvetković, Davor Gromilović, Lea Gudrich, Mario Kolaric i Emilja Radojčić, Magdalena Lazar, Tijana Petrović, Katarzyna Skrobiszewska, Johannes Vogl

Waste / Death

Group 13: Joanna Adamusiak, Agnieszka Berezowska, Marta Bożyk, Agnieszka Dobosz, Julia Jarża, Elżbieta Kwasek, Małgorzata Malwina Niespodziewana, Katarzyna Niżegorodcew, Anna Sadowska, Aleksandra Miksztal, Weronika Szmuc, Joanna Wysocka-Panasiewicz

The exhibition concluding the project

Photographs by artists: Edyta Dufaj, Svetlana Volic, Natalia Wiernik, Karol Pałka

Project events

• 28/06/2019 – 04/07/2019 – Workshop 1: international workshops for students in Podhale; students from Poland, Germany, Serbia and the USA
• 23-29/09/2019 – Workshop 2 for artists and educators: The Elements in Belgrad
• 20-26/10/2019 – Workshop 3 for artists and educators: The Elements In Krakow
• 20-25/07/2020 – Workshop 4: international online workshops for students: Green Guerillaz City Activists
• 21/10/2020 – 03/11/2020 – Exhibition in the Cracovia Hotel in Krakow: The Vistula is Burning
• September 2020 – Exhibition: The Elements in Belgrad and in Krakow
• July 2020 – Production of the film, interviews with naturalists and artists
•  08-29/09/ 2020 – Exhibition: Waste / Death by Group 13
• 22-27/03/2021 – Exhibition concluding the project, the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
• April 2021 – Workshop 5 for students of the Graphics Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow

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