BOYS AND GIRLS
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, POLAND
17th February - 4th April 2004
Exhibition Opening: 16th February, 19.00
curator: Magda Kardasz
Art is one of the most individual human activities.
Paradoxically it can
also be created by a pair or a group of people who
manage to find a way to
produce a common work of art or artistic event. Over
recent years, a wave
of groups of women or girls working together has
emerged, reversing the
previous male dominance of this phenomenon. This
simple observation
triggered the idea for an exhibition that would be a
review of men's and
women's artistic groups, an exhibition that would pose
the question of the
similarities and differences of their approaches
towards art. A
significant part of this project will be the live
performances at the
opening night. Thirteen extremely interesting artistic
groups, invited for
this exhibition deal in a more or less direct way with
challenging
prevailing social cliches of thought on the theme of
"what is typically
female or male". The field of curatorial search for
participants was on
sample - the northern Europe. Therefore invited groups
come from Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Germany, Norway,
Poland and Russia
consist of young and very young artists whose work
constitutes a
commentary of the contemporary. Another factor linking
these groups is
sense of humour visible in their works and that their
favourite medium is
performance or simply - artistic action. The
exhibition "Boys and Girls"
however is not just recording of life events that will
be on view, but
also films, photographs and objects created by members
of the following
artistic groups:
1) Supergroup AZORRO: Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz,
Wojtek Niedzielko and
Lukasz Skapski (Poland)
2) BLIZGE: Zilvinas Landzbergas, Rokas Petruskevicius
and Mindaugas
Lukosaitis (Lithuania)
3) The Factory of Found Clothes from St. Petersburg
(Natalia
Pershina-Yakimanskaya (Gluklya) and Olga Egorova
(Tsaplya)
4) GRZENDA: Ewa Szczyrek, Malgorzata Markiewicz and
Karolina Kowalska
(Poland)
5) The Icelandic Love Corporation: Sigrun
Hrolfsdottir, Joni Jonsdottir
and Eirun -Sigurdardottir (Reykjavik)
6) kebbelife: Vanessa Baird and Mette Hellenes
(Norway)
7) Frank Luesing (Hamburg) and Oliver Kochta
(currently Helsinki)
8) Frank Luesing and Aleksander Rischer as Cardiophon
(Hamburg)
9) Parfyme: Pelle Bragge Anderson and Ebbe Dam
Meinhild (Denmark)
10) rasmus knud: Sebastian Schiorring and Johannes
Christoffersen
(Denmark)
11) Share Joy (or Sheer Joy - Estonia): Piret Rani,
Anu Vahtra, Ivika Kivi
and others
12) VOUKKOSET (Finland): in the reduced line-up:
Tallervo Kaleinen and
Niina Braun
13) Lone Bank, Christina Malbek and Tanja Rau
(Denmark).
The exhibition "Boys and Girls" will be accompanied by
the catalogue
including a questionnaire for the artists prepared by
the curator, as well
as documentation of the live performances taken place
at the opening
night.
We acknowledge thanks to the Patron of Zacheta
Gallery: BRE BANK S.A.,
ZACHETA NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
pl. Malachowskiego 3
00-916 Warsaw, Poland
tel. (48) (22) 827 69 13
fax. (48) (22) 827 78 86
Press Spokesman Klaudia Madejska, (+48) 603 510 112,
press@???
Gallery Hours
Tuesdays - Sundays 12 noon - 8 pm
free Thursdays
http://www.zacheta.art.pl
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