Polski information about the gallery exhibitions events education bookshop documentation and library collection press corporate support and events support Zachęta announcements BIP partners newsletter privacy policy search Zachęta – Narodowa Galeria Sztuki pl. Małachowskiego 3 00-916 Warszawa tel. 22 556 96 00 fax 22 827 78 86 korzystanie z serwisu oznacza akceptację > polityki prywatności concept kulczynski.net VIEWS 2015 For the seventh time Deutsche Bank Polska, and Zachęta – National Gallery of Art are happy to announce the “Views 2015 – Deutsche Bank Award” competition exhibition presenting the most interesting young, but already established, Polish artists. nominees: Alicja Bielawska, Ada Karczmarczyk, Piotr Łakomy, Agnieszka Piksa, Iza Tarasewicz opening of the exhibition: 7th September 2015 at 7 p.m. 08.09 - 15.11 GARDENS The genesis of the “Gardens” exhibition lies in the educational activities of the Zachęta, which opens art to people whose contact with it may be restricted, either for social reasons or those of, for example, eyesight or hearing. It was born on an impulse, thinking about how art can influence the viewer. This exhibition has been put together for all art lovers willing to abandon traditional ways of seeing. Come inside, close your eyes and open your ears... 15.08 - 04.10 ENDLESS REGISTER. IMAGES AND THEIR MUSICAL INTERPRETATIONS A presentation at the Zachęta workshop room recapitulates project Musical Images in which students of one of Warsaw’s secondary schools participated throughout the school year as part of an individually. The meetings at Zachęta provided an opportunity to become familiar with new instrumental techniques, contemporary composers and musical literaturę in confrontation with art history and contemporary art works. Paintings from the Zachęta collection served as examples for discussing concepts such as rhythm, texture, word, time or interpretation, and for analysing their significance in the context of the visual arts and music. Every meeting culminated in the participants’ recording their own pieces; collected in an audio catalogue, they constitute a gallery of musical interpretations of works from the Zachęta collection. 19.09 - 27.09 KAROLINA GRZYWNOWICZ. THE WEEDS We would love to invite you to the opening of the exhibition on Friday, September 4, at 7 p.m. During the opening Paul Szamburski will play the concert. Zachęta Project Room ul. Gałczyńskiego 3 “The Weeds” is a project about plants that form a unique record of political and social history. They can be encountered in places where Poland’s most densely populated villages once used to be. Now several dozen years after these people deserted the area, the plants have become an evergreen and ineradicable mark of human presence. 05.09 - 31.10 COMPETITION FOR THE CURATORIAL PROJECT FOR AN EXHIBITION IN THE POLISH PAVILION AT THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION IN VENICE IN 2016 The Minister of Culture and National Heritage and Zachęta – National Gallery of Art announce a competition for the curatorial project for the exhibition in the Polish Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 2016, whose Curatorial Director is Alejandro Aravena. A part of the project is the defining of an original theme of the exhibition, along with its justification. The project should take into account issues relevant to the contemporary situation of architecture, in both its local (Polish) and global dimensions. HALKA/HAITI 18°48’05”N 72°23’01”W C.T. JASPER & JOANNA MALINOWSKA The Polish Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia The Polish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale will have the pleasure of presenting a panoramic film projection of the opera Halka by Stanisław Moniuszko, as it was staged in February for the inhabitants of Cazale, a village situated in the mountains of Haiti. The winners of this year’s contest for the official Polish representation in Venice, artists C.T. Jasper and Joanna Malinowska and curator Magdalena Moskalewicz, decided to stage the opera in Haiti inspired by the mad plan of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, who wanted to build an opera house in the Amazon. Fascinated by Fitzcarraldo’s faith in the universal power of opera, but not uncritical of the colonizing aspect of his actions, they decided to reveal and undercut its romanticism by confronting a set of very specific geographic, historical, and sociopolitical realities. 09.05 - 22.11