The “Migracje/Migration” exhibition was my first experience taking the lead as a curator. This opportunity was all thanks to the talented festival organiser Caroline Conway and the Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival, Ireland. I had a fantastic experience in Birr during the festivals 2021 edition while working on the “Empty Columns Are A Place
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During the 54th Vintage Week & Arts Festival in Ireland, the exhibition “Migration/Migration” took place. As curator, I invited 13 artists from different countries to participate. Each of them made a collage on the theme of migration and shared their migration experience. The exhibition was accompanied by a workshop that I prepared and conducted with
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I am very happy that I can finally share it with you! And show you my collage! I was delighted to be invited by the artist Andrzej Pągowski to contribute alongside other talented artists to the 11th edition of the Gedeon Richter Artistic Calendar. The outstanding theme for the year was “Women’s energy”, and I
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The workshop took place in one of the antique shops in Warsaw’s Praga-Północ district (November 2021). I was happy because it was fully booked! Thank you to all the participants! It was a collage free style!
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Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival 2021 This story begins in Emmet Square, Birr, Co.Offaly, Ireland. In the centre of this town stands an empty column which was once occupied by the statue of a conqueror, the Duke of Cumberland. Since its construction in 1746 this statue served as a warning against rebellion to the
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“Brama Cafe” (“Gate Cafe”) is Praga’s first fantasy soap opera, produced by the “Praga” Culture Centre in Warsaw thanks to a grant from the National Centre for Culture. The series (7 episodes available on YOUTUBE) tells the story of the mobilisation of the inhabitants of an old tenement house in the face of impending threats:
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European Clown Festival A project to popularize the idea of a new circus in Praga-Północ (a district in Warsaw), referring to the “Sto Pociech” funfair that existed in Praga Park before the war and was bombed in 1939. INVISION OF THE CLOWNS is a festival prepared in advance at workshops with residents, consisting of small
“The Enchanted Worlds of Marta Janik” is the title of an article written by Christopher Visconti for Deutsche Welle in 2018. I remember being outraged at these enchanted worlds and the cities I designed, whose streets would be strolled by zebras…. Today I am no longer so outraged. So here I am posting, in memory.
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On September 5, 2015, a unique event took place. All those who oppose the alleged greyness of Krakow’s youngest district took part in the “Nowa Huta WONDERLAND” action. On the initiative of the “Łaźnia Nowa” theater, something unique was created. Magdalena Miklasz was the director of the whole thing and the day was full of
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Tadeusz Konwicki passed away on January 7, 2015. Here is a text-memoir that was written after hearing this sad news. I just learned that Tadeusz Konwicki is dead. My favorite writer. And I don’t think I can describe what I felt when I read his books. To this day I remember a lot of sentences:“I
I talked about kitsch with Professor Jerzy Jarzębski, a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University, a critic and historian of literature, an outstanding expert on the works of Witold Gombrowicz, Stanisław Lem and Bruno Schulz. He is the author of the text “Gombrowicz’s love affair with kitsch (kitsch is in us).” Here are excerpts from that
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I had the opportunity to meet Neil Gaiman in 2010. I was delighted. I am posting this short conversation below. I don’t want to forget it. Do you think pop culture is the kind of bag into which we can throw whatever we want and mix it up?Neil Gaiman: I am always very suspicious of
