Claudia Rößger
My best friends
11.09.2008 – 11.10.2008
The latest project of Claudia Rößger, a graduate of the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts, is a series of over ten unusual portraits. The exhibition's title refers directly to them. "My paintings are my best friends. I never paint portraits depicting real people. They are always imagined, but they represent situations, feelings or dreams. They are my partners; they embody a part of me. Technically speaking I base the paintings on a collection growing in my head of forms which I observe around me. When I work on a painting creating a person I really work with forms which have previously inspired me". This might be a Russian babushka, an astronaut's or Mickey Mouse's suit. Her works do not even try to give the impression of being finished pieces, and often consciously break the undoubted technical skills of the artist. The small format preferred by her additionally underlines the strategy of searching and not making definite statements. More
Halina Kliem
you don't want to become too personal here
13.06.2008 – 28.06.2008
The ‘Real World’ cycle is a chronicle of a journey through the every day life of a fictional artist. Her ‘real world’ is filled with problems and obstacles. Her everyday life reminds us of mental hurdles. However, when she is recounting the difficulties in key areas of her life she manages to maintain an auto-ironic distance and sense of humour. Her journal is intelligent and funny. More
Marcin Przybyłko
Approximately
8.05.2008 – 7.06.2008
The cycle „Approximately” consists of 15 photographs covered by transparent plexiglass. Each photograph is a fragment cropped from an original enlarged several times. The photographs’ protagonists and landscapes in which they were immortalized are barely - but still - recognisable. Przybyłko gets to the foreground the secret life of strangers from the backgrounds of holiday shots. By forming images that structurally get close to painting, he explores the ambiguous status of the photographic medium and conventionality of its perception. More
Cyril Barrand
Secret thread of red
28.02.2008 – 29.03.2008
The cycle of Barrand’s works is a look on Polish identity from a twofold perspective: of a foreigner and a “native” at the same time, of a modern French artist who has lived in Poland for a few years and tried to know and understand this country. Barrand draws his story with a slight distance, irony and at the same time a perceptible attachment to this country. When talking about Poland, he uses video, photography, collage, sewing patterns and embroidery. He makes reference both to events and historical places (Majdanek concentration camp, the Palace of Culture and Science), legends (the Lublin “stone of misfortune”), tradition and elements of everyday life (dancers in folk costumes from the Żywiec beer label - Wars and Sawa, Wars soap, peeling potatoes). He compiles objects and events in an way far from obvious, and fiddling with their symbolics, he writes his own commentary, sometimes an indication, he registers the image of Poland he was shown and discovered himself.More
Katya Shadkovska
Toystore
Kurator: Regina Fisher
11.01.2008 – 23.02.2008
The latest project by Katya Shadkovska is a multi-layered installation which uses quotations from literature, film, music and painting. The central point of the exhibition - an icon and the portrait of Johnny Cash - is the grouping point for other works, which are combined together by wall painting. Shadkovska is using the signs of urban culture freely and thoughtfully. With all its provocation, her visual language can be seductively beautiful. More
Piotr Bąkowski
Billboard Paradise
Kurator: Magdalena Lipska
8.11.2007 - 24.12.2007
The cycle of paintings by Piotr Bąkowski „Billboard Paradise" refers in a perverse way to the topos of paradise - the place of eternal happiness. The main protagonists of the paintings are young modern women seen by the eyes of a man. In a deeper sense, Billboard Paradise tells the story of a battle which lasts incessantly between two worlds: male and female, about two unmatching halves of the apple. About inability to come to an understanding, about unrealized dreams, about fear and aggression for show. Somewhere deep under the skin, the motor of these works consists in erotic tension, an eternal game of the sexes. It is this game that gives pace to these works and makes them pulsate with a quick rhythm. More
