Artists of the exhibition "Little whirlpools out in the middle of the ocean"
Artists of the exhibition:
Bogna Burska – painter, photographer, author of installations, videos, found footage films and dramatic texts, theatre director. She has a post-doctoral degree doctor. She is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She also teaches social arts at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. Her work is sometimes described as a combination of critical art and aesthetic issues. For many years, she has also been involved in found footage videos showing the mechanisms of creating and depicting contemporary cultural narratives. The latest poetic paintings by the artist have become delicate and organic, oscillating around the Zen tradition or the American painting of the Pacific School. She lives in Warsaw.
Rafał Jakubowicz – a post-conceptual artist using various media, activist, Hebraist, curator. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. Professor at the University of Arts in Poznań. Member of the Polish Workers' Initiative Trade Union. In his works, he undertakes, among other things, the subject of precariat and non-material work, exploitation and practices of resistance, social costs of transformation in Poland and Eastern Europe, memory gentrification and ways of working through traumatic memory. He lives in Poznań.
Jesper Just – Danish visual artist who creates videos that are reminiscent of great film productions. He studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Just creates suspenseful, dark, romantic narratives that play on the senses and imagination with light and shadow, music and images. With hypersensitivity, he brings out sadness, melancholy, regret in films, as well as the indifference and passivity of the characters. His works deal with the problem of masculinity, refuting its traditional definitions. One of the central themes is also the relationship between different generations, transience and memory. He showed his works at exhibitions in the most important institutions in the world, incl. at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, the Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC) in Vilnius or the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He is represented by Galleri Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen, James Cohan Gallery in New York and Galerie Perrotin in Paris. He lives in New York.
Magda Malinowska – philosopher, director, activist of the Employee Initiative Trade Union, an employee of the Polish branch of Amazon. She works to promote the idea of shortened working time as an essential postulate of the employee movement. Director of reportage films, incl. Strike of the Mothers (Think Tank Feminist) – a document about women's working and living conditions in Wałbrzych and the tactics of resistance.
Patrycja Orzechowska – a visual artist who uses, among other things, the medium of photography, collage, graphics, film, installation, author of books. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. In many of his recent works, he takes up the theme of hoarding and collecting things, not focusing on the curiosities themselves but transforming abandoned objects into new groups of meanings (assisted readymade).
Kristian Skylstad - an artist of many disciplines: photography, video, poetry, sculpture and painting. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. In many of his works, he refers to emotions and interpersonal relations and states of apathy, cynicism and powerlessness. He teaches photography and film in Oslo Fotokunstskole. In addition, he collaborates as a critic with Kunstkritikk. He is represented by the OSL Contemporary gallery. Founder and member of No Place in Oslo. He lives in Oslo.
Andrzej Wasilewski – a post-conceptual artist, using various media, professionally associated with the Academy of Art in Szczecin. A recognizable element of the artist's work is the reference to the industrial iconography of the construction of machines and devices, peripheral architecture, marginals of pop culture. Fascinated by scientific experiments at the early-school level, he relates to them directly or indirectly. In his artistic practice, for 20 years, he has been inflating a balloon, which has recently been inflated to almost 5 meters in diameter, which the artist considers to be his great achievement. The artist's objects, installations and videos made in recent years seem to be floating in the vapours of the absurd. He lives in Poznań.
Exhibition curator:
Stanisław Ruksza – curator of many exhibitions in Poland and abroad, art historian, author of texts, book editor, lecturer, director of TRAFO Trafostacja Sztuki in Szczecin. In 2008-2017, the program director of the CCA Kronika in Bytom. He studied art history at Jagiellonian University. Chairman of the Council of the Academy of Art in Szczecin. In his research, he focuses on the relationship between art and social and political changes, sexuality and death, and borderline phenomena in contemporary art. Resident apexart in New York (2009), Careof DOCVA in Milan (2013, 2015) and Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2017), MeetFactory in Prague (2018). He lives in Szczecin.
Bogna Burska – painter, photographer, author of installations, videos, found footage films and dramatic texts, theatre director. She has a post-doctoral degree doctor. She is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She also teaches social arts at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. Her work is sometimes described as a combination of critical art and aesthetic issues. For many years, she has also been involved in found footage videos showing the mechanisms of creating and depicting contemporary cultural narratives. The latest poetic paintings by the artist have become delicate and organic, oscillating around the Zen tradition or the American painting of the Pacific School. She lives in Warsaw.
Rafał Jakubowicz – a post-conceptual artist using various media, activist, Hebraist, curator. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. Professor at the University of Arts in Poznań. Member of the Polish Workers' Initiative Trade Union. In his works, he undertakes, among other things, the subject of precariat and non-material work, exploitation and practices of resistance, social costs of transformation in Poland and Eastern Europe, memory gentrification and ways of working through traumatic memory. He lives in Poznań.
Jesper Just – Danish visual artist who creates videos that are reminiscent of great film productions. He studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Just creates suspenseful, dark, romantic narratives that play on the senses and imagination with light and shadow, music and images. With hypersensitivity, he brings out sadness, melancholy, regret in films, as well as the indifference and passivity of the characters. His works deal with the problem of masculinity, refuting its traditional definitions. One of the central themes is also the relationship between different generations, transience and memory. He showed his works at exhibitions in the most important institutions in the world, incl. at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, the Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC) in Vilnius or the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He is represented by Galleri Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen, James Cohan Gallery in New York and Galerie Perrotin in Paris. He lives in New York.
Magda Malinowska – philosopher, director, activist of the Employee Initiative Trade Union, an employee of the Polish branch of Amazon. She works to promote the idea of shortened working time as an essential postulate of the employee movement. Director of reportage films, incl. Strike of the Mothers (Think Tank Feminist) – a document about women's working and living conditions in Wałbrzych and the tactics of resistance.
Patrycja Orzechowska – a visual artist who uses, among other things, the medium of photography, collage, graphics, film, installation, author of books. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. In many of his recent works, he takes up the theme of hoarding and collecting things, not focusing on the curiosities themselves but transforming abandoned objects into new groups of meanings (assisted readymade).
Kristian Skylstad - an artist of many disciplines: photography, video, poetry, sculpture and painting. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. In many of his works, he refers to emotions and interpersonal relations and states of apathy, cynicism and powerlessness. He teaches photography and film in Oslo Fotokunstskole. In addition, he collaborates as a critic with Kunstkritikk. He is represented by the OSL Contemporary gallery. Founder and member of No Place in Oslo. He lives in Oslo.
Andrzej Wasilewski – a post-conceptual artist, using various media, professionally associated with the Academy of Art in Szczecin. A recognizable element of the artist's work is the reference to the industrial iconography of the construction of machines and devices, peripheral architecture, marginals of pop culture. Fascinated by scientific experiments at the early-school level, he relates to them directly or indirectly. In his artistic practice, for 20 years, he has been inflating a balloon, which has recently been inflated to almost 5 meters in diameter, which the artist considers to be his great achievement. The artist's objects, installations and videos made in recent years seem to be floating in the vapours of the absurd. He lives in Poznań.
Exhibition curator:
Stanisław Ruksza – curator of many exhibitions in Poland and abroad, art historian, author of texts, book editor, lecturer, director of TRAFO Trafostacja Sztuki in Szczecin. In 2008-2017, the program director of the CCA Kronika in Bytom. He studied art history at Jagiellonian University. Chairman of the Council of the Academy of Art in Szczecin. In his research, he focuses on the relationship between art and social and political changes, sexuality and death, and borderline phenomena in contemporary art. Resident apexart in New York (2009), Careof DOCVA in Milan (2013, 2015) and Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2017), MeetFactory in Prague (2018). He lives in Szczecin.
