PBW- Polenbegeisterungswelle is a project where different generations of contemporary polish artists who live and work in Berlin will be presented to the audience in a combination of different formats. While in Poland – as in many other places – politicians (re)discover the "nation" as a populist fetish, contemporary art moves naturally on a transnational scale. The art world has decades of experi
ence and is highly competent with regards to migration, encountering the alien, questioning identities, and autonomy versus imposed contexts. In particular Berlin, as cosmopolitan art metropolis, invites the investigation of the complexity, diversity and mobility of spaces where art is being produced and received. Our project intends to map these spaces – which can be specified physically as studios, socially as circles of colleagues and experts, economically as the art market, and discursively as the public sphere – within the interplay of transnational relations. The title "Polenbegeisterungswelle" refers to the demonstrations of sympathy that Polish insurgents received in German-speaking countries after their defeat in the so-called November Uprising of 1830. It is ironic that it was these factions that then became the breeding ground for the religiously exacerbated national mythology which nowadays is being revived by national conservative discourses of exclusion. Poland as homeland – be it as geographic, biographic, imaginative or emotional sphere – has, as one of many possible topological references, a varying effect on an artist's life and work. "Polenbegeisterungswelle" is to be understood as a modulation of the perception process "Polish culture". It embeds the country-of-origin-principle, still dominant in institutional contexts, in a reference frame consisting of other descriptors of urbanity such as occurrences, rhythms, cycles, auras, neighbourhoods, passions, flows and encodings. Different generations of artists will be presented to the Berlin audience in a combination of formats such as exhibitions, studio visits with artist talks, meetings in galleries, expert panels, live performances and activities in the public space. We are not looking for commonalities between the work of political migrants and younger artists of the united Europe. We are rather drawing attention to individual artistic statements so as to open up spaces for personal narratives and overlapping references. A versatile and reciprocal relationship to Berlin as a cultural location may thus function as an interpretative bracket; the city itself turns out to be a sui generis document, a living archive in which everything conglomerates: space, time and actors. Curators:
Jagna Anderson PhD, Iwona Bigos, Berenika Partum
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Wawrzyniec Tokarski
Exhibition
07.-15.10.2017, Opening 07.10. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
02
Ewa Partum
Performance
07.10.2017 at 7 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
03
Agnieszka Brzeżańska
Studio Visit
08.10.2017, 6 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
04
Discussion
Does art have the power to instigate change?
08.10.2017, 8 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
05
Renata Kamińska
Studio Visit
09.10.2017, 7 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
06
Dominik Lejman
Exhibition
10.10.2017, 7 p.m
Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
07
Aleks Slota
Performance
11.10.2017, 7 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
08
Jagna Anderson
Performance
12.10.2017, 6 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
09
Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz
Performance
13.10.2017, 7 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
10
Zorka Wollny
Talk
14.10.2017, 6 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
11
Ania Nowak
Performance
15.10.2017, 6 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
12
Anna Nowicka
Performance
15.10.2017, 6 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
13
Gosia Gajdemska
Performance
15.10.2017, 6 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
14
Michał Talma-Sutt
Performance
15.10.2017, 6 p.m. Studio 1 im Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
15
Michał Martychowiec
Studio Visit
16.10.2017, 7 p.m. Rosenheimer Str. 7, 10781 Berlin
16
Marlena Kudlicka
Studio Visit
17.10.2017, 5 p.m. Gallery ŻAK | BRANICKA,
Lindenstraße 34-35, 10969 Berlin
17
Wojtek Hoeft
Studio Visit
17.10.2017, 7 p.m. Ateliergemeinschaft Milchhof e.V. Schwedter Str. 232, 10435 Berlin
18
Ewa Partum
Talk
18.10.2017, 5 p.m. Galerie M + R Fricke,
Beusselstraße 66, 10553 Berlin
19
Anna Krenz
Studio Visit
19.10.2017, 6 p.m. Reichenberger Str. 114,
10999 Berlin
20
Pola Dwurnik
Studio Visit
20.10.2017, 7 p.m. Kantstraße 125, 10625 Berlin
21
Jerzy Goliszewski
Studio Visit
21.10.2017, 7 p.m. Kiefholzstr. 19-20, 12435 Berlin
22
Kasia Justka
Performance
21.10.2017, 9 p.m. Club der polnischen Versager e.V. Ackerstrasse 168, 10115 Berlin
