30th June — join Krzysztof Morcinek and create a ‘Spatial Portrait’ in the Silesian Insurgents' Park
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The BWA Contemporary Art Gallery has launched a year-long project, READY, STEADY, ART!, a series of art events throughout the city of Katowice aiming to creatively animate its inhabitants.
The scope of the project is two-dimensional and includes complementary actions: on the one hand, happenings, performances and events by guest artists, on the other — educational-motivational workshops.
The goal is to create situations that contrast reality, stimulating imagination and encouraging reflection our major concerns: identity, culture, ecology and more. Children, youth and the elderly will be involved in the educational-motivational part of the project. Workshop-like meetings with artists will show them various forms of artistic expression, and engage them in the design and realisation of the projects, thus developing their independent artistic direction.
READY, STEADY, ART! — actions in Katowice urban space started in August As we follow the same route every day, we slowly blend in with the landscape and stop responding to external stimuli. To prevent this, the BWA Contemporary...
‘Greenery Swapject’ is working — join us and exchange or give away plants I would like to realise an artistic action which could trigger positive social behaviour. My goal is to set up a space that will become a venue for...
23th July — Monika Goetzendorf-Grabowska — ‘Art-filled sandpit’ A sandpit — a magical playground and venue for meetings. Fun with sand, building castles and other structures are one of the most natural children...
5th and 6th July — Paweł Kula — ‘Observing the New World’ The Earth has proved to be the only planet friendly to us so far. Its view from the universe is a picture that unites the whole humanity and encompasses...
1st June — ‘Pipephone’ (Rurofon) — a multi-channel installation will be constructed on the Miarki Square in Katowice This site specific installation design makes use of (audio) space of the city, as well as of natural processes, such as a water flow (a fountain), at the...
art invites you to ‘drop by’ and see the action of Ignacy Czwartos entitled ‘A Painter in Urban Space’ 18th May , 10 a.m. and 16 p.m. Ignacy Czwartos is a painter, a graphic artist, co-founder of Otwarta Pracownia (Open Workshop) Association and...
artistic turmoil in the streets of Katowice will be created by Piotr Lutyński and his ‘Second Life’ Project ‘Second Life’ was launched in New York in 2007. Lutyński's idea — How to bring a dead deer back to life in a big city? — started as a...
This workshop is organised within the READY, STEADY, ART! Project and will take the form of an enjoyable activity at the city park. The arrangement of photographic elements and the elements already in the park will act as a spur for a creative compilation; the fun activity will involve upsetting the existing scenery with new graphic elements, so creating a spatial structure in relation with nature. The workshop intends to give participants the opportunity to raise their awareness of the connections between the elements that make up scenery.
30th June , from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from 1.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. — Silesian Insurgents' Park in Katowice
Krzysztof Morcinek — a painter, sculptor, installation artist, and creator of photo objects. In 1885—1992 he studied in the Department of Education in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Pedagogic and Artistic Education in the Cieszyn branch of the University of Silesia, with a specialisation in painting (Professor Zenon Moskwa) and graphics (Professor Eugeniusz Delekta). In his works, primary importance is attached to acknowledging various perceptive behaviours and expression correlated with them to be the most fundamental experiences, providing the key to solve absolutely central problems. Since the beginning of his artistic career, his installations have combined various techniques and materials, such as feathers, furniture, water, wood, marble, windows, and wine or blood. In 1990—1998 he ran his own independent gallery in Cieszyn — Galeria Miejsce. He is also an exhibition curator and designer of art publications.
