Curatorial Practice: Bogna Swiatkowska
Good Violence
Warsaw is considered as a city of chaotic urbanism, unsolved issues and wastelands in the city centre. That makes Warsaw a very complex and inspiring space for architects and artists. What fascinates them is what makes the inhabitants uncomfortable and tired. What can come out from merging those two distant attitudes? Is it possible to invent a city acting in micro scale? - Those questions are unsolved issues we have been dealing with for the past 10 years.
The Bec Zmiana Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that supports artistic and cultural activities aimed at discovering the spaces and ways in which the spirit of the times makes itself manifest. The Foundation acts as an initiator of interdisciplinary events that engage creators in the field of art, architecture, design, music, and carries out the majority of its projects in the public space. During more than ten years of its activity, the Foundation has realised several dozens of exhibitions, projects, presentations, discussions, publications and artistic projects.
www.beczmiana.pl/english
*The title was taken from publication 'Holes In The Whole: Introduction to the Urban Revolution' by Krzysztof Nawratek (architect and urbanist, lecturer at the School of Architecture, Design and Environment in Playmouth
Bogna Swiatkowska is the founder of the "Bec Zmiana" foundation. With her polish organisation she has carried out a number of interdisciplinary projects that combined art, architecture, design and reflection on the mechanisms of culture. These projects include among others "Nowy Dizajn Miejski" (2006), "Synchronicity" (2008-2013), "Finisa? Stadionu X-lecia" (2007-2008), "Wolny Uniwersytet Warszawy" (2009-). She is the former editor-in-chief of the first Polish pop-culture monthly "Machina" (1998-2001), the vice editor-in-chief of a weekly magazine "Przekrój" (2003), the author of numerous articles, essays, interviews, coverages and radio and TV programs on contemporary popular culture. She is also the originator and editor-in-chief of a national cultural guide-book "Notes na 6 tygodni".
a cooperation with
LEARNING FROM WARSAW
Opening: Thursday, November 7, 7:00 pm
November 8 - Dezember 15 2013
Contributions by
Nino Baumgartner
Beni Bischof
Esther Kempf
Zosia Kwasieborska & Georg Keller
Katharina Marszewski
Michael Meier & Christoph Franz
Katarzyna Przezwa?ska
Karol Radziszewski
Joanna Rajkowska
Roland Roos
Konrad Smole?ski
Iza Tarasewicz
Artur Zmijewski
Curated by Nele Dechmann, Nicola Ruffo and Agnieszka Sosnowska.