Centre for Contemporary Art Wawel Castle


(curatorial project created in cooperation with Aneta Rostkowska)




































The curators of the CSW Zamek Wawelski project invited all visitors to an unconventional guided tour around the Wawel Hill and its surroundings. The tour-performance was an attempt to break the barrier related to the physical and symbolic inaccessibility of the Wawel Castle, which is often perceived as a kind of fortress. The aim of the project was to rediscover the potential hidden in the most recognisable element of the urban fabric of Cracow. The collections of the castle and the extraordinary events with which they are connected provided a stepping stone to a critical reinterpretation of the issues related to the history and tradition of the city. The artists intend to liberate "imprisoned" narrations and used them to construct a living, developing hypertext, which connected works by artists hidden around Wawel Hill. The preformance furnished an opportunity to present a new vision of curating, prepared by the organisers and published in a dedicated manifesto, which combines the gonzo technique with the reality of the economic crisis (so-called gonzo curating).

Idea: Jakub Woynarowski, Jakub Skoczek, Aneta Rostkowska

Artists-curators: Jakub Woynarowski, Aneta Rostkowska

Artists: Michał Gayer, Justyna Gryglewicz, Michał Hyjek, Szymon Kobylarz, Magdalena Lazar, Cecylia Malik, Mateusz Okoński, Agnieszka Piksa, Aneta Rostkowska, Marta Sala, Łukasz Skąpski, Piotr Sikora, Jakub Skoczek, Łukasz Surowiec, Piotr Swiatoniowski, Wojciech Szymański, Jakub Woynarowski 

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A set of diagrams, created for Kronika Gallery (Bytom, PL) and Bunkier Sztuki (Cracow, PL) about utopian architecture and philosophical aspects of copyright law.

Wundercamera





































A visual analysis of Terry Gilliam's cinematographic work.

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Mundus Subterraneus


                                  (project created in cooperation with Jakub Skoczek)




























"Mundus Subterraneus" is a continuation of "Quadratum Nigrum" project, focused on the connection between 17th century ideas of non-objective art and 20th century art Avantgarde. Multimedia installation is a narrative sequence of six 3-dimensional objects, inspired by the abstract visual story of Genesis created by Robert Fludd.

Quadratum Nigrum


             (project created in cooperation with Mateusz Okoński and Jakub Skoczek)

























"Quadratum Nigrum" is a larger artistic venture, which includes multi-threaded activities being realized based on, inter alia, visual atlases (often refering to hermetic codes), archives collections and ephemeral sets of ready-mades. As an alternative to museal collections based on rational methodology, authors of the project see contemporary curatorial practice, as a return to modern tradition of cabinets of curiosities (wunderkammer) - subjective collections of objets trouvés.

Vernalin



































"Vernalin" is a continuation of "Hikikomori" project, focused on the relation between animate and inanimate matter. The project is inspired by Stanisław Lem' s short story "Darkness and Mould" and also by scientific theories about vernalin - a hypothetical plant growth substance that, it has been suggested, is formed in meristematic regions of a plant subjected to cold.