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WRO Art Center is supported by Wrocław Municipality and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Patronage - RenomaWRO: Griffin Art Space
The in progress exhibition features a selection of media works created between 1965 and 2012 from the collection of the Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, and contextual audiovisual materials from the archives of the WRO Art Center. The exhibition offers an overview of media art history from the perspective of the Wrocław collection.
Wrocław Contemporary Museum
Curator: Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. (Benito Mussolini) obviously sucks in 21st century. Individuals are at one place, at one time united by one aim destroying the system. Big Bro is tracking you down, you make him glitching. Who are you in this new system?
Till 31.07, 16:00-19:00
Marina Dykukha was the WRO resident as a benefitient od the Gaude Polonia program.
"Open-pop-star" Monty Cantsin – also known as the steadily eccentric and radical Hungarian-born Canadian artist Istvan Kantor – is preparing his exhibition Media Revolt in Wrocław's Renoma shopping mall. This is the second experimental undertaking jointly organized by the WRO Art Center and Griffin Art Space in the RenomaWRO series, which started with an international exhibition of installations during the WRO 2013 Media Art Biennale.
Exhibition until July, 31.
This Sunday the Film Matinée will focus on films uniquely musical: from the WRO collection and the HaloEcho—JazzEcho festival selected by Aniela Lubieniecka. After the screening, we invite you to the opening of the exhibition "I&Me", presenting works of the participants of the workshop run by the Czech artist Lenka Klodova. The exhibition is arranged in the space of the Green Labyrinth, becoming part of it.
This time, the Matinée will circle around music: the one that is specifically composed for the films, building up the unique atmosphere, and the one that inspires filmmakers and animators to invent stories that illustrate the work. Is there anybody that does not remember the opening credits of their favorite series? Just a few beats can turn each face into a smile and make your eyes wide open for the characters and scenes worthy of rememberance…
The scientists Anatol Kurzawka and Henryk Kwas invite to WRO for the unique Sunday Film Matinée during Children's Day, where on the cards of the handheld NON-Handbooks from the Red Pony Publishing House, they will tirelessly prove what everyday objects do NOT serve for. Their achievements will turn from book illustrations to animations – using a camera and a computer will come to life and gain a new dimension.
WRO presentation at the 8th edition of the International Marketplace for Digital Arts (IMDA), a professional networking activity organized alongside the ELEKTRA Festival. Every year since 2007, the IMDA brings together international digital arts professionals and Canadian artists and organizations. Its objective is to promote new collaborations in digital arts and create presentation opportunities abroad for Canadian artists.
Presentation will be hosted by Klio Krajewska.
As part of the Sunday's Children's Day 2014 at WRO, we invite you on Thursday, the 29th of May for the ballet performance for children entitled "The Ugly Duckling" prepared jointly with the young dancers of the Wrocław's Academy of Ballet.
On the way to Sunday Film Matinée, we invite you to the Green Labirynth once again! We'll be awaiting with the rarely shown Ukrainian animations – a series of wonderful, exceptional cartoons – cheerful, colorful and educational. This is great fun for both children who have not yet had time to grow and adults who stayed in a world of childhood. After the screening – workshop games and activities!
International film series on changing realities of people and places.
Difference Screen has visited over twenty countries in the last two years. The project presents places and landscapes shaped by events, demonstrating vitally creative value and potential underlying diversity.
Curators: Bruce Allan and Ben Eastop
The day after the Museum Night and the premiere of the Green Labyrinth, we would like to invite you for a Sunday Film Matinée to an unusual labyrinth of Beechland. Fabulous animations created by Leszek Gałysz show loonies living in the heart of the beech forest. The creatures remind of familiar animals, but have the personality of children. The bucolic atmosphere of the film leaves no rest.
We would like to invite everyone, regardless of age, the whole families, to the Green Night – meeting with art, nature and technology. While wandering through a specially arranged, innovative Green Labyrinth of the gallery, we discover objects and installations, among others the mysterious tree, the sound garden of Akousmaflore, the digital, interactive waterfall, the hydroponic plantation, and other digital-environmental elements that lead to a unique selection of works from the WRO collection and works created during workshops with artists and audience.
Media installations from the international collection of the WRO Biennale
The exhibition has been prepared on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of electronic art. It presents the successive stages of the media art development and its historical achievements. By comprising original works along with those by contemporary artists, it reflects the most characteristic features and forms found in the language of electronic art. Now – for a month – to be seen in Aarhus.
The day after the screening in Warsaw, the film Breaking the Frame by Marielle Nitoslawska – a personal portrait of Carolee Schneemann – will be shown in Łódź at Art and Documentation Festival. The screening is part of the WRO on Tour series and will be accompanied by presenting of the application comprising the documentation of the WRO Biennale.
Film Museum
Zwycięstwa Sq. 1
Another WRO on Tour screening of the film Breaking the Frame – this time in Warsaw. A unique documentary by Marielle Nitoslawska on Carolee Schneemann is a feature length portrait, shot over a period of six years in collaboration with the artist, utilizing a rich variety of film and hi-definition formats. The film had its continental premiere during the WRO 2013 Pioneering Values.
Kino.Lab – CSW Ujazdowski Castle
Jazdów, Warsaw
The next stop on the international way of the ever-changing exhibition of installations and objects Interactive Playground is EL Gallery in Elbląg.
This time the viewers get to know the new version of the installation by Paweł Janicki PAINTING – known before as Painting by Light. Have cognitive fun!
EL Gallery
Kuśnierska 6, Elbląg
May Long Weekend is one of the most enjoyable periods of free time in the year. It is warm outside, nature is coming to life, and there are plenty of leisure activities to do! One of the best ideas for the end of the weekend is to spend it with Curly Hair Teddy Bear and his friends during the Sunday Film Matinée at WRO Art Center. How does the shaggy bear spend it? Come and see!
We invite you to participate in the project by Elżbieta Jabłońska "Art Wasteland". The all-Poland initiative is to cultivate pieces of land in the neighborhood of art institutions. We encourage all enthusiasts of sowing and weeding to share the WRO beds that accompany the project of Green Labyrinth.
The exhibition presenting film pieces and electronic works of this remarkable author along with sketches, drawings, calculations and graphs – a collection that illustrates the artist's steps towards the new visual synthesis shown earlier in the Old Brewery in Poznan and the WRO Art Center.
Tuesday, 15th of April:
4 pm – meeting with the artist
7 pm – opening of the exhibition
Laboratory of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
In the second meeting of the series "Understanding Revolution: Revolutionary Media" curated by Edwin Bendyk, we will talk with an Egyptian artist – Heba Amin, a Ukrainian artist and resident at WRO Art Center – Masha Gonchar from Odessa and curator Klio Krajewska ("Recording Against Regimes").
After the meeting, we invite you to Kino.Lab to watch WRO on Tour screening.
Laboratory of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Piotr Krajewski takes part in the inaugural meeting of the series "Understanding Revolution" curated by Edwin Bendyk.
The cycle is part of the project "Laboratory of the Future" carried out by the CCA Zamek Ujazdowski.
The meeting will also be attended by Agata Pyzik and Przemysław Czapliński.
Ahoy, adventure! Captain Cliper invites you to another escapade together with his indispensable friend, Gogo monkey, Crazy Roger the pirate and parrot Kiwit. After the screening, we invite our little viewers to play during worshops. Boarders aboard!
This time, we invite you to the series of adventures of Captain Cliper and an amusing monkey Gogo. Travelling on "Hermes", they carry loads of different items on behalf of the Emperor of Scorching Islands. Have fun with an indefatigable, cheerful pirate Crazy Roger and his bird Kiwit (nice, ever sleepy, green parrot) in each episode… Boarders aboard!
Center for Contemporary Art La Criée
A group show featuring a mixed bag of works – films, photographs, paintings, sculptures, drawings and installations – involves the idea of a re-enchantment of the city together with the urban space as a locus for political, social and/or aesthetic conflicts.
During the meeting Paweł Szeibel will present the results of the Wardian Case and City Lantern warkshops as well as the documentation of his previous selected works of the artist.
Marielle Nitoslawska FILMS
Thu-Fri, 6 PM
+ INTERACTIVE LIFE BOOK - a brand new installation enabling the audience to directly and intuitively browse through the content of Life Books
ms2 – cinema
Ogrodowa 19, Łódź
admission free
Breaking The Frame (2012, 100 minutes) is a feature–length documentary portrait of the New York artist Carolee Schneemann by Canadian filmmaker Marielle Nitoslawska.
Next screening of WRO 2013 Pioneering Values on Tour program taking place in łódź.
ms2 musem – cinema
Ogrodowa 19, Łódź
admission free
Hosted by Piotr Krajewski.
Special screening accompanying the LIFE BOOK exhibition. Breaking The Frame is a feature–length documentary portrait of the New York artist Carolee Schneemann. A pioneer of performance and body art as well as avant-garde cinema, Schneemann has been breaking the frames of the art world for five decades, in a variety of mediums, challenging assumptions of feminism, gender, sexuality, and identity.
The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka and Piotr Krajewski contuct the lecture titled Why mediation? From innovative practice towards definying a new discipline.
Special film/video screenings from the series of WRO 2013 Pioneering Values program, in the presence of Artistic Director Piotr Krajewski, will be presented for four days as part of the Aarhus Film Festival.
Paweł Janicki conducts a workshop and presents his famous Ping Melody music-net performance in the framework of Urban Sounds, a series of concerts, exhibitions and experimental sound activities devoted to sonic aspects of contemorary city landscapes. The project, taking place at House of Electronic Arts in Basel, is curated by Julia Gerlach, the music director of DAAD artist's program in Berlin. WRO Art Center is among international partners of this undertaking, that is connected to the Media Intersections cooperation project between WRO and HeK, Basel.
This exhibition is an expansion on materials created by Marielle Nitoslawska for her film Breaking the Frame. This first monographic exhibition of Carolee Schneemann in Poland continues to break frames– a multimedia spatial installation that showcases unique photos, sketches, fragments of works, memoirs and letters, film and video excerpts…
This exhibition is an expansion on materials created by Marielle Nitoslawska for her film "Breaking the Frame". This first monographic exhibition of Carolee Schneemann in Poland continues to break frames– a multimedia spatial installation that showcases unique photos, sketches, fragments of works, memoirs and letters, film and video excerpts – [...]
Upcoming WRO 2013 Pioneering Values screening will take place at the Wozownia Art Gallery in Toruń.
Program of 13 works will be presented and commented by Bartek Korzeniowski.
One, composed in 2002, was premiered on 12 January 2003 by Barbara Hannigan in the Amsterdam Frascati Theatre. The new version of this multimedia opera as a result of the cooperation between the WRO and the Philharmonic of Wrocław will be presented as a special event during the Musica Electronica Nova.
The artists were awarded to participate in the second edition of the artists' residency program Goethe@WRO. Their interactive installation Vincent and Emily was included in the Rings of Saturn exhibition of the WRO 2013. During their residency Carolin and Nikolas conducted a workshop for children on kinetic and robotic art and were working on their newest piece.
Active Art Archive
Panel discussian and presentation by Agnieszka Dzieduszycka, Piotr Krajewski and Bartek Korzeniowski, during the openGlam conference organized by the Zachęta National Gallery, Wikimedia Poland and Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska.
Based on the project Vincent and Emily and other interactive installations by the artists Carolin Liebl and Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler, participants will work in groups on their own projects, exploring the world of robotics, exciting connections between art, technology and everyday life.
Interactive Platform, an installation conceived by Dominika Sobolewska and Paweł Janicki as part of the Interactive Playground exhibition, is presenting at the Upper Hope Park Church – space of Summerhall Edinburgh, in a special autumn program POLSKA ARTS by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Natalia Makerova is the director of the Meyerhold Memorial Museum in Moscow. Dduring the exhibition there will be an occasion to conversate about Meyerhold's legacy and the wide artistic context of his art.
Introduction: Małgorzata Jabłońska, co-curator
Museum of the History
of Polish Jews
Aleatoric interactive installation, created by Pawel Janicki in WRO Art Centre in 2013, is a new work (premiered at WRO 2013 Biennale) by the artist regularly exploring the relations between visual arts and sound. The installation is inspired by and pays the homage to the ouvre of Lutoslawski.
exhibition / installation
A rebellious student of Stanislavski, a brilliant actor and director, the creator of Theatre Biomechanics, an advocate of physical actor training, the greatest revolutionary of staging, precursor of the concept of music-based performance structure, the first 'theatre auteur', Eisenstein's teacher, and Shostakovich's discoverer, Meyerhold is universally recognized as one of the most influential theatre artists of the twentieth century…
Presentation of the selection of works from the WRO 2013 Pioneering Values On Tour during the ArtNastup Festival in Lviv.
5 days, 5 special programs will be presented in the Odra Film cinemas in Legnica, Jelenia Góra, Wałbrzych.
02 ArtLoop Festival Sopot
-> Screen section
Presentation of the selection of works from the WRO 2013 Pioneering Values On Tour during the ArtNastup Festival, Lviv.
Dyring the 14th Lucania Film Festival on the south of Italy, thanks to organizers during four days in the section Video Art will be presented works selected to the WRO 2013 On Tour program.
Screening preparated and hosted by Bartosz Konieczny
Selected works from the WRO 2013 On Tour program will be screened at the 3rd edition of the Contexts 2013 – International Sokolovsko Festival of Ephemeral Art.
Presentation hosted by Bartek Korzeniowski
Dimanche Rouge Experimental Performance and WRO Art Center present a quick look into Polish performances since the 1980′s selected from the WRO Collection as part of the WRO On Tour program!
Plateforme, 73 rue des Haies, Paris
Curated & presented by Klio Krajewska
Isola Tiberina, Rome
One of the program of WRO 2013 Pioneering Values, presenting the newest works by young Polish artists, selected from the ongoing Biennale program by Piotr Krajewski, in cooperation with the Polish Institute and Critical Art Foundation is presenting in Rome.
Justyna Misiuk, whos two new works were presented at the WRO 2013, will be present on the screening.
Premiere program of the newest WRO 2013 On Tour program will be presented at the Underwater Wrocław Festival.
Screening hosted by Paweł Janicki
Mirosław Bałka's exhibition will be available for the public until July 31st.
There is still a chance to take part in the curatorial tour of WRO Biennale 2013 Pioneering Values exhibitions.
On Wednesday at the WRO Art Center Piotr Krajewski will talk about the cooperation with Mirosław Bałka during the preparation for Nachtgesichten exhibition, concept around which the exhibition is built, works that are presented, as well as, artist's other projects conducted during the WRO 2013.
Admission free.
Ballestrem Palace
Włodkowica 4
Last curatorial tour with Biennale's artistic director Piotr Krajewski through the Rings of Saturn exhibition at the Ballestrem Palace.
Admission free.
This is also a last chance to see the exhibition, which closes today at 9pm, and the Palace in its curent state prior to the upcoming refurbishment.
The tour will focus on the Palace's history and its former owners.
Admission free.
Renoma Department Store
Last curatorial tour with Biennale's artistic director Piotr Krajewski through the RenomaWRO exhibition.
Renoma Department Store
Świdnicka 40
Admission free.
Vinyl Rally, a monumental installation by Lucas Abela (Australia) with go-carts racing on phonograph records.
An international exhibition of the installations at the Ballestrems' Palace on Włodkowica Street, the venue's debut as an art site.
WRO 2013 Biennale Pioneering Values at the Renoma Department Store.
The international installations exhibition has been prepared under the patronage of the Griffin Art Space.
An exhibition of artist's new works, prepared specially for the WRO Art Center, will be one of the highlights of the WRO 2013 Biennale opening.
Inauguration of the 50 Years of Electronic Art celebrations, marks the upcoming 15. Media Art Biennale WRO 2013 Pioneering Values that starts May the 8th.
Installations and video material connected with Exposition of Music – Electronic Television exhibition, along with a series of screenings of Nam June Paik's videos.
photography, video, text, sound
Marcin Guźla | Agnieszka Kołodziejczyk | Bartek Runiewski | Wanda Sidorowicz | Mateusz Tatarczyk | Maciej Tryniszewski | Kazimierz Tryniszewski | Elwira Zacharska
WRO Atelier
Kuźnicza 29a (II piętro)
Darb 1718 Center
Poland '80 / Germany '90 / Egipt Now!
Recorded images that are created as a personal or collective expression against political regimes during significant political changes are the counter-weight for those generated by the official media. The recorded document remains when the revolution is over and can often be interpreted not only by its content but also by the type of device used. Moving image and its perception can be expressions of resistance…
A meeting and presentation in the context of You Are Standing in My Place exhibition.
Long-Term Preservation of Digital Art
During the panel, discussing several of the initiatives currently underway, their agendas, practices, and results, Agnieszka Dzieduszycka and Bartek Korzeniowski will present WRO's concept and strategy of active archiving, transmediale their CD-ROMs archiv and Bernhard Serexhe, director of ZKM, it's media museum.
We are glad to announce that new installation by Paweł Janicki – New Delhi Audiograph – is presented in India during Evening of Sound on Auditions: Sound Residency 2013 at Khoj International Artists' Association. The event is co-organized by Polish Institute New Delhi.
New Delhi Audiograph is an interactive, audiovisual installation treating some elements of the Hindi language as a structural foundation of a musical composition. Installation is also using a motion tracking system for the interaction with the audience.
While in Budapest, there is still the State of Images: Zbigniew Rybczyński exhibition, we kindly invite you to come by WRO and see the exhibition presenting the retrospective of Gábor Bódy, an outstanding Hungarian artist-experimentator, filmmaker, theoretician, and visionary within the field of visual thinking.
The event continues the series of exhibitions entitled Stand der Bilder — The State of Image, prepared together with the WRO Art Center, Akademie der Künste in Berlin, and C3 Center for Culture & Communication in Budapest, in cooperation with Collegium Hungaricum, Polish Institute, Berlin, and ZKM Karlsruhe.
The Museum of screen culture MediaArtLab in Central Exhibition Hall Manege opens its doors and the conference Media Library: a new educational center, museum collection and digital archive with participants from international museums and cultural centers is the event that starts off the work of the Museum.
The key participants of the Conference are: Olesya Turkina, State Russian Museum St. Petersburg, Perttu Rastas, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Alexander Obukhova – the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Kate Jennings, TATE, Etienne Sandrin, Centre Pompidou, Joseph Backstein, Commissioner of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Piotr Krajewski, WRO Art Centre, Anna Gor Volga, branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Mike Sperlinger, LUX Centre for film, video and digital arts and Peter Greenaway.
Dominik Lejman,
Liliana Orbach
and Marek Wasilewski
…faced each other on the occasion of the exhibition in Tel Aviv in 2009. While working on it, they made plenty of spontaneous video recordings that are currently being shown (as part of the installation) in Wrocław. Three projections accounting for a complementary image/picture realised in three different conventions: from a bit surreal journey to recording of a unique performance in a closed gallery space.
After two presentations in Germany, exhibition is now transferred to Hungary!
Vasarely Múzeum
Szentlélek tér 6, Budapest
19.10.2012 – 6.01.2013
The WRO Art Center
Widok 7
A meeting with artist and presentation of his work, including the newest installation Perpetual Energy Wasting Machine at the WRO Art Center.
Meeting with the artist
Thursday 11.10.2012, 19:00
The WRO Atelier
Kuźnicza 29a, IInd floor
Exhibition organized jointly by WRO and Culture Studies Institute of the University of Wrocław.
Friday, 5.10.2012 o 19:00
The WRO Atelier
Kuźnicza 29a, IInd floor
Curator: Piotr Krajewski
Co-curator: Małgorzata Gawlik
The call for entries to the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival, one of the mostcomprehensive annual festvals for media art, closes on September 20th, 2012. Exhibition featuring jury awarded works in the four divisions of Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga, will be presented at The National Art Center Tokyo on February 13-24th, 2013.
WRO 2011 Alternative Now Flash
The 2nd Sokolovsko Festival of Ephemeral Art
Kinoteatr Zdrowie, ul. Główna 36
Hosted by Zbigniew Kupisz
The ongoing history of video installations
AC / DC / IT is the second installment in the WRO's series of exhibitions presenting successive stages in the development of media art and its achievements.
Exhibition features original art as well as interactive installations that reference outstanding archival works.
To enhance the interactive experience, viewers are offered the opportunity to modify elements of the installations through their smartphones and tablets.
WRO 2011 Flash
Video program
during The Zgorzelc Days
Hosted by:
Krzysiek Dobrowolski
Screenings on the WRO façade
until June 23rd, 22:00-24:00
When UEFA Euro 2012 championship is well under way with emotions at their peak all over Europe, German artist Kurt Fleckenstein during a simultaneous projection organized in Wrocław, Kiev and Berlin will show his newest realization that in a contentious way exploits the idea of a sport rivalry on a football pitch.
Outdoor video projection on WRO's façade will screen a video-recorded football match staged by Fleckenstein in Kiev few days prior to the event.
Atelier WRO, Kuźnicza 29a
Wed-Thu: 5-8 PM
Noriko Yamaguchi during the 14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Alternative Now presented the Pillow Talk #2 performance.
Now, at WRO Atelier, the audience can see the Peppermint Mother exhibition. Yamaguchi's video animations, photographs, drawings and performances, disciplined in terms of their form and compostion, stem from her intimate experiences, thoughts and references to her personal memories as well as culture traits.
Wrocław, Hubska 44-48 Str.
Narrative Transit
Presentation of the set of video works from the WRO Alternative Now on Tour program.
Hosted by Paweł Janicki
The Sibiu International Theatre Festival
Contemporary Art Gallery of the National Brukenthal Museum
WRO 2011 ALTERNATIVE NOW RÉSUMÉ/ON TOUR exhibition project in a complex way presents the program of the 14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011, using innovative installation solutions and unique interfaces making the exhibition break traditional barriers between active art experience and passive documentation viewing. The exhibition presents a selection of video works from the WRO 2011 program, as well as specially designed applications with audiovisual and photographic documentation materials of exhibitions, concerts, performances, talks, Biennale's venues and its atmosphere, shown
Screening of experimental Canadian cinema from 1968-2010.
Program will be presented by Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt, curator from L'institut pour la coordination et la propagation des cinémas exploratoires, (ICPCE), Montreal
In a program of Contemporary Polish Art Week, organized by the University of Illinois at Chicago, lectures and presentations will conduct:
Piotr Krajewski, artistic director od The WRO Biennale
Maria Anna Potocka, director of MOCAK
Krzysztof Wodiczko, artist and theorist, Harvard University
WRO Atelier
Kuźnicza 29a, Wrocław, 18:00
The main goal of Artist Talk project, realized jointly by WRO, Musem of Transitory Art (Slovenia) i CIANT (Czech Republic) is establishing a platform for networking, education and exchange of new media and experimental art organisations by simulation and promotion of dialogue and talk in all fields of creativity.
Opening: Thu, 15.03.2012, 19:00
With A Short History of Video Installations, the WRO Art Center launches a series of exhibitions marking the 50th birthday of electronic art. Each show in the series, planned for 2012/2013, will present various stages and forms in the development of electronic media art since the early 1960s.
The starring role is taken by video, which became much more than an appealing tool for avant-garde artists.
Piotr Bosacki's project Music Graphs is the first undertaking at the newly renovated WRO Atelier – a gallery and workshop where, as an extension of the WRO Art Center, the main theme is creative experimentation in direct contact with the public. Piotr Bosacki spending four weeks working on The Fourth Scroll – a compostion for 12 string instruments – and the Music Graphs exhibition, which will grow and change as the artist creates new sketches, graphs and scores.
Society for the Encouragement of the
Fine Arts in Lublin
Narrative Transit – video works program
WRO Alternative Now Flash – documentation + commentary
Screenings of animated films as part of Media Kindergarden
March 4th – June 3rd 2012
Spring is back all together with Film Matinées at the WRO Art Center – a specially selected program of Polish and international animated films.
Every Sunday at 12:30pm. Free entrance.
Galeria ASP / AULA
University of Arts in Poznań
The exhibition documents the Biennale events along with interviews with artists, curators, art historians and media theorists. Specially designed viewing stations and interactive installations by Paweł Janicki, Bartosz Konieczny and Michał Szota let viewers browse the assembled materials at their own pace.
The Interactive Playground exhibition is constantly on tour.
After recent presentation in Moscow, for next two months Interactive Playground installations will be exhibited at Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola.
After the succesfull presentation at Akademie der Künste Berlin, The State of Image exhibition is available until May at ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe.
During three intensive screening days the documentation WRO Flash and video programs curated by Piotr Krajewski, with works form the WRO 2011 Biennale, will be presented by Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB).
MediaRuimte Gallery, Brussels
In collaboration with:
Sigrid Keunen, violin
The final showings this year of Paweł Janicki's EU_tracer performance for internet and acoustic instruments, a project developed by the WRO Art Center and commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the International Cultural Program of the Polish EU Presidency.
Five installations from the Interactive Playground exhibition – BOPI, Interactive Platform, RGB, Painting with Light, Textures and Dog – will be presented at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, as a part of the ART EXPERIMENT 2011 exhibition.
73 rue des Haies, Paris
WRO Alternative Now on Tour will be presented in Paris by artistic director of WRO Biennale, Piotr Krajewski.
uqbar project space
Schwedenstrasse 16, Berlin
WRO Alternative Now on Tour will be presented in Berlin as a part of finissage of the Young Polish Artists on Tour – Berlin | Looking into Neighbourship exhibition
Hosted by: Gosia Sobolewska
Music Net Performance EU_tracer this time will be presented at Plateforme Galerie in Paris.
In collaboration with:
Benjamin Duboc – contrabass
3.12.2011, 19.15
WEFcon – Warsaw Electronic Festival Conference 2011
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Cinema Hall
5.12.2011, 16.00
Polish-Japanese Institute
of Information Technology
Presentations hosted by Paweł Janicki
Akademie der Kūnste Berlin
The State of Image exhibition presents with Zbigniew Rybczyński and Gábor Bódy two media pioneers from Poland and Hungary who developed within the tradition of the first European avant-garde. Beginning in the early 1970s, both of them took on the challenges of the new media technologies in the arts – first as experimental filmmakers and then in video.
Performative screening by Noriko Yamaguchi
KCUA Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery
Pillow Talk events are a platform for presenting documentations of performances by young Japanese artists. Pillow Talk#1 was held 2010 in Kyoto, the second screening took part during the WRO Alternative now Biennale. Now Pillow Talk#3 including documentation of performances from the WRO 2011.
Genshagen Palace, near Berlin
On November 24th 2011 Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka will present the position of new and old media within the art mediation program prepared and implemented by WRO while delivering examples from the Interactive Playground exhibition.
Organizator: Stiftung Genshagen
Partner: Dortmunder U Zentrum für Kunst und Kreativität
As part of the Izabella Gustowska's In Stealthy Flight I Pursued Her II exhibition we invite you for:
meeting with Izabella Gustowska together with a 3xR presentation of works arranged by the artist
Cracow – Rotunda Cinema
Oleandry St. 1, upper hall
at the Etiuda&Anima Festival:
WRO Flash / Anti-Stories / Counteraction
hosted by Piotr Krajewski – artistic director of the WRO Biennale
Opening: Friday November 18th, 2011
New works by Izabella Gustowska:
comprehensive sound / 6 circular light-boxes / 6 films / 6 narrations / 1 object
Video works:
Istvan Kantor – Song of the Antihero, CA / Maria Ewa Toboła – White Army, PL / Marie Ota – Chocolate to Sisiphus, JP / Francesca Fini – Western Meat Market, IT / Justyna Misiuk – Oresteia, PL / Jaś Domicz – 507 375 153, PL
Screening hosted by Krzysztof Dobrowolski
Video works:
Piotr Bosacki – Shekhinah, PL / Richard Wilhelmer – Strange Love, AT / Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt – Black Rain, USA / Yasuto Yura – Invincible Mighty Man, JP / Agnieszka Pokrywka - The End, PL / Ulf Kristiansen – The Caring Bears, NO / Alessandro Rolandi – One Harmonious Afternoon, IT
Screening hosted by Bartosz Korzeniowski
Screening of 9 episodes of Coppernickel series
High-spirited, high-energy, and loyal, Coppernickel is a bird of action. His best friend Tungsten is a super adventure dog himself, but in the most low-key way, and, as a bird's best friend, he is loyal too.
Video works:
Manuel Saiz – Sic Transit / Matthias Fritsch – We, Technoviking / Kazuhiro Goshima – Throw / Seoungho Cho – Horizontal Intimacy / Marek Ranis, Jonathan Case – Hold On / Nicolas Provost – Storyteller / Robert Cahen – Le Depart
Screening hosted by:
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka
A series of Wednesday's screenings during the WRO 2011 Alternative Now Résumé exhibiiton.
WRO Flash is a dynamic 40-minute video survey of the WRO 2011 Biennale, presenting the Biennale's venues and atmosphere as well as current trends in media art, creative approaches and the issues raised by contemporary art.
Commentary: Piotr Krajewski
Screening of Dutch animated films prepared specially for WRO by
Netherlands Institute for Animation Film.
Galeria Ў
Niezalieżnasci Avenue 37a
In collaboration with: Anna Iv, cello
A performance for the Internet and musical instruments, commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and carried out by the WRO Art Center within the cultural program accompanying the Polish Presidency of the EU.
WRO on Tour presentation at the conference/workshop at KUMU Eesti Kunstimuuseum Tallin, accompanied gateways. Art and Networked Culture exhibition, co-organized by the Goethe Institut.
In Tallin Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka will present the curatorial conception of Alternative Now and Interactive Platform installation, as well as the WRO Flash program.
Presentation of WRO collection and panel discussion Arts for all? / the digitalisation of contemporary art in the program section Art for Social Change: House of Change of one the main events of the Cultural Program of the Polish EU Presidency.
3.09.2011, 22:00
Paweł Janicki + invited musician
EU_tracer – interactive visual-sound performance
4.09.2011, 16:00
Master-Class Workshop – Programming of the Interactive Systems for Artistic Projects
WRO Alternative Now Flash is a dynamic condensed account of the most outstanding events and media-art trends from the WRO 2011 Biennale. The set features footage of performances, media installations, exhibitions and events in urban space.
Presentation: Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka
At the Contexts Festival in Sokołowsko, organized by In Situ Foundation, Krzysiek Dobrowolski will present the set of video-documentation of performances from WRO Collection.
Candice Breitz, Rainer Gamsjäger, Mihai Grecu, Paweł Janicki, Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni), Nicolas Provost. An exhibition of installations revolving around innovative narrative forms in contemporary media art, prepared jointly by Contour Mechelen (Belgium), OK Center, Linz (Austria), EMAF Osnabrück (Germany), Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand (France), Invideo, Milan (Italy) and the WRO Art Center, Wroclaw
Nicolas Provost's video work Moving Stories currently at display at WRO Art Center will be shown as part of the Venice Film Festival – Orizzonti section for experimental and alternative cinema.
Moving Stories is part of an international art project under the same title, co-organized by six art centres from Europe: Contour Mechelen, OK Center, Linz, EMAF Osnabrück, Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand, Invideo Milan and WRO.
exhibition/presentations/debates/info ilatform
During the meeting of Transitory Network Forum, a platform for exchange and collaboration between institutions and artists from Central and Southern Europe Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Belgrade will present the paper Controlled environments vs free expression. Media art projects for public space in the curatorial practice of the WRO Art Center, as part of the WRO on Tour.
Organized by Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana and Treći Beograd
A composition for Disklavier and multichannel projection of sound and image
Aula ARTIS, Kutrzeby 10, Poznań
The 4ht edition of the ANIMATOR Film Festival will be inaugrated by Jarosław Kapuściński performing his audiovisual work Where Is Chopin?, in which the composer controlls a multichannel video projection by playing piano.
Candice Breitz, Rainer Gamsjäger, Mihai Grecu, Paweł Janicki, Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni), Nicolas Provost. An exhibition of installations revolving around innovative narrative forms in contemporary media art, prepared jointly by Contour Mechelen (Belgium), OK Center, Linz (Austria), EMAF Osnabrück (Germany), Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand (France), Invideo, Milan (Italy) and the WRO Art Center, Wroclaw
Candice Breitz, Rainer Gamsjäger, Mihai Grecu, Paweł Janicki, Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni), Nicolas Provost.
As a part of the WRO 2011 Biennale, an exhibition of installations revolving around innovative narrative forms in contemporary media art, prepared jointly by Contour Mechelen (Belgium), OK Center, Linz; EMAF Osnabrück; Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand; Invideo, Milan; and the WRO Art Center.
The public is invited to attend a drawing to be held on Saturday, June 18, at 3 p.m. in the Pokoyhof Passage. All who casted their vote for one of the Biennale's works have a chance to win a prize. It is also a final chance to see Pokoyhof, National Museum and Atelier WRO exhibitions as they all close on Sunday the 19th. During the last day furthermore, we will announce the name of an artist who has received the biggest number of votes.
The Main Square – see the pictures!
Dominika Sobolewska & Paweł Janicki
The Interactive Platform is a new outdoor addition to WRO's Interactive Playground. Children moving around on the platform's squares create sounds that result from the interplay of color, space and movement. It provides children with a fun, independent and hands-on way to learn about how art and music relate.
Exhibition by Igor Krenz
WRO Atelier, Kuźnicza 29a
Wed-Sat: 15:00-18:00, or you can also make an appointement by phone: 0048 71 323 32 40
Igor Krenz's newest works displayed in the renovated WRO Foundation work space. The display alludes to a scientific book with the same title, and the works in it use the method described in the book for processing and analyzing digital images.
Pokoyhof Passage
Św. Antoniego 2-4
Open: Tuesday-Sunday
Tue-Fri: 11:00-18:00
Sat-Sun: 12:00-16:00
Muzeum Narodowe
Pl. Powstańców Warszawy 5
Open: Wednesday-Sunday
Wed-Fri: 10:00-17:00
Sat: 10:00-18:00, Sun: 10:00-17:00
Opening: Sunday, May 29th 2010, 11 am
The Interactive Playground exhibition, which has been experienced by over a hundred thousand viewers in major art galleries and museums, will be presented at the Old Power Station in Białystok.
It's a pioneering project both in the technological sense and in the way the pieces interact with the public. The set of installations, which is constantly expanding to include new components, creates an immersive experience and lets viewers generate images and sounds on large screens in real time, by playing.
WRO Art Center, National Museum, Pokoyhof Passage, Helios Cinema, The Grotowski Institute, Entropia Gallery, EMDES Gallery, WRO Atelier, Pan Tadeusz Museum, Main Square
screenings / films / videos / installations / performances / concerts / web art / interactive projects / conferences / artists' presentations / little wro: a program for youngsters
The Hidden Decade. Polish Video Art 1985-1995 at Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen:
Presented films:
Cinema Is Power!, Józef Robakowski
The Killing of Hindenburg, Łódź Kaliska
Into the City, Anna Janczyszyn
Obsession, Maciej Toporowicz
Candice Breitz, Rainer Gamsjäger, Mihai Grecu, Paweł Janicki, Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni), Nicolas Provost. An exhibition of installations revolving around innovative narrative forms in contemporary media art, prepared jointly by Contour Mechelen (Belgium), OK Center, Linz (Austria), EMAF Osnabrück (Germany), Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand (France), Invideo, Milan (Italy) and the WRO Art Center, Wroclaw
Candice Breitz, Rainer Gamsjäger, Mihai Grecu, Paweł Janicki, Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni), Nicolas Provost. An exhibition of installations revolving around innovative narrative forms in contemporary media art, prepared jointly by Contour Mechelen (Belgium), OK Center, Linz (Austria), EMAF Osnabrück (Germany), Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand (France), Invideo, Milan (Italy) and the WRO Art Center, Wroclaw
Upcoming exhibition
Transitland is a collaborative archiving project initiated on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Its main outcome is a selection of 100 single-channel video works, produced in the period 1989-2009 and reflecting the transformations in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe.
Candice Breitz, Rainer Gamsjäger, Mihai Grecu, Paweł Janicki, Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni), Nicolas Provost. An exhibition of installations revolving around innovative narrative forms in contemporary media art, prepared jointly by Contour Mechelen (Belgium), OK Center, Linz (Austria), EMAF Osnabrück (Germany), Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand (France), Invideo, Milan (Italy) and the WRO Art Center, Wroclaw (Poland), and funded in part by the EC.
Břetislav Pojar Retrospective
Born in 1923 in Czechoslovakia, Břetislav Pojar is a puppeteer, animator and director of short and feature films. He started his career in the late 1940s, directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka. Pojar compiled an extensive body of work as a director and animator in Czechoslovakia, where he made films in both puppet animation to the more common stop motion animation.
In the mid-1960s he emigrated to Canada, where he began a long collaboration with the NFB. His Canadian work is some of his best known, and it has won awards at prestigious international film festivals.
The installation RGB Red-Green-Blue by Dominika Sobolewska, one of the artists who created WRO's Interactive Playground, will be featured at the international exhibition Color & Geometry: New European Geometric Art [Kolor i Geometria - Aktualne osiągnięcia sztuki europejskiej nurtu geometrii] at the National Museum in Kielce. The exhibition will also be shown at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Frank Popper in Marcigny, France.
The European Commission and the DCA consortium, comprising 25 European partners, have officially launched the project Digitising Contemporary Art (DCA) initiating a significant increase in the presence of contemporary art in Europeana, the single access point to Europe's cultural heritage. Approx. 30,000 contemporary artworks will be digitised. Poland is represented by WRO.
International Convention on Manga, Animation, Game and Media Art (ICOMAG) 2011 will feature lectures by Dr. Jaqueline Berndt (Prof. Kyoto Seika Univ.), Dr. Paul Bouissac (Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Toronto), Dr. Erkki Huhtamo (Prof., Univ. of California LA), Piotr Krajewski (Curator/Artistic Director WRO Media Art Biennale/WRO Art Center), Dr. Gunalan Nadarajan (Theorist, Pennsylvania State Univ.), Stefan Riekeles (Les Jardins des Pilotes), Prof. Hiroshi Yoshioka (Kyoto Univ.).
Symposium of the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival
New Role and Significance of Art Festivals in the 2010s
Presentation and panel discussion
The National Art Center, Tokyo
Participants: WRO Art Center – Agnieszka Dzieduszycka, GOGBOT Festival, Enschede, Netherlands
Moderator: Yukiko Shikata, JMAF Art Division Head of the Jury, Media art curator
International media art festivals at Japan Media Arts Festival
Social Media Lounge
The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2F Exhibition Gallery 2E
History of media art in Poland from the perspective of WRO Media Art Festivals – a presentation for general public and professional audiences, webcasted through USTREAM.
Coming soon: Exhibition of new media installations by Tomasz Domański
Curated by Piotr Krajewski
Exhibiton untill 13.03.2011
Academy of Art cycle at the BWA Bydgoszcz Gallery: presentation of curatorial programs from The Hidden Decade DVDs
18.11.2010, 18:00
Histories and Rituals
Panel discussions within the Rencontres Internationales festival are a presentation forum for the major contemporary art institutions from the whole world. In the Paris edition curators from 31 art centers will present their current practice. Chosen projects developed by WRO, the only Polish institution featured at the forum, will be discussed by Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka. Supported by Polish Institute in Paris.
During the congress inspired by the oeuvre of Lviv-born Polish writer Stanisław Lem, scientists, artists and curators raise up the issues of understanding, programming and creating of future. The video-presentation WRO Perspective: A Few notes on Past Rendering of Now features excerpts of two visionary lectures that Jaron Lanier, the artist, scientist,author and the founder of the term Virtual Reality, gave at the WRO Biennale in 1997 and 2000.
Audiovisual composition for Disklavier and multichannel projection of sound and image
The work, commissioned jointly by the WRO Art Center, the Polish Cultural Insitute in London, the Warsaw Autumn Contemporary Music Festival and Stanford University for the 2010 Year of Chopin, will be perform at the CHOPIN Pole Widzenia/Pole Słyszenia in Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun.
Academy of Art cycle at the BWA Bydgoszcz Gallery: presentations of curatorial programs from The Hidden Decade DVDs
18.11.2010, 18:00 – Interiors
19.11.2010, 18:00 – W Miasto
WOZOWNIA Gallery of Art, Toruń
16.11.2010 – presentation & screening
Curator Piotr Krajewski
17.11.2010 – promotion of the publication
Meeting with artists: Wojciech Zamiara, Marek Wasilewski, Piotr Krajewski
Videoinstallations | Hommage à Chopin
Exhibition till 19.01.2011
Premiere of new installation
180th anniversary of Chopin's concert in Wrocław
Robert Cahen (born 1945) is one of France's foremost video artists. He studied "musique concrete" at Pierre Schaeffer, graduated from the Conservatoire National Superieur Musique de Paris, and was a member of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales de l'ORTF from 1971-74. From 1973-76, he was director of Experimental Video for ORTF/INA.
From the formal elegance to the intricate musical and visual transitions, Cahen's work is characterized by a sophisticated application of electronic techniques that manipulate sound and image, space and temporality, resulting in subtle transmutations of the illusory and the real. Building on his extensive research in acoustics, music, and filmmaking, he plays with the textures of sound and image to restructure representational modes, from the optical to the sonic, from the "picturesque" photograph to the conventions of narrative cinema. Resonating with wit and charm, executed with technical precision, his works allude to both formal and thematic motifs of travel, movement, and transition. Cahen's dreamlike journeys depict fleeting glimpses of a transitory reality, transformed in time within the pictorial frame.
BWA Jelenia Góra Gallery
Opening: Thursday, Nov 3rd 2010, 1 pm
The Interactive Playground has been experienced by over a hundred thousand viewers in major art galleries and museums.
It's a pioneering project both in the technological sense and in the way the pieces interact with the public. The set of installations, which is constantly expanding to include new components, creates an immersive experience and lets viewers generate images and sounds on large screens in real time, by playing.
Tarnów Cultural Center
Innovative solutions, interactive software for the youngest, experiments with forms of artistic expression introducing fundamental concepts in the field of art (texture, colour, perspective) and music (rythm, measure, harmony), and developing team working.
Jarosław Kapuściński, Józef Robakowski, Paweł Janicki
Dilston Grove, Southwest corner of Southwark Park, London
Privat View: 24.09.2010
Exhibition open until 10.10.2010
As one of the highlights of a year celebrating Fryderyk Chopin's music, the Polish Cultural Institute and WRO Art Center present a fresh new take on the most renowned Polish composer, integrating his compositions into three multimedia installations. Integrating some of his most popular piano works with high technology and creating powerful visual accompaniments to them, these installations reveal the timeless power and appeal of his music, well beyond the conventional concert-hall recitals.
Curated by Piotr Krajewski
Jarosław Kapuściński, Józef Robakowski and Paweł Janicki
Warsaw Autumn Festival
Tęcza Studio, September 20th-25th 2010
The Where's Chopin? exhibition presents completely new interpretations of Chopin's music. Integrating some of his most popular piano works with high technology and creating powerful visual accompaniments to them, these installations reveal the timeless power and appeal of his music, well beyond the conventional concert-hall recitals.
Curated by Piotr Krajewski
Video, installations, photographs
Vernissage: 9.09.2010, g. 19:00
Wolf Kahlen, who has turned 70 this year, is one of the most important German video pioneers.
The exhibition was shown before in Ruine der Künste Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe and Folkwang Museum Essen.
Supported by IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)
Art Workshops in Lublin
At the beginning of new season the Interactive Playground exhibition will be presented in two cities: Lublin and Tarnów.
Innovative solutions, interactive software for the youngest, experiments with forms of artistic expression introducing fundamental concepts in the field of art (texture, colour, perspective) and music (rythm, measure, harmony), and developing team working.
Film exhibition
Vernissage: July 21st 2010, 7 pm
Exhibition until August 15th
Norman McLaren (1914-1987) was for most of his life associated with NFB in Montreal, where he made over 60 films there, winning close to like 200 international awards, including an Oscar, a Golden Palm and a BAFTA award.
Seeking to unify the visual and audio levels of his films, McLaren explored the potential of animation for integrating music and image. Synthetic sound tracks that he composed by drawing by hand directly on film tape served as the basis for colorful visual replications of the sound, letting us "see what we hear". That technique – which McLaren called "animated sound", is the focus of this exhibition.
Mirosław Bałka, Wojciech Bąkowski, Piotr Bosacki, Wojtek Doroszuk, Józef Robakowski, Zorka Wollny
Polish Institute in Budapest, Platan Gallery
June 3rd – July 16th 2010
Curator: Piotr Krajewski
Coordination: Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
Wednesday, 16.06.2010, 18:00
WRO Expanded Tour – Polish and International Program
Thursday, 17.06.2010, 18:00
Nam June Paik: Driving Media
Lecture and presentation
conducted by
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka
Monday, 14.06.2010, 18:00
WRO Expanded Tour – Polish and International Program
Tuesday, 15.06.2010, 18:00
Nam June Paik: Driving Media
Lecture and presentation
conducted by
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka
Welcome to the next presentation of works selected from the The Hidden Decade. Polish Video Art 1985-95 collection, organized by BWA in Bydgoszcz within the framework of the 'Academy of Art' series.
This time we are presenting a curatorial selection entitled "Analog/Digital".
The third edition of the Podwodny Wrocław festival is launched at the Wrocław's Bourgeois'es Brewery (44-48 Hubska St.).
Welcome to the presentations of WRO Expanded Tour – Polish and International Video Tour – given by Paweł Janicki.
In the course of the Interactive Playground exhibition, on 8th and 9th June, Ester Polak and Ivara van Bekkum – a pair of Dutch artists invited by WRO will conduct workshops addressed to children between 8-12 years of age. GPS_Drawing Workshops teach children to create art using contemporary tools – video and GPS.
GPS_Drawings, or Geotales – telling a story by means of navigation tools is an activity in the course of which the children create their own compositions using signals collected during a walk around the city. The compositions will be later presented during the Interactive Playground.
Please join us at the Talk-talk-talk conference taking place between 2-4.06.2010 in Budapest, Hungary during Crosstalk Festival. You will also have a chance to see the Word Pictures: Talking Films exhibition presented within the framework of the event.
The participants of the Video Indisputable session will include Wojtek Doroszuk and Piotr Krajewski as well as Eva Brunner-Szabo, Gerda Lampalzer (Medienwerkstatt Wien), Juha van Ingen, Seppo Renvall (FixC, Helsinki).
A new face of the famous exhibition enriched with the most recent installations. Innovative solutions, interactive software for the youngest, experiments with forms of artistic expression introducing fundamental concepts in the field of art (texture, colour, perspective) and music (rythm, measure, harmony), and developing team working.
Private view: 10.06.2010, 1 pm
Admission free
Please visit us during the summer holidays – the exhibition continues until 15th July!
Polish video art created between 1985-1995 from the collection of WRO, gathered in the Hidden Decade project will be presented at the gallery of Poznań's Academy of Fine Arts for four days in May.
Curatorial guided tour conducted by Piotr Krajewski: Tuesday, 18th May.
Kino Lab, CCA Ujazdowski Castle
International Video Tour (awarded works)
Polish Video Tour
Presentations given by Gosia Sobolewska
Exhibition transferred from the Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki in Cracow, conceived to mark the 70. anniversary of Witkacy's death, includes over 100 portraits and self-portraits created by the artist between 1910-1938. The exposition at WRO Art Center focuses mainly on self-portraits, often realized by the artist and his friends as actions in front of the camera lens.
Enlarged photographs are presented as printouts of the original glass negatives and prints from the collection of Ewa Franczak and Stefan Okołowicz.
After the presentation at Warsaw's LeGuern Gallery, the neon, designed by Rafał Jakubowicz and based on the diagram-sketch by Jerzy Ludwiński from 1980 will be installed on the WRO Art Center's façade. The title of the work refers to the exhibition SP. Sztuka Pojęciowa organized by Ludwiński at Pod Moną Lizą Gallery in Wrocław, 1970.
5 pm – meeting with the artist, Justyna Kowalska (Le Guern Gallery) and Piotr Bernatowicz (Arteon).
7 pm – vernissage and launching the neon
Another presentation of Interactive Playground: this time we would like to invite you to Pacanów, where you can see the exhibition at the Koziolek Matolek European Tale Centre.
Spojrzenia 2009 – The Deutsche Bank Foundation Award
Wojciech Bąkowski, Olaf Brzeski, Bogna Burska, Wojtek Doroszuk, Anna Konik, Anna Molska, Zorka Wollny
Vernissage: 29th January 2010, 6 pm
Exhibition open untill 3rd April 2010
Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL)
Meeting with the author
View Platform series
The art book by Piotr Bosacki, published recently by the authors and Poznań-based Transmission Foundation, is a unique publication, presenting a selection of literary miniatures inspired by the author's dreams, filled with philosophical reflections based on everyday observations. Suffused with humour yet serious in its essence, the "dream book" is illustrated with drawings by Wojciech Bąkowski.
Galeria Manhattan, Łódź (PL)
Galeria Wozownia, Toruń (PL)
Galeria Arsenał
Poznań (PL)
Galeria Arsenał
Poznań (PL)
Meeting with Zbigniew Libera and Piotr Krajewski
Presentation of works The Hidden Decade. Polish Video Art 1985–1995
13.01.2010, 6 pm – Screening Room
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Zachęta National Art Gallery
WRO Expanded Tour + WRO Lab on Tour
AM Festival, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Mój Grotowski | Photos by Andrzej Paluchiewicz
Produced by: Zamek Culture Centre and WRO Art Center
Curated by: Bogda Sztencel
Exhibition open from 19.03 until 19.04.2009
Galeria Kont, Lublin (PL)
Interactive installations and video
Screening + commentary + meeting
WEFCON | WRO Labs On Tour
Zachęta National Gallery of Art
Presented by Paweł Janicki And Jarek Grzesica
WRO Lab on Tour
WEFCON Festival, Warsaw
Invideo Festival, Spazio Oberdan, Mediolan
FE FEST, Filmoteka Europejska
Kino Kultura, Warsaw
MASBEDO – duo exhibiting in the Italian Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale
Screenings and meeting with the artists
Baltic Sea Cultural Centre (NCK), Gdańsk
The seminar organized by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre is the first meeting in a planned series of conferences and workshops. Through the transfer of knowledge – examples of 'good practices', as well as presentation of effective solutions – it attempts to establish a coherent system of education development and international cultural exchange.
2.0 Gallery, Krakowskie Przedmieście 5
Curator: Upgrade!Warsaw
BWA Zielona Góra
Film exhibition + meeting with the artist and Wendesday screenings
The traces of memory are recorded in painting, screenings and a found object. The traces don't reveal their meanings, they merely hint at how to search for them. Twardowski did half of the job, and now he's giving it up for the audience.
Jam Factory, Lviv Art Palace, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
The Week of Contemporary Art in Lviv
Exhibition curated by Piotr Krajewski
Media Art Biennale WRO 09
National Museum in Wrocław
Exhibitions / performances / competition / club scene
Screeninf of the video footage presented during the 'Performer' exhibition at Zachęta National Gallery of Art in the context of the photography exhibition by Andrzej Paluchiewicz 'My Grotowski'
28.03 (+ 1.04), 2.04, 3.04 2009
Welcome to the first presentation of our most recent publication
Widok. WRO Media Art Reader Numer 1
From Absolute Cinema to Future Film
Materials from the history of experiment in the moving picture art (Book + DVD)
video installation
Video space
Curated by Piotr Krajewski
Screening exhibition
Wernisaż 12.09.2008, godz. 18:30
Czynna do 11.10.2008
Interactive audiovisual exhibition
Vernissage: 19 Jul 2008, g. 21:00 / free entry
Exhibition: 19 – 27 Jul 2008
Body of Peter Style medial expansion, medial reduction
Vernissage + Performance: 18.06.2008, 18:30
Exhibition open until 13.07.2008
16.05.2008, 18:30 – Openning / Meeting with the artist
17.05-8.06.2008 – Exhibition
WRO's collection screenings.
11.04 – 11.05.2008
International conference within the confines of the
15th International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Plus Camerimage
November, 30th 2007, The Grand Theatre Łódź, 12:00-18:00
Accordnig to our motto, "Instead watchmans – Art mediators", we consider art as a means of expression and knowledge widely available and free of charge.
The role of an innovative cultural institution — co-financed by/from the public funds of the Wrocław Municipality — should be its development, presentation and dissemination.
The program of art mediation — developed by the WRO team and run through the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage — is to bring the idea of contemporary art closer to society.
It is aimed at wide audience, and thanks to custom modern technologies and innovative practice, co-shaped with them.
The method and aim of WRO's activities derives from the pioneering in Poland scientific traditions of the Cultural Studies Department of the University of Wrocław, the functional thesis of which its initiator, theoretician and thinker, professor Stanisław Pietraszko phrased as:
To combine the dissemination of knowledge with the dissemination of art /excessive division/. Wrocław, 1968
The thought cannot be effectively translated into an image. If, then rare/If it happens, it is very rare. – Stanisław Lem in conversation with Piotr Krajewski in a message to the participants of the congress Mediation/Medialisation organized by the WRO Art Center in 2000.
WRO Art Center
7, Widok
50-052 Wrocław, Poland
tel.: +48 (71) 343 32 40
e-mail: email@example.com
A joint formula, combining curatorial and technological elaboration of topics and presentation of issues in (the) form of exhibitions, installations, custom-production of unique objects of art, exhibition systems of interaction with the audience, applications, ways of receiving the work, carrying information about the functionality of the artwork. A place to access and make use of a number of custom software solutions and applications designed by the team. In addition to Biennale projects and exhibition objects, there are also other custom-solutions developed in this way, including: AC/DC/IT, Oceanus (within Moving Stories), Interactive Playground, Where's Chopin?, Lutoscratch, Vinyl Video Delay.
For the little ones and for the elder/For children and not only – for and with others
Sunday Film Matinées: The pillow cinema of/for young audience – animated film screenings from all over the world.
Interactive Playground: (A) Custom interactive exhibition built up for the youngest audience, where movement, light, sound and gesture serve fun and understanding of art.
Workshops: Together with artists, we built robots, grow plants, make our own films, read and draw/design (moving) books; we sightsee and program.
School in the City: For primary and secondary schools, together we create a new education-friendly space to understand the changing world.
Media Kindergarten is a custom concept of active participation in culture, designed not only for children, and their parents, educators and animators, but for a wide range of audience. An individual approach to befriend/make friends with contemporary art brings closer issues related to audiovisual culture and interaction, modern media and communication. The program takes form of educational, disseminational workshops, screenings, interactive team games, installations, exhibitions, meetings with artists, family workshops, classes/educational units/sets for kindergarteners, primary and secondary school pupils, activities for the disabled and for the elder, all conducted by Art Mediators, the personal assistants of viewers.
Run in a casual formula and refering to an individual recipient's experience and competence, educational classes are to eliminate symbolic barriers in contact with art, including the economical.
All activities carried out at the WRO Art Center are free for its visitors.
Weekly Sunday screenings of selected Polish and international animated films, accompanied by workshop activities, eagerly and numerously visited by the youngest viewers, their families and fans of animation regardless of age. We screen films that are hard to see anywhere else of both recognized and emergent Polish and international artists; author films and best episodes from the most interesting series; the latest animations selected from the European festivals; we also recall superb titles found in the archives.
Active involvement of the audience connected with the program of exhibitions, projects and art residencies, implemented at the WRO Art Center and in WRO Atelier, taking shape in form of meetings with artists, curator guided tours, workshops, (thematic) lectures and screenings. The program is constructed at several substantive levels for diverse audience. For the little ones visitors, there are workshops accompanying Sunday Film Matinées, as well as special winter vacation workshops and holidays at WRO; for the older ones, there are have thematicunits within School in the City program; for people with varying degrees of disability, there are creative activities, including projects and exhibitions in cooperation with curators and the Wrocław-based World of Hope Association; for the advanced nerds, there are specialized workshops (read more), and for the eldest, there are competent curator guided tours in groups, integrating different generations.
Custom exhibition, consisting of interactive media installations, pioneering both from the technological side, as well as in the manner of its interaction with the public.
A set of installations, combining aesthetic, educational and social functions, using hidden electronic components and children-friendly objects. The natural textures of the real world, such as moss, stones, steam/water vapor, absent in the traditional computer interaction, allow children to create images, ands to directly and individually explore the idea of art. In this way, Interactive Playground becomes a place, where the traditional and new media meet: film, visual arts, two- and three-dimensional manipulation of optics and colour, tactile experience, interactivity and interpersonal interaction. The ideas of Dominika Sobolewska and Patrycja Mastej have been developed into an interactive system that uses motion detection and light analysis in order to change the audiovisual environment based on the concept of interaction and innovative software developed by Paweł Janicki. Its interfaces generate a friendly environment in which children can enjoy their creativity.
The exhibition, staged in Poland and abroad, has already been seen by more than 300 000 spectators. It is being constantly developed with new interactions and objects!
Access for everyone to the WRO Art Center archive and collection, developed continuously since 1989, consisting of artworks and their documentations, from the 20th century to today. A unique source of knowledge about contemporary art and its communication and technological aspects, a space to exchange ideas and author's information. video.wrocenter.pl serves as an online platform to present thematic video collections and a large number of well-developed materials: selection important works, audiovisual records of events and meetings, as well as custom, not more available in physical form, multimedia publications and resources of our dissemination and exhibition projects.
Space in the WRO Art Center, inviting to individually enjoy audiovisual digital resources and the library – both developed over the years and covering almost two and a half thousand items. It is a place of thematic screenings and meetings with artists, lectures with students, workshops accompanying Film Matinées and the program of School in the City. These are the standpoints for browsing the digital collection of WRO, consisting of both Polish and international media artworks since the 70s, continuously elaborated files and documentations, reading room with Book of the Week, and materials excercising the current exhibition program.
Carrying out a consistent curatorial program of solo and group exhibitions of both recognized and emergent Polish and international artists, new works and retrospectives, staged in Poland and abroad. Innovative exhibitions concerning the way of creating the objects and interactivity with the audience, including among others: Mirosław Bałka, Gábor Bódy, Piotr Bosacki, Robert Cahen, Tomasz Domański, Jaś Domicz, Andrzej Dudek-Dürer, Izabella Gustowska, Piotr Jaros, Wolf Kahlen, Małgorzata Kaźmierczak + Paweł Janicki, Leszek Knaflewski, Igor Krenz, Norman McLaren, Wsiewołod Meyerhold, Nam June Paik, Andrzej Paluchiewicz, Abraham Ravett, Józef Robakowski, Niklas Roy, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Carolee Schneemann, Tibor Szemző, Lech Twardowski, Witkacy (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz), Marek Wasilewski, Piotr Wyrzykowski aka Peter Style, Noriko Yamaguchi, Edward Zajec.
International projects of digitalization and documentation of contemporary art available online on video.wrocenter.pl, and via vimeo.com and Europeana.eu, as well as on-site at WRO in the Media Library.
Visit websites of the projects: ArtistTalk.eu and DCA.
Within the framework of the European project DCA (Digitising Contemporary Art), in the years 2011-2013, part of the audiovisual archive of the WRO Art Center, including selection of the unique documentations of media installations and performances from the years 1990-2012, was elaborated, digitized and made available for the public. A complete collection of works digitized during DCA by twenty-five European museums, galleries and educational institutions includes nearly 30,000 high-quality digital reproductions of contemporary artworks available on the platform Europeana.eu. Materials elaborated by WRO and made available on the subdomain video.wrocenter.pl document the events that are/were critical/essential/fundamental for the development of media art since the 90s, depicting/demonstrating by that very act/in this way the historical development of the means of expression, tools and forms of presentation of media art.
Artist Talk
A series of public meetings and interviews with artists, curators, and theorists, working in the field of new media art. Associated with the current exhibition program at WRO Art Center and WRO Atelier, the meetings broaden their contexts and allow to directly address the artists. Since 2011, this practice effectively contributes to the development of/to build the dialogue and relations with both local and international recipients of the WRO activities/activities carried out at WRO. Initiated by an EU project and currently elaborated, the materials recorded by WRO and its partners – Museum of Transitory Art (MOTA) from Ljubljana and CIANT—International Centre for Art and New Technologies from Prague – are available online on video.wrocenter.pl, artisttalk.eu, vimeo.com, as well as on-site at WRO in the Media Library.
An educational, guided-tour program of screenings, workshops, concerts, performances, involving interactive technologies for the youngest audience and participants of the WRO Biennale. Growing in number with each subsequent edition, it is one of the earliest program in Poland accompanying large artistic event, treated not as a supplement, but an integral part of the Biennale.
(Little WRO is part of an innovative, disseminating project Media Kindergarten, produced and consistently developed since the inception of the WRO Art Center).
Visit online sharing platform – works, publications, and conversations with artists.
The biggest and leading in Poland international forum for contemporary art, in particular media art, from the beginning created by Piotr Krajewski (artistic director), Viola Kutlubasis-Krajewska (program director) and Zbigniew Kupisz (executive producer).
The subsequent editions of the WRO Biennale depict the transformation of the artistic practice of recent decades, hosting artists from all over the world, among them/including the iconic figures for the development of media art. In a series of exhibitions, performances, concerts, and projects in public space, where artists, theoreticians and the audience meet, the WRO Biennale presents a variety of creative attitudes towards new technologies and emerging media space at the intersection of art, science, creative and social activity.
Visit the latest edition of WRO 2013 Pioneering Values.
Multimedia publications on media art, comprising of successive editions of the "WIDOK: WRO Media Art Reader" series, a unique first monograph on the work of Józef Robakowski, a cross-sectional study of video art and public space "From Monument to Market", and the papers/magazines issued on the occasion of exhibitions or other projects. New titles – both online and in print – soon!
An interactive audiovisual environment in public space
An innovative, long-term project created in cooperation with the wide audience. The Green Labyrinth is an architectural and gardening structure, consisting of different species of plants; an interactive space, in which through the custom image and sound systems designed by WRO team, the viewers walk, using among others their own mobile devices, allowing to receive data and communicate individually with the (eco)system of installation.
WRO Art Center participates in many international exchange programs for artists and curators.