Wola Art 2009 | CityProjectWola

opening 27 Nov
organised by The Polish Modern Art Foundation
curated by Sarmen Beglarian & Sylwia Szymaniak

This year’s festival Wola Art will relate to limits of space.

Wola, where the event takes place is the district of contrasts. On one hand we can see a lot of construction investments as a result of fast development, on the other one we find remains of old, pre-war district of Warsaw or specific to this part of Europe post-war architectonic realizations. Our poit of view depend of the place we stay. Ofen we need to cross the limits to see more. Wola Art festival will consists of 5 public space installations and one DVD film Showing artworks will be in relation with space chosen for project’s realization. Points of reference to architecture will be different in each case, both by emphasis the context and by the contrast. Synergy between the art of installation and the architecture let us discover new ways of forming and perception of space. Festival Wola Art 2009 intention is a wish to show well-known places in completly diffrent way as well as completly undiscovered spaces in the Wola district by the inhabitants of Warsaw.

Artists/Groups:
Koen De Decker
Jerzy Goliszewski
Elham Rokni
Lang/Baumann
Slavs And Tatars
Jakub Szczęsny

Artists/ Groups:
Koen De Decker, www.koendedecker.com
Jerzy Goliszewski, www.jerzygoliszewski.com
Lang & Baumann, www.langbaumann.com
Elham Rokni, http://and.nmartproject.net/?p=1494
Slavs and Tatars, http://www.slavsandtatars.com
Kuba Szczęsny, www.cemtrala.net.pl

Artists and places:

Koen De Decker, installation, ul.Chmielna 73c

Jerzy Goliszewski – sculpture, Al. Solidarności 82a

Lang & Baumann –installation „Comfort #3“,flat in housing estate“ Behind the Iron Gate“

Elham Rokni - film DVD „Still life“, Building Zasłużonego Pracownika Budownictwa: ul. Elekcyjna 6

Slavs and Tatars -banner, Piekarnia Wolska , ul. Św. Stanisława 1

Kuba Szczęsny –architectonic installation „Ermitaż“, space close to building on ul. Chłodna 22

About the organisator
The Polish Modern Art Foundation, established in the autumn of 1985, is one of the first independent non-profit institutions operating in the field of culture. Its mission is to provide support for and promote talented artists who have distinguished themselves and whose artistic activity contributes to the development of modern art, and above all the Polish arts. Moreover, the Foundation supports independent artists of Central and Eastern Europe.

Since 2005, the Polish Modern Art Foundation has been a public domain organisation. Within the framework of its statutory activities, the Foundation has organised or co-organised many individual and collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad. The most important of these include: "Masters of Contemporary Art in Poland" in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca in the USA (1986); The "Furmanny Zaułek" exhibition in former the Norblin Factory, a Department of the Warsaw Museum of Technology (1989), which went on to be shown in Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny in Switzerland (1990); "40 from Israel" in the exhibition hall of the Association of Polish Architects in Warsaw as well as in the Palace of Art in Krakow (1990); "No! and conformists" in the X. Dunikowski Museum at the Królikarnia Palace, a Department of the National Museum in Warsaw, and then transferred to the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (1994); "Marian Czapla. 30 years of creative work" in the National Museum in Kielce (2002); "Warsaw – Moscow / Moscow - Warsaw 1900-2000" in the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw (2004) and in the Trietiakov State Gallery in Moscow (2005); "10 albums by Ilia Kabakov" in the Atlas Sztuki Gallery in Lodz (2006).

The Foundation has published or jointly published many publications, the most important being: the books and albums "40 from Israel" (1990r.); "No!- and conformists" (1994r.); Andrzej Turowski’s "Malewicz in Warsaw" (2002); "Katarzyna Kobro. Sculpture and pastels 1947-1949. Hommage à Nika Strzemińska" (2003); "Henryk Musiałowicz. Paintings and sculpture. On the 90th anniversary of his birth" (2004); "Rybak nad morzem śmierci" (Fisherman on the sea of death). Poems and texts 1917

1922" by Wielimir Chlebnikov, translated by Adam Pomorski (2004); "Dominik odnaleziony (Dominik discovered). Works from the years 1952-1965. Drawings, graphics, collages, watercolours, paintings" (2005); "Widziądz widziadeł bezkształtnych (Shapeless phantoms). Poems and texts 1904-1916" by Wielimir Chlebnikov, translated by Adam Pomorski (2005)