Monika Sosnowska
Loop
February 16-May 6, 2007
Opening, February 15, 2007, 6.00pm
Curator: Adam Budak
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Städtle 32 P.O. Box 370
FL-9490 Vaduz
Tel: 423 235 03 00
Fax: 423 235 03 29
mail [at] kunstmuseum.li
Tu Su 10am 5pm
Th 10am 8.00pm
The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz is pleased to announce the opening of a first large-scale museum exhibition of Monika Sosnowska, entitled Loop.
In her installations that echo the formal language of constructivist avant-garde, minimal and conceptual tendencies of the 60s and the 70s as well as a heritage of modernist architecture, Monika Sosnowska constructs a physical and conceptual labyrinth, a post-narrative, inner world of spatiality, staged in a sequence of interventions that emphasize spaces virtualities and potentials. Here, in this complex and powerful investigation of a spatial perception, a particular surgery is being applied to a body of space and its cultural articulation, architecture. The space and its parameters: size, dimensions, scale, plans, topology are being altered, shifted and possibly confused and manipulated in order to generate a very unique, unusual experience of spatial habitat and to sharpen our perception of it, outside of a common reality and its habits. With her intimate geometry, Sosnowska experiments with our senses and emotions, making us aware of psychosomatic, hidden qualities of space which in her highly performative installations are personified and animated. Between Kafkaesque oppression and a desire to liberate space, there is a sublime and uncanny spatial environment, rendered sometimes very playfully – on the edge of dream-like imagery and an everyday familiar experience.
Sosnowskas monumental architectural intervention, Loop, developed especially for the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in a collaboration with one of the architects of the museum building, Christian Kerez – as a flexible but controlled space with its deconstructive drive and the rare processings of memory – is an attempt to confront modernist universalised patterns and to escape dimensions in a radical act of constructing a subjective space, a sensual, partly oneiric, mental shell of contemplation and desire. Welcome to a seance of a phenomenological spatio-therapy.
Monika Sosnowska was born in 1972 in Ryki, Poland. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and currently she lives and works in Warsaw. Her recent exhibitions include shows at MoMA, New York, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Freud Museum Vienna, Serpentine Gallery London, De Appel in Amsterdam. Sosnowska participated in Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt), 8th Istanbul Biennale, Venice Biennale 2003. Monika Sosnowska will represent Poland at the forthcoming Biennale in Venice.
The catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition, contains text contributions by Will Bradley, Christian Kerez, Friedemann Malsch, Anthony Vidler, Jan Verwoert and Adam Budak as well as a rich visual material, including installation shots from the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein exhibition.
Monika Sosnowskas Loop is accompanied by the programme of the following events:
Thursday, March 8, 2007, 6.00pm
About Monika Sosnowskas Loop
Christian Kerez, architect, professor of architecture, ETH Zürich
Conversation
Thursday, March 15, 2007, 6.00pm
Experiencing Architectural Spaces
Konrad Wiesendanger, architect, Luzern
Lecture
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 6.00pm
Last Year in Marienbad, 1961, dir. Alain Resnais
Screening
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 6.00pm
Spaces, Cinema, Feelings. About the Work of Monika Sosnowska
Jan Verwoert, art critic and writer
Thursday, April 26, 2007, 6.00pm
Loop
Monika Sosnowska in conversation with Adam Budak, exhibition curator
