Boys and Girls
17 February – 4 April 2004
Zacheta National Gallery of Art
pl. Malachowskiego 3
00-916 Warsaw, Poland
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Exhibition Opening: 16th February, 19.00
curator: Magda Kardasz
Art is one of the most individual human activities. Paradoxically it can also be created by a pair or a group of people who manage to find a way to produce a common work of art or artistic event. Over recent years, a wave of groups of women or girls working together has emerged, reversing the previous male dominance of this phenomenon. This simple observation triggered the idea for an exhibition that would be a review of men’s and women’s artistic groups, an exhibition that would pose the question of the similarities and differences of their approaches towards art. A significant part of this project will be the live performances at the opening night. Thirteen extremely interesting artistic groups, invited for this exhibition deal in a more or less direct way with challenging prevailing social cliches of thought on the theme of “what is typically female or male”. The field of curatorial search for participants was on sample – the northern Europe. Therefore invited groups come from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Germany, Norway, Poland and Russia consist of young and very young artists whose work constitutes a commentary of the contemporary. Another factor linking these groups is sense of humour visible in their works and that their favourite medium is performance or simply – artistic action. The exhibition “Boys and Girls” however is not just recording of life events that will be on view, but also films, photographs and objects created by members of the following artistic groups:
1) Supergroup AZORRO: Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz, Wojtek Niedzielko and Lukasz Skapski (Poland)
2) BLIZGE: Zilvinas Landzbergas, Rokas Petruskevicius and Mindaugas Lukosaitis (Lithuania)
3) The Factory of Found Clothes from St. Petersburg (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya (Gluklya) and Olga Egorova (Tsaplya) 4) GRZENDA: Ewa Szczyrek, Malgorzata Markiewicz and Karolina Kowalska (Poland)
5) The Icelandic Love Corporation: Sigrun Hrolfsdottir, Joni Jonsdottir and Eirun -Sigurdardottir (Reykjavik)
6) kebbelife: Vanessa Baird and Mette Hellenes (Norway)
7) Frank Luesing (Hamburg) and Oliver Kochta (currently Helsinki)
8) Frank Luesing and Aleksander Rischer as Cardiophon (Hamburg)
9) Parfyme: Pelle Bragge Anderson and Ebbe Dam Meinhild (Denmark)
10) rasmus knud: Sebastian Schiorring and Johannes Christoffersen (Denmark)
11) Share Joy (or Sheer Joy – Estonia): Piret Rani, Anu Vahtra, Ivika Kivi and others
12) VOUKKOSET (Finland): in the reduced line-up: Tallervo Kaleinen and Niina Braun
13) Lone Bank, Christina Malbek and Tanja Rau (Denmark).
The exhibition “Boys and Girls” will be accompanied by the catalogue including a questionnaire for the artists prepared by the curator, as well as documentation of the live performances taken place at the opening night.
We acknowledge thanks to the Patron of Zacheta Gallery: BRE BANK S.A.,
