March 16, 2025
🍴 Aesthetics of the past era of scarcity enclosed in a showcase, i.e. the works of Paweł Kowalewski in the exhibition “Food in Art” Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK. A new exhibition has just opened in Krakow. Food and consumption is our everyday life — what do artists have to say about it? 🍎 “Food in Art” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK is an intriguing exhibition where you can see the works of artists from all over the world. All of them touch on the title theme in a more or less literal way, touching on social, political, aesthetic, biographical and other issues. This is the 11th exhibition in MOCAK's flagship series, in which important areas of life are confronted with reflections, observations and ideas of artists. This time the curators took to the workshop the topic of food and consumption. In the exhibition you can see the works of artists from all over the world, who address the title theme in a more or less literal way touching on social, political, aesthetic, biographical and many other issues. You can see on it, among others, two works from the series “Exercises from aesthetics, in which I grew up” created in the early 1990s by Paweł Kowalewski. The exhibition is open until March 16, 2025.
14 December 2024
The exhibition Words are reviewed in itself will explore the relationships between the word — text, poetry — and the image, and the curator, Daniel Muzyczuk, invited renowned artists from different generations, who work in different media to participate. Selected works were translated into words by the poets and poets invited to the project. The exhibition will include works by Paweł Kowalewski, founder and co-creator of Gruppa, one of the most important artistic collectives of Polish art of the 1980s. The exhibition at the Stefan Gierowski Foundation is a unique opportunity to see the works of the artist from this period — both those recognized and those not shown before. It will be possible to get acquainted with the work of Andrzej Partum, an artist born in 1938, who was one of the most recognized pioneers of neo-avant-garde art in post-war Poland. There will also be works by Małgorzata Rittersschild from the 1990s and artists from the younger generation, born in the nineties — Zuzana Bartoszek and Agata Ingarden. The exhibition will also see the works of other outstanding artists — Wojciech Bąkowski, Tomasz Kowalski, Andrzej Partum, Anna Ostoa, Maria Stangret and Tomasz Żołnierkiewicz. The exhibition will be accompanied by poetic works by Zuzanna Bartoszek, Marcin Czerkasow, Darek Foks, Emilia Konwerska and Natalia Malek. “You'd have to see it!” is a sentence that closes the discussion and leaves the worlds of eyewitness and literality eternally separated. Experience teaches, however, that you don't have to see everything to tell about it. And also the fact that the story about an object is often definitely more interesting than its appearance. — writes the curator of the exhibition, Daniel Muzyczuk The Internet has refreshed the relationship between the description and the image. Alt text appears wherever the image is not available. It is often generated by AI. The famous DALL-E image generator relies on text to create graphics, using the resources of the Internet. The ideology of the modern dominance of the image over other methods of communication hides that unexpectedly the text pulls on more and more strings. Logocentrism is entering a new phase. The exhibition shows the works of artists who create paintings, use mediation through text and the various relationships that can occur between the spheres of text and image. The question of the relationship between text and image is also a matter of narration. Is it possible to include in the visual medium a story unfolding over time or simply the passage of time? It is also the other way around — words allow you to name objects and stabilize meaning. We will see non-existent objects whose appearance is mediated by the story. We will also see works that are based on the destabilization of their meaning by an ambiguous text, as well as images-pages of a diary and images-inkers... This exhibition is not to be missed! opening Saturday, 14 December 2024, 6 pm exhibition open 14 December 2024 — 9 March 2025 artists: Wojciech Bąkowski, Zuzanna Bartoszek, Agata Ingarden, Paweł Kowalewski, Tomasz Kowalski, Małgorzata Rittersschild, Andrzej Partum, Anna Ostoya, Maria Stangret, Tomasz Żołnierkiewicz poets and poets: Zuzanna Bartoszek, Marcin Czerkasow, Darek Foks, Emilia Konwerska, Natalia Malek. curator: Daniel Muzyczuk
17 November 2024
On the last day of Paweł Kowalewski's exhibition “The Defeat of Reason” we invite you to a meeting with the artist and a tour of the author. During the finale, Agata Milewska's documentary film “Genius without a head, that is, everything suits the artist” on the work of Paweł Kowalewski will be presented. In addition to the artist himself, the documentary features: Anda Rottenberg, Kuka Rittersschild, Leon Tarasewicz, Krzysztof M Bednarski, Jarosław Modzelewski, Ryszard Woźniak, Ryszard Grzyb, Jerzy Porębski, Paweł Sosnowski, Zofia Gołubiew and Stefan Gierowski. Paweł Kowalewski (born 1958, Warsaw) — painter, intermediate artist, professor of the Academy of Fine Arts, member and founder of the legendary Gruppa. In the years 1978—1983 he studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he obtained a diploma with honors in the studio of Stefan Gierowski. In 1982 he founded the legendary artistic formation Gruppa, one of the key formations of Polish art of the 1980s. From 1985 to 2023 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Design of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where in 2019 he was awarded the title of professor of the Academy of Fine Arts. His works can be found in many important collections, including the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Krakow, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Jerke Museum in Recklinghausen, the Museum of Art in Łódź, the Regional Museum in Bydgoszcz, the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, as well as the ING Foundation for Polish Art, the Starak Family Foundation and private collections such as Cartier, Isy Brachot. Event partner: Velvet