Curators: Aleksandra Kędziorek, Łukasz Ronduda

The screening embraces films by Polish artists from 1970s until today, dedicated to the ideas of collectivity, self-organization and (im)possibility of forming a community through arts.

In 1971 a group of students and graduates of cinematography, acting and sculpture made a collective outing into Warsaw’s public space with a 35mm camera. Producing sequences for never-assembled film “Open Form” they acted jointly in the ideologized space of the communist city, testing possibilities for cooperation across artistic disciplines and self-organization of artists. Starting with three realized sequences of the “Open Form,” the screening brings a wide selection of Polish artists’ moving images from 1970s until now (the works by Piotr Andrejew, Paweł Althamer, Dominik Jałowiński, KwieKulik, Paweł Kwiek, Piotr Wysocki, and Artur Żmijewski), focused on the ideas of collectivity, role of the individual in the collective and the (im)possibility of forming a community through arts.

Participants: Aleksandra Kędziorek (lecture)

Paweł Althamer (born in 1976 in Warsaw), Piotr Andrejew (born in 1947 in Szczecin), Dominik Jałowiński (born in 1981 in Lublin), KwieKulik (Zofia Kulik, born in 1947 in Wrocław), Przemysław Kwiek, born in 1945 in Warsaw), Paweł Kwiek (born 1951 in Warsaw), Piotr Wysocki (born in 1976 in Dębno Lubuskie), Artur Żmijewski (born in 1966 in Warsaw)

Venue: Polish Institute, 1065 Budapest, Nagymező utca 15.

Organizer: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, KwieKulik, Game on Morel’s Hill (group action), 1971 (C) KwieKulik Archive MUZEUM.Museum of Modern Art Warsaw

Screening dates

April 24, 2015. 17.30 – 19.00 screening

May 14, 2015. 17.00 – 19:00 lecture by Aleksandra Kędziorek and screening

May 20, 2015. 18.00 – 19:30 screening

May 27, 2015. 18.00 – 19:30 screening