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17/2/2014

The Night of the Great Season

Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d'art contemporain, Mulhouse

Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum, guest curator at La Kunsthalle in 2014.

The exhibition The Night of the Great Season focuses on Polish neo-surrealism, tracing the historical influence of art, theater and literature in this little known artistic movement. The show aims to question a tendency observed in the early 2000s among a generation of young Polish artists influenced by Surrealist techniques from the early 20th century, such as automatic writing and the representation of dreams, while simultaneously placing themselves in opposition to previous generations of Polish artists, such as those of critical art and realism from the 1990s.

The artists presented in this exhibition create works that exist outside of reality, often based on chance and the subconscious, where fantasy, magic and imagination prevail in dark, unsettling, and often disturbing ways.

With the works of Bruno Schulz, Tadeusz Kantor, Erna Rosenstein, Alina Szapocznikow, Agnieszka Polska, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski and Tomasz Kowalski.

Martha Kirszenbaum (b.1983) is a curator based in Los Angeles and Paris. She worked at the Department of Media and Performance Art at MoMA, and at the New Museum, New York. Independently, Kirszenbaum was a curator-in-residence at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, guest curator at the Belvedere Museum/21er Haus in Vienna where she organized two interventions on the collection. Since January 2014, she is the director and curator of Fahrenheit, a new exhibition space and residency program in Los Angeles.

The exhibition The Night of the Great Season is supported by the Polish Institute in Paris
La Kunsthalle is member of d.c.a, Versant Est, Musées Mulhouse Sud Alsace.

With the support from the city of Mulhouse - the Regional Cultural Affairs Office of Alsace - French Ministry of Culture and Communication – Department of Haut-Rhin.

Enquiries/Press office:
Clarisse Schwarb Tel. +33 (0)3 69776628 clarisse.schwarb@mulhouse.fr

Press conference: Tuesday, February 18th at 4.00 pm at La Kunsthalle
Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 18th at 6.30 pm

La Kunsthalle Mulhouse / La Fonderie Center of Contemporary Art
16 rue de la Fonderie 68093 Mulhouse Cedex
Wednesday to Friday, noon to 6 pm; Saturday
and Sunday, 2 pm to 6 pm; late-night opening
Thursdays until 8 pm
Closed Mondays, Tuesdays and April 18 & 20; May 1 & 8th
Free admission

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