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10/9/2010

Mediations Biennale

Different Venues, Poznan

The second edition Mediations Biennale will be held in Poznań from 12.09. to 30.10.2010. The grand opening of the Biennale is the main event accompanying the 4th ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) conference in Poznań. The exhibitions of Mediations Biennale will be presented at the "Zamek" Culture Centre, the National Museum and in the open public spaces of the city.

The Mediations Biennale draws on the tradition of Inner Spaces Festival (initiated in 1993), as well as exhibitions organised in the countries of Asia, America and Europe. It also calls upon ASIA-EUROPE Mediations (Poznań, June 2007) – an event which featured artists from 23 Asian and 21 European countries.

The second edition of the Biennale (12.09.-30.10.2010) will consist of two main exhibitions: Beyond Mediations, curated by Tsutomu Mizusawa and Prof. Ryszard Kluszczynski and Erased Walls, curated by Georgi Begun, Noam Braslavsky, Juraj Čarný, Nika Kukhtina, Matthias Reichelt, Janosz Sturcz, Sławomir Sobczak, Raman Tratsiuk & Volha Maslouskaya, Marianne Wagner oraz Tomasz Wendland. The first exhibition will be held in the National Museum in Poznań and Culture Centre "Zamek". Some of the projects will be carried out in the public space. Erased Walls will occupy an alternative space, created especially for this presentation.

The second Mediations Biennale - the largest contemporary art exhibition in Middle Europe will take place in Poznan/Poland from 12.09. to 30.10.2010. The presentation of the latest achievements in art concentrating on a dialogue between different cultures of the world and artistic explorations of creators from Middle Europe, by relating to our historical and cultural experience will create a different platform, different sensitivity and a different perspective in the perception of global processes.

The artistic events of the accompanying programme will take place in several galleries and public places all over the city.

Beyond Mediations
curators: Tsutomu Mizusawa and Professor Ryszard W. Kluszczyński

Curators about the concept of the exhibition: Beyond is intended to mean that only art can bridge gaps that exist between people. (…)The distance that separates us is conditioned by a vast number of factors. Ironically, the process of globalization made it all even more complex, while many people became more conscious of the fact, sometimes even obsessed with its burden. The division lines are countless. Among others, we are separated by biological conditioning (sex, skin colour) and social issues (nationality), or geopolitical limitations (borders). The cultural tradition, which would be expected to be more flexible and fluid, not infrequently transforms into narrow-minded nationalism. Overcoming, going beyond those limitations might be difficult. The further one goes the harder it becomes to shake off the anxiety of alienation from the self. Without doubt, art is the most sophisticated cultural medium created by human, and only art will be able to lead us beyond the distance.

Erased Walls
curators: Georgi Begun, Noam Braslavsky, Juraj Čarný, Nika Kukhtina, Matthias Reichelt, Sławomir Sobczak, Raman Tratsiuk & Volha Maslouskaya, Marianne Wagner and Tomasz Wendland.

The curators will focus on the creative work after 2000, with an emphasis on the latest art, unconstrained by geopolitics. Erasing of the frontiers does not apply exclusively to our region anymore. All over the world, the walls that were physically torn down, have been replaced by invisible ones – whose existence is all the more efficacious and poignant because of their imperceptibility. Political divisions are now being exchanged for new ones, those associated with the dominance of the capital, social supremacy, poverty, media manipulation, the feeling of solitariness and exclusion. The artists, by constructing an image, arrive at reflections otherwise unattainable, which cannot be devised by means of language or document. An image is frequently a close-up quotation from reality, which, having been extracted from the mundanity and then presented in a different light shed by art, becomes surprisingly distinct.

"Erased Walls" is a part of European exhibition project, in frames of which two other exhibitions will be presented in Berlin (1-30.10.2010) and Bratislava (3.10-3.12).

The artistic events of the accompanying programme: "HUB or SChUB transforma(c)tion" in cooperation with Łódź Biennale, curated by Mariusz Sołtysik and Aurelia Mandziuk and "SKIN - Extreme pleasure, Extreme pain. Art from Argentina and Urugway", curated by Enrique Badaro.
The accompanying programme will take place in several galleries, among others "Arsenał" Municipal Gallery, and public places all over the city.

Mediations Biennale is organised by "Zamek" Culture Centre in Poznań and the Art Context Association in cooperation with the National Museum in Poznań.
Financed by: Governor of Wielkopolska Province, Municipality of Poznań, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, European Commission.

Director: Tomasz Wendland
Director for Organisation: Anna Hryniewiecka
Executive Director: Slawomir Sobczak

Informations
Mediations Biennale "Zamek" Culture Centre
ul. Św. Marcin 80/82 61-809 Poznań / Poland Email: office@mediations.pl

Mediations Biennale Programme Council:
Professor Piotr Piotrowski – director, National Museum in Warsaw
Professor Izabela Gustowska – artist, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznań
Professor Jarosław Kozłowski – artist, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznań
Grzegorz Borkowski – Editor-in-Chief, OBIEG
Łukasz Guzek – critic, theoretician of art

This year the official opening of the Biennale is one of the items of the programme accompanying the 4th ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) conference – a meeting of 43 Ministers of Culture and delegations from Asia and Europe, held in Poznań on 7th- 19th September 2010".

Public Relations:
Joanna Przygońska tel. +48 61 6465270 j.przygonska@zamek.poznan.pl

Opening on 11st September 2010

Mediations Biennale exhibition sites:
"Zamek" Culture Centre
National Museum in Poznań
Poznań’s open public spaces

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