Hollis Frampton
Carl Andre
Peter Hujar
Paul Thek
Eustachy Kossakowski
Edward Krasinski
Janos Veto
Tibor Hajas
Zarko Vijatovic
Tomislav Gotovac
Gwenn Thomas
Joan Jonas
Gwenn Thomas
Jack Smith
Babette Mangolte
Yvonne Rainer
Shunk-Kender
Pier 18
Josiah McElheny
Imi Knoebel
Blinky Palermo
Edward Krasinski
Reiner Ruthenbeck
Joseph Beuys
Oskar Hansen
KwieKulik
Zofia Kulik
Grzegorz Kowalski
Pawel Althamer
Grupa Nowolipie
Artur Zmijewski
Anna Niesterowicz
Lukasz Gutt
Anna Molska
Angela Fette
Pash Buzari
Sigmar Polke
Gerhard Richter
Stefan Holler
Isa Genzken
Ulrike Rosenbach
Klaus Rinke
Katharina Sieverding
Franz Erhard Walther
Prot Jarnuszkiewicz
Colin Lang
Maria Matuszkiewicz
Barbara Piwowarska
Magdalena Holzhey
"Accomplices - The photographer and the artist around 1970" presents some of the most interesting representatives of experimental art from New York and also showing three highly original examples of photographer-artist collaboration from Central Europe. "The third room" is a project that aims to create a third space bettween the The Kunsthalle Dussselldorf and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The selected artists enter into a dialogue with each other.
Accomplices
The photographer and the artist around 1970
curator: Maria Matuszkiewicz
artists: Hollis Frampton - Carl Andre, Peter Hujar - Paul Thek, Eustachy Kossakowski - Edward Krasiński, János Vető - Tibor Hajas, Žarko Vijatović - Tomislav Gotovac, Gwenn Thomas - Joan Jonas, Gwenn Thomas - Jack Smith, Babette Mangolte - Yvonne Rainer, Shunk-Kender - Pier 18.
The nine stories told by this exhibition each concern the meeting of a photographer and an artist. Their collaboration was sometimes one-off, sometimes it would last for years, but it always resulted in common fruit: a work of art, a process, a shared world. We are interested in the working experience of these “accomplices”, and how their collaboration shaped the work that was being created.
The stories take place ‘around 1970’ – and nominally from the late 1950s to the end of the century. The year 1970 is a conventional dividing line used to denote a change that art underwent at the time: artists stopped creating traditional objets d’art and switched to process- or event-based projects. Photography played an important role in these experiments as a means of both expression and documentation, and photographers were artist’s inevitable partners. Their role wasn’t limited to just recording, they weren’t only an extension of the documenting camera – very often the process of exchange between the photographer and the artist was highly complex and determined the project’s ultimate shape. Both parties had to ask themselves: How do I learn about my own practice by following another artist’s idea? How are two ideas realised in a single work? What does it mean to work within limits defined by another artist?
Emotions played an important role in the photographer-artist relationships the exhibition deals with; the partners were often friends, sometimes lovers, and in numerous cases their collaboration lasted many years. Important things happened not only in space defined as artistic, but also ‘off screen’, in private space.
The exhibition presents some of the most interesting representatives of experimental art from New York: the legendary artist and director Jack Smith, the collaboration between photographer and director Babette Mangolte with choreographer, performer and artist Yvonne Rainer, the dialogue between photographer and director Hollis Frampton and Carl Andre, the relationship between friends and lovers Paul Thek (artist) and Peter Hujar (photographer), as well as one of the most important Conceptual Art exhibitions in the form of photographic documentation – Projects: Pier 18, in which the work of 27 young artists, today classic figures of the genre, were documented by two photographers, Harry Shunk and János Kender. We are also showing three highly original examples of photographer-artist collaboration from Central Europe: Hungarian artist Tibor Hajas’s photographic sessions with photographer János Vető, the relationship between Tomislav Gotovac and photographer Žarko Vijatović, and the collaboration between Edward Krasiński and Eustachy Kossakowski.
The exhibition will be accompanied by lectures (Babette Mangolte, Branden Joseph, Juan Suarez) and film screenings (e.g. Yvonne Rainer, Tom Chomont, Jack Smith).
Project co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
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The third room. Der dritte raum. Trzeci pokoj
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej Warszawie
Curated by Barbara Piwowarska and Magdalena Holzhey
The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw are collaborating on joint exhibitions to be held as part of the North Rhine-Westphalia Cultural Season in Poland 2011/2012. The project aims to create to a third “space” arising from the dialogue between the two exhibitions.
The initiators see the project as a laboratory or “exercise” in which they hope to shed light on the parallels in the historical traditions of the art academies in Düsseldorf and Warsaw. Both academies played a pioneering role in the development of alternative forms of teaching in the 1960s and 1970s, represented by Joseph Beuys and his “social sculpture” concept and “extended definition of art” in Düsseldorf and by Oskar Hansen and his theory and practice of “Open Form” in Warsaw.
The two site-specific installations take the special architectural features and proportions of the corresponding spaces in Düsseldorf and Warsaw into account. A specific situation typical of Oskar Hansen’s classroom in Warsaw will be recreated in Düsseldorf, while in Warsaw an architectural space will be created that makes reference to the two rooms Beuys used (rooms 19 and 20) at the academy in Düsseldorf. Both rooms will thus serve as (real and metaphorical) exhibition and production spaces for the selected artists, carrying on or breaking with certain traditions and entering into a dialogue with each other.
Featuring works by Josiah McElheny, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Edward Krasiński, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Joseph Beuys, Oskar Hansen, KwieKulik / Zofia Kulik, Grzegorz Kowalski, Paweł Althamer, Grupa Nowolipie, Artur Żmijewski, Anna Niesterowicz, Łukasz Gutt, Anna Molska, Angela Fette, Pash Buzari, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Stefan Höller, Isa Genzken, Ulrike Rosenbach, Klaus Rinke, Katharina Sieverding, Franz Erhard Walther, Prot Jarnuszkiewicz and Colin Lang.
Image: Jack Smith Untitled, 1958-1962/2011 © Estate of Jack Smith
Press contact
Malwina Kusmierowska phone +48 22 5964010 fax +48 22 5964022 prasa@artmuseum.pl
Opening of the exhibition: 17 November (Thursday), at 19.00
Finissage: January 17 (Saturday), at 19.00
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
ul. Panska 3 Poland, Warsaw
open, Tuesday-Sunday 12h00-20h00
admittance free