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30/11/2006

Two exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw

TOUCH MY SHADOWS
New Media from the GOETZ Collection in Munich
Doug Aitken, Chantal Akerman, Janine Antoni, Kutlug Ataman, Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller, David Claerbout, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Jeanne Faust, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Teresa Hubbard/ Alexander Birchler, Isaac Julien, Tracey Moffat, Ann-Sofi Side'n, Fiona Tan, Diana Thater, Rosemarie Trockel
GALLERY 1

Exhibition opening: 1.12, 6.00 p.m.; on view thru 28.02.07
Curators: Milada Ślizińska and Stephan Urbaschek
Goetz Sammlung: www.sammlung-goetz.de

"Touch My Shadows" is the largest international video art exhibition ever to be presented at the CCA at Ujazdowski Castle.

The exhibition is a joint project of the CCA and the Goetz Collection in Munich, a world-renowned private contemporary art collection that features an abundance of paintings, sculptures, drawings and photography, and for some time now has emphasized video art and films presented as projections and incorporated into installations.

The exhibition features the following works: Doug Aitken, Eraser (1998); Chantal Akerman, Selfportrait/Autobiography: A work in progress (1998); Janine Antoni, Touch (2002); Kutlug Ataman, Women Who Wear Wigs (1999); Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller, Hillclimbing (1999); David Claerbout, Shadow Piece (2005); Rineke Dijkstra, The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL (1996/97); Tracey Emin, The Interview (1999); Jeanne Faust, Rodeo (1998); Peter Fischli/David Weiss, The Least Resistance (1981); Peter Fischli/David Weiss, The Right Way (1983); Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Busi (2000); Douglas Gordon, B-Movie (1995); Douglas Gordon, Dead Right (1998); Douglas Gordon, Left Dead (1998); Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance (1988); Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler House with Pool (2004); Isaac Julien, Fantome Cre'ole (2005); Tracey Moffatt, Nice Colored Girls (1987); Ann-Sofi Side'n, QM, I Think I Call Her QM (1997); Fiona Tan, Saint Sebastian (2001); Diana Thater, Foam (1997); Rosemarie Trockel, Yvonne (1997); Rosemarie Trockel, Pausa (1999); Rosemarie Trockel, Julia (1994).

In selecting works for the exhibition, curators Stephan Urbaschek and Milada Ślizińska chose to emphasize artists who have not previously exhibited at the CCA at Ujazdowski Castle.

The exhibition is designed to contribute to ongoing discussions of the methods and models that apply to contemporary art collection, both in the context of the CCA's own International Collection of Contemporary Art and of the planned collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

The exhibition is accompanied by additional screenings of videos and films from the Goetz Collection. Held at Kino.Lab, these screenings feature works not included in the exhibition.

Subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within the framework of the PROMOTION OF CREATIVITY Operational Program
Sponsors: SAMSUNG, NOBILES
Media partners: Gazeta Wyborcza, Radio PIN

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1, 2, 3 AVANT-GARDE
archives, film, art, experimentation

GALLERY 2

Curators: Lukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang
Exhibition opening: 8.12, 6.00 p.m.
on view thru 28.01.07

Artists:
Akademia Ruchu, Antosz & Andzia, Pawel Althamer / Artur Zmijewski, Piotr Andrejew, Bernadette Corporation, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Matthew Buckingham, Bogdan Dziworski, Marcin Gizycki, Janusz Haka, Oskar Hansen, Judith Hopf / Katrin Pesch, Tadeusz Junak, Jacques de Koning, Igor Krenz, Grzegorz Kro'likiewicz, Zofia Kulik, Pawel Kwiek, Przemyslaw Kwiek, Natalia LL, Jolanta Marcolla, Jonathan Monk, Ewa Partum, Andrzej Pawlowski, Zygmunt Piotrowski, Jo'zef Robakowski, Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Zygmunt Rytka, Wilhelm Sasnal, Jadwiga Singer, Zdzislaw Sosnowski, Mieczyslaw Szczuka, Michal Tarkowski, Stefan & Franciszka Themerson, Teresa Tyszkiewicz, Ryszard Wasko, Jan S. Wojciechowski, Krzysztof Zarebski, Florian Zeyfang

The exhibition 1,2,3… Avant-Gardes celebrates the (ongoing) history of the experiment in film and art, and the interactions between these two fields. The exhibition brings together artists and filmmakers from different countries and generations, juxtaposing their work with the outstanding history of Polish avant-garde film, represented by the works of Pawel Kwiek, Jo'zef Robakowski, Natalia LL, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Bogdan Dziworski and many others.

The exhibition works with the tension created by a "horizontal" and a "vertical" interpretation of the multiplicity of the avant-garde and evoked by the exhibition's title 1,2,3… Avant-Gardes: Horizontal - in the sense of different ideas of modernism, the pluralism of film and conceptual image-work existing in the different worlds of the Cold War and today; Vertical - suggesting the search for a possible historicisation of Polish avant-garde art and film, a linearity, to be discovered and reconstructed in light of the many distortions in Polish history over the last 80 years.

Vertically it contains a reference to the three movements important to experimentation with art and film: the very first modernist avant-garde, the neo-avant-garde of the 1970s, and the artists who started working in the 1990s to address, often with irony or idealism, the heritage of the two previous movements. In contrast, the title's horizontal reading includes different understandings of the notion of avant-garde - like Peter Wollen's text Two Avant-Gardes that elaborates on the difference between narrative politics and politics of the formal experiment - suggesting something like a third, fourth and even fifth avant-garde…

1,2,3… Avant-Gardes experiments itself with a setting that confronts the videos and films of artists working since the 1990s and influenced by different legacies and notions of moving image with the extensive work of earlier generations of artists, performers and filmmakers in Poland. The exhibition consists of six rooms, organised according to different themes, such as Analytical strategies, Political Film / Soc Art, Sound & Image, Imagination, Games / Participation, Consumption, and features work especially developed for the show.

Another important issue off the exhibition is work with the archive. The show is a specific summary of the previous events of the program of the Archive of Polish Experimental Film at CCA Ujazdowski Castle, which is a research project focused on gathering and analysing Polish film and art. The aim of the program is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art, and to develop contemporary contexts of presentation for this historic material.

1,2,3… Avant-Gardes is curated by Lukasz Ronduda and Florian Zeyfang and
conceived within the framework of Buero Kopernikus, an initiative of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). The exhibition is supported by IFA Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stichting Mondriaan, and Piktogram Magazine. Collaboration: Kaja Pawelek.

For further information:
Kaja Pawelek: + 48 22 6281271 # 104, kaja.pawelek@csw.art.pl
http://www.buero-kopernikus.org/en/project/2/36/0

1,2,3… Avant-Gardes will be shown in 2007 at Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart (with a special focus) and at Sala Rekalde, Bilbao. A catalogue will be published with essays by Leire Vergara, David Crowley, Steven Ball/David Curtis, Stefanie Peter, Anselm Franke, Jan Verwoert, Michal Wolinski, Lukasz Ronduda, and including an archive section and artist pages.

The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
Al.Ujazdowskie 6, 00-461 Warsaw, Poland
Galleries are open daily except Mondays
from 11 am - 7 pm and Friday from 11 am - 9 pm
Tickets: full-fare 12 zl and concessions: 6 zl
(Last visitors admitted half an hour before closing time of galleries)
Kino.Lab Cinema - tickets: 12-16 zl;
annual membership card: 80 zl

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