Exhibition Extra Strong Super Light
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Exhibition Extra Strong Super Light
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| 5th international contemporary art exhibition 3.10.-16.11.2003 National Museum in Szczecin Contemporary Art Gallery EXTRA STRONG SUPER LIGHT is the fifth edition of the international exhibition of contemporary art organised in Szczecin since 1995 under the auspicies of the Union of the Baltic Cities. An exhibition initiating this program, The Horizon Line (1995), was the first attempt to overcome former regional isolation and find a common denominator, which would be a starting point for further exploration. Looking at the horizon - the most primary optical experience, and at the same time the horizon as a blanket term with metaphorical and epistemological connotations placed the artists and organisers of the project on the same platform of experience. Two years later, a need to cross the already familiar horizon and leave the previous position of motionless observer turned into a dominant idea "to draw a map" of the explored area and the exhibition The Baltic Iconopress - Map (1997. This "subjectively drawn" map charged with emotion and intense relationships with people who were co-creating "the artistic landscape" of the region led to put on an exhibition NEWS Szczecin-Riga-Visby (1999-2000). In this case the previous metaphorical wandering turned into overseas migration, during which artists participating in the exhibition created contextually sensitive works in several co-operating centres. Nomadic NEWS relieved artistic objects from constant identity, locating them within postconceptual tradition, where the visual quality of the artistic messages remained quite far in hierarchy of values. This sceptical moderation in relation to an oeuvre or its aesthetical powers, dominating in NEWS, was in strong opposition to prevailing artistic trends in the 90s based on quite different tradition, deriving its inspiration not from sophisticated meta-artistic considerations but from popular iconosphere, mass culture and advertisements. Cynically affirmative, critically biting or alarmingly ambivalent works of art formed the character of SYBARIS (2001). Particular parts of the project had had so far a common one-side perspective with various focal lengths, placing the observer in a privileged position in relation to the observed subject. EXTRA STRONG SUPER LIGHT reverses this situation by placing the observer in the role of a subject of observation, focusing on artistic messages that come from direct personal experience, meditation recorded as a result of a dialogue with reality, and with the meaning of the most primary existential questions which have become relativised and got terribly complicated through the erosion of universal values.The exhibition's name reflects the span of emotions expressed through raised issues, the amplitude of which ranges from corporal practices with intensified emotions to poetic, intimate and sublime gestures distilling the surrounding area from superficiality. artists Danuta Dąbrowska-Wojciechowska (Poland) Gun Holmström (Finland) Agnieszka Kalinowska (Poland) Peter Land (Denmark) Maix Mayer (Germany) Lars Nilsson (Sweden) Hanna Nowicka-Grochal (Poland) Monika Nyström (Sweden) Egle Rakauskaite (Lithuania) Ene Liis Semper (Estonia) Jari Silomäki (Finland) Jaan Toomik (Estonia) Solveiga Vasiljeva (Latvia) Monika Wiechowska (Poland) Piotr Wyrzykowski & Iliya Chichkan/ Poland/ Ukraine Curator Magdalena Lewoc; marearticum@muzeum.szczecin.pl co-operation MARE ARTICUM ( www.marearticum.szczecin.art.pl) project coordinators Marlena Chybowska, UBC Commission on Culture, mchybow@um.szczecin.pl Marta Poszumska, National Museum, galeria@muzeum.szczecin.pl The accompanying events: Personal Impact - performance evening, KANA Theatre artists BBB Johannes Deimling (Germany), Franz Gratwohl (Switzerland), Antoni Karwowski (Poland), Andrzej Pawełczyk (Poland), Richard Raabensaat (Germany), Arved Schultze (Germany), Stephan US (Germany), Steffi Wurster (Germany). curators Antoni Karwowski & BBB Johannes Deimling Contemporary Art and Social Communication - seminar A dynamic development of moving pictures, film and television, has radically eliminated former monopolists of the visual culture market from the common conscience, being those forms of artistic expression which had functioned under the common name of visual arts. This process was reinforced by the isolationist formula of art that could be traced back to romanticism and to visions of the museum as a secular place of worship, the formula that has survived deep into the 20th century finding its paradoxical continuation in the modernistic concept of the contemporary art institution. The model of a museum as a place where traditional exhibitions with their importunate didacticism are displayed to the passive viewer has been gradually becoming void, that theme dominated the debate taking place in the second part of the last century. Marginalizing contemporary art from the everyday life and isolating it in the ghetto of the gallery's 'white box' has naturally lead to counter reactions and attempts to include art back into the domain of social activity. What form do these attempts get at the beginning of the 21st century? How do galleries, museums and artists themselves in the Baltic region cope with the challenge of common indifference towards contemporary art? How do they define their mission and change their methods and activities in order to keep in touch with the social realm and to take part in public life? Curators, artists and art animators have been invited to participate in this seminar. People who in their daily work break through the traditional limits of art, carrying out unconventional artistic projects in public institutions, private galleries, independent places run by artists; within the framework of individual projects and free market commercial enterprises. speakers Ulrika Ferm - curator, Platform Gallery, Vaasa/ Finland Agnieszka Wołodźko - curator, Bathhouse Contemporary Art Center, Gdansk/ Poland Irena Buzinska - curator, State Museum of Fine Arts in Riga/ Latvia Solvejg Ovstebo - deputy director, Bergen Kunsthall/ Norway Marek Krajewski/ Lechosław Olszewski - leaders of the AMS Outdoor Gallery, Poland Jyrki Simovaara - curator, Kiasma Contemporary Art Center, Helsinki/ Finland Jesper Dalmose - freelance art. critic and curator, Copenhagen, Denmark Kristine Agergaard and Cecilie Gravesen - Organisers of the Contemplation Room Project, Copenhagen/ Denmark Stephane Bauer - curator, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin/ Germany Bartosz Wójcik - leader of the OFFicyna gallery, Szczecin/ Poland Passport, OFFicyna Gallery group exhibition of the participants of the international net project "Passport" curators Rolf Hinterecker & Michael Witassek SheScape - Kierat Gallery photography & installation - Susu Grunenberg, Berlin/ Germany odra// oder - Amfilada Gallery group exhibition of the participants of the German-Polish art symposium in Vierraden, Germany artists Dorota Podlaska (Poland), Elżbieta Jabłońska (Poland), Frank Kästner (Germany), Maciej Kurak (Poland), Mikołaj Poliński (Poland), Peter Anders (Poland), Przemysław Biryło (Poland), Tristan Wolski (Poland), Ute Lindner (Germany). organisers National Museum in Szczecin director Lech Karwowski www.muzeum.szczecin.pl UBC Commission on Culture Chairman Sławomir Szafranski Secretariat Marlena Chybowska www.ubc.net co-organisers Teatr KANA, Miejsce Sztuki OFFicyna, Galeria Kierat, Galeria Amfilada Funded by Miasto Szczecin Związek Miast Bałtyckich sponsors Hotel Campanile Szczecin TUiR WARTA SA Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT SA Media Markt Sp. z o.o. C. Hartwig Szczecin Sp. z o.o. STRABAG Sp. z o.o. Pro Helvetia Brasserie Margot
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