Wystawa
23.04.2010 - 20.06.2010
Museum of Modern Art,Panska 3, Warsaw, Poland
Display windows have always been places of exposition. Filled with items, products or information they catch the hasty gaze of the passerby and demand his attention. The objects seem close enough to grasp and yet remain out of reach. Display windows are places of longing, of projection and of desire. The glass partition creates an inside and an outside and at the same time allows the product area to become a quasiimaginative space. For the exhibition Wystawa held at the temporary space of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the showcase rooms of the former furniture shop will revert to their original function. Each of its display windows will become the site of an artistic work each artist will create a multi levelled room that can only be viewed through the windows. The fleeting reflection of the passers by indicates the glazen line of division and, at the same time, becomes a hidden element of the artistic composition. The work is always visible to everyone, no threshold needs to be crossed, and no admission is charged. The interior space belongs exclusively to the passerby as much as it becomes a floating element of the passage. The museum itself will remain closed. Ten display windows (wystawy) turn into one exhibition (Wystawa).
The exhibition can be viewed 24/7
Wystawa is part of the project The Promised City, a cultural initiative between Berlin and Warsaw with performances in Mumbai and Bucharest: artists, curators and academics from Germany, Poland, India, and Romania develop various new creative productions. All of which are interdisciplinary and evolve around subjects of dreams, illusions, and promises of modern metropolises.
The Promised City is a joint project between the Polish Institute Berlin and the Goethe Institut in cooperation with the city of Warsaw. Partners in Berlin include: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Hebbel am Ufer, raumlabor berlin, Club Transmediale, Ostkreuzschule fur Fotografie, TUSCH Theater und Schule Berlin Partners in Warsaw: Foundation Bec Zmiana, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Nowy Teatr, TISZ Theater Institute, Gazeta Wyborcza, Krytyka Polityczna, Planete Doc Review in Bucharest: Ecart.ro.Further assistance is provided by EU Culture Programme 2007/2013, Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, Romanian Cultural Institute, Embassy of India in Poland.
The exhibition was made possible by the Foundation for German/Polish Cooperation.
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