WRO Art Center

Where’s Chopin? – Concert-Playing Installations

redakcja — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:12:02 +0000

Jarosław Kapuściński, Józef Robakowski and Paweł Janicki

Warsaw Autumn Festival
Tęcza Studio, September 20th-25th 2010

The exhibition is a collection of interactive installations that transplant Chopin’s work to the terrain of contemporary art and digital media. Three new audiovisual installations have been created by the Polish artists using unconventional strategies to engage with music. Frédéric Chopin’s works are treated as a basis for reinterpretation, defragmentation and reconstruction, and their new nonlinear structure is enhanced by the relationship between sound and image.

Curated by Piotr Krajewski

Wolf Kahlen Video Tapes 1969-2010

redakcja — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:02:10 +0000

Video, installations, photographs

Vernissage: 9.09.2010, g. 19:00

Wolf Kahlen, who has turned 70 this year, is one of the most important German video pioneers.

The exhibition was shown before in Ruine der Künste Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe and Folkwang Museum Essen.

Supported by IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)

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Norman McLaren – Synchromie. Musique Optique

redakcja — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:16:25 +0000

Film exhibition

Vernissage: July 21st 2010, 7 pm
Exhibition until August 15th

Norman McLaren (1914-1987) was for most of his life associated with NFB in Montreal, where he made over 60 films there, winning close to like 200 international awards, including an Oscar, a Golden Palm and a BAFTA award.

Seeking to unify the visual and audio levels of his films, McLaren explored the potential of animation for integrating music and image. Synthetic sound tracks that he composed by drawing by hand directly on film tape served as the basis for colorful visual replications of the sound, letting us “see what we hear”. That technique – which McLaren called “animated sound”, is the focus of this exhibition.

Word Pictures: Talking Films – exhibition at the Platan Gallery

redakcja — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:06:13 +0000

Mirosław Bałka, Wojciech Bąkowski, Piotr Bosacki, Wojtek Doroszuk, Józef Robakowski, Zorka Wollny

Polish Institute in Budapest, Platan Gallery
June 3rd – July 16th 2010

Curator: Piotr Krajewski
Coordination: Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka

WRO presentations in Lviv

redakcja — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:45:20 +0000

Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv

Wednesday, 16.06.2010, 18:00

WRO Expanded Tour – Polish and International Program

Thursday, 17.06.2010, 18:00

Nam June Paik: Driving Media

Lecture and presentation
conducted by
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka

WRO presentations in Kiev

redakcja — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:41:54 +0000

CCA Foundation, Kiev

Monday, 14.06.2010, 18:00

WRO Expanded Tour – Polish and International Program

Tuesday, 15.06.2010, 18:00

Nam June Paik: Driving Media

Lecture and presentation

conducted by
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka

The Hidden Decade – Natural Video

redakcja — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:59:48 +0000

Welcome to the next presentation of works selected from the The Hidden Decade. Polish Video Art 1985-95 collection, organized by BWA in Bydgoszcz within the framework of the ‘Academy of Art’ series.

This time we are presenting a curatorial selection entitled “Analog/Digital”.

WRO Expanded Tour during the Podwodny Wrocław festival

redakcja — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:07:04 +0000

The third edition of the Podwodny Wrocław festival is launched at the Wrocław’s Bourgeois’es Brewery (44-48 Hubska St.).

Welcome to the presentations of WRO Expanded Tour – Polish and International Video Tour – given by Paweł Janicki.

GPS_Drawing Workshops

redakcja — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:51:24 +0000

In the course of the Interactive Playground exhibition, on 8th and 9th June, Ester Polak and Ivara van Bekkum – a pair of Dutch artists invited by WRO will conduct workshops addressed to children between 8-12 years of age. GPS_Drawing Workshops teach children to create art using contemporary tools – video and GPS.

GPS_Drawings, or Geotales – telling a story by means of navigation tools is an activity in the course of which the children create their own compositions using signals collected during a walk around the city. The compositions will be later presented during the Interactive Playground.

Visit the project’s blog to learn more

WRO at Crosstalk festival conference

redakcja — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:31:13 +0000

Please join us at the Talk-talk-talk conference taking place between 2-4.06.2010 in Budapest, Hungary during Crosstalk Festival. You will also have a chance to see the Word Pictures: Talking Films exhibition presented within the framework of the event.

The participants of the Video Indisputable session will include Wojtek Doroszuk and Piotr Krajewski as well as Eva Brunner-Szabo, Gerda Lampalzer (Medienwerkstatt Wien), Juha van Ingen, Seppo Renvall (FixC, Helsinki).

New Interactive Playground

redakcja — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:38:18 +0000

A new face of the famous exhibition enriched with the most recent installations. Innovative solutions, interactive software for the youngest, experiments with forms of artistic expression introducing fundamental concepts in the field of art (texture, colour, perspective) and music (rythm, measure, harmony), and developing team working.

Private view: 10.06.2010, 1 pm

Admission free

Please visit us during the summer holidays – the exhibition continues until 15th July!

The Hidden Decade: exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Poznań

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:30:54 +0000

Polish video art created between 1985-1995 from the collection of WRO, gathered in the Hidden Decade project will be presented at the gallery of Poznań’s Academy of Fine Arts for four days in May.

Curatorial guided tour conducted by Piotr Krajewski: Tuesday, 18th May.

More About The Hidden Decade

Witkacy: Psychoholism Photographs

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:00:54 +0000

Exhibition transferred from the Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki in Cracow, conceived to mark the 70. anniversary of Witkacy’s death, includes over 100 portraits and self-portraits created by the artist between 1910-1938. The exposition at WRO Art Center focuses mainly on self-portraits, often realized by the artist and his friends as actions in front of the camera lens.

Enlarged photographs are presented as printouts of the original glass negatives and prints from the collection of Ewa Franczak and Stefan Okołowicz.

SP/PS* Sztuka Pojęciowa / Post Scriptum (Notional Art/Post Scriptum)

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:36:29 +0000

After the presentation at Warsaw’s LeGuern Gallery, the neon, designed by Rafał Jakubowicz and based on the diagram-sketch by Jerzy Ludwiński from 1980 will be installed on the WRO Art Center’s façade. The title of the work refers to the exhibition SP. Sztuka Pojęciowa organized by Ludwiński at Pod Moną Lizą Gallery in Wrocław, 1970.

5 pm – meeting with the artist, Justyna Kowalska (Le Guern Gallery) and Piotr Bernatowicz (Arteon).

7 pm – vernissage and launching the neon

Interactive Playground at the European Tale Centre in Pacanów

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:57:12 +0000

Another presentation of Interactive Playground: this time we would like to invite you to Pacanów, where you can see the exhibition at the Koziolek Matolek European Tale Centre.

Views 2009

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:22:35 +0000

Spojrzenia 2009 – The Deutsche Bank Foundation Award

Wojciech Bąkowski, Olaf Brzeski, Bogna Burska, Wojtek Doroszuk, Anna Konik, Anna Molska, Zorka Wollny

Vernissage: 29th January 2010, 6 pm
Exhibition open untill 3rd April 2010

The Hidden Decade. Exhibition in Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:16:07 +0000

Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL)

Andrzej Dudek-Dürer. Mental Steps. Living sculpture

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:30:50 +0000

Interactive installations and video

Abraham Ravett. Marsz. The March.

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:08:57 +0000

Film exhibition + meeting with the artist and Wendesday screenings

Lech Twardowski. PURA. Traces of Memory

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:13:23 +0000

The traces of memory are recorded in painting, screenings and a found object. The traces don’t reveal their meanings, they merely hint at how to search for them. Twardowski did half of the job, and now he’s giving it up for the audience.

Zbigniew Rybczyński, On Visual Image

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:16:02 +0000

Exhibition curated by Piotr Krajewski

The Hidden Decade at WRO 09

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:22:31 +0000

Media Art Biennale WRO 09
National Museum in Wrocław

13th Media Art Biennale WRO 09

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:27:07 +0000

Exhibitions / performances / competition / club scene

My Grotowski. Photos by Andrzej Paluchiewicz

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:30:57 +0000

Mój Grotowski | Photos by Andrzej Paluchiewicz

Produced by: Zamek Culture Centre and WRO Art Center
Curated by: Bogda Sztencel

Exhibition open from 19.03 until 19.04.2009

Marek Wasilewski, Orchestron

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:32:57 +0000

video installation

Mirosław Bałka: JETZT,

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:59:58 +0000

Video space
Curated by Piotr Krajewski

WRO 09 Expanded Tour

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:18:43 +0000

Kino Lab, CCA Ujazdowski Castle

Friday, 7.05.2010, 20:30

International Video Tour (awarded works)

Saturday, 8.05.2010, 18:00

Polish Video Tour

Presentations given by Gosia Sobolewska

Edward Zajec: Orphics

redakcja — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:41:18 +0000

Screening exhibition

Wernisaż 12.09.2008, godz. 18:30

Czynna do 11.10.2008

Invisible Story by Tibor SZEMZŐ – interactive installations exhibition

redakcja — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:39:56 +0000

Interactive audiovisual exhibition

Vernissage: 19 Jul 2008, g. 21:00 / free entry

Exhibition: 19 – 27 Jul 2008

Igor Krenz: Illegal Practices

redakcja — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:50:04 +0000

16.05.2008, 18:30 – Openning / Meeting with the artist

17.05-8.06.2008 – Exhibition

24.03.2010, 6 pm Traumtagebuch – Piotr Bosacki, Drawings by Wojciech Bąkowski

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:45:37 +0000

Meeting with the author
View Platform series

The art book by Piotr Bosacki, published recently by the authors and Poznań-based Transmission Foundation, is a unique publication, presenting a selection of literary miniatures inspired by the author’s dreams, filled with philosophical reflections based on everyday observations. Suffused with humour yet serious in its essence, the “dream book” is illustrated with drawings by Wojciech Bąkowski.

i’m sitting, watching…

redakcja — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:27:54 +0000

WRO’s collection screenings.

11.04 – 11.05.2008

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:57:47 +0000

Galeria Manhattan, Łódź (PL)

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:57:24 +0000

Galeria Wozownia, Toruń (PL)

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:56:36 +0000

Galeria Arsenał
Poznań (PL)

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:56:05 +0000

Galeria Arsenał
Poznań (PL)

Zbigniew Libera: Works 1982-2008 / The Hidden Decade | Meeting at Zachęta

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:20:44 +0000

Meeting with Zbigniew Libera and Piotr Krajewski
Presentation of works The Hidden Decade. Polish Video Art 1985–1995

13.01.2010, 6 pm – Screening Room
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:55:39 +0000

Zachęta National Art Gallery
Warsaw

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:54:59 +0000

WRO Expanded Tour + WRO Lab on Tour
AM Festival, Bydgoszcz (PL)

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:54:29 +0000

Galeria Kont, Lublin (PL)

Arctic Lights – video from Scandinavia

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:52:27 +0000

Screening + commentary + meeting

WRO Labs On Tour

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:59:34 +0000

WEFCON | WRO Labs On Tour
Zachęta National Gallery of Art
Presented by Paweł Janicki And Jarek Grzesica

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:53:58 +0000

WRO Lab on Tour
WEFCON Festival, Warsaw

WRO 09 Polish Video Tour at Invideo Festival (Milan)

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:00:48 +0000

Invideo Festival, Spazio Oberdan, Mediolan

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:50:57 +0000

FE FEST, Filmoteka Europejska
Kino Kultura, Warsaw

Opening of the Invideo festival (Milan) at WRO Art Center

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:01:19 +0000

MASBEDO – duo exhibiting in the Italian Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale
Screenings and meeting with the artists

WRO at the international conference CULTURE – PASS IT ON in Gdańsk

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:05:23 +0000

Baltic Sea Cultural Centre (NCK), Gdańsk

The seminar organized by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre is the first meeting in a planned series of conferences and workshops. Through the transfer of knowledge – examples of ‘good practices’, as well as presentation of effective solutions – it attempts to establish a coherent system of education development and international cultural exchange.

Paweł Janicki at 2.0 Gallery – exhibition

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:04:19 +0000

2.0 Gallery, Krakowskie Przedmieście 5
Curator: Upgrade!Warsaw

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:52:19 +0000

BWA Zielona Góra

WRO 09 Expanded Tour screening

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:46:19 +0000

Jam Factory, Lviv Art Palace, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
The Week of Contemporary Art in Lviv

WRO presentations during the Week of Contemporary Art in Lviv

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:16:45 +0000

Organizer: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe

Performer – video footage from the exhibition at Zachęta, Warsaw

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:29:17 +0000

Screeninf of the video footage presented during the ‘Performer’ exhibition at Zachęta National Gallery of Art in the context of the photography exhibition by Andrzej Paluchiewicz ‘My Grotowski’

28.03 (+ 1.04), 2.04, 3.04 2009

WIDOK. WRO Media Art Reader No. 1 – The first presentation in Zachęta and WRO

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:38:27 +0000

Welcome to the first presentation of our most recent publication
Widok. WRO Media Art Reader Numer 1
From Absolute Cinema to Future Film
Materials from the history of experiment in the moving picture art (Book + DVD)

Piotr Wyrzykowski: Peter Style

redakcja — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:59:41 +0000

Body of Peter Style medial expansion, medial reduction

Vernissage + Performance: 18.06.2008, 18:30
Exhibition open until 13.07.2008

Soft Machines and the Cinematographic Imaginary. New media and film

redakcja — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:24:11 +0000

International conference within the confines of the

15th International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Plus Camerimage

November, 30th 2007, The Grand Theatre Łódź, 12:00-18:00