No Budget Show 5 % is the fifth one in the series No Budget Show, annual presentation of young artists’ works produced with cheap but unconventional materials, uncommon ideas and irretrievably used time. The objects of the No Budget Show 5 % edition have been created with the permanent shortage of resources and lack of any space for executing ideas of the guests whatsoever; they are the foundation of the NBS ideas which confirm the need to confront these attitudes and are remote equivalent of the principles ruling the current art scene.
This year’s venue is a desolate, awaiting renovation building, the former seat of the Railway Community Centre in Lublin. Halls of the old cinema auditorium with their aggressive décor, remains of wedding and First Communion receptions that were held here, will be revamped to adapt them for the purpose of presenting submitted projects. It is worth mentioning that the number of artists who applied exceeded the most daring expectations by going over the magic number of 50.
Robert Kuśmirowski has organised the exhibition.
Robert Kuśmirowski is a Polish contemporary artist, performer, author of installations, objects and photographs. He studied at the Institute of Fine Arts of the Marie Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. In the course of his studies he was granted a scholarship at the Rennes 2 University, Beaux Arts Rennes in France. In 2003 he graduated with a diploma in the sculpture studio of Professor Sławomir Andrzej Mieleszka. He made his artistic debut still as a student in 2002, with an individual exhibition in the Biała Gallery in Lublin where he reconstructed an old railway station in the space of the gallery. The vastness of the arrangement encouraged curators to include a 1:1 copy of a freight car shown there in a new exhibition at the Novart.pl in Krakow. In 2006, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art held at an Old Jewish girls' school exhibited the same object. W 2003, as a part of an artistic project, he travelled the route Paris - Luxembourg – Leipzig on a. Wolberg bicycle – a model from the 1920s. W 2004 he was nominated for the annual ‘Passport’ award from Poland's Polityka weekly magazine. He had individual exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions, both national and international. He is associated with the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw.
Guest invited for No Budget Show 5% exhibition:
Anna Nawrot, Jan Gryka, Tomasz Zawadzki, Sławomir Toman, Grzegorz Pawlak, Milena Brudkowska, Natalia Nestorowicz, Ignacy Oboz, Karol Grzelak, Patryk Lidwin, Alicja Pulik, Natalia Wierzbicka, Paulina Daniewska, Szymon Popielec, Dominik Kowalczyk, Rafał Namiota, Elżbieta Król, Maja Długosz, Zuzanna Ziółkowska, Seweryn Chwała, Rafał Czępiński, Marzena Bis, Marcin Proczek, Magdalena Pajdowicz, Ewa Kurasiewicz, Piotr Szczur, Jolanta Lach, Paula Jezior, Karolina Miszczak, Magdalena Paczuska, Barbara Grzesik, Mateusz Krasoń, Michał Zachara, Dominika Łągwa, Justyna Kiersztyn, Kamil Wiśniewski, Judyta Bartmańska, Magdalena Cękała, Magdalena Mazur, Róża Stelmach, Sebastian Krok, Urszula Pieregończuk, Kamila Czosnyk, Liwia Sztyc, Anna Zielonka, Daniel Małecki, Marcin Kokoszko, Radosław Włodarski, Krzysztof Bryła, Paweł Pawłuk, Paulina Chreścionko, Robert Kuśmirowski, Krzyś Daniewski
The exhibition is open until 28th July 2013 from Monday to Friday, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.