Antichrist / Ewa Axelrad / Zdzisław Beksiński / Agata Bielik-Robson / Grzegorz Klaman / Tomasz Kozak / Konrad Maciejewicz / Cezary Michalski / Janusz Palikot / Urszula Pieregończuk / Karol Radziszewski / Stara Rzeka / Michał Witkowski / Jakub Woynarowski
Who is empowered/powerless in today’s Poland? Devils! In other words, the ghosts of bygone cultural, political and artistic heresies. Their power and powerlessness are evoked by this exhibition that infuses the horizon of the visual arts with the representatives of philosophy, literature, music and even politics. Texts by Agata Bielik-Robson, Cezary Michalski, Michał Witkowski and Janusz Palikot acquire the status of artefacts, similarly to the music of Antichrist and Stara Rzeka. Perhaps the collaboration between the aforementioned authors and visual artists will help awaken the energy of heretical creativity at the Biała Gallery that is located on the premises of a former monastery.
The exhibition poses a number of questions: Can art revive the critical spirit that leads to creating social ideas that differ from phantasms reproduced by the dominant dogmas? Does the Polish society of today provide mental or institutional conditions for individuals whose thinking rebels against orthodoxy?
In December, the exhibition will be accompanied by a debate on dogmas that shape the Polish collective imagination in late modernity. The debate will feature philosopher Agata Bielik-Robson and writer Cezary Michalski. It will be hosted by visual artist Tomasz Kozak and Piotr Pękala, curator of the “ende neu: Devils!” exhibition.
The exhibition runs until 9 January 2015 (Tuesday through Saturday, 12 pm to 6 pm).