The exhibition is the result of several months of the educational project Watch Out! Devoted, among others, to exploring the public space of Lublin’s Old Town and the Lublin Housing Cooperative. Participants were both theoretician of art and artists themselves. The project evolved, focusing especially on the market space in Ruska Street, and thus becoming for the project participants a symbolic reference to the art market in broad terms.
Curator Valerie Karpan took advantage of the two-level exhibition space of Galeria Labirynt 2, dividing the exhibition into two parts. The first one summarizes the project, presenting documentation and research results related to the city and its history based on creative meetings and discussions that were part of Watch Out!. The other part of the exhibition is the result of reflections on the world of art and the analogy between the art market and the marketplace, as well as the effect of observations of a specific place and people.
Artists: Paweł Giergisiewicz, Valerie Karpan, Maryna Khrypun, Magdalena Korczak, Daria Lytvynenko, Natalia Paprota, Katarzyna Sienkiewicz, Agata Sztorc, Viktoriia Zymomria,
Curated by: Valerie Karpan
In collaboration with: Agnieszka Duda-Jastrzębska, Aleksandra Kołtun, Rafał Lis, Marta Nazaruk
Valerie Karpan (b. 1989, Kiev, Ukraine) – curator of the Watch Out! project, recipient of a scholarship under the Gaude Polonia program, curator and educator working in Kiev, co-founder of Cultural Geographies. Valerie Karpan deals with contemporary art and cultural education. She is associated with the Port Creative Hub as curator and coordinator as well as with the Children's Geographies project. She was the curator and coordinator of educational projects at the PinchukArtCentre. Karpan’s interests lie in participatory practices in contemporary art, focusing on incorporating children's ideas into urban planning.
The works on exhibit were created under the Gaude Polonia Scholarship Programme funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
The exhibition is open until August 10th (from Tuesday to Sunday between 3 pm and 7 pm).
