CSW - November - December 2006

Exhibitions

TOUCH MY SHADOWS, Ryszard Stanisławski and His Museum, 1, 2, 3 AVANT-GARDE,DOCUMENTATION GALLERY LES ÉDITIONS INCERTAIN SENS, CCA Collection, T Kawamata, Lawrence Weiner, J Holzer, Joanna Rajkowska, Museum of the Castle,

TOUCH MY SHADOWS
New Media from the GOETZ Collection in Munich
Doug Aitken, Chantal Akerman, Janine Antoni, Kutlug Ataman, Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller, David Claerbout, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Jeanne Faust, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Teresa Hubbard/ Alexander Birchler, Isaac Julien, Tracey Moffat, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Fiona Tan, Diana Thater, Rosemarie Trockel

GALLERY 1

Exhibition opening: 01.12, 6.00 p.m.; on view thru 28.02.07
Curators: Milada Ślizińska and Stephan Urbaschek
Goetz Sammlung: www.sammlung-goetz.de

"Touch My Shadows" is the largest international video art exhibition ever to be presented at the CCA at Ujazdowski Castle.

The exhibition is a joint project of the CCA and the Goetz Collection in Munich, a world-renowned private contemporary art collection that features an abundance of paintings, sculptures, drawings and photography, and for some time now has emphasized video art and films presented as projections and incorporated into installations.

The exhibition features the following works: Doug Aitken, Eraser (1998); Chantal Akerman, Selfportrait/Autobiography: A work in progress (1998); Janine Antoni, Touch (2002); Kutlug Ataman, Women Who Wear Wigs (1999); Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller, Hillclimbing (1999); David Claerbout, Shadow Piece (2005); Rineke Dijkstra, The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL (1996/97); Tracey Emin, The Interview (1999); Jeanne Faust, Rodeo (1998); Peter Fischli/David Weiss, The Least Resistance (1981); Peter Fischli/David Weiss, The Right Way (1983); Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Büsi (2000); Douglas Gordon, B-Movie (1995); Douglas Gordon, Dead Right (1998); Douglas Gordon, Left Dead (1998); Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance (1988); Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler House with Pool (2004); Isaac Julien, Fantôme Créole (2005); Tracey Moffatt, Nice Colored Girls (1987); Ann-Sofi Sidén, QM, I Think I Call Her QM (1997); Fiona Tan, Saint Sebastian (2001); Diana Thater, Foam (1997); Rosemarie Trockel, Yvonne (1997); Rosemarie Trockel, Pausa (1999); Rosemarie Trockel, Julia (1994).

In selecting works for the exhibition, curators Stephan Urbaschek and Milada Ślizińska chose to emphasize artists who have not previously exhibited at the CCA at Ujazdowski Castle.

The exhibition is designed to contribute to ongoing discussions of the methods and models that apply to contemporary art collection, both in the context of the CCA's own International Collection of Contemporary Art and of the planned collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

David Claerbout Shadow Piece 2005, courtesy Sammlung Goetz, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2006

Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler House with Pool 2004
courtesy Sammlung Goetz.

Fiona Tan Saint Sebastian 2001, courtesy Sammlung Goetz, Inst.: Tate Modern London

The exhibition is accompanied by additional screenings of videos and films from the Goetz Collection. Held at Kino.Lab, these screenings feature works not included in the exhibition.

Subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within the framework of the PROMOTION OF CREATIVITY Operational Program
Sponsors: SAMSUNG, NOBILES
Media partners: Gazeta Wyborcza, Radio PIN

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	RYSZARD STANISŁAWSKI AND HIS MUSEUM photography, installations, films GALLERY 1
	Curators: Paweł Polit and Agnieszka Szewczyk Opening: 4.12, 6 p.m. on view thru 21.01.07

Ryszard Stanisławski and His Museum is devoted to Ryszard Stanisławski, the long-time director of the Museum of Art in Łódź who effectively steered that institution to the international status it now possesses. Simultaneously, Stanisławski authored some of the most important presentations of Polish art abroad, including Presence Polonaise at the Centre Pompidou, Polish Realities in Glasgow and Europa, Europa in Bonn. The display features films, photographs and various archives presenting Ryszard Stanisławski, the people who surrounded him, their achievements. The exhibition's opening will coincide with the premiere of a film about Ryszard Stanisławski that was produced by the CCA and directed by Andrzej Sapija. Altogether, this presentation simultaneously seeks to explore the task of art museums at present and their role in the future.

Media partner:
Rzeczpospolita daily

	1, 2, 3 AVANT-GARDE archives, film, art, experimentation GALLERY 2
	Curators: Łukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang Exhibition opening: 8.12, 6.00 p.m. on view thru 28.01.07

Academy of Movement, Piotr Andrejew, Antosz & Andzia, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Matthew Buckingham, Bernadette Corporation, Bogdan Dziworski, Marcin Giżycki, Janusz Haka, Oskar Hansen, Judith Hopf, Tadeusz Junak, Jacques de Koning, Grzegorz Kowalski, Igor Krenz, Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Zofia Kulik, Paweł Kwiek, Przemyslaw Kwiek, Natalia LL, Jolanta Marcolla, Jonathan Monk, Ewa Partum, Andrzej Pawłowski, Zygmunt Piotrowski, Józef Robakowski, Willem de Rooij/Jeroen de Rijke, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Zygmunt Rytka, Wilhelm Sasnal, Tomasz Sikorski, Jadwiga Singer, Zdzisław Sosnowski, Mieczysław Szczuka, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Teresa Tyszkiewicz, Ryszard Waśko, Anastazy Wiśniewski, Jan S. Wojciechowski, Krzysztof Zarębski, Florian Zeyfang, Artur Żmijewski/Paweł Althamer

1, 2, 3 Avant-Garde celebrates the experimentation that takes place where the domains of art and film meet. The exhibition's title refers to three currents for which the category of the avant-garde proved particularly important: the first, modernist avant-garde, the neo-avant-garde of the 1970s and contemporary artists who variously (idealistically, ironically, cynically) address the heritage of the two precedent movements.
The exhibition space, defined as an area where these currents negotiate with each other, consists of six themed rooms in which various archival footage of the 1970s neo-avant-garde and the earlier modernist avant-garde is broken up/supplemented by more contemporary art projects (created within the last decade). The individual spaces/archives, presenting the relations between film, experimentation and art, explore the following areas: interference between sound and picture, analytical reflection on the medium, politics/propaganda/ideological engagement, consumption, categories of alternative realities, participation and interaction.

1, 2, 3 Avant-Garde also explores the theme of working with archives and seeks to show the tension between the archive - a kind of horizontal, open heterogeneous database - and the specific, clearly defined, linear and vertical narrations created on the basis of archives.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue containing essays by David Crowley, Jan Verwoert, Leire Vergara, Anselm Franke, Łukasz Ronduda, David Curtis and Steve Ball.
This presentation is a singular summary of the last few years of activity of the CCA's Polish Experimental Film Archive, a research project focusing on the collection, restoration, reconstruction and analysis of various film records related to Polish contemporary art and aimed at actively delineating links between historical and cutting-edge Polish contemporary art, revealing the new domains that arise where they meet, and finding the most relevant contemporary contexts for the presentation of historical material, especially that dating from the 1970s.
www.csw.art.pl/archfilm, www.enthusiastsarchive.net, www.piktogram.pl

Project organized under the auspices of the Büro Kopernikus Program and on the initiative of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Support provided by the Mondriaan Foundation
Co-operation: Piktogram

DOCUMENTATION GALLERY
LES ÉDITIONS INCERTAIN SENS
exhibition of artists' books

Exhibition opening: 20.12, 6.00 p.m.
on view thru 18.02.07
Curator: Leszek Brogowski

Participants:
AAMCQ, Robert Barry, Denis Briand, Yves Chaudouët, herman de vries, Bruno di Rosa, Peter Downsbrough, Patrick Dubrac, Gilbert Dupuis, Estelle Fredet, Jean-Baptiste Ganne, Antonio Gallego, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Véronique Hubert, Lefevre Jean Claude, Jean Le Gac, Laurent Marissal, Roberto Martinez, Anne i Patrick Poirier, Hubert Renard, Stephen Wright (Yann Toma), Christophe Viart, Éric Watier and others

An artist book embodies the act of freeing a work of art. This liberation is one of the key ideas of this exhibition, consisting of several dozen publications by artists who work with Les Éditions Incertain Sens, a publishing house operating under the auspices of the Universite Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne in France. Underlying the exhibition is the idea of free access to works that is characteristic of the best library collections. The display seeks to make this liberation of works through books at once tangible and symbolic.
Artists' books and other printed forms like leaflets and posters encounter new audiences in the street and the reading room, and in so doing help to re-establish the balance between two aspects of artwork - its power and meaning. Rather than providing a diluted audience experience of art, consisting at best of strolling amidst works displayed in a museum, they enable encountering art on the street or in a library, and as such invite us to think anew about the status of artworks and the nature of the aesthetic experience.
Leszek Brogowski is a professor at the Universite Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne in France. A philosopher, art theoretician and artist, he has also authored the books Sztuka w obliczu przemian [Art in the Face of Change] (1990), Powidoki i po [Afterimages and After] (2001) and Świadomość i historia [Consciousness and History] (2004). From 1978-81 he ran the GN Gallery in Gdańsk.

SQUARE IN FRONT OF THE CASTLE - CISTERN

a-i-r laboratory RESIDENCY PROGRAM
http://www.csw.art.pl/a-i-r/

	Inaki Garmendia Bartolome
	Residency: October - December 2006 Curator: Marianna Dobkowska Project presentation: December 2006/January 2007

Popular culture, issues of social identity and cultural communication, especially in a Basque context, are key to the works of Basque artist Inaki Garmendia (b. 1972), who explores the narrative possibilities of subcultures and music, which he sees as very capacious forms of communication (esp. radical Basque rock of the 1980s).

The artist's creative residency was organized in cooperation with the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao

	Olav Westphalen, Scores
	Residency: October-December 2006 Curator: Marianna Dobkowska

Olav Westphalen is preparing a project titled Scores, consisting of collages and a performance by dancers and collaborators of the Dystans Dance Theatre. The artist is producing his collages from daily newspapers, in which the artist seeks out initially invisible connections, rhymes, patterns and even hidden narratives. The collages will then return to public space when they are displayed on billboards throughout Warsaw that will at once announce the next part of the project: an urban performance by Anna Piotrowska and her dance troupe. Within these performances they will become instruction manuals, notations of action, an inspiration toward reading images through gesture and movement.

Co-operation: Headlands Center for the Arts; Polish Cultural Institute, New York
Sponsor: Trust for Mutual Understanding

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

	TADASHI KAWAMATA (Japan) RECONSTRUCTION Project consisting of the revival of 19th century cellars located in the square in front of Ujazdowski Castle permanent installation Curator: Maria Brewińska Consultant and construction supervisor: Piotr Kowalski, Eng.
RECONSTRUCTION was realized as a part of the international GLOBAL VILLAGE GARDEN project, which was financed under the CULTURE 2000 programme of the European Union
Space dedicated to artistic events and presentations inspired by its interior Tadashi Kawamata is one of the premiere representatives of one of the most original trends in world contemporary art. His projects span the realms of art and architecture. Titled Reconstruction, his work for the CCA consisted of adapting and revitalizing a series of 19th century cellars located in the square in front of Ujazdowski Castle. The adaptation process began with work aimed at protecting the existing architectural structure: walls were covered with protective layers, a glass roof erected over the cellar vaults, wooden stairs and floors constructed inside. The entirety of the roof structure is situated at ground level and is visible. The Japanese artist`s intervention is the first step towards the complete renovation and adaptation of the below-ground structure. In uncovering these previously hidden cellars of an annex to Ujazdowski Castle (cellars which once served as "the castle`s intestines," a sedimentation tank that was part of the sewage system of Ujazdowski Hospital during the 19th century), Kawamata has sought to emphasize the effect the project can have on people and created a space that will host a range of artistic activities. This project represents an opportunity to turn a "marginal" space of Ujazdowski Castle into a permanent centre of action. Kawamata has also sought to position his artwork in the public space, doing so in a manner that underlines material permanence. Reconstruction is noteworthy for being Kawamata`s first-ever permanent installation. It is yet another element in the sculpture garden being created in direct proximity to Ujazdowski Castle based on projects by outstanding contemporary artists from Poland and abroad. Tadashi Kawamata`s project was inaugurated with his exhibition "PROJECTS - INSTALLATIONS 1979 - 2002," organized at the CCA in November of 2001.
Sponsors: Arysta Agro Polska Sp. z o.o., "Jaroszowiec" Glassworks, KIM Media patrons: "ARCHITEKTURA - Murator," Gazeta Wyborcza, WiK, The Warsaw Voice

INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART

		*permanent exhibition*
		GALLERY 2 Curator: Wojciech Krukowski
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Pawel Althamer, Eric Andersen, Janusz Baldyga, Miroslaw Balka, Krzysztof Bednarski, Jerzy Beres, Christian Boltanski, Wlodzimierz Borowski, George Brecht, Wojciech Bruszewski, Tomasz Ciecierski, Matt Collishaw, Atilla Csorgo, Zbigniew Dlubak, Andrzej Dluzniewski, Stanislaw Drozdz, Edward Dwurnik, Stefan Gierowski, Zbigniew Gostomski, Katarzyna Gorna, Izabela Gustowska, Lynn Hershman, Jenny Holzer, IRWIN, Zuzanna Janin, Piotr Jaros, Zdzislaw Jurkiewicz, Koji Kamoji, Ilya Kabakov, Jerzy Kalucki, Marek Kijewski, Joseph Kosuth, Piotr Kowalski, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Katarzyna Kozyra, Edward Krasinski, Barbara Kruger, Zofia Kulik, Oleg Kulik, Kwiek/Kulik, Pawel Kwiek, Natalia LL, Dominik Lejman, Zbigniew Libera, Richard Long, Hanna Luczak, Marcin Maciejowski, Robert Maciejuk, Jaroslaw Modzelewski, Teresa Murak, David Nash, Roman Opalka, Tony Oursler, Denis Oppenheim, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Wojciech Prazmowski, Mariola Przyjemska, Joanna Rajkowska, Józef Robakowski, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Wilhelm Sasnal, Mikolaj Smoczynski, Marek Sobczyk, Daniel Spoerri, Roman Stanczak, Henryk Stazewski, Andrzej Szewczyk, Leon Tarasewicz, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Lawrence Weiner, Emmet Williams, Ryszard Winiarski, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Krzysztof Zarebski, Artur Zmijewski
5th edition: New Exhibition will be opened Autumn 2006
The exhibition of the INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART was made possible with the help of the Warsaw CENTRUM Borough

SQUARE IN FRONT OF UJAZDOWSKI CASTLE
	Jenny Holzer (USA) *BENCHES*	*permanent exhibition*
	10 stone objects adorned with texts from the TRUISMS and SURVIVAL series
Jenny Holzer is one of America's most important middle generation artists and was an award-winner at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990. In the mid 1970s she abandoned abstract painting and chose text as her primary artistic medium. She disseminates artistic statements through means and mechanisms created for use in advertising and the public "iconosphere" of consumer society. Holzer adorns electronic light boards, posters, billboards, T-shirts, as well as stone benches with pronouncements and aphorisms that reference the realm of clichés and stereotypes. In 1993 the CCA presented Holzer's works in public spaces throughout Warsaw and at Ujazdowski Castle. Her stone Benches were the first piece in the permanent "Sculpture Garden" of the Centre for Contemporary Art.

FACADES OF UJAZDOWSKI CASTLE
	Lawrence Weiner (USA) Texts on the western and northern facades of Ujazdowski Castle
	*permanent exhibition*
	Curator: Milada Ślizińska
Lawrence Weiner is one of America's most interesting conceptual artists. In 1996 Weiner produced a work for the CCA which consisted of placing inscriptions on the western and northern façades of Ujazdowski Castle. The two inscriptions read "O wiele rzeczy za dużo by zmieścić w tak małym pudełku" and (its English equivalent) - "Far too many things to fit into so small a box." The artist is most interested in the relationship between language and meaning, and in their dependence on the contexts within which they appear.

MUSEUM OF THE CASTLE AND MILITARY HOSPITAL AT UJAZDOW
	GALLERY OF PORTRAITS OF UJAZDOWSKI CASTLE OWNERS HISTORY OF UJAZDOWSKI CASTLE UJAZDOWSKI HOSPITAL BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
	*permanent museum exhibition* Curator: Małgorzata Matuszewska
The Association of Friends of the Castle and Military Hospital at Ujazdów was created at Ujazdowski Castle in 1991. The organization brings together former staff of the Hospital at Ujazdów (doctors, nurses, medics) as well as former patients, who collectively and with pride refer to themselves as the Rzeczpospolita Ujazdowska (Ujazdów Republic). The association's main objective is to promote knowledge about the oldest-known settled site in the history of Warsaw, known more generally as Upper Ujazdów. The year 2002 marked the 740th anniversary of the establishment of Jazdów Castle and the 210th anniversary of the creation of Warsaw's oldest military hospital. Ujazdowski Castle was once a royal residence. In 1792 it was transformed into Ujazdowski Hospital, and as such was important during national uprisings and wars for independence, throughout the years of the 2nd Republic, during the defence of Warsaw in September of 1939, and throughout the years of the Nazi occupation of Poland. The permanent exhibition of the Castle Museum includes, among a range of other items, a corner stone dated September 16, 1624, unearthed on March 5, 1975 while work was being done under the foundations of Ujazdowski Castle's eastern wing. This was the first-ever find in Poland of a corner stone engraved with the date of initiation of construction of a historical edifice. The more than sixty views of Ujazdowski Castle throughout its history on view derive from the Mechanical Documentation Archive, the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Conservator of Monuments of the Province of Mazowsze, the Warsaw Historical Museum, the National Museum, and the Military Geographic Command.
Sponsors: Faxon Color, ProfiLab, Antalis, Film Miniatures Studio, Military Geographic Command

PUBLIC PROJECT

Joanna Rajkowska
GREETINGS FROM JERUSALEM AVENUE

Project 13.12.2002 - 29.02.2004., Warsaw, Ch. de Gaulle Circle
Project will remain on view for 12 months
Co-operation: Michal Rudnicki, Katarzyna Lyszkowicz - Institute of Art Promotion Foundation Rondo Ch. de Gaulle'a

PROJECT REALIZED UNDER THE HONORARY PATRONAGE OF THE MAYOR OF THE CAPITAL CITY OF WARSAW

Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue is an art project that consisted of placing an artificial palm tree on the traffic island located in the middle of De Gaulle Circle in Warsaw. The palm tree, made of synthetic materials, was produced in the United States and looks like a real, live tree, measuring approximately 15 meters in height.
The idea for Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue came from an effort to describe a voyage to Israel, which Joanna Rajkowska took in the spring of 2001. In its essence, the palm tree and its placement will recreate in Warsaw a view that is common in Israel. Additionally, this will be done on a street whose name refers to that country. In Polish, the word palma is also used to denote something unthinkable, something beyond our imagination, in brief, something that verges on being silly. Absurdity is omnipresent, here in Warsaw as everywhere. The palm tree in De Gaulle Circle is a very appropriate symbol of something that escapes understanding. At the same time, it highlights the fact that at times our modes of thinking simply do not match the world that surrounds us. www.palma.art.pl

Sponsors of the project: Bayer, Delecta, TUI Polska, Soul-utions.Com
Project made possible with help from:
Assembly/installation of the palm: Mostostal Siedlce S.A.
Construction of foundation: Kuban i Salak Pracownia Konstrukcji
Insurance: Warta
Official airline: American Airlines
Printed materials: Faxon
Media patronage: Gazeta Wyborcza, City Magazine, Radio Pogoda, Videowall Polska, ARD Television, Jaaz

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