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08/02/2025

Final weekend to see
Agata Ingarden: EmoPolis

Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź – ms2
Ogrodowa 19, ground floor

On view until February 9, 2025

EmoPolis is Agata Ingarden's first museum exhibition to be held in Poland. Presented here is the fragment of an ongoing project where the central role is played by infrastructural pieces, which have been designed to manage energy emitted by emotional states. To this end, the exhibition combines two monumental works – Rescue Dummies and Picnic at Sunset.

Both projects reflect the functioning of interconnected systems. In the world of the House of Dreams, the energy of the Butterfly People drives a program that is regulated and monitored by the EmoPolis. Similarly, the sculpture Picnic at Sunset integrates natural and recycled components (metal, charred sugar, mushroom fabric, and solar panels) to create a self-sustaining ecosystem. Together, they construct an urban landscape that merges the public and private space. The tangled interactions of groups and isolated events create a coherent narrative of the world of the House of Dreams.

(excerpts from curatorial text)

Curated by Daniel Muzyczuk

07/02/2025

Leszek Knaflewski (Knaf): Marathon of Unrest

On view until 1 March 2025

Leszek Knaflewski (b. 1960) died unexpectedly on 6 September 2014. He was an artist, musician, teacher and friend of young artists. He was associated with Poznań all his life. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he played drums in punk and post-punk bands: Rasa, Sten and Socrealizm, and co-founded Poznan's first new wave club Dno. He entered the art scene in 1983, leaving punk at the same time. Studying in the painting studio of Prof. Jerzy Kałucki, from which he graduated with distinction, he went beyond the painting plane into the third dimension. He wrote at the time: 'There comes a moment in one's work when one has the urge to make a hole in the painting, to paint a calm sea and then to take a ride on it in a motorboat.' 
[an excerpt from Michał Woliński's text for the "Gazeta Wyborcza" daily]

I had a few conversations with Knaf about the 1980s and the Koło Klipsa ['clip circle' or 'wheel of a clip' or 'near a clip']. The story of how the group's name came about stuck with me. Mariusz Kruk suggested the word 'koło'. Apparently he picked it up from the floor. It was printed on a piece of paper. There was fatigue, alcohol and a lot of scattered newspapers. Knaf added 'klips'. It was detached from another piece of paper. An exquisite co**se. They fell to the floor, the couch, and laughed. 
[an excerpt from Michał Woliński's text for the "Szum" magazine] 

This will be the first solo exhibition of Knaf's work at the gallery since his sudden and unexpected death. The presentation will consist of works from the late 1980s.

05/02/2025

Agata Ingarden: EmoPolis

Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź – ms2
Ogrodowa 19, ground floor

Final days to see. On view until February 9, 2025

EmoPolis is Agata Ingarden's first museum exhibition to be held in Poland. Presented here is the fragment of an ongoing project where the central role is played by infrastructural pieces, which have been designed to manage energy emitted by emotional states. To this end, the exhibition combines two monumental works – Rescue Dummies and Picnic at Sunset.

Both projects reflect the functioning of interconnected systems. In the world of the House of Dreams, the energy of the Butterfly People drives a program that is regulated and monitored by the EmoPolis. Similarly, the sculpture Picnic at Sunset integrates natural and recycled components (metal, charred sugar, mushroom fabric, and solar panels) to create a self-sustaining ecosystem. Together, they construct an urban landscape that merges the public and private space. The tangled interactions of groups and isolated events create a coherent narrative of the world of the House of Dreams.

(excerpts from curatorial text)

Curated by Daniel Muzyczuk

01/02/2025

TODAY!
Knaf (Leszek Knaflewski)
Marathon of Unrest

Opening: 1 February 2025
6-9PM

This will be the first solo exhibition of Knaf's (1960-2014) work at the gallery since his sudden and unexpected death. The presentation will consist of works from the late 1980s.

31/01/2025

Leszek Knaflewski (Knaf): Marathon of Unrest

OPENING
1 February 2025
6-9 PM

Leszek Knaflewski (b. 1960) died unexpectedly on 6 September 2014. He was an artist, musician, teacher and friend of young artists. He was associated with Poznań all his life. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he played drums in punk and post-punk bands: Rasa, Sten and Socrealizm, and co-founded Poznan's first new wave club Dno. He entered the art scene in 1983, leaving punk at the same time. Studying in the painting studio of Prof. Jerzy Kałucki, from which he graduated with distinction, he went beyond the painting plane into the third dimension. He wrote at the time: 'There comes a moment in one's work when one has the urge to make a hole in the painting, to paint a calm sea and then to take a ride on it in a motorboat.' 
[an excerpt from Michał Woliński's text for the "Gazeta Wyborcza" daily]

I had a few conversations with Knaf about the 1980s and the Koło Klipsa ['clip circle' or 'wheel of a clip' or 'near a clip']. The story of how the group's name came about stuck with me. Mariusz Kruk suggested the word 'koło'. Apparently he picked it up from the floor. It was printed on a piece of paper. There was fatigue, alcohol and a lot of scattered newspapers. Knaf added 'klips'. It was detached from another piece of paper. An exquisite co**se. They fell to the floor, the couch, and laughed. 
[an excerpt from Michał Woliński's text for the "Szum" magazine] 

This will be the first solo exhibition of Knaf's work at the gallery since his sudden and unexpected death. The presentation will consist of works from the late 1980s.

29/01/2025

Piotr Skiba
1. Untitled (Snail Gods) II, 2024
Nike Free Inneva Woven, roots and organic components cast in bronze, natural patina, sand, 42 x 24 x 22 cm. Unique
2. Untitled (Their Monument Sticks Like A Fishbone in the City's Throat), 2024
Flip-flops, Fugu fish, and organic components cast in bronze, natural patina, sand, 38 x 22 x 16 cm. Unique
3. Untitled (Our Proportions Horrify Our Neighbours), 2024
Adidas Adilette Slippers and snail shells cast in bronze, natural patina, sand, 41 x 43 x 14 cm

as part of

Agata Ingarden, Piotr Skiba
Soft Parts Protection

7 December 2024 - 25 January 2025

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28/01/2025

Knaf (Leszek Knaflewski)
Marathon of Unrest

SAVE THE DATE
Opening: 1 February 2025

This will be the first solo exhibition of Knaf's (1960-2014) work at the gallery since his sudden and unexpected death. The presentation will consist of works from the 1980s.

27/01/2025

Zuza Golińska, Lament, 2024
Performance created in collaboration with Jack Wilson and St Anne’s Cathedral Choir in Belfast at the former Bank of Ireland building, Belfast.

'For my recent work "Lament", I asked eight female singers from St. Anne’s Cathedral Choir in Belfast, led by cathedral organist and Master of Music Jack Wilson, to sing a love song for the former Bank of Ireland building before it enters its last gentrified state and becomes a tourist centre.
Designed by Joseph Vincent Downes and built between 1929 and 1930, this five-story modernist building with a slender tower is one of the few largely unaltered Art Deco examples in Belfast city centre, currently classified with the B+ listing status and unused, with plans to be turned into a £100,000,000 tourism centre project. The restructuring of the building and 4,000-square-meter site surrounding it is expected to be finished by 2028. The building is an early example of the use of a steel frame structure; other materials include Portland limestone, metal window frames, and doors with decorative painted steel panels.
In January of 2012, Occupy Belfast took control over the former Bank of Ireland location as a protest against the lack of affordable social housing and rising homelessness. As one of the protesters stated, “Banks take our houses, so we take their buildings.”. The building was occupied for ten months until Northern Ireland Electricity cut off the power after a police raid in October 2012; since it has remained disused.'

Arrangement of Linger by The Cranberries by Jack Wilson
Conducted by Jack Wilson
Performed by Rachel Adams, Holly Aston, Janine Burnside, Maria Grant, Clare Henderson, Catherine Lyons, Hannah McCune, and Shauna White

Hand-sewn sleeves by Gosia Golińska
Pictures by Chad Alexander
Video by Simon Mills

Commissioned by Household as part of Red Sky at Night, a night-time festival of new art commissions across Belfast in November 2024

24/01/2025

Agata Ingarden, Antidote 2, 2016
Epoxy resin, steel, chicken wire, electrical cables, found bees, 70 x 80 x 5 cm

as part of

Agata Ingarden, Piotr Skiba
Soft Parts Protection

On view until 25 January 2025

The exhibition Soft Parts Protection brings together three series of works by Agata Ingarden and Piotr Skiba. The sculptural objects consist of or use a variety of ready-made or found elements – organic: shells of oysters or land snails, exoskeletons or chitinous armour of wasps, bees and other insects to protect internal organs. They are combined with common, utilitarian objects: window blinds to block out light while providing privacy from prying eyes, polystyrene moulds to protect fragile electronics in transit, flip-flops and running shoes to protect feet. These series of works are loosely interconnected, each forming a whole with complex meaning, marked by personal experiences and formally surreal.

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23/01/2025

Agata Ingarden, Piotr Skiba
Soft Parts Protection

On view until 25 January 2025

The exhibition Soft Parts Protection brings together three series of works by Agata Ingarden and Piotr Skiba. The sculptural objects consist of or use a variety of ready-made or found elements – organic: shells of oysters or land snails, exoskeletons or chitinous armour of wasps, bees and other insects to protect internal organs. They are combined with common, utilitarian objects: window blinds to block out light while providing privacy from prying eyes, polystyrene moulds to protect fragile electronics in transit, flip-flops and running shoes to protect feet. These series of works are loosely interconnected, each forming a whole with complex meaning, marked by personal experiences and formally surreal.

Works from the following series:
* Agata Ingarden, Hours of Dog (Between Dog and the Wolf)
* Agata Ingarden, Antidote
* Piotr Skiba, Snail Gods

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22/01/2025

Piotr Skiba, Untitled (Snail Gods) II, 2024
Nike Free Inneva Woven, roots and organic components cast in bronze, natural patina, sand, 42 x 24 x 22 cm. Unique

as part of

Agata Ingarden, Piotr Skiba
Soft Parts Protection

On view until 25 January 2025

The exhibition Soft Parts Protection brings together three series of works by Agata Ingarden and Piotr Skiba. The sculptural objects consist of or use a variety of ready-made or found elements – organic: shells of oysters or land snails, exoskeletons or chitinous armour of wasps, bees and other insects to protect internal organs. They are combined with common, utilitarian objects: window blinds to block out light while providing privacy from prying eyes, polystyrene moulds to protect fragile electronics in transit, flip-flops and running shoes to protect feet. These series of works are loosely interconnected, each forming a whole with complex meaning, marked by personal experiences and formally surreal.

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21/01/2025

Agata Ingarden, Antidote 1, 2016
Epoxy resin, steel, chicken wire, cables, found wasps, 107 x 60 x 8 cm

as part of

Agata Ingarden, Piotr Skiba
Soft Parts Protection

On view until 25 January 2025

The exhibition Soft Parts Protection brings together three series of works by Agata Ingarden and Piotr Skiba. The sculptural objects consist of or use a variety of ready-made or found elements – organic: shells of oysters or land snails, exoskeletons or chitinous armour of wasps, bees and other insects to protect internal organs. They are combined with common, utilitarian objects: window blinds to block out light while providing privacy from prying eyes, polystyrene moulds to protect fragile electronics in transit, flip-flops and running shoes to protect feet. These series of works are loosely interconnected, each forming a whole with complex meaning, marked by personal experiences and formally surreal.

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15/01/2025

Agata Ingarden, Piotr Skiba
Soft Parts Protection

On view until 25 January 2025

The exhibition Soft Parts Protection brings together three series of works by Agata Ingarden and Piotr Skiba. The sculptural objects consist of or use a variety of ready-made or found elements – organic: shells of oysters or land snails, exoskeletons or chitinous armour of wasps, bees and other insects to protect internal organs. They are combined with common, utilitarian objects: window blinds to block out light while providing privacy from prying eyes, polystyrene moulds to protect fragile electronics in transit, flip-flops and running shoes to protect feet. These series of works are loosely interconnected, each forming a whole with complex meaning, marked by personal experiences and formally surreal.

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Piotr Skiba, Untitled (Our Proportions Horrify Our Neighbours), 2024
Adidas Adilette Slippers and snail shells cast in bronze, natural patina, sand, 41 × 43 × 14 cm. Unique

Agata Ingarden, The Wild Goose..., 2024
Oyster shells, hoof fungus, serigraphy on silk, sewing thread, office blinds, stainless steel mosquito mesh, steel, glue, copper wire, light bulb, electric cables, 3D model print, plexiglass, 198 × 70 × 44 cm

13/01/2025

13/01/2025

Agata Ingarden, The Wild Goose..., 2024
Oyster shells, hoof fungus, serigraphy on silk, sewing thread, office blinds, stainless steel mosquito mesh, steel, glue, copper wire, light bulb, electric cables, 3D model print, plexiglass, 198 × 70 × 44 cm

as part of

Agata Ingarden, Piotr Skiba
Soft Parts Protection

On view until 25 January 2025

The exhibition Soft Parts Protection brings together three series of works by Agata Ingarden and Piotr Skiba. The sculptural objects consist of or use a variety of ready-made or found elements – organic: shells of oysters or land snails, exoskeletons or chitinous armour of wasps, bees and other insects to protect internal organs. They are combined with common, utilitarian objects: window blinds to block out light while providing privacy from prying eyes, polystyrene moulds to protect fragile electronics in transit, flip-flops and running shoes to protect feet. These series of works are loosely interconnected, each forming a whole with complex meaning, marked by personal experiences and formally surreal.

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