Since 2018 Cricoteka has hosted a series of monthly screenings of theatre productions by Polish and international directors which play artistically with the work of Tadeusz Kantor. Curated by Anna Róża Burzyńska, the programme adopts a new format this year to present contemporary Spanish theatre, dance theatre, performance and dramaturgy. It examines the interactions of […]
Oil on canvas, gouache on cardboard, hammered steel, cut marble, percussion and piano fugue, or bodies in light, text in motion, dance in sound? Can oil on canvas be transcribed into a kinetic oratorio? What will such a translation bring – loss or discovery? Is translation a dialogue or perhaps a compromise? Limited resources or […]
We warmly invite you to participate in the events accompanying the Constellations exhibition organized as part of the Copernicus Festival 2023: Cosmos! Events for adults and children will be held on June 11, 17 and 18.
For years, scholars have been asking themselves about the boundaries of cosmos, the principles that govern its functioning, and our place in it. Similarly, artists test the boundaries of art, look for the reach of creative matter and coincidence, consciously rejecting the previously worked out laws. Constellations is a story of abstraction that goes beyond […]
Objects and costumes must be works of art, not decoration which is discarded once it has been used. This is what makes the Cricot 2 Theatre a unique and purely artistic phenomenon – Tadeusz Kantor
The project started a new European interaction with partner organisations and professionals of youth and cultural operators in participating countries. The project produced six workshops with arts-based methods for youth and youth organisations in three countries. Themes were reactive eco-crisis, improvisation and drama and accessibility. Arts methods were taught in a pedagogical manner. Each country […]
Ambalaże, Polish word coined from the French emballage meaning “packaging” was one of Kantor’s main creative strategies. The symbolic gesture of wrapping up an object or a figure is related to the need to guard, protect, fix, hide. Earlier, the artist fled from creating images of bodies and objects into abstract art. Emballages let him “touch […]
“The subjectivity of costumes in Kantor’s theatre is undeniable; for him, costumes were living entities with identities of their own, parasites on actors, feeding on them, sprouting from them and growing increasingly independent from the hosts. Taking this idea of costumes as their departure point, the curators set out to augment their function. Excised from […]
Katarzyna Kozyra’s installation The Rite of Spring draws upon Vaslav Nijinsky’s famous choreography to Igor Stravinsky’s composition. An iconic performance that took place in Paris in 1913 changed the thinking of both dance and contemporary music, and was frequently reinterpreted.
‘My childhood has a profound influence on what I create now,’ says Katarzyna Szweda. Her photographs are an extension of the artist’s relationship with the presented landscapes. A relationship so close it is almost corporeal.
The exhibition evokes questions about the rank and status of objects. Goplana with Elves were not meant to be a decoration, but to “embody a stage character”. For Kantor, the object as a “form – a spatial sculpture with a metaphorical function” became an element of ambient art; arranging a space which is meant to […]
“Thirty to Tomorrow” is a temporary group exhibition created by Robert Kuśmirowski in collaboration with curators Magdalena Ujma-Gawlik and Kamil Kuitkowski, with the participation of artists Marek Chlanda, Andrzej Dudek Dürer, Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz, Jan Gryka, Mikołaj Smoczyński, Maciej Świeszewski and Daniel Zagórski.
The exhibition poses questions about the actuality of the process of multiplication. Is creativity unequivocal with the so-called work of art? Does multiplication compromise the artwork or does it provide an opportunity to go beyond its limits?
The “Thirty to Tommorow” exhibition is an effect of multithreaded relations between artists, curators, time and space. It is at the same time the culmination of Robert Kuśmirowski’s road to Cricoteka.
What is future is also past, and in the present a child’s toy grows to the size of an adult.
Undoubtedly, the stars were in favour of Tadeusz Kantor, born at high noon on 6 April 1915.
Exhibition by Przemek Branas – a new version of his installation “Model of the head of a man who has missed everything in life” – is another project within the Cloakroom exhibition programme.
“Rollercoaster. Experience Collectors” is a program of contemporary dance presentations. The performances, selected by the curators Paweł Łyskawa and Eryk Makohon, different in terms of aesthetics and form, consistently fit into the theme of the programme of subsequent editions; this year under the motto “Young creators of impressions”.
Hurr durr – a term taken from internet forums, meaning great, usually unjustified outrage.
Emballage VI. Temporary exhibition. Open from 5th August 2021.
