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.
Every archive is some kind of creation, and every library has a finite amount of books and a catalog developed by someone.
The performance, choreographed and directed by Eryk Makohon, is built around the figure of the goddess Mokosh – the Slavic archetype of female divinity, vitality and fertility.
“UWAGA” O.de.la Theatre March 20th (Sunday), 6:30 pm Cricoteka, 2-4 Nadwiślańska Street Tickets: 25 / 35 The winner of the 3rd edition of “The Best Off” Independent Theatre Competition, the dance spectacle “UWAGA” by o.de.la theater, is close to natural expression. It is based on spontaneous, unintentional externalization and expression of psychological contents in the […]
PERFECT MAN Idea, concept and text: Lukasz Wojcicki 26th March (Saturday), 6:30 pm Tickets: 25/35 zł In Central and Eastern Europe, the legacy of the experience of communism is still clear; one might even venture to say that its intergenerational trauma continues to this day. The observation of it is particularly absorbing in the context […]
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.
From December 23 to January 5, the exhibitions in Cricoteka’s main building will not be open to the public. However, the space of Tadeusz Kantor’s Gallery-Workshop will remain open. We invite you to 7/5 Sienna Street from Monday to Wednesday between 12:00 and 16:00. The whole Cricoteka team wishes you peaceful and healthy holidays!
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.
Tadeusz Kantor. “The Whole Life is a Theater”. Presentation of frames of paintings from the play “Today Is My Birthday” by Cricot 2 Theatre. 7/5 Sienna Street, intercom 8, 31-041 Kraków. Monday – Wednesday, 12:00-16:00. Admission to the Gallery-Workshop and Kantor’s Room is free. Living in his atelier at 7/5 Sienna Street in Krakow […]
