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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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.
“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”.
Polyphonies are coming back to Cricoteka! We invite you to the first concert on 6 August at 19.00. Polyphonie 2021. Music of Objects 6.08.2021, 19.00: Aleksander Wnuk: Lupnik 4.09.2021, 19.00: Anna Sowa: It’s Only the End of the World Tickets: PLN 20 normal, PLN 10 reduced We continue the cycle of concerts of experimental […]
“Suffocation” Marina Istomina Krakow Photomonth Festival ShowOFF section Curator: Silvia Pogoda Thursday – Sunday, 11:00 – 19:00, “Suffocation” finds itself between fiction, reality, and a dream. It’s a form of dealing with personal and social trauma. Marina Istomina tells a story about Siberian wildfires, which is formed into multi-layered puzzles, confronting the archival photographs […]
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Place: Sienna 7/5, 31-041 Kraków Opening hours: Monday–Wednesday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Tadeusz Kantor’s Gallery-Studio is opening to the world. The major avant-gardist and theatre reformer whose plays keep providing ongoing inspiration to creators worldwide, spent the final years of his life in a small studio in Krakow, Poland. Starting from October 2020, […]
Discover the artistic corners of Cracow while following the footsteps of one of the most important Polish avant-garde artists of the 20th century! Tadeusz Kantor came to Cracow to study at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. Here he presented his first theatrical performances and organised some of the most important exhibitions of […]
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The series of meetings Playing with Kantor will showcase the work of great foreign directors who cite the Krakow artist as an inspiration and approach his work.
