The Cricoteka and the A Sztuka? Foundation are pleased to announce Wild Frolics. Exhibition for All. Wild Frolics is a space for actively experiencing art and activity: testing, moving, and launching space through one’s own actions. It is an invitation to both children and adults to create things together in movement and in a relation, which is where we are carefree and let our imagination work.
Czas trwania
11.03 – 11. 10. 2026
Curatorial text
Curatorial text
The point of departure for the exhibition was a workshop for children aged 6–12. The curators, Justyna Droń and Anna Grajewska, investigated their fun and the moments when children let their imagination work. They looked for what the children enjoyed: building, drawing, dressing up in costumes, creating things based on unobvious links. They checked which of Tadeusz Kantor’s items from the Cricoteka’s collection the children wanted to play with and what sparked their curiosity and why. Quotes from conversations, associations, and drawings formed a guide through the next stages of the project. This guide led to artists, who, together with the curators, developed ideas stemming from children’s curiosity, fun, and interaction with Tadeusz Kantor’s items. Testing was an important part of the development of Wild Frolics. The ideas and prototypes prepared by the artists were given to the children in order to be examined in practice.
As a result, when you participate in Wild Frolics. Exhibition for All. you can dress up in huge clothes taken out from strange adults’ wardrobes, designed and sewn by Marta Sala and Cheong Kin Man, use the suitcases full of sounds prepared by Joanna Bronisławska in order to create an improvised orchestra where every tone is a part of a shared composition, or participate in Justyna Mędrala’s drawing challenge and hang your work in the exhibition space. You can also discover a secret base made of fabrics by Justyna Mazur-Kiwer and even experience a mess full of unexpected movement thanks to the work of Bartek Buczek. Thanks to art, the exhibition space becomes a place of creative play.
Wild Frolics is a moment of experimentation, risk, loss of control, making errors, and being unsure what to do. This allows for experiencing a genuine interaction both with others and with oneself. The title of the exhibition is based on Maurice Sendak’s book and, much like Where the Wild Things Are, an affirmation of wildness. Like in the story of Max, the main character of the book, “wild frolicking” is a metaphor for creatively diving into chaos and adventure, and then consciously coming back, enriched by a new experience and a new story.
Come and do some wild frolicking at the Cricoteka!
Organisers: Cricoteka, Fundacja A sztuka?
Curators: Justyna Droń, Anna Grajewska
Producer: Anna Bargiel
Artists: Asi Mina/Joanna Bronisławska, Bartek Buczek, Justyna Mazur-Kiwer, Justyna Mędrala oraz duet Marta Sala i Cheong Kin Man
Children participating in the workshop: Nina Adamska, Tola Bałazińska, Jan Chłopek, Pola Hajnos-Turkot, Jan Jagodziński, Marianna Jojczyk, Michał Jojczyk, Stanisław Kiwer, Jonasz Kler, Otylia Klimek, Jerzy Masternak, Aniela Michalska, Karolina Olszar, Alicja Radomska, Inka Ratajczyk, Kosma Ratajczyk, Amelia Stajerska, Róża Wiech-Grajewska, Antoni Woźniacki, Vittoria Wyganowska, Vincent Wyganowski, Nina Zarzecka-Walaszek, Pola Zygmunt
Graphic and exhibition designer: Wojtek Janikowski
Promotion: Małgorzata Kmita-Fugiel, Zofia Mikołajska
Accessibility: Anna Rejowska
Audience care: Aleksandra Treder
Lighting and multimedia: Mariusz Gąsior, Michał Warmusz
Installation: Tomasz Stefaniak, Krzysztof Warmus
Public program: Anna Bargiel, Justyna Droń, Anna Grajewska, Małgorzata Raczkowska
Director: Natalia Zarzecka
Deputy Director: Agnieszka Oprządek
Collaboration: Elżbieta Bednarczyk, Kajetan Bronisławski, Wiktor Bury, Guido Gazzi, Joanna Geroch, Joanna Gorzałczany, Barbara Iwańska, Ewa Kaczmarczyk, Valentyna Khomenko, Agata Klakla, Maria Klyta, Wojciech Kucharczyk, Kamil Kuitkowski, Jakub Kwiatkowski, Jolanta Lang, Michał Lelek, Kateryna Marchenko, Barbara Mączyńska, Anna Michałowska, Piotr Masoń, Aldona Mikulska, Małgorzata Paluch-Cybulska, Tomasz Pietrucha, Bogdan Renczyński, Maciej Satała, Jakub Skowron, Paweł Staszewski, Zuzanna Stysiak, Konrad Szymański, Magdalena Ujma, Krzysztof Wilk, Olena Yanushewska, Dorota Ziajko
Media patronage: TVP 3 Kraków, Mint Magazine, Magazyn Szum, Gazeta Wyborcza
The work of Cheong Kin Man in a duo with Marta Stanisława Sala is part of his doctoral research in anthropology entitled “Translinguality, Artistic Autoethnography, and Affective Memory in the Macao Diaspora,” conducted at the New University of Lisbon / University Institute of Lisbon. The research is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Macao Center for Science and Culture (CCCM), which operates under the Portuguese Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation.
