Spaces for Beauty: in Action
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Spaces for Beauty: In Action In Beauty: for Spaces Przestrzenie dla piękna. W działaniu 2016 Spaces for Beauty: In Action Version 01.2016 Wrocław 2016 Dear Readers, I’m happy to announce that we’ve made it! We’ve finished the preparations for Wrocław as the European Capital of Culture. A few years ago, when we were wondering what kind of capital we would be, we didn’t know much. The initial euphoria was followed by reflection and questions. Will more residents participate actively in our city’s cultural life after 2016? Will we read more, visit theatres and concert halls more often? We still don’t have answers to those questions and we will probably have to wait a long time to get them. But we know one thing – today Wrocław is already a different city. Not thanks to a beautiful, modern concert hall or interesting new seat of the ECoC office in Barbara, renovated Nadodrze district, and not only because of considerable funds we spend and will spend on culture. Why then? Because the preparations for 2016 involved thousands of people. Mainly those young and ambitious just like Wrocław itself, but also those more mature, and previously not participating in cultural life. They transform houses and backyards, participate in workshops, apply for microgrants to implement their ideas. They see participation as an opportunity, and they join in the life of the city. And this is our shared victory. Achieved today, even before the celebrations have begun. I can’t say if in January 2016 Wrocław will be different than before, I can’t say if the European Capital of Culture can change the mentality and habits of the residents. But I can say that citizens of Wrocław needed such a challenge, they tackled it with enthusiasm and are more and more openly happy about it. And in a year’s time – I hope – they will be able to say they are proud of their Cultural Capital. Rafał Dudkiewicz, Mayor of Wrocław The book Spaces for Beauty: In Action is a guide to the events prepared for the year of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016. A kind of a diary of Wrocław, the city living and breathing culture and art. Spaces for beauty here are created by architecture, film, literature, music, opera, performance, visual arts and theatre. The involvement of the city and its residents together with the European dimension of the events resulted in an experimental, diverse, modern and socially activating programme. On four ‘stages’, which are at the same time four dimensions: Wrocław, Lower Silesia, the National Stage and the European and World stage – eight curators work in eight domains of art. Their work has brought new valuable initiatives, well-known Wrocław events will have special editions, educational and activating projects will be emphasized and the focus of the whole region will be on art and culture. Openness, creativity, residents’ energy and culture flowing from Wrocław towards Europe are our common good. That’s why we come out to the streets with art, enter backyards and other unconventional spaces to bring art to those who perhaps couldn’t reach for it on their own. We want to make it close, tangible, unique and open to new initiatives. Today, we make the city and citizens undergo a metamorphosis. Spaces for beauty will become true only if we act and strive for change together. Only integrating as many individuals as possible around the creation and implementation of the programme can endow those spaces with meaning. The meaning of creating art together. Krzysztof Maj and the European Capital of Culture 2016 team Think Tank lab Triennale 3.12.2015 31.01.2016 VISUAL ARTS Chairman: Przemysław Pintal The biggest survey of Honorary chairman: Natalia contemporary drawing in Poland, Lach-Lachowicz January, Fri. presenting works by artists from Organized by: Eugeniusz Geppert 1 eight countries. Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław Co-organized by: ECoC Wrocław 2016, National Museum in Wrocław, Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, The National Ossoliński Institute ttt.wroclaw.pl/ Poland. Quarter of a Century of 13.12.2015 Freedom 14.01.2016 VISUAL ARTS One of six exhibitions at Warsaw TEST gallery presenting selected important trends in Wrocław art from recent decades. Ongoing Catherine Balet. Looking for the Masters VISUAL ARTS 2.09.15—5.01.16 Poland. Quarter of a Century of Freedom VISUAL ARTS 13.12.15—14.01.16 Kengo Kito VISUAL ARTS 4.12.15—16.01.16 Galeria Arsenal Notebook VISUAL ARTS 11.12.15—24.01.16 Brudnopis/Outline VISUAL ARTS 4.12.15—27.01.16 Think Tank lab Triennale VISUAL ARTS 3.12.15—31.01.16 Two Sticks VISUAL ARTS 3.12.15—31.01.16 0101.wroclaw2016.pl 2 January, Sat. Long-term architectural projects Irek Grin, Zbigniew Maćków Branch, Unpubleashed, ATUT Organized by: ECoC Wrocław 2016 City Acupuncture Co-organized by: The Bęc April 2015 – January 2016 Zmiana Foundation, Association Selected film projects from ul. Zawalna, Museum of Architecture of Polish Architects (SARP) previous years in Wrocław, SARP Wrocław Cooperation: Izabela Cichońska, Jakub Branch, New Horizons Cinema Snopek, prof. Marta Kierska-Witczak A Survey of Basque ‘Puncturing’, reclaiming, then free admission Documentaries ‘healing’ spaces that bear potential 24 July – 3 August 2014 for activating local communities. MoKaPP – Mobile Catalyst for New Horizons Cinema The results (including workshops, Public Space A survey during the 14th T-Mobile open debates and an urban- May – November 2016 New Horizons Festival organized architectural competition) Lower Silesia in cooperation with San Sebastián will become a base for spatial A pavilion located in various International Film Festival. transformation. parts of the region will become The programme included five Curators: Maciej Hawrylak, an example of positive influence documentaries presenting the Daria Kieżun, Sylwia Sikora on public space. It will host history and culture of the Basque Organized by: SARP Wrocław Branch workshops, educational activities, Country, among them The Search www.wroclaw.sarp.org.pl/ film screenings, meetings and for Emak Bakia by O. Alegría, The pl/akupunktura/ exhibitions creating activities Basque Swastika by A. Andrés free admission for residents in the area of joint and J. Barajas, and Zuloak by F. responsibility for space. Muguruza. Archi_movie Curators: Agata Gabiś, Karolina Organized by: New November 2015 – November 2016 Jara, Michał Duda Horizons Association New Horizons Cinema, Museum of Designer: Mikołaj Smoleński www.nowehoryzonty.pl Architecture in Wrocław, Faculty Organized by: Fundacja Promocji of Architecture at the Wrocław Sztuki Transformator Masters of European Cinema: University of Technology, Eugeniusz www. nowyportal. Lithuanian Cinema Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in wroclaw2016.pl/mokapp 23 July – 2 August 2015 Wrocław, towns in Lower Silesia free admission New Horizons Cinema Production of films promoting A survey during the 15th T-Mobile architecture and the culture of Architecture ECoC Wrocław 2016 New Horizons Festival. Thirty spatial order in Wrocław, selected Publication Series films from between 1959 and 2015 in a competition. January – December 2016 were presented, including some Curators: Maciej Hawrylak, A series of publications presenting from Soviet Union era (Nobody Daria Kieżun, Sylwia Sikora works by local architects and with Wanted to Die by V. Žalakevičius Ongoing Catherine Balet. Looking for the Masters Organized by: SARP Wrocław Branch the aim of propagating examples from 1965), and some produced VISUAL ARTS 2.09.15—5.01.16 www.wroclaw2016.pl/archi-movie of good architecture in Wrocław. after 1990 (The Collectress by Poland. Quarter of a Century of Freedom free admission Both academic and popular K. Buožytė from 2008). There VISUAL ARTS 13.12.15—14.01.16 publications will show interesting was also a special retrospective Kengo Kito Church: Beauty and Kitsch portraits of creators, the most devoted to the greatest master VISUAL ARTS 4.12.15—16.01.16 Galeria Arsenal Notebook January – December 2016 remarkable buildings and urban of Lithuanian cinema, Šarūnas VISUAL ARTS 11.12.15—24.01.16 An international competition for concepts, as well as unknown Bartas. Brudnopis/Outline the concept of a church, as well as aspects of Wrocław architecture Organized by: New VISUAL ARTS 4.12.15—27.01.16 exhibitions, meetings, discussions of the 20th and 21st centuries. Horizons Association Think Tank lab Triennale and publications devoted to the Curator: Zbigniew Maćków www.nowehoryzonty.pl VISUAL ARTS 3.12.15—31.01.16 Two Sticks issue of the sacred in art. Organized by: ECoC Wrocław 2016 VISUAL ARTS 3.12.15—31.01.16 Curators: Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, Co-organizers: SARP Wrocław 0201.wroclaw2016.pl 3 January, Sun. Long-term film projects of opera, theatre and ballet Dokument i Świat materials) presenting the history performances, exhibitions and www.wfdtd.pl of Wrocław through the eyes of Adapter: Cinema Without Barriers concerts. It is the centre of people related to the city and its 7 January – December 2016 many film-related events for Scharoun’s Avant-garde buildings. The film will be created New Horizons Cinema the programme of the European Film premiere: summer 2016 by pupils from Wrocław schools The first free virtual cinema in Capital of Culture. New Horizons Cinema and members of Children’s Film the world created for people with Organized by: New A film on the most important Factory. hearing and visual impairments. Horizons Association building from the 1929 WUWA Organized by: Alicja Jodko, New films will be available on www.kinonh.pl exhibition – a hotel for single Galeria Entropia www.adapter.pl each Thursday paid admission people and childless married www.entropia.art.pl at 8 pm. By December 2016, couples by Hans Scharoun free admission there will be over 100 films on Film Education Programme (Wrocław, ul.