2023/03/08 18:00
Within the framework of the Dot.To.Dot curatorial visit program, Sebastian Cichocki, chief curator of the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, will soon be in Budapest for a research trip.
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw is one of the last independent art museums in Poland, where the conservative, nationalist government is trying to crush the cultural institutions with similar methods used in Hungary.
Embedded in the international art scene, the museum's exhibitions and programs respond sensitively to pressing social and political topics that are important from a domestic point of view, such as women's rights, anti-fascism, or the Ukrainian war and the resulting wave of refugees. The museum is about to move to a new building where all this work will be further maintained.
In addition to studio visits and other meetings, Cichocki will speak in a public lecture about the museum's opening exhibition and their further plans, including the development of their collection, as well as the consistent responsibility they take to stand up for the causes of the Polish independent, civil sphere.
🗓️ March 8. 2023, 6pm
📍 Nyolcésfél, 7. floor, Panoráma room (VIII., Német utca 16.)
Sebastian Cichocki is the chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, where he has worked on the curation of the exhibitions Who Will Write the History of Tears. Artists on Women’s Rights (2021), The Penumbral Age. Art in the Times of Planetary Crisis (2020), Never Again. Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st centuries (2019), among others. Selected curated and co-curated exhibitions include: The Postartistic Congress (Sokołowsko, 2021), the Polish Pavilion at the 52nd (Monika Sosnowska, 1:1) and the 54th Venice Biennale (Yael Bartana, … And Europe Will Be Stunned), and Rainbow in the Dark. On the Joy and Torment of Faith, Malmö Konstmuseum (2015).
Sebastian Cichocki is the Guest Curator of the 40th EVA International - Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, August - October 2023.
Cichocki is a member of the board of programming at The Forum for the Future of Culture at the Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, and one of the founding members of artist-activist initiatives The Consortium for Postartistic Practices, The Anti-Fascist Year, and The Office for Postartistic Services. He is a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership, MoMA, New York.
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