Fundacja bec Zmiana prezentuje/presents:
W (is for Warsaw)
release party, 9.02.2008, 8 p.m.
Galerie Magazin, Lindenstrasse 35, 10969 Berlin

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W
Is it true that the further away you stand, the more you see?
Can Warsaw be seen from far away? From how far?
What comes to mind when you think of Warsaw?
Invited by us curator and art critic Sebastian Cichocki, architect Jakub Szczesny and urban planner Krzysztof Nawratek asked artists, atchitects and theorists from all over the world to make their own statements on Warsaw. We did not look for descriptions of reality or simple associations. We searched for intuitions, clouds of afterimages, traces of overheard news, echos.
Bogna Swiatkowska, The Bec Zmiana Foundation

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*WARSAW DOES NOT EXIST is an exhibition in the form of a book. Invited artists, both those who had never visited Warsaw, and those who remembered it from short, casual visits, have been asked to abandon their research methods and techniques in order to let their imaginations run wild when thinking about this particular Central Eastern city. They created their works in a very short time, skipping the usual procedures for projects on specific places (explored mainly by artists from outside)—interviews with residents, browsing through statistics, photographic documentation, collecting surveys, hours spent in archives and libraries. Instead, fictitious Warsaw guides used their lack of knowledge, basing chiefly on fabrications, dreams, speculations and gossip. As a result, we receive a peculiar compilation of tips for people travelling around an imagined city. A story about its backstreets, inhabitants, built and unbuilt architecture, its secrets and crawling nightmares.

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Warsaw Does Not Exist* (Sebastian Cichocki)
Bas van Beek, Daniela Brahm, Pavel Büchler, Caner Büyükgökmen, Yane Calovski, Lawrence English, Cevdet Erek, Bjorn Hegardt, Little Warsaw, Rainer Ganahl, Scott Hayes, Hristina Ivanoska, Wolfgang Mahler, Antje Majewski, Nikoleta Markovic, Marko Mäetamm, Hatake Nakemura, Ahmet Ögüt, Anu Pennanen, Khaled D. Ramadan, Markku Peltola, Sean Snyder, Nedko Solakov, Franziska Wicke, Florian Zeyfang

Looking for W?
Galerie Magazin, Lindenstrasse 35, 10969 Berlin
Fundacja Bec Zmiana, Radna 10, Warszawa, www.funbec.eu
5. berlin biennale 05.04. – 15.06.2008, part of Alphabeth project by Kronika: W (Warszawa), Instytut Polski, KunstWerke, etc.

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