ALL WE ARE

The group exhibition ALL WE ARE presents works by six international contemporary artists: Magdalena Abakanowicz (Poland), Yael Bartana (Israel), Anetta Mona Chişa (Romania) & Lucia Tkácová (Slovakia), Judith Hopf (Germany) and Ida Persson (Sweden). The exhibition includes painting, drawing, sculpture, video and installation.

ALL WE ARE revolves around the conditions, behaviors and structures of groups, crowds and masses. The displayed works explore various systems defined by political, economic, cultural, or ideological ties:

As a historical and conceptual starting point, the exhibition presents a selection of rarely exhibited charcoal drawings and litographies titled “Tłum” / “Crowd” by Magdalena Abakanowicz, one of the most internationally renowned Polish artists. The works from 1987 depict Abakanowicz’s central topic of “the countless” and the relationship between the individual and crowds.

Yael Bartana, the first non-Polish artist representing Poland at the Venice Biennale in 2011, presents the video installation “Inferno” (2013). The work pre-enacts the ceremonial inauguration as well as the destruction of the third “Temple of Solomon” in São Paulo, completed in summer 2014.

Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkácovás’ video “Futurist Manifesto of Woman (Let’s Conclude)” (2008) reflects the position of „the woman” in a post-communist context and subverts patriarchal power structures.

Judith Hopf presents parts of her sculptural work group “Flock of Sheep” (2013). Produced in a deliberately self-made process, the concrete herd combines both the massive and the fragile, brutalist repetition and tender distinction.

In her large scale paintings (2013/14), Ida Persson examines the possibilities of visualization of invisible power structures and there perception in digital, global and neoliberal contexts.

The majority of the works selected for ALL WE ARE will be presented for the first time in a Polish art institution.