FOR WHOM? WHY?... THIS COLLECTION – event accompanying the exhibition of MASTER PIECES about the ArtBrut Gallery collection

When: Tuesday 15 October 2024, 4:30 p.m.
Where: ArtBrut Gallery
& Studio for Socio-Cultural Inclusion
46A/102 Ruska Street, Wrocław

Please join us for an event accompanying the exhibition Master Pieces.

The theme of the accompanying event will be the formation of an art collection with particular reference to Polish artists of the art brut and outsider art movements, using the example of the collection built within the framework of the non-commercial socio-cultural project i.e. Wrocław ArtBrut Gallery & Studio. The collection of nearly 600 works by over 40 artists, has diverse work form and includes objects, drawings and paintings as well as texts, photographs and video artworks.

Marta Derejczyk, Renata Tańczuk and Konrad Ciszkowski will be the guests of the meeting. The event will also be attended by the artists of the ArtBrut Gallery, the exhibition's artistic mentor Dominik Podsiadły and the exhibition's producer Marta Wiśniewska.

The meeting will be moderated by Katarzyna Kaczorowska, a Wrocław-based journalist from the Polityka weekly and a social activist.

Marta Derejczyk – ethnologist and serbologist, graduate of the University of Wrocław, museologist and field researcher. Since 2024 she has been the head of the Ethnographic Museum (branch of the National Museum in Wrocław). She is the author and co-author of exhibitions, publications, ethnographic films and records of traditional music.

Renata Tańczuk – cultural studies scholar, PhD, professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies at the University of Wrocław, member of the Committee for Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She conducts research in the fields of object and collection studies, sound studies and soundscape studies. She is interested in the condition of contemporary humanities and new areas of humanities research.

Konrad Ciszkowski – collector and art lover.

The event will begin at 4.30 p.m. with the presentation of the exhibition and the collection, followed by a talk with the invited guests at 5 p.m. Afterwards, a discussion with all those attending the event is planned.

We would like this meeting to become a pretext for a broader discussion about the place of Polish art brut and outsider art in contemporary art and culture in Poland, about the possibilities of supporting artists with disabilities and about the difficulties and concerns that the ArtBrut Gallery faces with regard to the future of its collection.

Therefore, we strongly encourage everyone to this discussion, especially people from the world of culture and art, collectors, representatives of cultural institutions and authorities.

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