Competition
Results of the competition for a curatorial project of the exhibition in the Polish Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2024
The Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Prof. dr hab. Piotr Gliński, has accepted the Jury’s recommendation of the winning project Polish Practice in Tragedy. Between Germany and Russia, presented by curators Piotr Bernatowicz and Dariusz Karłowicz, featuring Ignacy Czwartos, to be shown at the Polish Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice (La Biennale di Venezia) in 2024.
The first stage of the competition for a curatorial project of the exhibition in the Polish Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice took place on 11 July 2023 at Zachęta — National Gallery of Art. The deliberations concluded with the following statement of the Jury:
‘On 11 July 2023, deliberations of the first stage of the competition for a curatorial project of the exhibition in the Polish Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2024 took place. The Jury has selected the following projects for the second stage of the competition:
- Polish Practice in Tragedy. Between Germany and Russia, artist: Ignacy Czwartos, curators: Piotr Bernatowicz, Dariusz Karłowicz. Ref.: JK1656
- OWN, project team: Aleksandra Kot, Wiesław Bartkowski, Klementyna Jankiewicz, curator: Alicja Głuszek. Ref.: OWN
- Repeat After Me, Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga, curator: Marta Czyż. Ref.: FUGA.’
The second stage of the competition took place on 18 September 2023. The deliberations concluded with the following statement of the Jury:
‘On 18 September 2023, the jury of the competition for the design of the exhibition in the Polish Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2024 held its meeting at Zachęta — National Gallery of Art. The Jury, appointed by Professor Piotr Gliński, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, included: Elżbieta Banecka, Andrzej Biernacki (absent during the first stage deliberations), Tadeusz Boruta, Jarosław Denisiuk, Jagna Domżalska, Janusz Janowski, Janusz Kapusta, Agnieszka Komar-Morawska, Lech Majewski (absent during the second stage deliberations), Zbigniew Makarewicz, Maciej Mazurek, Kazimierz Nowosielski, Urszula Święcicka, Joanna Warsza and Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska.
After reviewing the submissions and after long and in-depth discussion, the Jury, in an open vote, selected the project for the exhibition of works by Ignacy Czwartos, Polish Practice in Tragedy. Between Germany and Russia, by curators Piotr Bernatowicz and Dariusz Karłowicz.
The entry Repeat After Me, submitted by Marta Czyż, Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach and Anton Varga was selected as the reserve project.
Vote results:
- Polish Practice in Tragedy. Between Germany and Russia — 11 votes
- Repeat After Me — 3 votes
- OWN — 0 votes’
60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
20 April – 24 November 2024
general curator: Adriano Pedrosa
main theme: Foreigners Everywhere
https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024
Polish participation in the 60. International Art Exhibition is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
In accordance with the provisions of the competition rules, all projects submitted to the competition are made public in the form chosen by the organiser. Exhibition concepts and scenario summaries of all projects are made available, while full scenarios with visualisations are available only with additional consent from the team members.
Documentation of the projects shortlisted for the second stage is published in whole, excluding the cost estimates.
- Polskie ćwiczenia z tragiczności świata. Między Niemcami a Rosją – Piotr Bernatowicz, Dariusz Karłowicz, Ignacy Czwartos – I etap
- Polskie ćwiczenia z tragiczności świata. Między Niemcami a Rosją – Piotr Bernatowicz, Dariusz Karłowicz, Ignacy Czwartos – II etap
- Powtarzajcie za mną – Marta Czyż, OPEN GROUP (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga) – I etap
- Powtarzajcie za mną – Marta Czyż, OPEN GROUP (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga) – II etap
- OWN – Alicja Głuszek, Aleksandra Kot, Wiesław Bartkowski, Klementyna Jankiewicz – I etap
- OWN – Alicja Głuszek, Aleksandra Kot, Wiesław Bartkowski, Klementyna Jankiewicz – II etap
- Bronisław Krzysztof, Krzysztof Krzysztof
- Po drugiej stronie – Kathryn Zazenski, Maryna Tomaszewska
- Surplus/Nadmiar – Małgorzata Jankowska, Viola Kuś
- Strukturalizm iteracji: w kierunku kształtowania nowej przestrzeni – Artur Zaguła, Tomasz Frasoński, Anna Jaruga-Rozdolska
- The Art of Loving/ O sztuce miłości – Myroslava Hartmond, Antonina Konopelska, Miłosz Bembinow
- Intersensorial – Inés Ruiz Artola, Marta Dawidiuk, Przemysław Pacek
- Sanctuary – Grażyna Siedlecka, Paulina Domagalska, Szymon Motyl
- Kwiat paproci – Paulina Ortenburger, Adam Rokowski, Łucja Zenter
- Sztuka kreowania przestrzeni – Robert Czado
- Kontakt – Bartłomiej Nowowiejski, Viola Tycz
- Pasieka – Marta Wróblewska, Stanisław Brach
- Córka – Łukasz Mojsak, Łukasz Ronduda, Aneta Grzeszykowska
- Obecność – Agnieszka Bebłowska Bednarkiewicz, Katarzyna Haber, Jerzy Kalina
- Tryptyk – Przemysław Strożek, Marcin Dudek
- Po drugiej stronie – Marcel Skierski, Maciej Rauch
- X2 Plag – Jakub Szreder, Natalia Romik
- meta_morphoses – Monika Turczyńska, Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski, Alicja Maciejko
- Jeśli zbudujesz most, prędzej czy później ktoś nim przejdzie – Tomasz Wendland, Elvin Flamingo
- MACULA. Ogród możliwy – Robert Dobrowolski, Magdalena Grzybowska, Aleksandra Pulińska, Urszula Zajączkowska
- Antique games – Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz, Michał Jackowski
- Relacja Człowiek – Natura Via falsa – Małgorzata Błońska-Clardi, Elżbieta Leszczyńska Szlachcic, Bartek Szlachcic