Joanna Sokolowska: Where do you come from as an artist? Your work is full of references to various cultures, philosophical and spiritual systems. Could you tell us your most important inspirations? Jacek Zachodny: I come from the land of coincidences, travel, curiosity, wandering, observing the world, meeting interesting people. People who have created something. As […] The post Everyone and Everything Deserves Respect, Some Form of Understanding, to Be Given a Chance appeared first on BLOK...| BLOK MAGAZINE
Joanna Sokołowska: Let`s start with the core of your work – your engagement with architecture and design. How did your interest, particularly in socialist and utopian architecture, originate? Andrea Pichl: I think it all began with an experience in 2005 when I designed the exhibition architecture for “Too Much Future – Punk in der DDR”. […] The post Tracing and Reworking the Erased Past appeared first on BLOK MAGAZINE.| BLOK MAGAZINE
Joanna Sokołowska: We are meeting five years after your graduation from the Dutch Art Institute. Can we start our conversation with your formal and nonformal education as an artist? Ulufer Çelİk: Sure. First I was trained as an architect at Istanbul Bilgi University, and then I did my MA at the Dutch Art Institute, which […] The post Mythmaking Has a Potential to be Critical appeared first on BLOK MAGAZINE.| BLOK MAGAZINE
The Konrad and Paweł Jarodzki International Artists-in-Residence Programme creates conditions for artistic work at the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe. Its aim is to support artistic processes, cooperation and research in dialogue with the foundation’s history, educational and social activities. The residency hosts four artists, selected by the programme’s artistic committee, for a […] The post About the Konrad and Paweł Jarodzki International Artists-in-Reside...| BLOK MAGAZINE
Joanna Sokołowska: Your residency in Krzyżowa coincided with the end of your studies in Painting at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wrocław. From our conversations so far, I have realised that a lot of your experience, inspiration, and knowledge of the world comes from the internet, and that you are […]| BLOK MAGAZINE