In 1986 Tamás Király arranged for his latest collection to be photographed on the steps of the Műcsarnok, the kunsthalle … More
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Art, Emotion and Activism in the Post-Socialist Cityscape in Eastern Europe
In 2014 developers in Kraków in southern Poland proposed the construction of ‘Nowa Cracovia’, an office and retail development on … More
The Peasant in the City
This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More
Notes from the Underground
In September, Daniel Muzyczuk and I curated a show entitled ‘Notes from the Underground’ for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz … More
Hasior’s Dreck
This essay is a transcript of a talk given in Zakopane in late 2014. It will appear in a … More
Every Single Crash – Filip Berendt’s art
This text was written to accompany Filip Berendt’s show at L’étrangère, London in 2015. Working in Taiwan a few years … More
Nervous Systems: New Machines and Bodies in Polish Art and Film after the Thaw
This essay was published in the catalogue accompanying the Cosmos Calling! exhibition at Zacheta, Warsaw, summer 2014. In … More
Pop Effects in Eastern Europe under Communist Rule
In September 1974 Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid exhibited four works at an exhibition of nonconformist art in Moscow, which … More
Andrzej Wróblewski and the Politics of Testimony
In September 2013, I gave a lecture on the great painter, Andrzej Wróblewski, at the Museum of Modern Art in … More
Signora Ladik
This piece was published in the epiphanies section of the June 2013 issue of the The Wire ♦ The centre … More
