Spaces Author's tour by Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus 📍 Zachęta – National Gallery of Art 🎟️ Admission included in the exhibition ticket 📅 7.09 Sunday, 12:15 PM ⏳ Duration: 1 hour A space for multisensory perception – this phrase best captures the essence of the first artistic installations, which combined sensory experiments with attempts to bridge the gap between art and its audience. During the tour, Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus will discuss the theory of art and sensory experiments of the 1960s, as well as the role of archival practices in reconstructing works and events presented in the exhibition Spaces. The researcher will introduce key figures – theorists Aleksander Wojciechowski and Juliusz Starzyński – and talk about the activities of the Contemporary Gallery and Golden Circle, whose achievements are featured in the exhibition. She will also reveal how the rich archives of these circles are preserved in the Visual Arts Documentation Studio of the 20th and 21st Century at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. - Dr. Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus – specializes in art theory and cultural policy; in her research work, she combines methods of art history and political science (publications available at https://academia.edu); she leads the Visual Arts Documentation Studio of the 20th and 21st Century at IS PAN. _________ Spaces Author's tour by Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus and Katarzyna Krysiak 📍 Zachęta – National Gallery of Art 🎟️ Admission included in the exhibition ticket 📅 14.09 Sunday, 12:15 PM ⏳ Duration: 1.5 hours During the tour, Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus will discuss the theory of art and sensory experiments of the 1960s, as well as the role of archival practices in reconstructing works and events presented in the exhibition Spaces. She will introduce key figures – theorists Aleksander Wojciechowski and Juliusz Starzyński – and talk about the activities of the Contemporary Gallery and Golden Circle, represented in the exhibition. She will also reveal how the rich archives related to these phenomena are preserved in the Visual Arts Documentation Studio of the 20th and 21st Century at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The archival part of the exhibition, dedicated to the phenomenon of environment in the Foksal Gallery, will be discussed by Katarzyna Krysiak, who will present the programmatic assumptions and experimental nature of the gallery during its first decade. She will talk about its founding in 1966, the aspirations of its creators, and the importance of one of the first manifestos published by the critics running the gallery: Introduction to the General Theory of PLACE. - Dr. Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus – specializes in art theory and cultural policy; in her research work, she combines methods of art history and political science (publications available at https://academia.edu). She leads the Visual Arts Documentation Studio of the 20th and 21st Century at IS PAN. - Katarzyna Krysiak – art historian and curator, associated with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw since 2002. Curator of numerous individual and group exhibitions of artists from Poland and abroad. Author of texts and editor of books on contemporary art. Member of the Polish Section of the International Association of Art Critics AICA. _________ Spaces Finissage curatorial tour by Michał Jachuła 📍 Zachęta – National Gallery of Art 🎟️ Admission included in the exhibition ticket 📅 21.09 Sunday, 12:15 PM ⏳ Duration: 1 hour During the tour, the curator of the exhibition "Spaces" will introduce participants to the works of the artists and discuss key pieces featured in the exhibition. Photo: Maciej Landsberg
