EP. 56 - in conversation about Secondary Archive (Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation).

Speaking with foundation's president Katarzyna Kozyra and foundation's director Iga Maria Szczepańska.

Katarzyna Kozyra is one of Poland's most famous conceptual artists, working internationally since the 90s. In 2012, she founded the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation to help women artists and cultural workers from Central and Eastern Europe promote their work.

Secondary Archive tells the history of non-Western — primarily Central and Eastern European — art through the lens of gender, covering the period after WWII through the present. This archive is composed of artistic statements and unknown pages of the biographies and practices of female artists, where one can see the names of those who have been marginalized, neglected, forgotten, or remain little known to the general public alongside artifacts from key female figures of non-Western art.

References:

Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation http://katarzynakozyrafoundation.pl/en/

Pyramid of Animals http://katarzynakozyra.pl/en/projekty/the-pyramid-of-animals/

Secondary Archive

Women Artists in War, Galeria

Iga's favourite home food: Meatballs in Dill Sauce, Thai Roti with Banana, Condensed Milk and Egg

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EP. 55 - in conversation with visual artist representing Romania at the 60th La Biennale di Venezia, Șerban Savu.

The exhibition in the Romanian Pavilion, What Work Is, revisits the iconography of labour, drawing inspiration from historical realism and the propaganda art of the Eastern Bloc. Instead of challenging these discourses directly, Șerban challenges them by rearranging their tropes. His aim is to capture and portray moments of pause and inactivity, of indistinction between work and leisure, as reflections of broader societal changes or crises.

The Romanian Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2024 is curated by Ciprian Mureșan. The exhibition will take place in both the Giardini della Biennale and at The New Gallery of the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice from April 20 till November 24, 2024.

Favourite home food: Ciorba de loboda, Stinging Nettle Salad

References:

Biennale Arte 2024 | Romania

Dawid Radziszewski Gallery

Galeria Plan B

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Podcast thumbnail: Șerban Savu by Paul Stoie / courtesy of Galeria Plan B

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EP. 54 - about an exhibition, Franciszka Themerson: Walking Backwards in Tate Britain.

In conversations with:

Dr Hilary Floe, Senior Curator, Modern and Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain

Saskia Flower, Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain

Weronika Gertig - Burgess, Themerson Estate London

Franciszka Themerson (1907-1988) was a Polish, later British, painter, illustrator, filmmaker and set designer. Together with her husband Stefan Themerson, she was one of the most important experimental filmmakers in interwar Poland. Her film work, as well as her paintings and drawings, challenged social conformity and revealed her belief in individual freedom. During and after the Second World War, Francziszka Themerson created humorous works that dealt profoundly with the complex themes of trauma and loss.

The one-room display at Tate Britain is free and open to all till the 30th of March 2025.

References:

The Themerson Archive Catalogue

Unposted Letters publication

The Barbican exhibition

Jasia Reichardt curator

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This episode was created for Contemporary LYNX and with support of Polish Cultural Institute London

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Copyrights Themerson Estate

Franciszka Themerson (1907 – 1988)

Comme la vie est lente et comme l'espérance est violente

Painted in 1959

Oil paint on canvas

101.5 x 151 cm

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