EXHIBITION

Fokus Łódź Biennale 2010

Fokus Lodz Biennale, Lodzkie, Lodz, 09/11/2010 - 10/10/2010

Al. Kosciuszki Street 56/9

ABOUT

Fokus Łódź Biennale 2010 will take place from September 11th to October 10th in Łódź, Poland. The Biennale, this year entitled “From the Liberty Square to the Independence Square”, is an international and interdisciplinary event dedicated to modern art. It is based on the ideas of the legendary ”Construction in Process”- a series of exhibitions organized by artists in the 80s and 90s all around the world.

The Biennale is organized by the Museum of the City of Łódź, and its art director is Ryszard Waśko, artist and creator of ”Construction in Process”. The exhibition will be situated in public space along the Piotrkowska Street.
The artists taking part in Fokus Łódź Biennale 2010 have been selected by an international Selection Committee: Mirosław Balka, artist, Gabriele Horn, director of Kunst-Werke in Berlin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, art director of the Serpentine Gallery in London, Angelika Stepken, director of Villa Romana in Florence, Jarosław Suchan, director of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Richard Vine, editor of Art in America and the team of curators Gregory Volk & Sabine Russ.

A direct participation of the artist on the site is vital - the projects will be created during the so-called “workshop days”. The main goal of the event is an artistic education and introducing contemporary art to the wide audience. The street will be changed into an open, common studio - citizens of Łódź and tourists, families with children and elderly people, students and art critics will not only be able to observe artists during their work, but also to participate in the creative process. The aim of the organizers is a creative use of an urban, aesthetic and sociological specificity of the cities’ main street.

The organizers decided to extend the reach of Fokus Łódź Biennale 2010 to other artistic undertakings, so called
”pre- events”, referring mainly to Conceptual Art and Fluxus - two radical trends in the 60s and 70s, which had a big influence on several generations of artists on both sides of
the Wall. The series of “pre-events” was inaugurated in November through workshops conducted by Dodi Reifenberg as part of his on-going project “Preparing the Canvas”. 

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