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| The Krakow Festival Office deals with the organisation and promotion of major cultural events of local, national, and international scope. The number of the events organised includes both the most prestigious musical events, which have been highly praised in international critics milieu – from the Misteria Paschalia Festival, that emphasises the atmosphere of Easter Week, via Sacrum Profanum with its avant-garde spirit, to the huge open-air spectacles that attract hundreds of thousands spectators, as well as innovative projects in the field of the contemporary arts (Art Boom), theatre (Divine comedy), and literature (Conrad Festival). The spectacular Film Music Festival attracts great directors and composers to the city; the Opera Rara project, established by the world's foremost interpreters of early music, has become an important destination on the music lover’s travel map. Additionally, the Krakow Festival Office coordinates the programme Six Senses, which brings together all the major Krakow events. www.biurofestiwalowe.pl Małgorzata Gołębiewska Artistic Director of the ArtBoom Festival. Art historian, curator, essayist and co-ordinator of exhibitions, Works in co-operation with the East Art Foundation. Assistant at the Starmarch Gallery in Krakow (1997-2002), currently curator of Art agenda Nova in Krakow and the journal Video Now. Works to promote the most interesting phenomena in young Polish art which refer to contemporary realities, new media art, and conceptual art. Recipient of the Honoris Gratia award from the President of the City of Krakow for service in the field of culture and the arts (2007). Along with Marcin Gołębiewski is one of the progenitors of the ArtBoom Festival. WUR (Workshop for Urban Re-appropriation) The board of the Workshop for Urban Re-appropriation (WUR) is comprised of a number of curators, who have made themselves known as initiators of many urban actions and artistic project in the public space, as well as organisers of urban festivals, propagators of alternative tourism, theoreticians and practitioners of urbanism. The Board includes Małgorzata Mleczko, Patrycja Musiał, Kaja Pawełek, Stanisław Ruksza, Kuba Szreder and Bogna Świątkowska. WUR is created in association with the curators of the ArtBoom Festival and a series of urban initiatives, campaigners, theoreticians and artists, who have urban re-appropriation at heart. |
ArtBoom Festival is an explosion of modern art in public space; art, which provokes, wonders, interacts with the viewer, evokes contemplation. It is the biggest festival presenting modern art in Krakow: both Polish, as well as foreign. The aim of the organisers is to create a cyclical event, which will enable permanent contact with the most interesting phenomena in most recent art. Workshop for Urban Re-appropriation The Workshop for Urban Re-appropriation (WUR) is an urban laboratory set up as part of the ArtBoom Festival. It aims to endow the event with a new form. From 2011 onwards, the festival will no longer focus solely on a one-off art explosion in the public sphere, adding subsequent elements to the urban tissue. We are now after an urban and artistic process, long-term experimentation with various forms of reaching out to the public and organising the local community. WUR is claiming the city back, giving its squares, streets, gardens and pavements back to the residents and visitors, the passers-by and the regulars, the hosts and the guests in Krakow. WUR is working with a recycled city, with all the cities within the city, with neighbourhoods and boroughs, which are pushed into the shade of historic monuments and architectural icons, and which normally only flicker on the verge of public attention, municipal budgets and politics. WUR understands broadly the idea of the city, assuming that it contains a number of ecosystems – parallel cities. WUR focuses on how they work. WUR is a centre of urban reflection and practice. In the first year of its operation, WUR will discover forgotten and normally inaccessible urban gardens, making it possible to look at Krakow through the eyes of its elite, offering an “anti-tourist” tour and enabling urban enthusiasts to go for a spin in a special vehicle, which will embark on a series of journeys into various parts of the city throughout the duration of the festival. |
10-24 June 2011 |
The Festival takes place in the urban spaces of the City of Krakow, interacting with those spaces and prompting passers-by to reflect on reality. The exceptional nature of the festival is also a result of the fact that some of the works presented at the festival will become part of the collection of the National Museum in Krakow, and others will permanently remain in public spaces of the city. |