It’s begun! The second edition of the ArtBoom Tauron Festival started today right on time at noon at club ONE on the Krakow Main Square. Television, radio, and print journalists amassed at the crowded press conference. – “The ArtBoom Tauron Festival surprises and shall continue to surprise”, predicted Magdalena Sroka, director of the Krakow Festival Office. “I am pleased to be working together with the Festival and am proud of the opportunity to represent the companies that had the courage to get involved in such bold and innovative events”, said Elżbieta Karcz, the head of the Office of the Department of Market Communication and PR of Tauron Polska Energia S.A., the titular sponsor of the Festival. We remind you that this year’s edition of the events are associated with the idea of communication.
Małgorzata Gołebiewska, artistic Director of the ArtBoom Tauron Festival spoke about the artists attending the conference and the works that they have prepared. She introduced: Byelorussian artist of the new generation – Sergey Shabohin, whose installation can already be seen near Igor Mitoraj’s sculpture on the Main Square; Guy Ben-Ner, whose films we will be able to see at the Wyspiański Pavilion where today there is to be a meeting with the artist at 3 PM); Robert Kuśmirowski, who will subject a townhouse in Krakow’s Kazimierz district to an artistic transformation; as well as Kerim Seiler, who prepared a molecule of morphine at Mary Magdalene Square. We also saw the LikeKonik for the first time – a project prepared for the Festival by Kobas Laksa. There was also no shortage of representatives of the Prisons Service, which lent its support to the production Letters to My Brother – a project by Grzegorz Drozd: an extraordinary work that we will be witness to on June 24.
Other guests at the conference included Barbara London, curator from the New York Museum of Modern Art, who will give her richly-illustrated lecture entitled The Cutting Edge is Still Sharp at 1 PM tomorrow, during which we will see film works of such artists as Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Stein Vasulka, Joan Jonas, Gary Hill, Mako Idemitsu, Vaile Export and Laurie Anderson.
Throughout the Festival, we invite you to the Festival information point near the Town Hall Tower on the Main Square, where in the evenings the films of Gustav Metzger and Joan Jonas will be screened.