Events/Education
Gender Check Finissage Warsaw
11 June 2010
12.00 – 2 pm, National Museum
Presentation and Discussion: “Exhibiting Gender and Sexuality”
As the title suggests, the discussion will focus on questions surrounding the institutional, social and aesthetic issues raised by exhibiting gender and sexuality, especially in the contemporary conditions of “Eastern Europe.” Thus, participants in the panel will include figures from exhibiting institutions – Agnieszka Morawińska (Zachęta), Piotr Piotrowski (National Museum) – and from institutions who support the organisation of exhibitions – Christiane Erharter (ERSTE Foundation) – curators Bojana Pejić (curator of “Gender Check”) and Paweł Leszkowicz (curator of “Ars Homo Erotica”) – as well as the invited researchers of “Gender Check” (Mara Traumane, Laima Kreivyte, Iza Kowalczyk, Ivana Bago, Maria Vassileva) and about 10 of the artists participating in “Ars Homo Erotica”.
6-8 pm, Zacheta National Gallery of Art
Panel discussion with the researchers: “Gender after the Wall”
Moderator: Bojana Pejić
The discussion will be started with an introduction by Christine Böhler (ERSTE Foundation). “Gender After the Wall” is both broader, in that it deals with the wider topic of gender in Eastern Europe, and more focussed, in that it relates more directly to the “Gender Check” exhibition and to the experiences of the researchers.
Lectures, Meetings, Discussions
20 March, 12:00 noon
multimedia room, admission free
Meeting with Wojciech Fangor about his 1950 painting Figures, with the participation of Agnieszka Morawińska, PhD (moderator), Ewa Franus, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, PhD, Ewa Toniak, PhD
Meeting will be translated live into English.
21 March, 12:15 pm
main lobby, admission incl. in ticket price
Guided tour by curator Bojana Pejić (in English)
28 March, 11:30 am
multimedia room, admission free
Zachęta Goes Wiki
11.30 – 12.30 Free Culture — Free Art? Discussion panel with mec. Krzysztof Siewicz devoted to Creative Commons licences for works of art, Małgorzata Bogdańska-Krzyżanek (moderator)
12.45 – 14.15 Workshop, creating Wikipedia entries about works in the Zachęta National Gallery of Art collection, led by Masti (Marek Stelmasik) & Przykuta (Sebastian Skolik)
14.30 – 15.30 Guided exhibition tour
15.45 – 17.15 Wikipedia Women, Come On! workshop, led by Claudia Snochowska-Gonzales
15.45 – 16.30 Lecture, Ewa Mikina, PhD Mary Flanagan — Hyperbodies, Hyperknowledge, Resistance Strategies in Cyberculture
(Wikipedia entries about the exhibition will be edited and posted live during the lectures and workshops)
In association with Fundacja Wikimedia Polska
31 March, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Gender RePRESENTATIONS in Cinema and Contemporary Art
Lecture, Prof Małgorzata Radkiewicz
In association with Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych
9 April, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
The Spectacle of Norm. Gender Transgression and Meeting Death
Lecture, Jacek Kochanowski, PhD
In association with Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych
10 April, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Post-feminism, Pop Culture and Conservative Modernisation
Lecture, Samuel Nowak
In association with Fundacja Kultura dla Tolerancji.
14 April, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Zachęta Art Lovers Club meeting
Ignorance-based Logics, workshop moderators: Lidia Krawczyk, Wojtek Kubiak
17 April, 12:00 noon
Between Disappearing and Appearing, or, Following Gender
Workshop, moderator: Dominika Cieślikowska
23 April, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Performing Gender. Gender in Contemporary Polish Theatre and Drama
Lecture, Agata Adamiecka-Sitek, PhD
24 April, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Sexual Minority Cinema. From Transgression to Mainstream
Lecture, Anna Taszycka, PhD
In association with Fundacja Kultura dla Tolerancji
26 April, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Gender of Eye
Lecture, Prof Maria Poprzęcka
27 April, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Gender Trouble. Does Gender Art Exist in Poland?
Discussion panel, moderators: Magdalena Furmanik, Marcin Teodorczyk
In association with the online periodical UNIGENDER.
7 May, 6 pm
workshop room, admission free
Politicising the Private
Meeting with Sylwia Chutnik and Ewa Majewska, PhD devoted to images of women-mother in Gender Check
8 May, 12:00
multimedia room, admission free
Meeting with Jerzy Bereś and Bettina Bereś, moderator: Ewa Toniak, PhD
11 May, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Meeting with Angelika Richter, Gender Check researcher responsible for selection of artists and works from the former DDR
14 May, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Our Innocence — Their Deviations. Gender, Sexuality, Nationalism
Lecture, Agnieszka Graff, PhD
Meeting devoted to Gender Check section on post-1989 nationalisms
In association with Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych
19 May, 6 pm
workshop room, admission free
Psychoanalysis and Gender
Lecture, Prof Paweł Dybel
In association with Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych
21 May, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Lecture, Prof Magdalena Środa
Meeting devoted to the exhibition section presenting post-1989 historical revisions
In association with Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych
28 – 30 May
Meeting with the Gender Check exhibition researchers.
In association with ERSTE Foundation.
28 May, 6 pm
Trailer, Art Homo Erotica exhibition (11 June – 5 September 2010, National Museum in Warsaw), moderator: exhibition curator Paweł Leszkowicz, PhD
29 May, 6 pm
workshop room, admission free
Workshop with artist Justyna Koeke
In association with Fundacja Kultura dla Tolerancji
4 June, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Love — Vague Premonitions
Lecture, Dominik Kuryłek
9 June, 6 pm
multimedia room, admission free
Is an Exhibition of Feminist Art a Feminist Exhibition?
Lecture, Ewa Tatar
11 – 13 June
Meeting with the Gender Check exhibition researchers
In association with ERSTE Foundation, www.erstestifrtung.org
13 June, 12:15
Guided tour by Izabela Kowalczyk, PhD
Detailed information about the Gender Check exhibition accompanying events will be available on http://www.gendercheck.blogspot.com
Guided tours
Three forms of guided tours are offered for secondary-school and high-school students: traditional tours with guide, interactive tours and thematic workshops.
Work card-based interactive tours will give students an opportunity to become familiar with the issues raised by the exhibition and the work of the featured artists.
Workshops, led by women psychology students, will start with several selected works to provoke a debate on selected issues and will proceed to discuss gender roles in society and changes in the image of women and men over the last fifty years or so. We will also discuss gender discrimination and how to defend yourself against it.
Contact and subscriptions:
Anna Zdzieborska: a.zdzieborska@zacheta.art.pl
Workshops for children
We offer workshops that will revolve around the exhibition’s main themes, such as gender roles in society, rather than any specific works.
We encourage both girls and boys to take part in the ‘boys’ workshops that will take up ‘male’ activities (such as DIY).
The workshops are aimed at demonstrating that gender divisions are becoming increasingly artificial, that emancipation includes accepting the fact that some boys like to play with dolls and sometimes cry, while some girls like to play with the hammer and don’t always have to be well-behaved.
In response to doubts voiced by teachers and parents, we would like to stress that all the works discussed with children in the exhibition are suitable for their age.
Workshops on 21, 28 March; 11, 18 April; 9, 16, 23, 30 May; 6, 13 June
Contact and subscriptions:
Zofia Dubowska: z.dubowska@zacheta.art.pl