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Manufaktura Lodz Poland

Bilbao in Polish

For over fifty years no new museums have been designed in Poland. This summer, however, a centre for contemporary art opened in Toruń. New exhibition buildings for Cracow, Łódź and Warsaw are at the design stage. However the boom in museum buildings raises questions in Poland that are not confined to architecture but also relate to the buildings’ contents.

architecture / fashion / design | Poland | by Berenika Partum | 2008-10
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A Slow Farewell to Czerwienne

In earlier times, the Gorals were independent, self-reliant farmers in the mountains of southern Poland. They remain a proud people but today they seek their fortune in Vienna, Rome or Glasgow.

social issues & initiatives | Poland | by Sibylle Hamann, Bernhard Odehnal | 2006-10
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"Bringing Communism to the Museum"

The Socland Foundation had invited the citizens of Warsaw to come there on that day and to donate exhibits for the future Museum of Communism to be housed in the cellars of the palace...

fine arts / new media, interdisciplinary | Poland | by Konstantin Akinsha | 2006-05
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Art Histories, plural.

The Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski about his recently published book “Avant-gardes in the Shadow of Yalta. Art in Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1989".

interdisciplinary, fine arts / new media | Poland | by Antje Mayer | 2006-05
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“The East Block? It never existed!”

Viennese market researcher Rudolf Bretschneider, director of the Fessl & GFK - Institute, collects data about eastern Europe. What does his mountain of information reveal about the people in eastern Europe?
Florian Klenk in conversation with Rudolf Bretschneider.

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Expensively Framed

The ViennAfair art fair was celebrating its premiere this April. Over two dozen galleries from Eastern and South-eastern Europe have come to Vienna for this occasion. Nina Schedlmayer introduces six of the most interesting ones.

fine arts / new media | Russia, Czech Republic, Poland, Vienna | by Nina Schedlmayer | 2005-04
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"The history of contemporary art in this collection is a history of 'neighbourhoods'"

Outline portraits of four members of the international jury for Kontakt - The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group of contemporary and modern art: Silvia Eiblmayr, Jiří Ševčík, Branka Stipanić, Adam Szymczyk, Georg Schöllhammer

fine arts / new media | Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia, Poland | by Silvia Eiblmayr, Jiří Ševčík, Branka Stipancić, Adam Szymczyk, Georg Schöllhammer | 2005-04
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