curator_artist manager_artistic researcher_art critic

University of Arts in Poznań, 04-05.05.2016

 

Participants: Izabela Kowalczyk, Kordian Lewandowski, Karolina Plinta. Iwo Zmyślony,

Aleksy Wójtowicz-Cichoń, Aleksandra Goral, Kamila Hyska, Izabela Kiełek

 

The #CriticalState Conference (4-5 May 2016) is an initiative that we presented as #Krytyka collective; the goal of the event was to take a look at the current position of art criticism in Poland. Together with the invited speakers, we were looking for answers to a series of questions: Who takes advantage of talking about art nowadays? Who is the contemporary art critic? What is the role of critical texts in the promotion of young artists and young artists? Keeping a balance between the older generation and young critics played a very important role in the very idea of the project. The conference was organized in the city of Poznań, whose residents, and especially the visual consumers, have been observing mass relocations of private galleries to Warsaw in recent years. What is more, there were loud changes in the management of municipal gallery "Galeria Miejska Arsenał".

 

4th MAY (known Polish art critics)

11:00 Opening of the conference

11:30 “Art criticism should be critical” Izabela Kowalczyk                            

12:00 “Art critic as a profession - what  does it actually mean” Karolina Plinta

13:00 “Mrs. Owl comments - part III” Kordian Lewandowski

13:30 “About how language helps or harms” Iwo Zmyślony

18:00 “Why art critics cannot talk to each other?” Discussion  moderated by Iwo Zmyślony                                 

 

5TH MAY (young Polish art critics)

11:00 Opening

11.15 “About how to act in the era of post-criticism” Aleksy Wójtowicz-Cichoń

11:40 “Art critic/trickster” Aleksandra Goral

12:30 “Criticism of criticism” Kamila Hyska

12:55 “I am a critic but it does not mean that I work for free” Izabela Kiełek

14:30 Discussion