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35. Krakow International Festival of Composers

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The 35th edition of the Krakow International Festival of Composers in Krakow starts today. Until April 23rd, concerts will be organized every day in, among others, the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music or the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art. Admission to all concerts is free, and each of them will be available for live streaming online. More details and the full program can be found on the festival website (link below). As a partner of the festival, we sincerely invite you to participate.

http://festiwal.zkp.krakow.pl/en/

The last of the winters – open call

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Open call – Momentum Gallery, Chopina Street 17/3, Krakow, Poland

Organiser: AP KunstArt Fund

NO FEE

Ddl: 26.01. 6pm (CET)

Exhibition start: 19.04.

Curated by: AP KunstArt Fund

Opening by invitation and visiting by appointment (due to Covid reasons).

Due to Covid exhibition might be postponed BUT WILL NOT BE CANCELLED. Photo documentation will be shared online. Selected works will be presented in the Gallery, on Foundation website and promoted on our digital platform niemuzeum via exhibition catalogue (ebook).

The last of the winters

Look outside the window. It’s the last snow ever. Would you go outside? Would you taste it? Is it easier to enjoy than regular snowy days, that you’ve already seen? You chose not to celebrate previous snows. What will you do today?

There will be no more winters. We’re almost sure of that. That one season will come and will become the last one. But we’ll never know until the next one comes. Powerless, worried, hidden. This is the last winter we saw. Almost one year after  the beginning of the war that was not supposed to come ever again. Winter that was presumed to be one of those harsh ones. Winter. That dreamy land between ideas, blankets and deathly, freezing chains that does not let any light inside. Narnia or depression? Bruegel, Wyspianski, Friedrich, Joanna Karpowicz –  visual representation of winter has wonderful traditions. But let’s not romanticise too much. Winter could be beautiful and ugly. Winter could be death. Winter could be you resigning of the dreams you once had. Should we all fall asleep and wait till spring comes?

We’re looking for works related to winter mindset and aesthetics, climate catastrophe and winterish dreams. And – we do not look for answers, we’re looking for poetic statements from different parts of the world.

Art foundation AP KunstArt Fund is calling for entries for our upcoming exhibition in Momentum Gallery, Krakow. We’re looking for:

– video arts (up to 6mins)

– photographs/collage/visual (size app. A3- pls send high quality file)

– sound art (fixed media, up to 5 mins)

– texts /flash stories, up to 4000 characters including spaces / – material for the catalogue not exhibition space

Submit your work by sending (fundacja@apkunstart.org) ONLY OPEN link to online documents :

– your work

– short bio and portfolio info

– description/info/statement of your work and how it meets the topic (at least 100 words, not more than 250 words)

– please DO NOT attach your works to the email 

– put your name in the email title

Open call results will be published on our website and social media till 9.02.2023.

*link needs to be available without passwords/logging in

*by submitting your work you agree to have it published also by us, so if your work was presented before, please make sure that you have all necessary copyrights

Endings | Time machine – open call results

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We’re happy to announce the results of our „Endings | Time machine” open call. We’re truly grateful and honoured by all submissions that we received.

Congratulations to the artists, expect us to contact you in the following days :

  • Vlad Nikorcuk
  • Huang Hua
  • Lerie Pemanagpo
  • Tiina Herttua
  • Marta Levytska
  • Dan Obama
  • PredaPavel-Silviu
  • Serge Bulat
  • Sandrine Deumier
  • Nenad Nedeljkov
  • Joas Sebastian Nebe
  • Maja Renn
  • JangGuinLim
  • Filip Wierzbicki-Nowak
  • Mauricio Sanhueza
  • Wiesława Nowicka
  • Eugenia Grammenou
  • Osvaldo Cibils
  • Eugenia Demchenko

Momentum Gallery 08: Endings | Time machine

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Endings | Time machine

Nothing is settled when times are shifting. Neither lines, colors, dimensions or words. Houses are moving, so do streets, names and concrete. Rituals, categories and daily life – transform. And the change comes closer, inevitably. Nostalgia and lost time are a part of the safety net that we like to sew everyday in front of the unknown tomorrow. During the exhibition we want and need to take a look at those changes. Spaces and areas where we’re welcoming new perspectives, exploating what is gone and hoping for better future. Material reality, that should be the core, transforms as well. And this would be the main idea of the exhibition. Nostalgia and material melancholies – technologies that are gone and those overtaking the future. The Sims, Second life, TikTok or NFT. Destroyed pavements of your childhood. Broken windows and first mobile phones. Everything that seemed to be the turning point of the future though now it’s already unnecessary, forgotten or just covered in dust. Our old dreams are today’s trash. Burden that we’re carrying. How would you deal with that?

We do not look for answers, we’re looking for poetic statements from different parts of the world.

Art foundation AP KunstArt Fund is calling for entries for our upcoming exhibition in Momentum Gallery, Krakow. We’re looking for:

– video arts (up to 6mins)

– photographs/collage/visual (size app. A3- pls send high quality file)

– sound art (fixed media, up to 5 mins)

– texts /flash stories, up to 4000 characters including spaces / – material for the catalogue not exhibition space

Submit your work by sending (fundacja@apkunstart.org) OPEN link to online documents :

– your work

– short bio and portfolio info

– description/info/statement of your work and how it meets the topic (at least 100 words, not more than 250 words)

– please DO NOT attach your works to the email 

– put your name in the email title

Open call results will be published on our website and social media till 27.10.2022.

*link needs to be available without passwords/logging in

*by submitting your work you agree to have it published also by us, so if your work was presented before, please make sure that you have all necessary copyrights

Open call – Momentum Gallery, Chopina Street 17/3, Krakow, Poland

Organiser: AP KunstArt Fund

NO FEE

Ddl: 20.10. 6pm (CET)

Exhibition start: 16.11

Curated by: AP KunstArt Fund

Opening by invitation and visiting by appointment (due to Covid reasons).

Due to Covid exhibition might be postponed BUT WILL NOT BE CANCELLED. Photo documentation will be shared online. Selected works will be presented in the Gallery, on Foundation website and promoted on our digital platform niemuzeum via exhibition catalogue (ebook).

Momentum Gallery 06 – No longer valid

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21 stories from around the world. Different languages, narratives and forms of expression. This is new AP KunstArt Fund international exhibition: No longer valid.

It all started in January, when we had high hopes for the new year. As a foundation team – we brainstormed, and decided that we’d like to rethink what is really behind us. Ideas, forms, feelings that we stick to sometimes seem already like a rememberance from the past. A crumb that is no longer useful but somehow sticks to the surface and changes the form.

And then everything changed. As much as we try to stay away from the politics, one cannot stay away from war. European peace is over and we’re all trying to build from pieces that are just being crushed. Suddenly asking what is No longer valid got a new dimension.

The happier we are that we received wonderful submissions from Ukrainian artists: Vlad Nikorchuk,  Artem Humilevskyi, Anastasia Milova, Daria Pugachova, Kostyantyn Militynskyy – we are proud to exhibit their works.

With No longer valid exhibition we’re diving deep into contemporary and – at the same time – timeless issues. Ecology, gender identieties, memory and myths. And of course – forms. Sufficient, intriguing, open. As we’re not looking for answers, just for questions.

Feel invited to join this artistic journey, both at the exhibition and with this booklet. We give space for artists so they can speak for themselves and their work, intentions and goals.

Artists:
Vlad Nikorchuk, Ukraine

Artem Humilevskiy, Ukraine

Anastasia Milova, Ukraine

Daria Pugachova, Ukraine

Ewa Pasternak-Kapera, Poland

Claudia Schumann, Austria

Sigrid Neuwinger, Germany

Maciek Stępniewski, Poland

Margrét Dúadóttir Landmark, Island

Kostyantyn Militynskyy , Ukraine

Iva Ružić, Croatia

Methas Chantawongs, Thailand

Mandy Palasik, USA

Vanane Borian, Armenia

Frederick Epistola, Philippines

Şebnem Yüksel, Austria/Turkey

Jean-Michel Rolland, France

Leonard Cruz,Germany

Joas-Sebastian Nebe

Evgeni Rogozin, Belarus

Armando Rotondi, Mirko Ettore D’Agostino

Exhibition producers:

Franciszek Araszkiewicz

Małgorzata Petelenz

Artur Brzeżański

Curator:

Anna Petelenz

Exhibition is open till 6.04.2022 – after opening visiting upon appointment via fundacja@apkunstart.org .

No longer valid – open call results

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We are very happy and pleased to announce results of our “No longer valid” exhibition. We are deeply grateful for the feedback and works we received. Thank you for all the submissions!

Selected artists are:

  • Vlad Nikorchuk
  • Artem Humiliyevskyi
  • Anastasia Milova
  • Daria Pugachova
  • Claudia Schumann
  • Sigrid Neuwinger
  • Ewa Pasternak-Kapera
  • Jean-Michel Rolland
  • Leonard Cruz
  • Joas Sebastian Nebe
  • Mandy Palasik
  • Vanane Borian
  • Frederick Epistola
  • Sebnem Yuksel
  • Maciek Stępniewski
  • Margrét Dúadóttir Landmark
  • Kostyantyn Militynskyy
  • Iva Ruzic
  • Methas Chantawongs
  • Evgeni Rogozin
  • Armando Rotondi, Mirko Ettore D’Agostino

Congratulations to all Participants and thank you to everyone who decided to take part in this project!

Open call – Momentum Gallery, march 2022

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Last December we had a pleasure of hosting an amazing international exhibition “Traces of the Future” – we presented works by 18 Artists who responded to our open call. Now we’re inviting you to another open call for the exhibition “No longer valid”. Below you’ll find exhibition and all technical info. Open call is open till 21.02. 6pm (CET).

We’re looking forward your works!

“No longer valid“

Exhibition title is No longer valid and we’re looking for artworks dealing with losses and abandoned meanings wishing for a ray of nostalgia. Do not dive into easy pathways and nostalgic moods from the past. Find today’s stories that already seem to be no longer valid. Spaces that no longer serve their purposes, identieties that are still „in progress”, goods that no longer should be made or bought, trends that seem attractive but smell like past.

We do not look for answers, we’re looking for poetic statements from different parts of the world.

Where: Momentum Gallery, Chopina Street 17/3, Krakow, Poland

Organiser: AP KunstArt Fund

Ddl: 21.02. 6pm (CET)

Exhibition start: 23.03.

Curated by: AP KunstArt Fund

Opening by invitation and visiting by appointment (due to Covid reasons).

Due to pa*demic situation exhibition might be postponed BUT WILL NOT BE CANCELLED. Photo documentation will be shared online. Selected works will be presented in the Gallery, on Foundation website and promoted on our digital platform niemuzeum via exhibition catalogue (ebook).

Technical info:

We’re looking for:

– video arts (up to 8mins, MP4 only)

– photographs (only high quality file, min. 300dpi )

– sound art (fixed media, up to 5 mins, WAV only)

Submit your work by sending (fundacja@apkunstart.org)  link to online documents (dropbox, google drive – possible online viewing + downloading :

– your work

– short bio and portfolio info

– description/info/statement of your work and how it meets the topic (at least 100 words, not more than 250 words)

– please DO NOT attach your works to the email  

*link needs to be available without passwords/logging in

*by submitting your work you agree to have it published also by us, so if your work was presented before, please make sure that you have all necessary copyrights

Open call results will be published on our website and social media till 6.03.2022.