*1975 in Gliwice, Poland. Lives and works in Warsaw
Polish Curator and Writer
Sebastian Cichocki is deputy director at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Curator of numerous exhibitions, including Monika Sosnowska’s exhibition in the Polish Pavilion in the 52 Venice Biennale and Yael Bartana in the 54 Venice Biennale, The Sculpture Park in Bródno (2009–ongoing), Early Years (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2010), New National Art and As You Can See (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, in 2012 and 2014 respectively). He is also an author of exhibitions in the form of books e.g., A Cookbook for Political Imagination (2011), The Future of Art Criticism as Pure Fiction (2011), Spoken Exhibitions (2011), Earth Works! (2013) and Mirage (2013).
Exhibited works
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The Site Residency, 2013-today. 2nd | A | The Site Residency is an "anti-production" residency program which takes place both on the island of Gotland and a set of conceptually linked locations in other countries or continents, chosen for their special features: oddness, remoteness, “exoticism”, seclusion, harshness, or unique architectural values. The program is a tribute to the artistic strategies from the 60s and 70s – an escape from rigid institutional structures and gallery/studio-based production – and all references to land- and conceptual art tactics are obvious and intentional. The program, is oriented towards “the secret world of doing nothing” and its consequences. It is structured to reduce the stimuli and thereby motivate a new artistic approach towards the place/work system – which is always an equation with two unknowns. The character of this residency specifically implies that the artist is to refrain from production – or at least attempt to live his or her artistic practice in a somewhat different way during the residency period. Additionally, the curators provide the artists with certain “scripts” to be performed during the residency period. These are to be simple and general instructions, which are subtly interwoven into the program, rather than imposing a “master-plan” on the residents’ stay. In the end, the group of artists and curators, will be working with ghost-writers, translating the residency experience into literary fiction. “The Site Residency” has been conceptualized by Sebastian Cichocki (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw) and co-curated by Livia Paldi (BAC Visby, Gotland), Galit Eilat (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven). | |
Links
The Site Residency | Museum of Modern Art Warsaw
Credits
All reproductions © Sebastian Cichocki