House in DetailKraków Art House / Cracow Gallery Weekend KRAKERS Artist: Bartolomeo KoczenaszCurator: Piotr SikoraFeatured murals: Kuzko / Koczenasz / Noude / Malik / Rejs / Rudzki / Jurecki / Wvojt …and the house stood there, looking at itself in the Vistula.It leaned its head along the long perspective of the Prague tractand listened as… Continue reading House in Detail
Author: Bartosz Bartolomeo Koczenasz
Floating Moon
Floating Moon7th Aquatic Critical Mass in Kraków Floating Moon was featured in Vogue Poland November 2018 Art Issue edited by Paulina Ołowska. See it.
Urban Interventions
Urban InterventionsA series of photographs documenting urban spaces rich in textures, signs, and intriguing objects.
Frames of the Times; Kazimierz
Frames of the Times; KazimierzJCC Kraków Imagine on Plac Nowy, a man sits in a traditional hat with a wide brim and a cane at a cafe’s street side table, chatter and clamor fill the air while the bright late morning summer sun lights the square. He squints his eyes, his gaze sweeping across the… Continue reading Frames of the Times; Kazimierz
World Smile DayKraków
World Smile DayKraków As part of World Smile Day, I realized art interventions in Kraków. A series of large-format photographs depicting smiling individuals from different parts of the world was installed on the facade of a tenement building. The project was accompanied by subtle urban interventions, including smile stickers placed on the amber light of… Continue reading World Smile DayKraków
insideOUT. Outsourcing sector in Kraków.
insideOUTOutsourcing sector in Kraków. This essay is a part of insideOUT project by Babel Images Collective In last few years city tissue of Krakow has been changing quietly. The impact of outsourcing sector location is so big that urban sociologist start to compare it to Nowa Huta location in 50’s in XX century. But the… Continue reading insideOUT. Outsourcing sector in Kraków.
Teleporter
Teleporter At first, there was an ordinary outhouse.A simple three-door structure standing in the Bieszczady landscape — functional, provisional, devoid of aesthetic ambition. A utilitarian object so obvious it barely invited attention. At some point, someone appeared and decided to improve it.Not to demolish it. Not to replace it. To alter it. Color, detail, subtle… Continue reading Teleporter
Snippets of identity
Snippets of Identity For centuries, craftsmen were a constant presence in Kraków’s urban landscape. As custodians of guild knowledge, they played significant roles in social life and co-created a micro-world of mutual dependencies. They formed an essential part of the identity of Kraków’s districts. At the beginning of the 21st century, advancing gentrification pushed craftsmen… Continue reading Snippets of identity
Frames of Time, Wisła in Kraków.
Frames of Time; The Vistula River in Kraków Frames of Time is a series of works based on the juxtaposition of archival and contemporary photographs of urban spaces. The works establish a dialogue between past and present in the context of public space and the social interactions that take place within it. The spatial mode… Continue reading Frames of Time, Wisła in Kraków.
Three Perspectives, The Kraków Ghetto.
Three Perspectives; The Kraków Ghetto Installation Three Perspectives is based on two juxtaposed images of entrance into Limanowskiego street from Podgórski Market Square. It was exactly where in 1941 the gate of the ghetto wall was raised marking the borderline of humanity. The photos of exactly the same spot were taken at an interval of… Continue reading Three Perspectives, The Kraków Ghetto.
Photo booth RGB
Photo booth RGB The first photo booth produced by Photomaton appeared on the streets of Paris in 1928. To be able to get one’s portrait taken in a matter of minutes, by an automated process, was a quite revolutionary invention and accessible to all. Many artists could see the artistic potential of the device and… Continue reading Photo booth RGB
Barcelona
Barcelona The project began with a simple but precise intention: to return Adam Ziemianin’s poem Barcelona to the place where the legendary bar once stood. When the building was demolished, the imprint of its structure remained visible on the neighboring walls. On this exposed scar of the city — the final material trace of the… Continue reading Barcelona
21 Jewish Krakowians building a 21st Century Jewish community in Krakow.
21 Jewish Krakowians building a 21st Century Jewish community in Krakow Jewish life in Krakow exists. Despite the Holocaust, despite the post-war period of communism, despite anti-Semitism and many other problems of contemporary Poland – Jewish life goes on continuously. The Jewish world that exists in Krakow today is different from the one that existed… Continue reading 21 Jewish Krakowians building a 21st Century Jewish community in Krakow.