LAACT XXIII

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵
𝘦𝘹𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 / 𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 / 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘵

Wrocław hosted the LAACT artists’ presentation and exhibition for the second time. For two days in the courtyard of the Four Domes Pavillion, international artists and curators presented their art installations whose medium is light.

Thanks to the cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw, the National Museum in Wroclaw – Museum of Contemporary Art Four Domes Pavillion and NOKS collective, the exhibition was accompanied by discussions and short lectures by artists and researchers of contemporary art. During the curatorial tours, the artists talked about their work.

 

Invited artists and researchers :
Joacelio Batista [BR]
Annika Hippler [DE]
Emilia Ishizaka [PL]
Anna Klimczak [PL]
Ryszard W. Kluszczyński [PL]
Mateusz Król [PL]
Alicja Panasiewicz, Adam Panasiewicz / grupa Not a Number [PL]
Sarah Rechberger [AT]
Tilen Sepič [SI]
Robert Sochacki [PL]
Ingo Wendt [DE]
Tomasz Wiktor [PL]

On 10 and 11 March, the LAACT XXIII project took place, accompanying the exhibition ‘Otto Piene. Stars‘, which was on view in the courtyard of the Four Domes Pavillion. This was the first solo exhibition of Piene’s work in Poland and inspired the LAACT programme.
Otto Piene is one of the most important creators of light art and an undoubted pioneer in thinking about light as a medium of contemporary art. LAACT XXIII shows how contemporary artists tell stories about the world and current events using light.

During each day of LAACT XXIII, in addition to the exhibition in the courtyard, video works by Joacelio Batista from Belo Horizonte (BR) and Tomasz Wiktor from Paris (PL) were presented as large-format projections.

Taking place on the outside wall of the building, the projection was an activity of One Night Public Gallery, a one-night gallery presenting contemporary art in public space. The curators of LAACT XXIII thus referred to the founding act of the ZERO Group, the ‘one-night exhibitions’ that Otto Piene and Heinz Mack had organised since April 1957.

https://www.asp.wroc.pl/pl/aktualnosci/laact-xxiii

Organizer:
dr Robert Sochacki with Iwona Dorota Bigos
E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw
National Museum in Wroclaw
NOKS collective
LAACT project has received a Honorary Patronage from the President of Wroclaw

LAACT XXIII partners:
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wrocław
Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw
Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar / Erasmus + program
Art Department of the Pedagogical University of Krakow
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw

individual artists’ support from:
Federal Ministry of Austria Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport / Sarah Rechberger
Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory and Forum Ljubljana (Lighting Guerrilla),
Municipality of Ljubljana – Department for Culture,
konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art / Tilen Sepič