Since 2014, POLIN Museum has conducted an artist-in-residence program, inviting Polish and foreign artists for three-week residencies. During their stays, artists use the subject of Jewish heritage as the basis of a project conducted in cooperation with the Museum, involving the inhabitants of Warsaw in their works.
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In spring 2016, an exhibition Presence/Absence/Traces. Contemporary Artists on Jewish Warsaw of the works created during the first edition of the program (13 artistic residencies) was displayed at POLIN Museum. The artists addressed the subjects of Jewish identity and related autobiographical stories, spoke about remembrance of the Shoah and its traces in the tissue of Warsaw, and also re-interpreted the Polish-Jewish cultural legacy.
With the second edition of the program (2016-2017), we wish to continue the previous strategy of working with the history of Polish Jews. We are interested in a critical analysis of contemporary public debate, social memory, Jewish cultural inheritance, public knowledge and imagination. But also transnational remembrance practices and alternative policies of history.
Within these topics, we are looking for projects focused on the most recent history, i.e. post 1989. We wish for the last few decades and the local Polish context to be the starting point for the projects accomplished under the artistic residencies. We encourage artists to establish relations and cooperate with local communities - with the assistance of the project curators.
Each stay concludes with an open meeting with the resident demonstrating the artist's creative practices and the project realised in the POLIN Museum to the public. It is held by an expert, who additionally comments on the artist's work by publishing a brief critical text.
Some works created under the program may be included in the POLIN Museum's collection and join our Core Exhibition, which includes contemporary Jewish life in Poland.
Artists will be provided with a refund of travel costs, accommodation, half board (per diems), a production budget, and remuneration. As well as the assistance and support of the project team.
2016-2017 Residencies:
- 11 – 31 July 2016
- 19 September – 9 October 2016
- 14 November – 4 December 2016
- 16 January – 5 February 2017
- 20 February – 12 March 2017
Contact and information: [email protected].
The activity “Open Museum – Education in Action” is carried out within the project “Jewish Cultural Heritage”, component “Faces of Diversity”. Supported from the Norway and EEA Grants by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
