In the dust... is a series of artistic interventions directed towards the museum as the sum of a variety of relationships – between people, things, biographies, history, and space – which each time is created anew, sometimes differently and often only momentarily. Individual projects by Christian Kobald, Alicja Rogalska, Paweł Kruk and Roman Dziadkiewicz will constitute independent components. In such dispersed structure of elements, amid the dust, the museum will be perceived as something in between what is singular and plural, common and separate.

History doesn’t drive camels anymore but it’s still eating dust.
/ Etel Adnal, Seasons /

ARTISTS' BIOS:

• Christian Kobald – curator, member of the editorial board of Spike Art Quarterly. Runs Yvonne Lambert Kunstverein in Berlin. Studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, and history of art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he also teaches. Since 2009, he co-curated over thirty exhibitions, recently The Bachelors' Ball and Farewell to Spring (Yvonne Lambert, Berlin , 2015) ,›Les Immatériaux‹ for Instance (Kunstverein Düsseldorf , 2014). He lives in Berlin.

• Paweł Kruk – visual artist, performer. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, participant of Marina Abramovic's workshops (Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como). In 2010, he had a residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. The artist participated in such exhibitions as The American Effect (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2002), You Won’t Feel A Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Anesthesia, and Rituality (Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, 2006 and Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden 2006), Portrait of the 21st Century (Zachęta, Warsaw, 2009). He lives and works in San Francisco.

• Alicja Rogalska – graduate of the Department of Art at Goldsmiths (2011) and cultural studies at the University of Warsaw. Her practice is based on an interdisciplinary approach and covers a broad context of social and political conditions. She took part in e.g. Critical Juncture (Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2014), No Reed for references (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2015). She lives in London.

• Roman Dziadkiewicz – interdisciplinary artist, author of numerous publications, curator; founder of Stowarzyszenie Artystyczne Ośrodek Zdrowia – SAOZ [Health Centre Artistic Association] and the 36,6 foundation. He examines various formulas of collective action. He works at the intersection of artistic activity, research, experiment and critical reflection. Author of the Imhibition project at the National Museum in Krakow (2006–2007), co-editor of a book of the same title published on that occasion. He lives and works in Krakow.

Curator: Agnieszka Kilian
Cooperation: Dominik Kuryłek

The project was carried out as part of the programme Place Called Space organized by the Imago Mundi Foundation – www.placecalledspace.org