Spiritual Renaissance
featuring Lubomir Arsov, Daria Hlazatova and Łukasz Murzyn
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Daria Hlazatova
- Daria Hlazatova is an artist and illustrator based in Ukraine whose works have been exhibited in the United States and the United Kingdom and featured in publications, on album covers, music videos and a silent film. Daria's work is about spontaneity and expression, which is reflected in her motto: "Draw first, think later!"
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Lubomir Arsov
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Lubomir Arsov is an artist working as an animation writer and director. In his artistic work he explores the psychological, parapolitical, and spiritual dynamics that define the momentous period we are currently navigating. In 2017, he released his first award-winning animated film, In-Shadow: A Modern Odyssey, in which he explores the fragmented subconscious of our times. He has also worked in production and creative development for major and boutique animation studios, and on a variety of film and TV projects, for clients including Netflix, Warner Brothers, Blue Sky, Mattel, Disney, and House of Cool. His latest work, The Forest King, is a dystopian parable about a soulless technocratic future in which a father and son struggle against a consciousness harvesting virtual reality app.
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Łukasz Murzyn
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Born in Kraków in 1982. From 2002 to 2007 he studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, and throughout 2005 at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht. Lecturer and Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the Pedagogical University in Kraków. He creates video installations, installations, and performances and works in the field of VR. Participant of several dozen group exhibitions and more than twenty solo shows. Murzyn experiments with the context of art, linking new media with psychology of religion and the liturgy of the Catholic Church. He is also interested in the questions of heritage and the civilizational and cultural crisis. He is the author of several texts on art and institutional critique, an independent curator of exhibitions and activities focusing on artistic dialogue and inclusion. Member of the Jagiellonian Club and President of Fundacji Sztuki Trójmorza [Three Seas Art Foundation].
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Manick Govinda
- independent writer, artists mentor, lecturer, curator and arts consultant. He has written for The Critic, Index on Censorship, Arts Professional, Open Democracy and Spiked. He is the co-curator, alongside Agnieszka Kolek, of Culture Tensions, a new series of public discussions and conversations at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art. Manick describes himself as an Eclecticist, open to different ideas and thoughts, open to unresolved contradictions. He was cancelled in 2019 by many English arts institutions for his gender critical comments and humour on social media and for his vocal criticism against the European Union.
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Agnieszka Kolek
- artist, curator and co-founder of the Passion for Freedom Art Festival in London. Through supporting artists forbidden to exhibit their art, she exposes the silence of many and challenges the comfortable position of those who inhibit “safe spaces”. Agnieszka survived the terror attack in Copenhagen in 2015. She continued the meeting on art and blasphemy after the attack by saying: “They not only want to kill us. They want us to stop talking, so we should continue.”
