18/10—10/11/2024
show
Kinga Kiełczyńska and Ernst Logar
Everyday Fairy Tale
- Everyday Fairy Tale is a project in a creative process, the result of workshops conducted by Kinga Kiełczyńska and Ernst Logar in which their works were used. This is the first presentation of the prototype version of this project, which will be shown in 2025 at the Künsthaus Wien and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw.
- The inspiration for the project came from Kate Soper’s book Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism. The author draws attention to the fact that the ecological crisis requires a change in lifestyle, work, and consumption; she speculates on how changing energy sources will affect our lifestyle.
- Kinga Kiełczyńska invited experts from various fields, interested in the issue, to participate in the workshops in order to develop the storyline of an alternative lifestyle: ecological activists, architects, green business representatives, artists, economic analysts. The aim of the workshops was to inspire members of opinion-forming groups to seek answers to the question: what will a new, renewable lifestyle look like? What values will people adopt? What choices will they make? What new forms of culture will emerge thanks to renewable energy sources? Then, based on the answers provided, a fairy tale narrative was created.
- Everyday Fairy Tale is a narrative that brings hope for change and adaptation. In the visual dimension, it consisted of the effects of the workshop work and the works of Kinga Kiełczyńska and Ernst Logar.
- Kinga Kiełczyńska’s post-disciplinary artistic practice explores the interactions between humans and nature, as well as the apparent dichotomy that exists between them. She often presents her work outside the conventional spaces of galleries or museums. In 2009, she wrote the Reductionist Art Manifesto – a humorous declaration of reduction instead of creation, which questioned the paradigm of making art in times of overproduction. During the show, the manifesto was presented for the first time in the form of an object (until now its content has been printed or performed). In her recent works, the artist explores the boundary between natural materials and concepts, and those created by humans or generated by machines.
- Ernst Logar researches petro-culture, i.e. the culture and lifestyle shaped by oil and fossil fuels. He is an author of art research projects, objects, installations, and photographs, which are featured in the show.
- Everyday Fairy Tale comprised Kinga Kiełczyńska’s earlier works: Courtesy of Infinity (2020–2022), Hidden Interface (2022), and Reductionist Art Manifesto (2009), as well as those created by her especially for this exhibition: The Little Match Girl (2024), Bronisławy (2024), Białowieża Episode No. 4 (2016–2024) in collaboration with Vitali Kozorowski.
- Ernst Logar showed several photographic works from his project Non-Public Spaces (e.g. Conference Room – Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Vatican City, 2008), parts of the series of images of drilling platforms (Tillydrone-Aberdeen, 2008), the Invisible Oil project, the Oil Sculpture #001 from the current project Reflecting Oil, and other works related to the themes of Everyday Fairy Tale.
