14/12/2024
seminar
The Art of Cooperation: History and Future
Matylda Dobrowolska, Alicja Rogalska, Alicja Wysocka
- Dr. Anna Wiszniewska
- is an art and design historian, curator, and academic lecturer, assistant professor at the Workshop of Documentation of 20th and 21st Century Visual Arts at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, lecturer at the Independent Department of Theoretical Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Her research interests focus on artists and designers associated with Cepelia and the Institute of Industrial Design. She conducts basic research in the field of the history of Polish design and object art, with particular emphasis on toymaking, fashion, jewelry and ceramics. She also pursues her scientific and research interests as an exhibition curator. She collaborates with the Museum of Warsaw, the Mazovian Museum in Płock, and the National Museum in Krakow.
- Dr. Aleksandra Bilewicz
- is a doctor of sociology, assistant professor at the Department of Rural Sociology at the Institute of Rural Development and Agriculture of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests focus on the issues of the social effects of deagrarization, re-estateization, agricultural protests, and the social history of cooperative movements. She is the author of the two-volume study Społem 1906-1939. Idea, People, Organization (2017).
- Alicja Wójcik
- is Ekopolis team Director at CoopTech Hub and board member of the Kultura Cooperative. Graduate of Artes Liberales in Rotterdam and Urban Studies in Brussels, she devoted her master’s thesis to grassroots urbanization and democratic management of urban commons using the example of the Jazdów Housing Estate in Warsaw. She worked for the Institute of Civil Affairs, UN-Habitat, and Community Land Trust Brussels. At CoopTech Hub, she is responsible for incubating new cooperatives, such as the Kultura Cooperative, and thus spreading the idea of cooperatives. She also coordinates projects on urban, environmental, and social topics. She likes trees and meadows, but does not like perfectly trimmed lawns.
- Wiktoria Szczupacka
- is a graduate of art history at the Institute of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University and postgraduate studies in social economy at the Poznań University of Economics. PhD student at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where under the supervision of prof. Joanna M. Sosnowska she has written a dissertation entitled “Avant-Garde, Women, and Labour in 1970s Warsaw on the Example of the Foksal Gallery, the Association of Polish Art Photographers, and the Action, Documentation, and Dissemination Workshop.” Her research interests focus on the intersection of issues such as labour, gender, and art institutions. Theoretically and practically interested in artistic cooperatives, for over ten years she has been working in third-sector art-related organizations. Co-editor, together with Agnieszka Pindera and Anna Ptak, of the book Artist Initiatives and Galleries (Toruń 2014). Author of the research and text The Art of Cooperation on the non-hierarchical organization of artists in contemporary artistic cooperatives.
- Alicja Rogalska
- is an interdisciplinary artist, author of situations, videos, installations, and performances based on research, cooperation, and participation. Her practice focuses on the politics of everyday life and narratives of social alternatives in the context of the climate crisis, especially in relation to issues of labour, economy, class, migration, and gender. Graduate of cultural studies at the University of Warsaw and Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College, where she is currently working on a PhD on collective imaginations of the future. Rogalska was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin (2020-21) and artist-in-residence at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, 2023), the Faculty of Social Sciences at Essex University (2019-22), the City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, 2019), and the Stuart Hall Library (London, 2019). She recently presented her work at n.b.k. (Berlin, 2024), Matter of Art Biennale (Prague, 2024), Biennial Videobrasil (São Paulo, 2023-24), New Contemporaries (London and Blackpool, 2023-24), Jogja Biennale (Yogyakarta, 2023), Urbane Künste Ruhr (Essen, 2023), Manifesta 14 (Prishtina, 2022), and Berlin Art Prize (2022, where she won the 1st prize).
- Maja Demska
- is an artist, curator, writer, author of poetic texts and diagrams, interested in affective relationships with data and information systems. She examines the presence and role of diagrams and other forms of visualization in art and literature.
- Alicja Wysocka
- is an author of video installations, site-specific, performances, and participatory films. Her work explores issues of alternative economics and cooperation, creating visions of alternative futures. Graduate of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Co-organizer of the First International Congress of Art Cooperatives (2021). Initiator and curator of the exhibition Collective Capital at the Museum of the History of Cooperatives in Warsaw (2019). Selected exhibitions: Kunstverein Wiesen (2023), Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2021), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020), Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (2017). She was a resident at: MMCA, Seoul (2023), PARADISE AIR, Tokyo (2023), Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2022-2023), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2020), Jatiwangi Art Factory, Indonesia (2019). Selected film screenings: Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (2024), 143km Truck Screening, Ourweek Screening, Seoul (2023), Film POLSKA Spezial KUNST IM KINO, Berlin (2023).
- Tomek Pawłowski-Jarmolajew
- is a curator and cook. He organizes exhibitions and events, publishes talks, cooks, and officiates weddings. Curator of exhibitions, including: What Do You Do in Bed? (Gdańsk City Gallery, 2024), Giantesses (with Agnieszka Rayzacher, BWA Wrocław, 2024), Sea of Cheese (with Piotr Sikora, TRAFO, 2024). He cooks primarily for educational and residency programs, including MeetFactory in Prague, Dutch Art Institute, Q21 in Vienna, and FLOW.
- Matylda Dobrowolska
- is a producer, project coordinator, former gardener, co-organizer of the First International Congress of Artistic Cooperatives (2021).
