100 Years in Labirynt

Exhibition opening: 14/09/2024 (Saturday), 6:00 p.m.
Where: Galeria Labirynt, ul. ks. J. Popiełuszki 5, Lublin
Language: opening in Polish; translation into Ukrainian, translator: Volodymyr Dyshlevuk. No translation into Polish sign language or English.
Exhibition on view: 3.11.2024 (Tues-Sun, 12:00-19:00 p.m.)
Admission: PLN 8, PLN 4 concession (free for the opening)

• Katarzyna Wyszyńska ‘Going apesh!t with nail polish’ during the exhibition opening, anyone interested will have the chance to put themselves in Katarzyna Wyszyńska’s hands and get a commemorative nail decoration.

It has been 50 years since Andrzej Mroczek became the head of Galeria Labirynt. These have been exceptional years for art – performance, conceptual art, video, concrete poetry, feminist art, installations. All this and much more could be seen at the Lublin gallery. Artists who now form the canon of contemporary art visited Lublin and presented their works here. The name of the gallery became known in artistic circles all over Europe. And all this thanks to Andrzej Mroczek’s uncompromising attitude, the trust that artists placed in him and his openness to artistic experimentation. At the exhibition, we will see works by some of them.

However, we don’t want to solely celebrate the past – that would contradict the idea of Galeria Labirynt. An equally important goal of this exhibition is to try to answer the question – what next, what should the next 50 years be like? That is why we are again inviting young people from Lublin and beyond. We want Labyrinth to be their place. For them we want to expand the field of our activities. We don’t want to close ourselves within the confines of visual arts, which have long ceased to work anyway.

Labirynt is a place for young people’s activities: music, film, poetry, dance, activism, theater, DJing, drag, cooking, programming, parties, concerts, gardening, beekeeping, ecology, AI, visual arts – and what else? It’s up to them, their imagination and their needs.

The exhibition will feature:

• first 50: Janusz Bałdyga, Mirosław Bałka, Lucjan Demidowski, Maria Fidor, Koji Kamoji, Zofia Kulik, Zdzisław Kwiatkowski, Przemysław Kwiek, Teresa Murak, Andrzej Polakowski, Małgorzata Potocka, Józef Robakowski, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Krzysztof Zarębski, Ewa Zarzycka
• works from the Collection of Galeria Labirynt: Jan Berdyszak, Wojciech Bruszewski, Andrzej Dłużniewski, Krzysztof Klępka, Marek Konieczny, Andrzej Lachowicz, Natalia LL, Andrzej Partum, Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Zygmunt Rytka, Mikołaj Smoczyński, Kajetan Sosnowski, Jan Świdziński, Ryszard Winiarski, Anastazy Wiśniewski, Jan Ziemski
• between: Anna Baumgart, Wojciech Bąkowski, Przemek Branas, Oskar Dawicki, Katarzyna Górna; Barbara Gryka, Julia Golachowska, Jonasz Chlebowski; Sarah Hill, Paweł Korbus, Katarzyna Kozyra, Robert Kuśmirowski, Joanna Rajkowska, R.E.P., Wiktor Stribog, Ala Urwał, Franek Warzywa and Młody Budda, Anna Zaradny
• second 50: we are awaiting proposals from young people who want to contribute to the second 50 of Labirynt*

Curator: Waldemar Tatarczuk

*Send your artwork proposal for the exhibition along with your bio to email: 100lat@labirynt.com.

Accessibility: The exhibition is held on the ground floor. The bookstore offers free rental of noise-canceling earmuffs and a wheelchair. Silent hours at the exhibition apply on Wednesdays from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. The gallery has 6 portable induction loops.

Exhibition within the framework of the project “Galeria Labirynt – from a gallery of paintings to a gallery for people”.
Subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within the framework of the National Cultural Center program: Culture-Interventions. Edition 2024

Funded by the European Union as part of the National Reconstruction Plan.

Honorary patronage of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage