Artur Zmijewski

Cornerhouse
13th November 2009 - 10th January 2010

This exhibition brings together a number of works made by Polish artist Artur Zmijewski from 2003 to the present day. Zmijewski is part of a generation of artists whose formative years are embedded within Poland's early emergence from the Communist east, at the end of the Cold War. His work positions itself within the gaps created by the hasty transposing of a Western liberal discourse onto a society attempting to both retain its traditional values and come to terms with the traumas of its recent past. This exhibition looks at a number of strategies Zmijewski has developed to explore his own position as an artist within a changing Poland, and how these strategies can become toolkits for communities to find answers to the questions that most challenge them in the contemporary world.

This is the first UK survey of Zmijewski's work, and many of the works have not been seen in this country before. The project is a collaboration with Cornerhouse and A Foundation, who are commissioning a new work by Zmijewski that will be in production in Liverpool during the course of the show. The exhibition will tour to the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland and Tramway, Glasgow in 2010.

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