Diary of the Project

October 2019 

BWA Wrocław returns to what a few years ago turned out to be immensely successful – the format of the Master’s Studio. The project is a meeting opportunity for artists who can be safely labelled contemporary classics with those representing the young generation. The formula of the Studio bestows the role of a curator or mentor on the master, whose role is first to choose, and then work with the selected artist or artists. Within the period of one year, the undertaking is crowned with an exhibition to be seen at BWA Wrocław Główny. 

An invitation to run the next edition of the Mater’s Studio was accepted by Joanna Rajkowska. She is among the most hotly disputed names in Polish contemporary art these days, even though her works and projects tend to be far from spectacular, retaining their intimate, personal character. They are forthright, equivocal and universal, open to all users of common spaces. She turns them into specific screens absorbing public emotions, transforming them into a community experience: Oxygenator  in  Grzybowski Square in Warsaw, Palm Tree [Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue] in Charles de Gaulle Roundabout, recently succumbing to the effects of global warming, or The Hatchling, prepared for London’d Frieze – a giant blackbird egg emitting natural sounds of the original. Chariot was another project presented in London – an object and action which became a medium of social communication between ethnic minorities and the hegemonic western culture during the difficult time of the migration crisis.   

In the autumn of 2019, we invited artists to take part in the first stage of the project, an open review of entries and selection of the project’s participants.