The autumn programme accompanying Wilhelm Sasnal’s exhibition Such a Landscape is now underway!
Already in early September, we will launch a series of meetings and debates during which we will talk with our distinguished guests about Sasnal’s exhibition in a broader context: reflecting on our past, on art, and on the condition of an artist in today’s world. We will look at Wilhelm Sasnal’s artwork through the prism of experiences related to science, art, literature and mindfulness.
As part of our online series of events, we organised a special Q&A with Wilhelm Sasnal session (30 September, online) and yet another—the last in the series—interview within the “One to One” cycle (to premiere on 4 September). This time, the artist will talk to journalist Jakub Banasiak. There will be a lot going on in the exhibition space itself, too: Jolanta Gumula and Joanna Mytkowska will guide the exhibition tours in our monthly series titled Different People, Different Views. These guided tours will be available to watch online, albeit in an abbreviated format, a week after the offline tour. We have also planned a curator-guided tour with Adam Szymczyk as well as tours for people with disabilities, a surprise guided tour, and our weekend guided walks: Art as a Testimony to the Unimaginable and The Holocaust Landscape.
In the evenings (after the Museum has closed to visitors!) participants of meetings in the Fixed on a Painting series will discuss the selected works by Wilhelm Sasnal together with the meeting moderators.
Discussions revolving around the exhibition will attract an international team of experts for whom Sasnal’s artwork will serve as a point of departure to ponder over the Holocaust memory in art (a series of debates titled We Don’t Look Away held both onsite and online, on 9 September and 14 October), in the landscape and in academic studies, as well as over the role of an artist in the process of facing up to the past.
The discussion titled Landscape as a Witness to the Holocaust (19 September, online) will be moderated by Roma Sendyka from the Jagiellonian University. Jessica Rapson (King's College, London), Tim Cole (Bristol University) and Caroline Sturdy Colls (Staffordshire University) will attend the discussion. The debate titled Facing the Past (24 October, online) will be chaired by Achim Borchardt-Hume, head of exhibitions and programmes at Tate Modern, who will talk to Wilhelm Sasnal and Adam Szymczyk.
Detailed list of events planned for September and October:
SEPTEMBER
- The Holocaust Landscape – guided tour of the temporary exhibition, onsite
- 4 September (Saturday), 12 noon – 1PM
- 12 September (Sunday), 12 noon – 1PM
- 19 September (Sunday), 12 noon – 1PM
- 25 September (Saturday), 12 noon – 1PM
- 26 September (Sunday), 12 noon – 1PM
- tickets: 30 PLN (regular), 20 PLN (concession)
- One to One with Wilhelm Sasnal – film, part 3
- 4 September (Saturday), 2.30PM
- premiere on the POLIN Museum Facebook profile and YouTube channel
- film in Polish with English subtitles
- Fixed on a Painting, or the Art of Looking Attentively at Art
- 5 September (Sunday), 6.10PM - 8.30PM, onsite
- moderated by mindfulness instructor Katarzyna Błachiewicz–Koryga
- limited number of places
- tickets to the exhibition: 20PLN regular, 15PLN concession, "Museum for a Zloty" 1PLN
- We Don’t Look Away: How Does Art Process the Memory of the Holocaust? – a discussion
- 9 September (Thursday), 6PM - 7.30PM
- POLIN auditorium + online streaming
- Free admission, free tickets to be collected at the Museum ticket desk
- Different People, Different Views – guided tour of the temporary exhibition
- 11 September (Saturday), 12noon – 1PM, onsite
- tour guide: Jolanta Gumula, Deputy Director for Programme, POLIN Museum
- limited number of places
- ticket to the exhibition: 20PLN regular, 15PLN concession, "Museum for a Zloty" 1PLN
- Surprise guided tour of the Such a Landscape exhibition
- 18 September (Saturday), 12noon – 1PM (group I); 1.15PM – 2.15PM (group II), onsite
- limited number of places
- ticket to the exhibition: 20PLN regular, 15PLN concession, "Museum for a Zloty" 1PLN
- Different People, Different Views – premiere of the film accompanying the tour guided by Jolanta Gumula, Deputy Director for Programme, POLIN Museum
- 18 September (Saturday), 2.30PM
- POLIN Museum Facebook profile and YouTube channel
- Art as a Testimony to the Unimaginable – a thematic walk of the core and temporary exhibitions
- 19 September (Sunday), 12 noon - 1.30PM, onsite
- Ticket to the event: 40PLN (regular), 30PLN (concession)
- Landscape as a Witness to the Holocaust – a debate in English
- 19 September (Sunday), 8PM – 9PM, online
- More details to follow soon at polin.pl
- Q&A with Wilhelm Sasnal – a discussion
- 30 September (Thursday), 6PM - 7.15PM
- Online: POLIN Museum Facebook profile
From 1 September, you can book educational workshops titled Such a Landscape – What a Landscape? for grades 7 and 8 of primary schools and for high schools. For more information, please go to: Onsite workshops for schools | POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw
From 1 September, So Many Questions! Mini-guide for Families with Children will be available online and in the printed version to be collected at the entrance to the exhibition.
OCTOBER
- Guided tour for people with hearing impairment with translation to PJM [Polish Sign Language]
- 2 October (Saturday), 3PM - 4.30PM, onsite
- 9 October (Saturday), 3PM - 4.30PM, onsite
- to book: fill out a form available from the Culture Without Barriers Festival
- free admission
- Learning How to Look – workshop for families with children (aged 4-10)
- 3 October (Sunday), 11AM – 2PM, onsite
- family ticket 30PLN: 1 child + guardians (each extra child – 10PLN)
- Guided tour for people with impaired vision with tactile graphics and audio-description
- 3 October (Sunday), 3PM – 4.30PM, onsite
- 10 October (Sunday), 3PM -4.30PM, onsite
- to book: fill out a form available from the Culture Without Barriers Festival
- free admission
- Different People, Different Views – guided tour of the temporary exhibition
- 9 October (Saturday), 12 noon – 1PM, onsite
- guide: Joanna Mytkowska, curator, historian of art, art critic, from 2007 director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
- limited number of places
- ticket to the exhibition: 20PLN regular, 15PLN concession, "Museum for a Zloty" 1PLN
- Guided tour by Adam Szymczyk
- 10 October (Sunday), 12 noon (group I), 1.30PM (group II)
- limited number of places
- ticket to the exhibition: 20PLN regular, 15PLN concession, "Museum for a Zloty" 1PLN
- Remembering and Forgetting the Past in the Muranów district of Warsaw – an urban walk
- 10 October (Sunday), 2.30PM - 4.30PM
- tickets: regular 20 PLN, concession: 15PLN
- Fixed on a Painting, or the Art of Looking Attentively at Art
- 10 October (Sunday), 6.10PM - 7.30PM, onsite
- chaired by Adam Szymczyk, exhibition curator
- limited number of places
- ticket to the exhibition: 20PLN regular, 15PLN concession, "Museum for a Zloty" 1PLN
- We Don’t Look Away: How Does Art Process the Memory of the Holocaust? – discussion
- 14 October (Thursday), 6PM - 7.30PM
- POLIN Museum auditorium, streaming online
- Free admission, free tickets to be collected at the Museum ticket desk
- Different People, Different Views – premiere of the film accompanying the tour guided by Joanna Mytkowska, curator, historian of art, art critic, from 2007 director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
- 16 October (Saturday), 2.30PM
- POLIN Museum Facebook profile and YouTube channel
- Art as a Testimony to the Unimaginable – a thematic walk of the core and temporary exhibitions
- 17 October (Sunday), 12 noon - 1.30PM, onsite
- tickets: 40 PLN (regular), 30 PLN (concession)
- Reckoning with history – discussion in English
- 24 October (Sunday), 8PM CET
- POLIN Museum Facebook profile
- The Holocaust Landscape – thematic walk at the temporary exhibition
- 24 October (Sunday), 12 noon – 1PM, onsite
- tickets: 30 PLN (regular), 20 PLN (concession)
Free program is financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway within the EEA Fund and from the state bugdet
