Łódź Kaliska Polish contemporary art from Poland

Stefan and Mayonnaise
As part of the project of the National Museum in Kielce, "Żeromski for a Change", the artistic group Łódź Kaliska is going to present their newest exhibition, entitled "Stefan and Mayonnaise." The artistic group intends to promote two regional heroes: Stefan Żeromski and Kielce Mayonnaise. The "Stefan and Mayonnaise" project is a series of artistic variations which will be presented during the exhibition at the National Museum in Kielce. Its aim is to popularize the figure of Stefan Żeromski, refresh his image and promote him as a star of popular literature using the method worked out by Andy Warhol.

"Warhol created Pop Art," Sylwia Rybacka of the National Museum of Kielce explains, "a peculiar game with consumer society, by sculpting a Coca-Cola bottle or a tin of Campbell soup. Following this path, we can say the other hero of this project is Kielce Mayonnaise, the symbol of this region and an icon of commercial success."

The opening is on Thursday, 12th of August, at 8 pm., National Museum in Kielce, Orla Street 3.

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Lodz Kaliska; the early years...
Gallery WM, Elandsgracht 35, 1016 TN Amsterdam, NL
12-06-10 through 17-07-2010
Opening: Saturday June 12th 17:00-20:00
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The following information has been given on special request by our colleague Andrzej Świetlik, member of the neo-avant-garde group Łódź Kaliska:
An exhibition entitled "Patriotic Elements in the Works of Adam Rzepecki, Member of the Neo-avant-garde Group Łódź Kaliska" is now taking place in the Olympia Gallery in Kraków.
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The Atelier Foundation invites you to the third "Festiwal of Art in Foksal Street"
on Saturday, 15th of May. Among other things, the programme includes a presentation of films and a work by Łódź Kaliska entitled "Night Shop." Kamienica Artystyczna, Foksal Street 11, Warszawa.

Our Creative, Beautiful, Lovely, Wonderful, Unforgettable Muses
came to the opening of the exhibition by Anka Leśniak in the Łódź Atlas Sztuki. During the event we showered them with rose petals and gold in a cumbersome and humble attempt to thank them for their years of presence by our sides.
What about Anka's film? Well_what about it? Come and see for yourselves!!

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the great pleasure of inviting you to the opening of yet another exhibition in Atlas Sztuki. In fewer than 20 hours, tomorrow, on Friday 23rd of April, 2010 at 7 p.m., we will be showing a new film by Anka Leśniak entitled "The Muses of Łódź Kaliska." The artist interviews eight women who in various periods have been the Muses of the artistic group Łódź Kaliska. In an engrossing way the Muses talk about their cooperation with Łódź Kaliska, and, since the said cooperation has been unconventional, and since all the Muses are not only very intelligent and well-educated but also creative and open-minded women, the result is out of the ordinary. In my opinion Anka Leśniak's film is an important contribution to the discussion about feminism and about the role of women in contemporary art. All the Muses, not only those who appeared in Anka Leśniak's film, will take part in the opening, which will also feature the artists from the Łódź Kaliska group. Anka Leśniak, the Muses and members of Łódź Kaliska have prepared unusual attractions for tomorrow's opening. The film will be screened in a specially prepared arrangement. A catalogue written especially for this exhibition has been published in the April edition of a monthly devoted to art, Art&Business. From this new catalogue I strongly recommend texts about the project by Professor Maria Poprzęcka, Ewa Gorządek, Karolina Jabłońska and an interview with the artist by Adam Mazur. Anka Leśniak's film is on a DVD included in the catalogue. Visit our gallery tomorrow, come to Atlas Sztuki and see for yourself whether Professor Poprzęcka's thesis that "perhaps, quite simply, Łódź Kaliska is a woman" is a subversive provocation or holds true.
Sincerely yours,
Jacek Michalak

It's April already, but still,
it is worth informing the Honourable Society that Andrzej Świetlik is the co-author of a calendar for Magda Prokopiwicz's cancer-fighting Foundation Rak'n'Roll (Cancer'n'Crack).
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Malgorzata Butterwick
How shocking! Look at that woman!
Beneath her dress she´s stark naked!
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Sylwia Czubała
How to Kill Art Manual by Łódź Kaliska - i.e. spreading the Kielecki Mayonnaise on Warhol's serigraphies. (A few remarks in a kind of a paratext) read more

photo: Tibor Várnagy & István Halas

During the closing stages of the exhibition "Banana Republic. Expression of the 80-ties" Adam Rzepecki presented in MODEM Debrecen performance "Magyar nyelvlecke/ Hungarian Lesson"
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On Jan 25th at 7 pm in the Łódź Kaliska pub in Kraków we will watch the film " Burning Man" (pirated) about Łódź Kaliska`s stay in the Nevada Desert, made by the Emmy Award laureate Slawomir Grünberg.

The Eros in the art of Lodz Kaliska group
The BWA Gallery in Bielsko Biała invites you to a lecture by Jola Ciesielska on Thursday, Jan 21st at 7 pm. There will be a screening of more films not featured in the exhibition after the lecture.

We are extending the celebrations of our 30th anniversary!!!
On behalf of the BWA Gallery in Bielsko-Biała Agata Smalcerz invites you to the opening of the exhibition "30 years of Łódź Kaliska" on Friday, January 8, 2010 at 7 pm.
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