The exhibition “Tadeusz Kantor – Always and Everywhere an Artist”, another point on the map of the Poland-Romania cultural season 2024-2025, will open on 20 October 2024. It will be displayed at the National Museum of Art in Bucharest until 9 March 2025. The exhibition is organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in collaboration with Romanian and Polish partners.
“Tadeusz Kantor – Always and Everywhere an Artist” – an exhibition presenting the artist’s wide-ranging interests
The Romanian audience has had a chance to become familiar with Tadeusz Kantor mainly in his role of a director and co-creator of the 20th century Polish experimental theatre; however, his activity covered plenty other fields of culture. Apart from being a man of theatre, he was also a painter, stage designer, writer, sculptor and happening artist.
The exhibition “Tadeusz Kantor – Always and Everywhere an Artist” will present his versatile artistic interests. The Bucharest exhibition will present Kantor’s early paintings, famous Emballages with an umbrella, later painting experiments and stage objects. Documentations of Kantor’s theatre accomplishments will also form an important element of the exhibition – the total of several dozen works and photographs from the collection of the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art.
Tadeusz Kantor, Conceptual Emballages, 1971.
Not only an exhibition – a programme of accompanying events
The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive programme of events that will allow getting an even better insight into the figure of Tadeusz Kantor. The programme is co-financed by the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor Cricoteka.
“Costume in Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre Instrumentation” workshop (21-25 October 2024)
The workshop will be hosted by Bogdan Renczyński, actor of the Cricot 2 Theatre.
Artistic installation “Personal Space” (February 2025).
The background for the “Personal Space” installation will be composed of photographs of theatre costumes prepared by Kantor, displayed in large format through a projector. The “Personal Space” will become a place for meetings and workshops activating the viewers, hosted for several days by Justyna Droń, a theatre pedagogue and creator of the educational programme of Cricoteka.
Film screenings
The programme provides for five film screenings during which the viewers will have a chance to watch Tadeusz Kantor’s filmed theatre performances. They will include such productions as “The Dead Class” (1976) or “Today Is My Birthday” (1991). Each play will be preceded by a screening of a short biographical documentary “Tadeusz Kantor”, produced by Cricoteka.
The exhibition will be open from 20 October 2024 to 9 March 2025. The Adam Mickiewicz Institute has organised the exhibition together with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cracow and the National Museum of Art in Bucharest.