“People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” – Dorota Monkiewicz about Polish contemporary art in the context of the exhibition of the same name in the Wiesbaden Kunsthaus

The “Wer im Glashaus sitzt, sollte nicht mit Steinen werfen” exhibition featuring contemporary international artists was first realised in 2020 at the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku) and was created as a workshop within a German-Polish project. The Polish title of the exhibition, which was shown in Orońsko from 8 August to 20 September 2020, was “Nie rzuca się kamieniami mieszkając w szklanym domu”. The German stage of the project, which should have been held in the Kunsthalle of the Wiesbaden Kunsthaus from 10 October to 29 November 2020, did initially open but was then closed to the public at the beginning of November because of the coronavirus. In a video, which was originally to have been given as a presentation in Wiesbaden, Dorota Monkiewicz, a prominent Polish curator and senior executive at the centre in Orońsko, explains the positions of the Polish artists involved in the project in the context of the development of contemporary Polish art over the past few decades.

Dorota Monkiewicz, Videostill from the lecture, Orońsko, 2020

Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku 2020

The initiative for the German-Polish exhibition project “Wer im Glashaus sitzt, sollte nicht mit Steinen werfen” came from the German curator and gallery owner Gottfried Hafemann and the Polish artist Leszek Golec. In a video tour, Hafemann explains the purpose of the project and introduces the work of those artists involved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmoXWMcSwLQ&feature=emb_logo

By contrast, in her video presentation, which was intended for a German audience, Dorota Monkiewicz focuses on introducing the Polish artists in the context of the general development of Polish contemporary art at the threshold of the 20th and 21st century, giving particular consideration to current developments (Polish with German subtitles by Urszula Usakowska-Wolff):

https://youtu.be/p2sdBAozykw

List of the Polish artists taking part:

Kuba Bąkowski

Michalina Bigaj

Duo Tatiana Czekalska and Leszek Golec

Kamil Kuskowski

Tomasz Matuszak

Duo Diana and Bruno Neuhamer (Diana Grabowska and Bruno Althamer)

A catalogue in German and Polish was published to accompany the exhibition.

For more information about the Kunsthalle des Kunsthauses Wiesbaden:

https://www.wiesbaden.de/kultur/bildende-kunst/ausstellungsorte/kunsthaus/ausstellung-glashaus.php

For more information about the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (in Polish, partly in English):