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Łódź Biennale
The Lodz Biennale is an international art celebration, managed and supervised by The International Artists' Museum. It is based upon ideas developed during Construction in Process. More than 100 artists form the whole world took part in the international exhibition. In 2004 the Biennale consisted of three parts: an International part, a Polish part, and a Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ... part. In 2006 the Biennale focused on Polish art. External links Lodz BiennaleLódź Biennale Festivals in Poland Events in Łódź {{Europe-art-display-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The International Artists' Museum
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Construction In Process
''Construction in Process'' () was a series of international global exhibitions organized by artists in the 1980s and 1990s. The originator of this project was Polish artist Ryszard Wasko. Artists who were invited to participate in "Construction in Process" invite in turn, another group of participants, giving the project a dynamic, open character. Another original idea was to spur the artists to create their works on site. Construction in Process I The first CiP was titled, "The Community That Came?" (1981), curated by Anna Saciuk-Gąsowska and Aleksandra Jach and took place in Łódź, Poland. It was symbolic as the birth of the Polish Solidarity movement. ''Participants'' * Carl Andre * Patrick Ireland * Richard Nonas * Hartmut Boehm * Servie Janssen * Roman Opałka * Michael Craig-Martin * Kazuo Katase * Dennis Oppenheim * Ad Dekkers * Stanislav Kolibal * David Rabinowitch * Ger Dekkers * Tomasz Konart * Jozef Robakowski * Jan Dibbets * Attila Kovacs * Ed Ruscha * Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canting, as it depicts a boat ( in Polish), which alludes to the city's name. As of 2022, Łódź has a population of 670,642 making it the country's fourth largest city. Łódź was once a small settlement that first appeared in 14th-century records. It was granted town rights in 1423 by Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and it remained a private town of the Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the late 18th century. In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź was annexed to Prussia before becoming part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw; the city joined Congress Poland, a Russian client state, at the 1815 Congress of Vienna. The Second Industrial Revolution (from 1870) brought rapid growth in textile manufacturing and in po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festivals In Poland
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