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Paweł Althamer. Silence

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Jun2021

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30

Sep2021

GarageGarage Square

11:00–22:00

The spatial installation Silence by the renowned Polish artist Paweł Althamer will be located on Garage Square, in front of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. It is a site for collective meditation, where the viewer-participant becomes part of a real time performance.

Each element of the garden—be it a fallen tree or a bush—is a hidden quote, while the composition as a whole is a space where the restless modern city dweller can switch the mode of time, as if transported to the picturesque space of previous eras, when the rhythms and speeds of life had not accelerated to the limit. According to Althamer, Silence is a space where everything happens here and now, and this is the only way for a person to truly find time for themselves.

The project is a Garage Square Commission and will include a series of performative events.

Curator: Andrey Misiano

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Paweł Althamer (b. 1967, Warsaw) is a sculptor and performance artist. He studied under the renowned sculptor Grzegorz Kowalski at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Althamer’s works have been exhibited at numerous solo exhibitions worldwide, including Kunsthalle, Basel (1997); Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2004); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006); Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2007); Secession, Vienna (2009); Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2011); Sammlung Goetz, Munich (2012); MUSEION, Bolzano (2012); New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York (2014); and HAM Helsinki (2019). Selected group exhibitions include: documenta X, Kassel (1997); the 50th and 55th Venice Biennale (2003 and 2013); After Nature, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York (2008); The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Spaces, Tate Liverpool (2008); Les Promesses du passé, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); the 8th Gwangju Biennale (2010); and the 7th Berlin Biennale. He lives and works in Warsaw.

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