Polish project "Power Games" is a special part of the international exhibition entitled "Aestetics of Violence" and will be presented together with the group exhibition "History of Violence" and six solo shows by the artists from Europe, as well as from Israel. Available from January 24 in Haifa Museum of Art.




"The exhibition Power Games reflects the complex and paradoxical reality of Poland, a country that has rapidly gone from post-communist to postmodern. The exhibition reflects the creative outburst that is reacting critically, after years of oppression, to representations of power and violence in Polish society – which may be read as a metaphor for the problematic state of affairs characteristic of Western culture more generally". – says Tami Katz-Freiman, the curator from Haifa Museum of Art.

Participating artists include: Hubert Czerepok, Zuzanna Janin, Grzegorz Klaman, Norman Leto, Janek Simon, Artur Żmijewski.




The works included in this exhibition address the theme of violence by using a range of conceptual, symbolic, poetic and narrative approaches. Some of these works are concerned with Poland's historical traumas and with various forms of institutional violence (the church, the communist regime, etc.). Other works address this theme on a universal level related to human nature, rather than to a specific national context. The exhibition features a range of works by both established and young Polish artists.

Opening: 24.01, at 20:30
Exhibition: 24.01-20.06.2009
Haifa Museum of Art

More on the website www.poland-israel.org