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We would like to invite for the Performance Night that will take place on 28th May as a part of the Alternativa International Contemporary Visual Art Festival vernissage. All the accompanying events will take place both on the first floor of the Hall 90B (the Labour&Leisure exhibition space) and on the premises of Shipyard’s surroundings.

Although this is performance night, the first actions – like Rozgłośnia Stocznia/ Shipyard Radio Station, a broadcast of Kasia Krakowiak - will start at 10.00 am. It is worth to spend this day at Shipyard!

Zorka Wollny i Anna Szwajgier - A song while working
Hall 90B

Anders Bojen i Kristoffer Ørum - The Subjective History of Gdańsk, performance
Hall 90B

Kasia Krakowiak - Human Antena – Shipyard Radio Station 94FM, performance + reconstruction of the Shipyard’s broadcasting center
Former premises of the Gdańsk Shipyard and the Hall 90B


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Wyspa Institute of Art, in collaboration with the City of Gdansk and Gdansk 2016 is launching a series of international exhibitions, art events, publications and on-line activities under the title Alternativa scheduled for the Summers of 2011 and 2012. Alternativa aims to investigate the ways in which contemporary art intersects with the political. It seeks diverse modes of knowing and is searching for a performative, affectual apparatus through which we can explore possible ways of existing in contemporaneity. For the exhibitions and events, the newly renovated spectacular space, Hall 90B, is made available along with Wyspa’s and Modelarnia’s own spaces. Located in the legendary Gdansk Shipyard, where the workers’ strikes of 1980 began the process of the disintegration of the Communist bloc, Alternativa looks at the atmosphere of political momentum and its possibilities.


Opening party:
May 28, 2011 7pm

Exhibition on view
29 May–30 September 2011
artistic director: Aneta Szylak

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Gdansk Shipyard famously the “Cradle of Solidarity’’ and a key industrial site with in Polish history shall play host to four emerging British artists intending to explore its heritage.


The Artists’ visit marks the final stage of Post Industrial Revolution, an artistic residency exchange developed between the UK and Poland focusing on the former industrial areas of Birmingham and Gdansk, in particular the districts of Digbeth and the Gdansk Shipyard.

The artists from the UK will begin the one month residency from the 6th of May until the 5th of June 2011, using it as a period for research and for the production of new art works directly responding to the Gdansk Shipyard, its historical and social context. These newly create art works will be displayed in an exhibition at Modelarnia, a former industrial space, originally utilized for the building of model ships and part of the Wyspa Progress Foundation. The exhibition will take place from Friday 3rd June until June 17th.
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