Kozyra’s Got the Power BY Karol Sienkiewicz Art Casting, which occupies an entire story of the Zachęta, is most likely the artist’s final foray into making dreams come true in art, or at least the end of her attempted career as a more model woman, one that sings like a diva, wears makeup and high heels, and holds flowers just the right way
Learning the Gender Lesson BY Marta Lisok Art The title of the Zachęta exhibition, ‘Gender Check. Feminity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe.’ which sounds like a wake-up call or an interrogation question, makes you stand at attention. It demands a clear answer: what’s my gender?
Regaining feeling BY Joanna Tokarska-Bakir Literature In her excellent, provocative book ‘Proszę bardzo’ (Here You Go) Anda Rottenberg rejects the rules of the game the Polish symbolic establishment so far abided by