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Marcin Dudek weaves together autobiographical memories of his youth as part of the Polish generation that came of age after the dissolution of the Eastern bloc with a critique of society\u2019s dependence on spectacle, power, and aggression. Working across installation, performance, sculpture, and painting, he uses found and salvaged materials, slicing and welding them together in an anti-readymade approach. For his first solo show in the German-speaking world, the artist has conceived new large-scale installations, presented alongside existing and reconfigured works. His exhibition at IKOB centers around spaces in which profound transformations\u2014of the body, of the mind, of society\u2014take place.<\/strong> In each of these locations, survival and community become inextricable from one another.<\/p>\n

19.09.\u201326.11.2023
Opening: September 17, 2023, 15:00<\/strong>
IKOB \u2013 Museum of Contemporary Art<\/strong><\/a>
Rotenberg 12B, 4700 Eupen
More info<\/a><\/p>\n

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Marcin Dudek, Akumulator. Installation view at Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels. Steel, wood, medical tape, mirror, neon light, paper, leather, silicon, cell phone, 290 x 220 x 220 cm, 2013-2018. Courtesy the artist and Harlan Levey Projects<\/p><\/div>\n

Responding to IKOB\u2019s architecture, \u201cAkumulatory\u201d takes viewers on a journey through different chapters and sites of the artist\u2019s past.<\/strong> The show thereby continues Dudek\u2019s series of \u201cmemory boxes\u201d: scale replicas of rooms that speak to a particular identity or experience, often located on the fringes of society. The \u201cmemory boxes\u201d combine original elements of a space with assemblages and images that convey the underlying narratives housed there. For each of these works, Dudek builds an architectural skeleton that is permeable and irrational, turning reality inside out. The title of the exhibition, \u201cAkumulatory\u201d (Polish for batteries), refers to this amalgamation of memory and material, and to a transfer of a loaded energy from the artist to the audience.<\/p>\n

In this exhibition, Marcin Dudek shows us the spaces that have transformed him and his generation. He invites the audience to join his reckoning with a troubled history, speaking to the universal human experience of wanting to belong, of searching for environments in which we can fashion our own selves and become somebody new.<\/strong> In his remarkable practice, we come to recognize the failure of supposedly contained entities that are meant to protect us: human bodies, institutions, nation\u2013states. Dudek peels open the envelope of mass society and what emerges are not the clean, abstract lines of consumerism but waste, plastic, and toxins.<\/p>\n

Exhibition supported by the Polish Institute Brussels and Harlan Levey Projects.<\/p>\n

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Marcin Dudek<\/strong> (b. 1979, Krak\u00f3w, PL) studied at the University of Art Mozarteum, Salzburg, AT and Central Saint Martins, London, UK graduating in 2005 and 2007 respectively. Recent solo exhibitions include \u201cNEOPLAN,\u201d Edel Assanti, London, UK (2023); \u201cThe Group,\u201d Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, BE (2023); \u201cUltraskraina,\u201d Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, FR (2021); \u201cSlash & Burn II,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels, BE\u00a0<\/em>(2021);\u00a0<\/em>\u201cThe Crowd Man,\u201d MWW Wroc\u0142aw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL (2019); and \u201cThe Lure of the Arena,\u201d MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO (2019). Selected group exhibitions include \u201cArt of the Terraces,\u201d Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2022); \u201cCollapsing,\u201d TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES (2022); 8th Biennial of Painting, Museum Deinze and Museum Roger Ravel, Deinze, BE (2022); \u201cFUCK YOU,\u201d Kunstenhuis Haralbeke, BE (2021); \u201cDOPPELGANGER,\u201d Entreprendre & KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, BE (2021); \u201cPsychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma,\u201d The Warehouse, Dallas, US (2020); and \u201cGiochi Senza Frontiere,\u201c Palazzo Mazzarino, Manifesta12, Palermo, IT (2018). Dudek\u2019s work is included in international collections including MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO. Dudek lives and works in Brussels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/main>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Recent solo exhibitions include \u201cNEOPLAN,\u201d Edel Assanti, London, UK (2023); \u201cThe Group,\u201d Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, BE (2023); \u201cUltraskraina,\u201d Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, FR (2021); \u201cSlash & Burn II,\u201d\u00a0Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels, BE\u00a0(2021);\u00a0\u201cThe Crowd Man,\u201d MWW Wroc\u0142aw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL (2019); and \u201cThe Lure of the Arena,\u201d MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO (2019). Selected group exhibitions include \u201cArt of the Terraces,\u201d Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2022); \u201cCollapsing,\u201d TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES (2022); 8th Biennial of Painting, Museum Deinze and Museum Roger Ravel, Deinze, BE (2022); \u201cFUCK YOU,\u201d Kunstenhuis Haralbeke, BE (2021); \u201cDOPPELGANGER,\u201d Entreprendre & KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, BE (2021); \u201cPsychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma,\u201d The Warehouse, Dallas, US (2020); and \u201cGiochi Senza Frontiere,\u201c Palazzo Mazzarino, Manifesta12, Palermo, IT (2018). Dudek\u2019s work is included in international collections including MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO. Dudek lives and works in Brussels."},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2023\/07\/20\/exhibition-marcin-dudek-akumulatory-at-ikob\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/M.Dudek_Portrait1-e1692874201434.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/M.Dudek_Portrait1-e1692874201434.jpg","width":804,"height":601},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2023\/07\/20\/exhibition-marcin-dudek-akumulatory-at-ikob\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Exhibition: Marcin Dudek AKUMULATORY at IKOB"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Brukseli","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/#\/schema\/person\/984dd022fbfcd6067a7db18507c1a8a0","name":"strzelkak","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9298b7f62ba7ec82cb10b70cf5a60e1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9298b7f62ba7ec82cb10b70cf5a60e1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"strzelkak"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/author\/strzelkak\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12120"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13207,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120\/revisions\/13207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}