{"id":1755,"date":"2020-04-23T06:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T04:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2020-04-29T08:18:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T06:18:03","slug":"group-exhibition-portable-landscapes-memories-and-imaginaries-of-refugee-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2020\/04\/23\/group-exhibition-portable-landscapes-memories-and-imaginaries-of-refugee-modernism\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Exhibition Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

365 Fifth Avenue, First Floor, New York, NY 10016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening reception: November 19, 2019 6-8pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition dates: November 19, 2019 \u2013 February 15, 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Polish Cultural Institute New York is proud to announce Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism<\/em>, a group exhibit to be opened on Tuesday, November 19, at The James Gallery, The CUNY Graduate Center. Curated by Inga L\u0101ce, Katherine Carl, Andra Silap\u0113tere and Solvita Krese, the exhibit is a part of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art four-year project \u201cPortable Landscapes,\u201d which begins with the stories of the exiled, \u00e9migr\u00e9 Latvian artists of the Hell’s Kitchen collective, and extends into contemporary international artist<\/a>ic voices, locating all within broader context of the context of 20th century art history, and wider processes of migration and globalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Departing from the Hell’s Kitchen collective, the exhibition highlights personalities and artistic phenomena that have resulted from migration, bringing forward a web of lesser known stories of individual artists and collaborators who played supporting roles in, but also worked to diversify and challenge, the overarching art historical narrative. In addition to pursuing these stories with the help of archival material, historical works of art and artefacts, the exhibition also includes works by contemporary artists including the Polish artist, Karol <\/strong><\/a>Radziszewski<\/a><\/strong>, working on the themes of cultural displacement and its attendant questions. In his film America Is Not Ready for This (2012), Radziszewski retraces the 1977 visit of the Polish artist Natalia LL to New York, who since 1975 engaged in the International Feminist Art movement. Re-evaluating the geopolitical map of the East and the West in different eras, the film confronts the narratives of both Western and Eastern art history, turning to questions about identity, gender, feminist art, and cultural displacement. Emphasizing the importance of diversity, different modernisms and alternative undercurrents to main narratives, the exhibition suggests that both present and history are living processes in a constant state of change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participating artists: Daina Dagnija, Yonia Fain, Yevgeniy Fiks, Hell\u2019s Kitchen collective, Rolands Ka\u0146eps, Boris Lurie, Karol Radziszewski, Judy Blum Reddy, Vladimir Svetlov & Aleksandr Zapo\u013c (Orbita Group), Viktor Timofeev, Sigurds V\u012bdzirkste, Art\u016brs Virtmanis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism<\/em> at the James Gallery is the last exhibition in the series of the exhibition and research projects Portable Landscapes<\/em> that took place starting 2017 with exhibitions at: Villa Vassilieff<\/em>, Paris (2018), Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga (2018), K\u00f6rsb\u00e4rsg\u00e5rden Konsthall<\/em>, Gotland (2018) and District,<\/em> Berlin (2019). The project\u2019s culmination is planned in spring 2020 when Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art together with Berlin based publisher K.Verlag will launch a book \u201cPortable Landscapes: Art Histories of Latvian Exile\u201d, that views together all the project\u2019s stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201ePortable Landscapes\u201d is one of the events of the Latvia\u2019s Centenary Celebrations. It is supported by Latvian Republic Culture Ministry and State Culture Capital Foundation as well as the Polish Cultural Institute New York. Public programs of the exhibition in November 2019 and February 2020 is possible thanks to the support of the Baltic American Freedom Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Opening reception: November 19, 2019, 6-8:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition dates: November 19, 2019 \u2013 February 15, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 21, 2019 <\/strong>at <\/strong>4:00pm<\/strong> — \u201c(H)ell(e)s* Kitchen\u201d performative walk from the James Gallery to Hells Kitchen by Orbita group: Vladimir Svetlov & Aleksandr Zapo\u013c, in conjunction with the Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism<\/em> exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 5, 2020 at 6:30pm<\/strong>— Yiddish Poetry and Culture\u2014Workshop, poetry reading, and film screening \u201cYonia Fain: With Pen and Paintbrush\u201d by filmmaker Josh Waletzky, with participation of Yiddish literary scholar Sheva Zuker and Yiddish actor Shane Baker in conjunction with the Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism<\/em> exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 11, 2020, 4:00-8:00pm <\/strong>\u2013gallery talks in conjunction with the Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism<\/em> exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n