Erasmus+ Group Exhibition / The Space Between/ Opening 28 April 2023/ Galeria Spokojna

What does it mean to map a space or idea as an “outsider”? How does seeing our physical and cultural landscapes through a different lens facilitate new, alternative or forgotten stories? How do artistic interventions on topics of collective memory and identity, cultural (and dissonant) heritage, and mapping, provide alternative opportunities for renegotiating and deconstructing these phenomena?

The works included in The Space Between were created during the semester-long course dedicated to addressing the intersection of art making, cultural heritage, collective memory and identity, and mapping through an interdisciplinary, transnational lens. Participating in the Erasmus program at ASP, each   artist has brought to this exhibition their diverse experiences in contemporary art and design practice, as well as their experiences of calling another place (or places) home.

Through photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture, the works on view negotiate language and meaning-making, the emotional triggers of place and the simultaneous comfort and distance of the familiar, the excitement of discovery, and as well, what gets lost in time: whose stories are preserved and whose are left to decay. As artists from different countries temporarily residing in Warsaw, questions of place and belonging, through the lens of cross-cultural exchange, provide us new entry points into what it means to be at home.

Curators and Course Teachers: Katie Zazenski and Joanna Pottle

Exhibiting Artists and Projects:

Susanna Bagdzińska Mierzejewska, Cristina Dinu – “03-06/02-06”

Adam Baník, Anastasiia Kovalyova, Lívia Vereščáková – “Building the city”

Carmen Dinu, Margot Belin, María Calvo, Rocío Cruz – “Linked”

Maria Martinuz – “Tracing March”

Johanna Rost –”Dokumentation 1102-2206, Eine Kollektion an mehr oder weniger”

Volha Stsiapanava, Uladzislau Siarheyeu – “What do you feel?”

SUPER VIVAZ (Johannes Breuninger and Lina Baltruweit) – “upholding memories”

Vernissage: Friday, 28 April, 18:00-20:00

On View: Monday, 8 May – Friday 12 May

Finnasage: Friday, 12 May, 18:00-20:00

This course is executed thanks to support from the ASP Warsaw Erasmus Department and initiated by Joanna Pottle through her fellowships with the Kosciuszko Foundation and Humanity in Action (2022-2023).