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Baltic Video Lounge #2 at Circus Eins
14.09.2016

Baltic Video Lounge #2 at Circus Eins

Wednesday September 14th, 2016

23.07 – 28.08.2016
Putbus, Germany

A special screening within the Baltic Video Lounge project was presented as a part of the CIRCUS CIRCUS 2016 exhibition in Putbus, Germany.

The screening program included works from the Biennale WRO 2013 Pioneering Values, WRO 2015 Test Exposure and the WRO Collection.

PROGRAM „THE ARTIST AS AN URBAN ALIEN”

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WRO on Tour in Rome
14.04.2016

WRO on Tour in Rome

Thursday April 14th, 2016

Another WRO 2015 on Tour screening! This time in Rome.

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WRO on Tour in Gdańsk
07.03.2016

WRO on Tour in Gdańsk

Monday March 7th, 2016

Kolonia Artystów – Nowa Kolonia
Al. Grunwaldzka 51 (dawna Morska)
Gdańsk

09.03.2016 – MINIMAL AND MEDIUM

REIGN OF SILENCE, Lukas Marxt (AT), 2013, 7:20
PAINTER’S PAINTING, Wojciech Gilewicz (PL), 2015, 8:00
MINIMAL VANDALISM, Kay Walkowiak (AT), 2013, 3:49
FILM FOR IMAGINARY MUSIC, Mikhail Basov (RU) + Natalia Basova (RU), 2014, 6:29
BALOON TRILOGY: (part 2) Nirvana, Vanita Gupta (IN), 2012, 2:23
THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE, Alexei Dmitriev (RU), 2014, 3:05
GOOGLE 03 – SO RUDE, SO POORE, SO HOT, Borja Rodriguez Alonso (ES), 2013, 5:28
NAMEDROPPING, Antje Seeger (DE), 2014, 4:02
SOCIAL NETWALKS, Ralph Kistler (DE), 2012, 7:39
MODULATEUR-DEMODULATEUR, Bertrand Planes (FR) + Arnauld Colcomb (FR), dokumentacja WRO 2015, 1:00

07.04.2016 – DESTROY IT YOURSELF

BALANCE FROM WITHIN, Jacob Tonski (US), dokumentacja WRO 2015, 2:49
UNISONO, Alessandro Fonte (IT), 2013, 2:37
FRAGMENTS ON MACHINES, Emma Charles (UK), 2013, 17:10
DIY: DESTROY IT YOURSELF (excerpt from the series), Maciej Olszewski (PL), 2014, 6:00
DÉMONTABLE, Douwe Dijkstra (NL), 2014, 12:06
LUCHA LIBRE, Julia Kurek (PL), 2014, 14:46
LISTED, Seoungho Cho (KR), 2014, 10:16
WITH OUTTHURST ARM, Anna Hawkins (CA), 2014, 4:58

12.05.2016 – BIOPLASTIC FANTASTIC

YAMADA TARO PROJECT, Katsuki Nogami (JP), dokumentacja WRO 2015, 6:39
CONSCIOUSNESS SPIN PROJECT, Shuai Cheng Pu (TW), 2014, 5:39
THE PLASTIC GARDEN, Yuk-Yiu IP (HK), 2013, 11:00
REJECTIONS, Emmanuel Avenel (CA) + Marie-France Giraudon (CA), 2013, 3:15
AS TO POSTERITY, Marina Gioti (GR), 2014, 12:00
SCAPEGOAT, Eden Auerbach Ofrat (IL), 2014, 3:10
BIOPLASTIC FANTASTIC: BETWEEN PRODUCTS AND ORGANISMS, Johanna Schmeer (DE), 2014, 4:00
NATURA PIEKŁA (NATURE OF HELL), Alexander Pawlik (PL), 2014, 3:55
DRINK SKY ON RABBIT’S FIELD (LOST CONTROL), Arnont Nongyao, 2014, 6:55
BENIGHTED, Maria Ornaf (PL), 2014, 7:00

Minimal and Medium: WRO 2015 Résumé on Tour exhibition
18.02.2016

Minimal and Medium: WRO 2015 Résumé on Tour exhibition

Thursday February 18th, 2016

The Aula Gallery
University of Arts, Poznań
Marcinkowskiego 29

22.02 – 02.03.2016

At the exhibition:

1. THE SYMBIOSITY OF CREATION, Jarosław Czarnecki a.k.a. Elvin Flamingo (PL), video installation, 2015
2. NOTHING MORE, Marek Deka (PL), mechanical object, 2014
3. PAINTER’S PAINTING, Wojciech Gilewicz (PL), video, 2010-2014 (work in progress)
4. REIGN OF SILENCE, Lukas Marxt (AT), video, 2013
5. VOCAL CODES, Joachim Montessuis (FR), installation and the 2015 WRO Biennale performance documentation, 2015
6. CHARGING, Dani Ploeger (NL/UK), installation, 2014-2015
7. NAMEDROPPING, Antje Seeger (DE), video, 2014
8. MINIMAL VANDALISM, Kay Walkowiak (AT), video, 2013

and:
an interactive application feat. the 2011-2015 WRO Biennale video documentation

12.11.2015

WRO 2015 on Tour in Dresden

Thursday November 12th, 2015

CYNETART Festival
HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste

14.11.2015, 20:00

Intro: Klio Krajewska

Program:

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WRO 2015 on Tour in Japan – Kyoto
09.11.2015

WRO 2015 on Tour in Japan – Kyoto

Kyoto City University
Art Gallery – @KCUA

8 hours of presentations, 2 curatorial sets:

MINIMAL AND MEDIUM

DESTROY IT YOURSELF

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WRO 2015 on Tour – Catalog ONLINE
22.10.2015

WRO 2015 on Tour – Catalog ONLINE

Thursday October 22nd, 2015

The WRO 2015 on Tour program catalog is already available here!

Sunday Matinée for the end of Biennale WRO 2015
29.09.2015

Sunday Matinée for the end of Biennale WRO 2015

Tuesday September 29th, 2015

Sunday, Oct 4, 12.30 PM

A princess, milk and an umbrella – animations from Singapore

The forthcoming Sunday will be very special, because there’ll be a very special Sunday Matinée at WRO. Along the end of the WRO Résumé exhibition, after 92 days of presentation, the WRO Biennale 2015 will come to an end.

The Sunday Matinée audience will have an opportunity to see a rich set of animations created by students from the Nanyang Technological University’s School Of Art, Design And Media in Singapore, and selected by one of the Biennale guests, Hannes Rall Read more →

Workshop’s effects at the WRO Résumé exhibition
29.09.2015

Workshop’s effects at the WRO Résumé exhibition

The WRO Résumé exhibition has just gotten bigger thanks to new works developed during the last week’s workshops by Karina Smigla-Bobiński, author of the installation “Simulacra” presented during Biennale WRO 2015 – the workshop has announced the City / Laboratory of the Future project prepared by Edwin Bendyk within the program of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016.

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WRO 2015 Biennale’s last week: Résumé exhibition and the closing program
28.09.2015

WRO 2015 Biennale’s last week: Résumé exhibition and the closing program

Monday September 28th, 2015

Towards the end of the week (on Sunday, Oct 4th, 2015) when closing of the WRO Résumé exhibition after 92 days of presentation, the WRO 2015 Biennale will come to an end. At the same time, along with the WRO on Tour program, it will have its continuation.

We’ve planned a whole program of accompanying events for the last week:

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Cultivated Cultures: WRO 2015 exhibition in Lviv
24.09.2015

Cultivated Cultures: WRO 2015 exhibition in Lviv

Thursday September 24th, 2015

Lviv’s State Museum of Natural History

October 1st – November 13th, 2015

Artists: Natalia Balska, Michał Brzeziński, Katrin Caspar & Eva-Lisa Puhakka, Jarosław Czarnecki aka Elvin Flamingo, Paweł Janicki & the WROcenter Group, Dobrosława Nowak

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Workshop: Hacking of the Media Appliances and Technology – Karina Smigla-Bobinski
15.09.2015

Workshop: Hacking of the Media Appliances and Technology – Karina Smigla-Bobinski

Tuesday September 15th, 2015

within the City of the Future project of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 and as part of the WRO 2015 Biennale: WRO Résumé exhibition

WRO Art Center | Widok 7, Wrocław, Poland | wrocenter.pl

Admission: free, places are limited
Please, subscribe at dominika@wrocenter.pl

WORKSHOP FOR PERSONS 16+


Meeting with the artist, author of the workshop and the “Simulacra” installation:

23.09.2015, 6 PM

host: Edwin Bendyk, “Polityka”

Curator guided tours through the WRO Résumé exhibition
15.09.2015

Curator guided tours through the WRO Résumé exhibition

The last curator guided tour:
Tue, Sep 29th, 5 PM

hosted by Magdalena Kreis and Małgorzata Sikorska

The last week of the WRO 2015 Biennale! Enjoy the stroll prepared and hosted by Magdalena Kreis and Małgorzata Sikorska under the title AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED for the end of the curator guided tour series through the WRO Résumé exhibition.

WRO Résumé – curatorial
01.09.2015

WRO Résumé – curatorial

Tuesday September 1st, 2015

Historically linked to the era of the rapid development of image recording technologies and skills, “test exposure” connotes optimization of practice and pursuit of technical and aesthetic quality of the recorded image. In the media tradition, “test exposure” designates endeavors to choose proper exposure parameters Read more →

WRO publications available during the WRO Résumé exhibition
14.07.2015

WRO publications available during the WRO Résumé exhibition

Tuesday July 14th, 2015

During the WRO Résumé exhibition all the WRO publications from recent years that are not yet out of stock are available free of charge. Take the opportunity and get the archival catalogues, guides and newspapers!

Picnic “View on Widok” for the opening of the Résumé exhibition + “Tomato Play” with FTT
07.07.2015

Picnic “View on Widok” for the opening of the Résumé exhibition + “Tomato Play” with FTT

Tuesday July 7th, 2015

Friday, July 17th, 2015 / 6 PM

square in front of the WRO Art Center, Widok 7

A neighbourhood picnic “View on Widok” for the opening of the after Biennale’s exhibition

160 kilograms of tomatoes from best local cultivation in various forms prepared by the Food Think Tank collective and their guests – top Wroclaw’s restaurant chefs and culinary activists.

TOMATO PLAY – dishes, spices and preserves available on password. One best product, lots of flavors, shapes and colors on the square in front of the WRO Art Center.

SEE PROGRAM OF THE PICNIC:

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WRO 2015 Volunteers – Thank You!
01.07.2015

WRO 2015 Volunteers – Thank You!

Wednesday July 1st, 2015

We would like to thank all voluntters and interns workink with us on WRO 2015!

Thank you all!:

 

Klaudia Baśko, Aleksandra Błażkow, Natalia Borkowska, Daniel Brewiński, Patrycja Budzyk, Joanna Chlebowska, Maja Dubowska, Iryna Fedorenko, Daniel Filipek, Iuliia Glushak, Yelyzaveta Goloborodko, Agnieszka Górniak-Korzeń, Laura Grande, Marta Gruca, Estera Gundlach-Fober, Aleksandra Horn, Hélène Ioannidis, Izabela Jagosz, Iwona Januszewska, Katarzyna Jeleń, Anna Kalakutska, Iwona Kałuża, Kamil Kawalec, Adrianna Kaźmierczak, Ewa Kilar, Jagoda Kozon, Narcyza Krajewska, Klaudia Kula, Marta Krzyśków, Ewelina Lipczak, Daria Ławniczak, Sebastian Łąkas, Julia Łowińska, Martyna Łykowska, CeAnna Malinowska, Anna Masłoń, Michał Mejnartowicz, Maria Violetta Mishchenko, Weronika Morańska, Kateryna Olieshko, Katarzyna Otrębska, Agata Polak, Michał Pietrzak, Kamila Pisarek, Bartosz Przybylski, Małgorzata Reszka, Damian Salachna, Maja Sądel, Liubov Shynder, Natalia Sidorska, Sebastian Siepietowski, Karolina Słowińska, Szymon Stoczek, Aleksandra Strączek, Natalia Szeligowska, Krystian Szeloch, Mateusz Szczerba, Agnieszka Trybel, Olga Walkowiak, Klaudia Widz, Maurycy Wiliczkiewicz, Irmina Witos, Karolina Wojciechowska, Marek Włoch, Magdalena Wujec, Michał Wysocki, Małgorzata Zych

WRO 2015 Résumé exhibition – other view
01.07.2015

WRO 2015 Résumé exhibition – other view

August 31st – October 4th, 2015

WRO Art Center, Widok 7


Guided tours throughout the exhibition: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 22nd, 29th September 2015.

Organized groups – please sign up beforehand at kreis@wrocenter.pl

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Art Mediators’ Comments: Shuai Cheng Pu, Counsciousness Spin Project
01.07.2015

Art Mediators’ Comments: Shuai Cheng Pu, Counsciousness Spin Project

Counsciousness Spin Project

Two perpendicular screens with a video animation. Its dynamic and a bizarre ‘patchwork’ of soft frames make the viewer stop by for longer.

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Art Mediators’ Comments: Jacob Tonski, Balance from Within
29.06.2015

Art Mediators’ Comments: Jacob Tonski, Balance from Within

Monday June 29th, 2015

Balance from Within

This work is undoubtedly amazing. Spectacular. Some may even say – beautiful. All this is the result of one thing – a surprise. What does the couch need balance for?
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Art Mediators’ Comments: Marek Deka, Nothing More
26.06.2015

Art Mediators’ Comments: Marek Deka, Nothing More

Friday June 26th, 2015

Nothing more

Nothing more – that’s what the work is all about. It’s been perfectly planned and made. It looks exquisitely at the WRO Biennale exhibition in the University Library and has its peculiar, individual character. Functioning at times, it needs electricity to run. It is given expression through color, texture corrosion, or right proportion of the components.

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Art Mediators’ Comments: Alessandro Fonte, Unisono
24.06.2015

Art Mediators’ Comments: Alessandro Fonte, Unisono

Wednesday June 24th, 2015

Unisono

A refined video featuring a man playing monotonously the violin when turning with his back to the audience. One gets an impression he plays solo until the “unison” vacuum cleaners show up in sight as accompanying instruments.

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Art Mediators’ Comments: Cécile Beau + Nicolas Montgermont, Radiography
22.06.2015

Art Mediators’ Comments: Cécile Beau + Nicolas Montgermont, Radiography

Monday June 22nd, 2015

Radiography

A grand, high-speed aerial, which receives waves and signals coming from various sources in the closest surrounding. The installation translates the received signals to sound and visuals, making them become available to our senses.
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Art Mediators’ Comments: Quayola, Captives
19.06.2015

Art Mediators’ Comments: Quayola, Captives

Friday June 19th, 2015

Captives

The series “Captives” refers to Michelangelo’s sculptures from the series “Prigioni”. In his work, Quayola focuses on exploring the possibilities of shaping body and form. His works – created in the Renaissance “nonfinite” technique – are an attempt to capture the moment of transformation of the incoherent solid material into the naturalistic sculpture.

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Art Mediators’ Comments: Kay Walkowiak, Minimal Vandalism
18.06.2015

Art Mediators’ Comments: Kay Walkowiak, Minimal Vandalism

Thursday June 18th, 2015

Minimal Vandlism

Exquisite. The artistry in video editing, and the craftsmanship of the skateboarder. The raw interior of the Generali Foundation in Vienna becomes a setting for a perfect performer, who challenges the objects in doing extremely attractive tricks.

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WRO TV: Online Magazines
18.06.2015

WRO TV: Online Magazines

Short reportages realized by WRO and TVP Wrocław during the opening days: interviews with artists, participants and curators, documentation of the exhibitions, performances and events.

Enjoy watching!

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Little WRO: guided tours for groups
08.06.2015

Little WRO: guided tours for groups

Monday June 8th, 2015

By the end of June, every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 AM and 1 PM, we organize free guided tours throughout Biennale WRO exhibitions for children. Read more →

Artist guided tour by Elvin Flamingo: „The Symbiosity of Creation”
08.06.2015

Artist guided tour by Elvin Flamingo: „The Symbiosity of Creation”

There are two unique artist guided tours in June run by Jarosław Czarnecki aka Elvin Flamingo, winner of the Critics and Editors of Art Magazines Award, author of the installation “The Symbiosity of Creation”, presented during Biennale WRO 2015 at the “Cultivated Culture” exhibition in the WRO Art Center:

June 10th, Wednesday / 5 PM
June 30th, Tuesday / 4 PM

WRO 2015 Exhibitions: Guided tours schedule
30.05.2015

WRO 2015 Exhibitions: Guided tours schedule

Saturday May 30th, 2015

 

Art Mediation program at the WRO Biennale: check the schedule of the special guided-tours through the main exhibitions in June.

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Children’s Day during Biennale WRO 2015: a network “Painting”
26.05.2015

Children’s Day during Biennale WRO 2015: a network “Painting”

Tuesday May 26th, 2015

Monday, June 1st, 2015 / 12 – 18 PM

Biennale WRO (Wrocław)
/
Keleketla! Library (Johannesburg, RPA)

WRO Art Center, Widok 7 | entrance free

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WRO 2015 Awards
16.05.2015

WRO 2015 Awards

Saturday May 16th, 2015

We are happy to announce the WRO 2015 TEST EXPOSURE awards winners Read more →

Artists are coming, setting works
11.05.2015

Artists are coming, setting works

Monday May 11th, 2015

Over 100 artist at 10 Biennale’s places are preparing their works to the presentation from Wednesday!

Icebreaker
04.05.2015

Icebreaker

Monday May 4th, 2015

Wrocław Philharmonic
May 15, 7 PM

the world premiere of Luc Ferrari’s (FR) Brise Glace: En un tournement d’amour – a live performance with the new orchestration and video prepared by Bartosz Konieczny
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Museum’s Night at WRO
03.05.2015

Museum’s Night at WRO

Sunday May 3rd, 2015

May 16th at the WRO Art Center and University Library

Art Guides – program meeting
28.04.2015

Art Guides – program meeting

Tue, April 28th

A meeting with Piotr Krajewski – artistic director of the WRO Biennale and Magdalena Kreis, a curator of the Little WRO Program.

The Dog – mobile app and DIY installation
27.04.2015

The Dog – mobile app and DIY installation

Monday April 27th, 2015

THE DOG is an interactive installation – an app for mobile devices and DIY set – that you can create yourself.

The premiere – app available since 13.05.2015 – the opening day of the 2015 WRO Biennale, as a part of the Little WRO program.
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Biennale WRO at Gazeta Wyborcza Newspaper
26.04.2015

Biennale WRO at Gazeta Wyborcza Newspaper

Sunday April 26th, 2015

Today in “Gazeta Wyborcza” in the biggest cities you can find a special 4-pages program insert about the WRO 2015 Biennale.

26.04.2015

WRO 2015 Test Exposure – opening program

Wednesday, May 13th, 2015, Wrocław

14:00
Self-Supporting Universal Exhibition
ul. Górnickiego 4/11

16:00
National Museum in Wrocław
pl. Powstańców Warszawy 5

18:00
new building of Wrocław University Library
ul. Fryderyka Joliot-Curie 12

20:00
renoma Department Store
ul. Świdnicka 40

21:00
WRO Art Center
ul. Widok 7

Best text about WRO 2015: Contest
21.04.2015

Best text about WRO 2015: Contest

Tuesday April 21st, 2015

Writing about the 16th WRO Media Art Biennale: A competition sponsored by the Rector of the University of Wrocław

This year, Wrocław University is collaborating extensively with the Biennale organizers, the WRO Art Center. The main venue for this year’s Biennale exhibitions, discussions and conferences will be the new Wrocław University Library building.
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WRO 2015 press conference
13.04.2015

WRO 2015 press conference

Monday April 13th, 2015

Wed, 15.04.2015

University Library – the new building, the main venue for this year’s Biennale exhibitions, discussions and conferences.

Best Media Art Diploma Work
03.04.2015

Best Media Art Diploma Work

Friday April 3rd, 2015

For the first time, WRO has prepared an exhibition of the best diploma works submitted in 2014 to the departments and faculties of media art at public art academies in Gdańsk, Katowice, Cracow, Łódź, Poznań, Szczecin, Warsaw and Wrocław.

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Conferences
03.04.2015

Conferences

14.05.2015
What can art do for science?
Ryszard W. Kluszczyński / Monika Bakke / Andreas Broeckmann / Olga Kisseleva / Roger Malina / Ingeborg Reichle / Joanna Zylinska

15.05.2015
Hacking the Social Operating System
Edwin Bendyk / Maciej Frąckowiak / Karol Piekarski / Alain Renk / Oliver Ressler / Bogna Świątkowska /  Piotr Wyrzykowski

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WRO and Musica Electronica Nova
27.03.2015

WRO and Musica Electronica Nova

Friday March 27th, 2015

This year, like in previous editions, WRO Biennale cooperates with the National Forum of Music within the festival Musica Electronica Nova in Wrocław. This time, they will organize two projects: an interactive spatial video installation From Inside by Thierry De Mey (BE), a special guest of the festival (opening at the Museums’ Night), and Brise-Glace, a reinterpretation of musical piece written in 1987 – and never performed – by the French composer, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005), prepared from the archival materials by WRO.

Test Exposure
13.03.2015

Test Exposure

Friday March 13th, 2015

The aim of the WRO 2015 Biennale is to give exposure to new media art experiments, individual explorations and approaches investigating the potential of art both to affect and to reflect emerging issues in culture. Read more →

Biennale WRO 2015 & DailyArt
12.03.2015

Biennale WRO 2015 & DailyArt

Thursday March 12th, 2015

DailyArt is the award-winning free educational application that every day – via push notification – delivers you a selected piece of art along with a context-description, so far for more than 80,000 users worldwide. Read more →