DENMARK IN THE CASTLE 2003: POLES AMONG DANES
With this year's Denmark In The Castle we wanted to ask the Polish artists living in Denmark the question on what kind of challenge it is for an artist to live on emigration, that is for one who has not only grown up with the experience of generations sharing the same fate, mode of thinking and feeling, but who - whether one wants it or not - is determined by this experience in one's artistic work.
The inauguration of Denmark In The Castle 2003 together with openings of the exhibitions took place on 20th November 2003 in the Cultural Center ZAMEK in Poznan.
Several thousand Poles live in Denmark, including ca. three thousand so called 'March '68 emigrants'. Among those, there are suprisingly many active artists who with their significant input enrich the cultural life of Denmark and at the same time introduce their cultural heritage onto the Danish ground. There are also artists like writer and translator Janina Katz, theatre director Wlodzimierz Herman, musicologist Eva Maria Jensen or violinist Wladyslaw Marchwinski, who - consciously - are the ambassadors of Polish culture.
Those are the Polish artists living and working in Denmark whom we will be glad to present during this year's Denmark In The Castle and who, as far as visual arts and music are concerned, make only a representative part. In order to underline to what extent they have become rooted in the cultural life of Denmark, we often present them accompanied by their Danish friends. And one of the reasons for including into the project one of the greatest Danish poster artist Finn Nygaard's exhibition,was his many years' cooperation with Poles in Denmark.
The project Denmark In The Castle 2003 included:
Lecture by Eva Maria Jensen on contemporary Danish music.
E.M. Jensen is a musicologist, in many years attached to the University of Copenhagen, organist and active propagator of Polish music in Denmark and Danish music in Poland. Born in Cracow. 20th Nov., The Academy of Music (Sala Marszalkowska)
An artist on emigration
Meeting and panel discussion with the participation of all guests from Denmark, lead by Wlodzimierz Herman, Peter Gyllan and Piotr Topperzer. 21 Nov., The Cultural Center ZAMEK (Sala Kominkowa)
Exhibition Poles Among Danes
Exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures by 9 artists:
Grazyna Gotz, Anita Viola Nielsen, Janusz Tyrpak, Jan Wessel, Beata Teresa Wroblewska, Anna Zadros Hansen, Teodor Bok, Marianne Soegaard Soerensen and Maria Buras.
21 Nov.- 11 Dec., The Cultural Center ZAMEK (Sala Marmurowa)
Barbara Domagala-Wilson - painting (Series OZO and Timebog)
The artist graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan and is now a lecturer at The Danish National School of Theatre in Copenhagen. The series Timebog and the poetical verses by Suzanne Broegger bearing the same title, have come into being from the mutual inspiration as a planned project.
21 Nov.-13 Dec., The Cultural Center ZAMEK (Galeria Profil)
Photo exhibition by Piotr Topperzer
The artist belongs to the most esteemed Danish commercial photographers. His photographs presenting the world-famous Danish design, have recently also circulated in the Polish press media. The exhibition showed also another area of his activity, namely the artistic photography. Piotr Topperzer is born in Wroclaw. 21 Nov-11 Dec., The Cultural Center ZAMEK (Galeria pf)
Literary meeting with Suzanne Broegger
The well-known Danish writer whose drama After The Orgy has been the only book translated into Polish so far. She is a great granddaughter of the Jewish emigrants from Torun. 20 Nov., The Danish Cultural Institute
Meeting with photographer Piotr Topperzer
21 Nov., The Academy of Fine Arts, al. Marcinkowskiego
Exhibition of photographs by John R. Johnsen and graphics by Peter Gyllan
Peter Gyllan was born in Torun and now is a lecturer at the faculty of graphic design in the Danish School of Design. He writes articles for the Danish art magazines. Peter Gyllan has invited to Poznan the photographer John R. Johnsen, to whose exhibitions he designed posters.
21 Nov.-11 Dec, The Cultural Center ZAMEK (Main Hall)
Meeting with Peter Gyllan
20 Nov., The Academy of Fine Arts, Al. Marcinkowskiego
Exhibition Finn Nygaard - poster
Finn Nygaard, one of the most famous Danish poster artists, emphasizes his professional connections with Poland, ie. especially his youthful fascination with the Polish school of poster, which made the starting point for his artistic way.
22 Nov-31 Dec, Museum of Applied Art, Div. of the National Museum, Gora Przemysla
Concert of Danish music - Wladyslaw Marchwinski (violin) and Yuka Ichikawa (Piano).
Wladyslaw Marchwinski is born in Lodz, now a violinist in The Sealand Symphony Orchestra. The Japanese, Yuka Ichikawa, who graduated from The Academy of Music in Warsaw, lives in Denmark. 22 Nov., The Museum of Musical Instruments
Exhibition presenting works by graphic designers
Lea Boruszek (book illustrations), Grazyna Schindler (book covers), Remi Mosko (graphic design) presented their works. Remi Mosko is also the author of the graphic setting of Denmark In The Castle 2003. 21 Nov.-11 Dec., The Cultural Center ZAMEK (Hol Kolumnowy)
Literary meeting with writer Janina Katz
Janina Katz writes in Danish. She is a winner of prestigeous Danish literary prizes (the publishing house Pogranicze will soon issue her novel Putska), and author of 3 novels, 8 poetry volumes, 2 short-story volumes and a children's book. Janina Katz is also the translator of the poetry by Milosz, Szymborska, Herbert, Lipska, Rozewicz and prose by Konwicki and Mrozek into Danish. Born in Cracow. 21 Nov., The Cultural Center ZAMEK (Sala Kominkowa)
Showings of films
Directed by the Dane, Kathrine Windfeld, and the Polish-born Katia Forbert-Petersen and Annette Mari Olsen, who all graduated from the Film School in Lodz. 22 Nov-11 Dec., The Cultural Center ZAMEK (Sala Audiowizualna)
Soeren Kierkegaard seminar
With the participation of Bronislaw Swiderski, arranged in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy, Department of Social Sciences at A.Mickiewicz University. Bronislaw Swiderski, a well-known publicist and author of the novel Slowa Obcego nominated to Nike Prize, translator of S. Kierkegaard's works, researcher at Soeren Kierkegaard's Center at the Univeristy of Copenhagen. Born in Warsaw. 24 Nov., The Institute of Philosophy, Department of Social Sciences at A.Mickiewicz University, ul. Szamarzewskiego
Literary meeting with Bronislaw Swiderski
24 Nov., The Danish Cultural Institute
Literary meeting with Grzegorz Wroblewski
Poet originating from the circle of the literary quarterly BruLion and animator of the cultural life in Denmark. 25 Nov., the Danish Cultural Institute
Meeting with Wlodzimierz Herman
On the art of translating cultures, ie. his activity as theatre director and intermediary of cultures; reading of the by W. Herman prepared drama Przesilenie by Grzegorz Wroblewski. 24 Nov., Scena na Pietrze, ul. Masztalarska 8
Exhibition
presenting artistic, literary and research work of Wlodzimierz Herman, Eva Maria Jensen, Janina Katz, Bronislaw Swiderski and Grzegorz Wroblewski. 21 Nov.-11 Dec., The Cultural Center ZAMEK