Lifery opening. Registration is now open!

On 23 January, after two years of thorough renovation, we are opening Lifery – a gallery and exhibition space. On this day, there will be a sound session, and refreshments will be served during the visits. In the evening, as part of the afterparty, we invite you to a performance of Kościół Nihilistów (The Church of Nihilists) in the former ZETO building.

We offer 45-minute visits at the following times:

4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m.

The Lifery BWA Wrocław gallery is accessible to persons with physical disabilities. On the opening day, 23 January, at 4 p.m., there will be an interpretation into Polish Sign Language. To meet other accessibility needs in each time slot, please submit them via the online form by 19 January.

A GALLERY THAT LIVES

Lifery is a concept of an art gallery as a living, everyday place, not just a space for representation. It will allow visitors to relax and freely enjoy art, but also to experience it in different ways, stimulating their imagination and senses. – We are creating a ‘score’ for situations, rather than a traditional show, which will involve a shift of focus from the artworks themselves to how they are responded to, how the body moves within the space, how visitors experience their own presence, and what comes out of the interaction between the audience and the exhibits and other people, explains Katarzyna Roj, curator of the exhibition and creator of the gallery concept.

Being an exhibition and situation in one, Lifery will resemble a living organism that follows its own, internal rhythms of regeneration and decay, aligned with the natural seasons. Over the course of the next twelve months it will evolve in the hands of a slate of artists and curators. Katarzyna Roj will inaugurate the winter season. Karol Pałka will announce the spring, Bogna Świątkowska—the summer, and Magdalena Kreis—the autumn. The upcoming winter show will include, among other works and practices, installations by kinoMANUAL (Aga Jarząb and Maciek Bączyk) with the participation of Paweł Bąkowski, and by CENTRALA (Małgorzata Kuciewicz and Simone De Iacobis), objects by Krzysztof Gil and Marcin Janusz, Magdalena Maros, Bartosz Mucha, Marta Niedbał and Paweł Olszczyński, a commemorative plaque by Hubert Czerepok, a composition by Daniel Brożek, Kama Sokolnicka and Joanna Kobyłt, works by Olaf Brzeski, Jarosław Słomski, Tomasz Hartman and Michał Czekajło, photographs by Tytus Szabelski-Różniak, a radio program by Agnieszka Obszańska, a visual essay by Zuzanna Skurka, and an account about the place based on Iwona Kałuża’s research. Some of them will come on display as early as January, while others will join in successively over the following months. Some will stay in the gallery permanently in order to reveal its potential over time, while others will create symbolic portals leading to imaginative journeys to various places: landscapes or health resorts. 

OPENING WEEKEND

On the opening day, 23 January, visits to Lifery will be accompanied by a sound session conducted by Ukojenie, a collective led by Małgorzata Wrzosek and Zuzanna Kofta, as well as refreshments served by Food Think Tank. Artistic scores prepared by Alicja Wysocka will awaken the senses and imagination.

Those attending the opening of Lifery on 23 January are invited to an evening performance of Kościół Nihilistów (The Church of Nihilists) in the former ZETO building, which we are co-organising with Mint Magazine and in partnership with Znikający Klub. Special wristbands, which will be distributed at Lifery, will grant access to the event.

On the weekend of 24 and 25 January, the gallery will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and no registration is required. Artists will be giving guided tours on these days – details to follow shortly.