Celebrate with us! 16.05.2024
Take part in the exhibition and photo project "What is Europe for you?"
WHAT IS EUROPE TO YOU?
A EUROPEAN JOURNEY THROUGH IMAGES AND FEELINGS
27 CITIES | 1200 PORTRAITS | 3000 VOICES
The project "What is Europe for you?" is a photographic narrative created by Italian artist Lisa Borgiani, who is visiting European cities from 2019, asking the people she photographs the question: What is Europe to you?
"What is Europe to you?" is a story in images that takes Lisa Borgiani to different European cities: in 2019 to Athens and Berlin, in 2020 to Milan and Rome, in 2021 to Paris and the island of Ventotene, in 2022 to Budapest, the Baltics, Guben-Gubin, Malta, in 2023 to Strasbourg, Bonn and Dresden, in 2024 to Madrid and Lisbon. This year, four Ukrainian photographers from the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers collected portraits and voices of people living in Kiev, Odessa, Lviv and Kharkov.
"What is Europe to you?" is an artistic journey into oneself, in search of feelings, a dialogue between the images and words of the people encountered, regardless of nationality, gender, profession, religious beliefs or social and cultural background.
"What is Europe to you?" is therefore an attempt to tell Europeans' feelings about Europe, a story about their identity, and it is also an appeal to promote a debate on understanding and awareness, because Europe means democracy above all, and democracy means participation. Europe is a place where everyone has the right to feel free to express their opinions and confront them with those of others.
On Thursday 16 May at 5 pm, together with the Italian Institute in Krakow and the City of Krakow, we would like to invite you to the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Lisa Borgiani, which will take place in Jordan Park in Krakow (facing 3 May Street) with the artist in attendance.
The exhibition will be on display until 30 August 2024.
On Friday, 17 May, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., we invite you to Villa Decius, where you will be able to meet Lisa Borghiani and take part in her photographic project in the artist's atelier.
The photographs and statements collected at Friday's event will be published by the artist and presented in upcoming exhibitions.
More about the project: www.whatseurope.eu
Exhibition organised as part of the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union.
The project is co-financed by the Municipality of Krakow.
Organizors:
Italian Institute in Krakow
Villa Decius Institute for Culture
Partners:
EUNIC
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
YesTESMY
EUROPEWEEK
Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers
A EUROPEAN JOURNEY THROUGH IMAGES AND FEELINGS
27 CITIES | 1200 PORTRAITS | 3000 VOICES
The project "What is Europe for you?" is a photographic narrative created by Italian artist Lisa Borgiani, who is visiting European cities from 2019, asking the people she photographs the question: What is Europe to you?
"What is Europe to you?" is a story in images that takes Lisa Borgiani to different European cities: in 2019 to Athens and Berlin, in 2020 to Milan and Rome, in 2021 to Paris and the island of Ventotene, in 2022 to Budapest, the Baltics, Guben-Gubin, Malta, in 2023 to Strasbourg, Bonn and Dresden, in 2024 to Madrid and Lisbon. This year, four Ukrainian photographers from the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers collected portraits and voices of people living in Kiev, Odessa, Lviv and Kharkov.
"What is Europe to you?" is an artistic journey into oneself, in search of feelings, a dialogue between the images and words of the people encountered, regardless of nationality, gender, profession, religious beliefs or social and cultural background.
"What is Europe to you?" is therefore an attempt to tell Europeans' feelings about Europe, a story about their identity, and it is also an appeal to promote a debate on understanding and awareness, because Europe means democracy above all, and democracy means participation. Europe is a place where everyone has the right to feel free to express their opinions and confront them with those of others.
On Thursday 16 May at 5 pm, together with the Italian Institute in Krakow and the City of Krakow, we would like to invite you to the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Lisa Borgiani, which will take place in Jordan Park in Krakow (facing 3 May Street) with the artist in attendance.
The exhibition will be on display until 30 August 2024.
On Friday, 17 May, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., we invite you to Villa Decius, where you will be able to meet Lisa Borghiani and take part in her photographic project in the artist's atelier.
The photographs and statements collected at Friday's event will be published by the artist and presented in upcoming exhibitions.
More about the project: www.whatseurope.eu
Exhibition organised as part of the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union.
The project is co-financed by the Municipality of Krakow.
Organizors:
Italian Institute in Krakow
Villa Decius Institute for Culture
Partners:
EUNIC
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
YesTESMY
EUROPEWEEK
Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers
EUgeniusz
In the Gothic Garden, in the immediate surroundings of Villa Decius, you can see a contemporary sculpture entitled 'EUgeniusz' by the Polish artist Dagmara Pater, a participant in one of the international programmes held at the institution.
The programme OUTSIDER - European Artistic Laboratory, took place between 12 and 22 September 2004 and was addressed to a group of 12 artists from the former communist bloc countries, representing theatrical and paratheatrical disciplines. Artists from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia.
The result of the collaboration was the creation of theatrical etudes and individual visual works interpreting the OUTSIDER phenomenon in the contemporary world. During the workshop, the audience had the opportunity to see 12 individual presentations, which were set in the spaces of the Renaissance Villa Decius.
One of the outcomes of the workshop was a sculpture placed in the space of the Gothic Garden, depicting a figure with outstretched arms, wishing to fly up to...well, to where. In the form of this sculptural installation, the artist expressed her anxieties, doubts and expectations of what the new reality will be in the structures of the enlarged Europe. The figure on its back carries a wheel. For centuries, this highly symbolic element has expressed the awareness of how much we still have to do to meet all the requirements and become a fully-fledged member of the great European community. The wheel, on the one hand, is a burden, but it also expresses a movement of progress, transformation or perfection.
Twenty years have passed since the 'EUgeniusz' was created. The sculpture in the Gothic Garden has become part of the immediate surroundings of Villa Decius and, covered with the patina of time, invites us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Poland's membership of the European Union, but also provokes further questions.
The author of 'EUgeniusz' was born in Poland to a Polish-German family. She graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Berlin and currently lives in Oslo. She is a visual artist and creates paintings, drawings, portraits and spatial installations. She is passionate about working with children and young people, during which she uses elements of art, philosophy, ecology and ethics.
The programme OUTSIDER - European Artistic Laboratory, took place between 12 and 22 September 2004 and was addressed to a group of 12 artists from the former communist bloc countries, representing theatrical and paratheatrical disciplines. Artists from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia.
The result of the collaboration was the creation of theatrical etudes and individual visual works interpreting the OUTSIDER phenomenon in the contemporary world. During the workshop, the audience had the opportunity to see 12 individual presentations, which were set in the spaces of the Renaissance Villa Decius.
One of the outcomes of the workshop was a sculpture placed in the space of the Gothic Garden, depicting a figure with outstretched arms, wishing to fly up to...well, to where. In the form of this sculptural installation, the artist expressed her anxieties, doubts and expectations of what the new reality will be in the structures of the enlarged Europe. The figure on its back carries a wheel. For centuries, this highly symbolic element has expressed the awareness of how much we still have to do to meet all the requirements and become a fully-fledged member of the great European community. The wheel, on the one hand, is a burden, but it also expresses a movement of progress, transformation or perfection.
Twenty years have passed since the 'EUgeniusz' was created. The sculpture in the Gothic Garden has become part of the immediate surroundings of Villa Decius and, covered with the patina of time, invites us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Poland's membership of the European Union, but also provokes further questions.
The author of 'EUgeniusz' was born in Poland to a Polish-German family. She graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Berlin and currently lives in Oslo. She is a visual artist and creates paintings, drawings, portraits and spatial installations. She is passionate about working with children and young people, during which she uses elements of art, philosophy, ecology and ethics.