Overcoming Dictatorships: History Will Repeat Itself

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

History Will Repeat Itself

We are pleased to announce that the exhibition History Will Repeat Itself will be on view at Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw from February 15, 2008. Before this the exhibition has been presented at Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund and KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

History Will Repeat Itself

Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art

Artists: Guy Ben-Ner, Walter Benjamin, Irina Botea, C-Level, Daniela Comani, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, Nikolai Evreinov, Omer Fast, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Heike Gallmeier, Felix Gmelin, Pierre Huyghe, Evil Knievel, Zbigniew Libera, Korpys/Löffler, Robert Longo, Tom McCarthy, Frédéric Moser/Philippe Schwinger, Collier Schorr, Tabea Sternberg, Kerry Tribe, T. R. Uthco & Ant Farm, Artur Zmijewski.

Dates: February 15 until April 13, 2008

Venue:
Centre for Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle
al. Ujazdowskie 6
00-461 Warsaw
Poland

Further information:

KW Institute for Contemporary Art

About Overcoming Dictatorships

Within the framework of this new project we intend to start a two-year exchange between artists, poets and authors from various European countries about their experiences of the change from dictatorship to democracy, in particular after the opening of former communist countries since the end of the 1980s. In a number of meetings (held in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Italy) invited poets, writers and artists presented their work and exchanged their experiences from the dictatorial/authoritarian period and show how the political changes have influenced their artistic activities. The result is an exhibition which started in Birmingham (UK) in October 2008 and now tours the participating countries. The cultural transfer resulting from this project is meant to allow the banishment of prejudices and a better understanding between Central Eastern, South Eastern and Western Europe. Ultimately it is part of the construction of a common European culture.

Overcoming Dictatorships is funded under the framework of EU Culture 2000. See the list of partners.

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