March Investigations

March Investigations

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Artur Żmijewski, Edward Krasiński, Eustachy Kossakowski

The exhibition brings together a heterogeneous selection of works from late modernity and the contemporary period. While not directly related to one another, they invite reflection on the changes taking place in the shaping of collective memory.

The first part of the exhibition consists of a series of photographs by Eustachy Kossakowski (1925–2001), taken in 1989 during the Kazimir Malevich exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, alongside an installation by Edward Krasiński (1925–2004), originally prepared in 2001 for his solo exhibition in Berlin.

The second part of the exhibition brings together Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s sculpture Exercises in Ceroplastics (2019), originally conceived as a memorial commemorating the murder of a group of twenty-nine Roma in 1942 in a forest near Borzęcin by the German gendarmerie, aided by the Polish Blue Police, and a series of photographs by Artur Żmijewski documenting the façade of the Warszawa Gdańska railway station in Warsaw —  the site from which Polish Jews were forced to leave the country following the antisemitic campaign of March 1968, with the dramatic, materially charged avant-garde mosaic serving as the backdrop to those events.