Talk by Sebastian Cichocki. "Nothing is new, neither is anything old"

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“Nothing is new, neither is anything old”

Robert Smithson

Sebastian Cichocki, writer, curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, will give a talk about his practice and recent projects related to fiction, confabulation and mythologisation of XXth century avant-garde, with reference to “Future Days”, a film he co-wrote with Agnieszka Polska, the anti-production Site Residency in Gotland, and the text anthology “The Future of Art Critique as Pure Fiction.”

Sebastian Cichocki (b. 1975) curator and writer, is deputy director at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Curator of numerous exhibitions, including Monika Sosnowska’s exhibition in the Polish Pavilion in the 52 Venice Biennale and Yeal Bartana in the 54 Venice Biennale, The Sculpture Park in Bródno (2009–ongoing), Early Years (2010), New National Art (2012), and As You Can See (2014). Author of exhibitions in the form of books e.g., A Cookbook for Political Imagination (2011), and The Future of Art Criticism as Pure Fiction (2011), Spoken Exhibitions (2011), Earth Works! (2013) or Mirage (2013).

The lecture is organized by Rupert and will take place at the National Gallery Auditorium (Konstitucijos avenue 22, Vilnius) on Thursday, 8 May at 6 pm.