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The Konrad and Paweł Jarodzki International Artists-in-Residence Programme creates conditions for artistic work at the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe. Its aim is to support artistic processes, cooperation and research in dialogue with the foundation’s history, educational and social activities.

The following interviews have been conducted by the curator of the residency, Jonna Sokołowska, and feature the artists participating in the first edition of the Konrad and Paweł Jarodzki Artist-in-Residence Programme in Krzyżowa (2023): Ulufer Çelik, Daniel Mikulski, Andrea Pichl, Jacek Zachodny.

Read more about the residency and the artist-in-residence interviews on our site

Caring About Each Other in Times of Unrest and Violence

Text by Teodora Talhoș

Carefully curated by Rita Dabi-Farkas and Viktoriá Popovics, the show referred to the act of caring as something common among all human beings, whether on an individual (self-care) or a collective (for example, caring for our elders) level. On a larger scale, care has relevant global dimensions, such as care migration, which often occurs in Eastern Europe and in other economically less developed countries. Handle with Care addressed the many faces of our increasingly unstable world, where the gaps between social and economic classes are becoming wider and wider, exposing the vulnerable to new challenges and adversities. At the same time, the exhibition aimed to describe and criticize the cracks in our social and economic systems in a poetic manner, something that was reflected in the chosen artworks so well that I often had to stop and weep for a few minutes before continuing my visit.

Excerpt from text by Teodora Talhoș

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