Tag: poland
A monument to Wikipedia will be unveiled in Slubice, Poland on October 22nd. The town with a population of 18,000 will spend $15,000 on a small statue to commemorate the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia project, designed by 30-year-old Armenian-born artist Mihran Hakobjan. The small town’s Deputy Mayor Piotr Luczynski is really psyched about it: The monument — a tribute to […]
A Vladimir Lenin statue in Nowa Huta, Poland has been re-erected for Krakow’s 6th Grolsch ArtBoom Festival, reborn in fluorescent green as The Fountain of the Future sculpture. His hands, which are customarily depicted tucked behind his back or pointing towards the alleged Communist Utopia ahead, have also been altered — one of them is now holding his pipe-penis, which spurts out water in […]
Julinek was once the Juilliard of the circus. For more than 40 years, 1500 teachers, artists, technicians, clowns, gymnasts, and jugglers lived in a “circus city” in the middle of Kampinoski National Park, 18 miles from Warsaw, Poland. Julinek closed over a decade ago and the circus city started to dwindle and die. Photographer Rafal Milach took […]
Olek‘s projects seem to be taking on increasingly epic proportions. For her latest yarn-bombing venture, she returned to Mother Poland to bedeck an enormous dysfunctional Px48 locomotive with her signature bursts of rainbow-camoflauge splendor. With the help of four assistants, the project took her two days to complete and will remain in the town of […]
Swedish artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff claims that in 1989, he collected ashes from the preserved ovens of a Majdanek Holocaust-era crematoriums. He kept them bottled until two years ago. Painted in said alleged ashes, Memory Works was exhibited in a gallery in Southern Sweden in December. The show was shut down after protests from Jewish community representatives who […]
