57th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia Sharon Lockhart. Little Review
13.05 – 26.11.2017 57th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia Sharon Lockhart. Little Review
Polish Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
artist: Sharon Lockhart
Polish Pavilion Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska
deputy Commissioner: Joanna Waśko
exhibition curator: Barbara Piwowarska
organizer: Zachęta — National Gallery of Art
Sharon Lockhart (b. 1964) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles and Poland. Lockhart works with communities to make films and photographs that are both visually compelling and socially engaged through collaborations that unfold over long periods of time. Created with young women from the Youth Sociotherapy Center in Rudzienko, Poland, her project Little Review comprises translations, a new film and series of photographs, as well as educational workshops. Little Review draws its inspiration from the work of Janusz Korczak (1878-1942), the Polish-Jewish educator, orphanage-director, and children’s rights advocate. Similar to Korczak, Lockhart’s goal is to provide a forum for children’s voices — both past and present.
The eponymous Little Review (Mały Przegląd) was a newspaper written by children and teenagers and published as a weekly supplement to the Jewish daily Our Review (Nasz Przegląd) from 1926 to 1939. Created and originally edited by Korczak, the Little Review gave voice to young people’s opinions on politics and everyday life.
The new photographs in the exhibition — introspective and careful studies — portray two young women from Rudzienko reading the Little Review in the National Library in Warsaw, where the newspaper has been conserved. Framing an encounter across nearly a hundred years of history, the photographs reflect on the gaps, linkages, and subtexts between past and present.
(born 1964 in Norwood, USA) — Los Angeles-based artist, creates photographs and films born from the processes of in-depth research and long-term collaboration with various communities. These include: Goshogaoka (1997) created in Japan, Teatro Amazonas (2000) in Brazil, Pine Flat (2006) and Lunch Break (2008) in the USA, as well as Podwórka (Courtyards) (2009) and Rudzienko (2016) in Poland. Lockhart’s works have been presented in numerous institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Secession in Vienna, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Kunstmuseum Luzern in Lucerne, Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, as well as during the Four Cultures Festival in Łódź, Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, the Whitney Biennale in New York, the Shanghai and Liverpool Biennials. Lockhart’s work is also included in many prominent international collections, such as those of the Tate Modern in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The artist has participated in numerous fellowships and residencies, including those from the DAAD programme, the Radcliffe Institute/Harvard University, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Polin Museum in Warsaw. Lockhart was a professor at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design, and currently holds a faculty position at the California Institute for the Arts.
(born 1976 in Warsaw) — curator and art historian. She specialises in avant-garde art, its reception and reinterpretation, and contemporary art. In 2007 she organised Lockhart’s first presentation in Poland at the Bytom Culture Centre during the residence Live, Survive, and Create! hosted by the Kronika Gallery in Bytom. She was a recipient of the Kościuszko Foundation scholarship at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (2001), and is a member of the International Association of Art Critics AICA. In last decade, she has curated and co-curated a number of projects and exhibitions, including a retrospective of Jadwiga Maziarska The Atlas of the Imaginary (CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw), Polish New Wave: The History of a Phenomenon that Never Existed (Tate Modern, London, Anthology Film Archives, New York and MAMC, Strasburg), Film Matters (Beton7, Athens), Die (COCO Kunstverein, Vienna), Footnote 6: As Model (Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York), The Third Room (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw), Erna Rosenstein: I Can Repeat Only Unconsciously (Foksal Gallery Foundation and the Institute of Avant-garde, Warsaw), Erna Rosenstein: Organism (Art Stations by Grażyna Kulczyk, Poznań) among others. As of 2016, she has worked as curator at the Studio Gallery (Galeria Studio) in Warsaw.
57th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia
Sharon Lockhart. Little Review
13.05 – 26.11.2017
Polish Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
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Polish participation at the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia was made possible through the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. Cooperatoin - City of Warsaw, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
The project was realized in collaboration with Youth Sociotherapy Center in Rudzienko, National Library of Poland, Korczakianum Center for Documentation and Research (Museum of Warsaw), POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Lockhart Studio.