Presentation of the publication “It begins with one word” – Katarzyna Krakowiak & Marcin Sczcelina.

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe invite you to the presentation of  “It All Begins With One Word” publication by the artist Katarzyna Krakowiak and curator Marcin Szczelina that presented, a new structure, both architectural and linguistic, in an artistic intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, during July 2020.

Katarzyna Krakowiak creates sculptures, sounds, sound compositions and situations, all of them in order to find languages to describe architecture. In 2012 she received a special mention for her solo exhibition “Making the Walls Quake as if They Were Dilated with the Secret Knowledge of Great Power” at the Polish Pavilion at the 13th International Exhibition of Architecture – la Biennale di Venezia. In 2013 she participated in Performa Biennial with Storfront Art and Architecture. Krakowiak runs the sound spaces studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw..

Project by Katarzyna Krakowiak, curated by Marcin Szczelina (Architecture Snob) and Ivan Blasi (Mies van der Rohe Foundation). Organised in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, a state founded cultural institution dedicated to promote Polish culture worldwide. Supported by Instituto Polaco de Cultura en Madrid.

Read the interview with the artist and the curators here