Twisted Entities: Zeitgenössische polnische Kunst Contemporary Polish Art

The works by the 14 contemporary Polish artists forces us to assume changes in perspective. Using different media and ways of seeing, they develop the ideaof »twisting«, which as a subversive force can jump onto bodies or spaces, onto processes or actions, onto things or information. Playful airiness, lurching humour, absurd everyday matters or even explosive force deform or break up structures until they literally or metaphorically collapse. The fact that these subjects are taken up is down to the role that the country played during the transformation in all layers of society from former East-West structures and conditions at the beginning of the 1980s on the one hand, and to the discourse of critical contemporaneity raised by the artists on the other.