Exhibition: Change the Setting. Polish Theatrical and Social Set Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Opening of the exhibition: 18 October, 7 p.m.
Duration of the exhibition: 19.10.2019-19.01.2020

“Change the Setting. Polish Theatrical

and Social Set Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries”

is the fourth review exhibition devoted to theatrical set design in the history of Zachęta. Academic collaboration and support was provided by prof. Daniel Przastek, Dean of the WNPiSM for finance and development and Paweł Marek Mrowiński MA, a PhD student of the WNPiSM, was responsible for collaboration on the part of the Faculty.

Its concept was born out of the original vision of Robert Rumas, a respected visual artist and set designer. The curator and his team of collaborators lead the viewers through 100 years of history, building the narrative of the exhibition according to an issue and theme-based layout and creating contextual references to earlier and later phenomena.

The exhibition shows the most important set design phenomena shaping the space and aesthetics of theatre performances and political and social events in Poland in a new light. The large cross-sectional show is an innovative attempt at a comprehensive presentation of the process of evolution of set design: from the first reform of the theatre to contemporary times, taking into account the problems, phenomena, and resulting repercussions inherent in understanding the role of this field in the histories of Polish theatre and culture.

More about the exhibition: zacheta.art.pl/en/wystawy/zmiana-ustawienia-polska-scenografia

co-organiser: Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw
partners: Muzeum Śląskie in Katowice; Theatre Museum, Wielki Theatre — National Opera; Jerzy Grotowski Institute
film partner: National Film Archive — Audiovisual Institute
curator: Robert Rumas
substantive collaboration: Dorota Buchwald, Prof. Dariusz Kosiński, Dr hab. Daniel Przastek
collaboration on the part of Zachęta: Julia Leopold and Michał Jachuła, Ewa Mielczarek, Aleksandra Zientecka
collaboration on the part of the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies of the University of Warsaw: Paweł Mrowiński
research and editing of film materials: Michał Januszaniec
exhibition arrangement: Robert Rumas
mock-ups: Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of art and Design Wrocław
visual identity: Jakub Jezierski
accompanying programme: Zofia Dubowska, Karolina Iwańczyk, Marta Miś
exhibition production: Anna Muszyńska, Krystyna Sielska and Andrzej Bialik, Dariusz Bochenek, Remigiusz Olszewski