Bunkier Sztuki
3A Plac Szczepański
Kraków, 33-332
Poland

A group show commemorating 50 years of the venerable non-profit art space Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow, Poland, features documentation of the most successful performance by AWACS, a performance duo founded by Maciej Toporowicz and Piotr Grzybowski, and active 1981-1983. In this iconic performance, which took place in Krakow in 1981, they toyed with a real danger of 220 V electrocution, terrorist attack, and the issue of trust and solidarity between brothers in arms. In the end there was a gas bomb exploding on a stage. This performance reflected the darkest years of living in communist Poland, and it was published in 1982 by a radical California magazine High Performance. Selected by curator Krzysztof Siatka.

Curated by: Anna Bargiel, Paulina Hyła, Magdalena Kownacka, Lidia Krawczyk, Anna Lebensztejn, Kinga Olesiejuk, Aneta Rostkowska, Krzysztof Siatka, Karolina Vyšata, Magdalena Ziółkowska 

Artists participating: AWACS (Peter Grzybowski, Maciej Toporowicz), Azorro (Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz, Wojciech Niedzielko, Łukasz Skąpski), Agata Biskup & Przemysław Czepurko, Janusz Byszewski, Yane Calovski, Marek Chlanda, Wincenty Dunikowski-Duniko, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Andris Eglītis, Peter Grzybowski, Maciej Jerzmanowski, Janusz Kaczorowski, Konger (Marian Figiel, Władysław Kaźmierczak, Marcin Krzyżanowski, Artur Tajber), Katarzyna Krakowiak, Mateusz Kula, Monika Niwelińska, Stefan Papp, Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Michael Portnoy, Laure Prouvost, Artur Tajber, Raša Todosijević, Krystyna Tołłoczko-Różyska, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Mieczysław Wejman, andAnna Zaradny.