Exhibitions:

• Necessity | Mehtap Baydu

Curator: Marta Smolińska

Opening hours during the Museum Night: 11 am – midnight

The art of Mehtap Baydu, an artist of Kurdish origin based in Berlin, addresses the situation of women within oppressive patriarchal systems. Despite their cultural and religious differences, patriarchies share many characteristics and all deprive women, as well as all minorities, of a voice. Baydu seeks to empower women to overcome all that constrains their freedom and growth.

• Searching For Balance | Michal Kern

Curator: Juraj Čarný

Opening hours during the Museum Night: 11 am – midnight

Michal Kern belongs to the generation of pioneers of action art and conceptual art in Slovakia and is one of the most significant artists in that country. His particular sensitivity and profound connection with the natural environment led his practice to focus on the investigation of nature, landscape, and ecological concerns. He produced works that today cannot be interpreted without recourse to the climate crisis and impending climate catastrophe which he addressed in his art.

Gama Libre | art bookstore

5 pm – midnight

-50% for all publications of Arsenał Municipal Gallery

Paths of Incarnation

6 pm

Live music: Mandar Purandare

Motion: Olha Kebas

Paths of Incarnation is a site-specific performance that combines dance and music. It takes place within the gallery space and dialogues with Michal Kern’s exhibition. The theme of the exhibition is approached as a field of tensions that traverse the body and sound, acquiring a new mode of presence. The body becomes a conduit, and movement a means of reading images, forms, and meanings inscribed within works of art. This will be a living encounter of movement and sound; intimate, improvised, and immersed in the context of the site. Sound and body intertwine in a subtle tension as though each incarnation were an attempt to apprehend what is invisible and yet present.

The performance does not impose interpretation; it opens a space of encounter. The viewer may follow the movement, pause before a selected image, immerse themselves in sound, or observe the relations between body and artwork. Paths of Incarnation opens a space of passage from form to sensation, from image to experience, from looking to being, and from space to relation.

It is a narrative of how ideas become incarnate, embodied in matter, and matter in turn in movement. It speaks to the notion that every body carries its own history and becomes a living part of the exhibition, even if only for a moment, when matter and spirit meet in a single, ephemeral gesture. The body does not represent meanings; rather, it negotiates them, revealing their fragility and mutability.

Ideas require the body in order to come into being, and the body requires space in order to experience and transform itself into narrative. The exhibition ceases to be a static arrangement of objects and becomes a dynamic field of relations set in motion by movement, time, and attention.

GaMA Games | Find, Open, Win!

Details in our social media during the Museum Night.

Between 7 pm and 10 pm

Print Your Style

7 pm – midnight

Drop by our stand and print by yourself one of the prepared designs using the screen-printing technique. It is a fast and creative method for producing a distinctive outcome.

• Select a design
  • Print it onto a bag or T-shirt
  • Take your unique print home!

A tour of the shows: Necessity | Mehtap Baydu and Searching For Balance | Michal Kern

8 pm

Tour by: Marek Wasilewski