Allan Sekula. Polonia and Other Fables

12th December 2009 – 28th February 2010 

The exhibition Polonia and Other Fables is the first individual show of Allan Sekula’s work in Poland. It links his oldest with his newest works, but it is not a classic retrospective show. It is constructed around two major themes: social engagement and the search for a zone in which the private and personal are linked with the universal and the commonplace.

All Creatures Great and Small

19th December 2009 – 21st February 2010

The exhibition develops themes initiated in the exhibition Hot/Cold – Summer Loving shown in Zacheta in 2007 that presented different forms of love, including the love humans feel for animals. The forthcoming exhibition concentrates only on the problem of the world of animals, exploring artists' diverse takes on this problem and the range of ways of visualizing it in art. The point of entry for the exhibition is the desire to overcome the dogmatic anthropocentrism that places the human in the centre of the world as a privileged species of the highest ontological status.