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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Artur Żmijewski

Overview of films

  • Karolina

    What does life and death mean to an 18-year-old girl if you can’t get out of bed due to a serious form of osteoporosis, with endless pain and mo

  • Them

    Żmijewski brings together opposing social groups – and sets them against one another – in a series of workshops focusing on how we imagine

  • Sculpture Plein-air. Swiecie 2009

    Artists and steel workers collaborate to create a public sculpture. A meeting of and for various classes, but will it lead to unity?

  • Blindly

    Painting sessions with six blind people lead to conversations about shape, colour, reality and what it means to be sightless.

  • KR WP

    In this film, Żmijewski – literally – strips patterns of behaviour and rituals. We see soldiers present arms and march: the first time clo

  • Cookbook

    A one-off cookery course in a women’s prison – with lobster on the menu – highlights the dismal food normally served up in the cells

  • Habana Libre

    A portrait of Havana and its inhabitants. There’s work and play, shopping and singing. Castro and the USA are miles away.

  • Following Bauhaus

    In search of a ‘new visual reality’, Żmijewski and the local art community in Liverpool re-implement Bauhaus ideals 80 years later.

  • Rendez-vous

    A silent encounter with Danuta Witkowska and actor Wojciech Królikiewicz in their day-to-day coping with Huntington’s disease.

  • The Collection: Katarzyna

    Quiet observation of a physically handicapped woman reveals that effortless movement isn’t always a given. Element of the multi-part The Co

  • The Making Of

    Żmijewski organised a fashion and beauty show for detainees at a women’s prison: self-expression and freedom are the main focus, not appear

  • Realism

    On 16mm film, Żmijewski filmed six men who had had a leg amputated. They look us in the eye, each from his own frame, and silently show us their disab