i could live in africa
Group Exhibition

Opening: March 14, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Duration: 15.03. - 19.04.2009

The exhibition “i could live in africa” examines the relationship between contemporary art and punk in poland during the late 1970s and 80s.

The title was taken from the 1983 eponymous documentary film on the polish punk band “Izrael” by the dutch filmmaker and screenwriter Jacques de Koning. In addition to Jaques de Koning’s film, the exhibition will present documentaries and work by Miroslaw Balka, Jozef Robakowski, Darek Skubiel, and Michal Tarkowski, among others.

The exhibition “i could live in africa” was initiated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and is being curated by Lukasz Ronduda and Michal Wolinski. It will be developed in cooperation with the Witte de With, Center for contemporary art in Rotterdam and is part of a comprehensive exhibition series about moral conceptions and ethics that will be shown in Rotterdam starting september 2009.