7th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art – transRobota, 04.08 – 09.09.2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin

Opening of the Biennial with the artists presence on Friday, 3.08.2007, at 6:00 p.m.

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(a part of Roland Stratmann’s project ‘Daydream Laboratory‘ realized within the Biennale)


transRobota, the seventh edition of the Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art. transRobota is being staged as a virtual intervention of the Port Rybacki Gryf area on the Lasztownia Peninsula, an industrial area in the city center. Anne Peschken and Marek Pisarsky of Berlin-based Urban Art in co-operation with Bogdan Achimescu created an electronic facsimile of the Lasztownia and its environs. The area, in all its beauty, decay and transition, will be re-created in a three-dimensional animation, offering a virtual tour of the industrial area with all the art works and interventions in place.

Despite the reLocation, residents and visitors will be able to get a flavor for the broad spectrum of works on display thanks to site-specific pieces by several of the Polish and international artists invited to participate in the event. Ulrike Mohr’s orange ‘Timeball Station,’ set up on a post-German bunker at Łasztownia, will be visible from across the city, while German artist Roland Stratmann will invite inhabitants to share their thoughts and art works in his ‘Daydream Laboratory.’

Furthermore, Eva Hertzsch and Adam Page, together with Anna Tyszkiewicz, Marcin Piątkowski and Dominik Paszkiewicz, have created a a special webpage, as both an information platform for cultural practitioners and a tool that enables residents to express their opinions about the future of the Lasztownia.

FEATURED Artists:

Kuba Bąkowski (PL), Heman Chong & Saim Demircan (Singapur/GB), Markus Draper (D),
Roland Fuhrmann (D), Eva Hertzsch & Adam Page (D/GB), Laura Horelli (FIN), Tilman Küntzel (D), Maciej Kurak (PL), Agnes Meyer-Brandis (D), Ulrike Mohr (D), Oliver Ressler (A), Otmar Sattel (D), Roland Stratmann (D), Urban Art: Anne Peschken & Marek Pisarsky (D), Julita Wójcik (PL)

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