🇩🇪 Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt O. >02.24
🇨🇭Museum Franz Gertsch, Bern/Burgdorf > 18.9.2023
🇵🇱 Muzeum Openheim, Wrocław > 22.9.2023
🇵🇼 EGIN Art Space, Almaty > 17.9.2023
🇵🇼 ARTBAT public space, Almaty > 15.11.2023
My permanent sculpture, commissioned by City ALMATY. Concrete, Chernozem, Plants; 700cm x 210cm x 300cmIn frames on ARTBAT 2023. In City Hall Park of Almaty.
ARTBAT // 11.08 – 15.11.2023
The overall program of the festival is coordinated by the administration of Almaty city. It encompasses various projects, including community art initiatives, murals, audio installations, film screenings, and a series of projects that will continue after the festival concludes.
As part of the public art project, various areas of the city will be enriched with artistic elements, with the main focus on Baizetova Street. The intersections of Abay and Tole bi streets will host a variety of murals, augmented reality works, graffiti, and temporary installations.
Participating in the festival are artists such as Suarez Vargas Universal (USA/Kyrgyzstan), Birender Kumar Yadav (India), Renata Kaminska (Germany/Poland), Brinda Antonin (Czech Republic), Oksun Kim (South Korea), Lauren Moffatt (Australia), Saule Suleimenova (Kazakhstan), Saken Narynov (Kazakhstan), Aika Akhmetova (USA, Kazakhstan), and others.
EGIN, Almaty, KZ 08.08 – 15.11.2023
On August 24th, solo exhibition by Renata Rara Kaminska, a renowned Polish artist based in Berlin, will open. The event will take place at Egin Art Space and start at 7:00 PM.
Artist talk with curator Julia Sorokina; 26.08.23 at 2:00 PM.
Kaminska has participated in prestigious exhibitions at various museums and independent art events, including Museum Franz Gertsch (Burgdorf/Bern), Muzeum OPENHEIM (Wroclaw), Museum of Paper (Berlin), Public sculpture at Tempelhof Feld (Kulturbüro, Berlin), and Benetton Collection (Venice). Her activist practices focus on political engagement, women’s and minority rights, decolonization, and ecology.
Russia’s colonial policies, the war in Ukraine, and the decolonial discourse in post-Soviet countries have led Kaminska to Central Asia. She sees Kazakhstan not only as a country preserving traditions but also continuing its modernization in its own direction. For her exhibition, the artist addresses the issue of coloniality, working with sculptural objects made from so-called „invasive“ plants – thin strips of veneer from rare species of African relic trees. The metaphor of human-induced changes to ecosystems touches not only on issues of nature conservation inherent in the discourse of the Anthropocene but also on political strategies resisting the actions of empires.
