Weekend in Tricity – Part 1

During a trip to Gdańsk and Sopot, on the first weekend of July, we visited cultural institutions, artists’ studios, a sculpture park, and met with curators, collectors and artists. Numerous conversations about art, the role of cultural institutions and memories of excellent exhibitions followed. “From Black Mountain College to Pop Art. Postwar American Art and Documents from the Archiv der Avantgarden” at the State Gallery in Sopot – was the first exhibition we had the opportunity to see. We saw it in the company of collector Egidio Marzona and curator Przemysław Strożek, who showed us around the exhibition on Friday afternoon. “From Black Mountain College to Pop Art” shows the post-war artistic transformation in the United States based on part of the collection of the Archiv der Avantgarden in Dresden. The works selected for the exhibition in Sopot are an important testimony to the innovative artistic practices initiated in the 20th century on the other side of the Atlantic. The artists whose works can be seen at the exhibition include: Andy Warhol, Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner, Cy Twombly, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Dan Flavin, Bill Bollinger, Dorothea Rockburne, Carolee Schneemann or Robert Indiana. Where else did we go during our stay in the Tricity? You will find out in the following postings, in which, in the form of a short report, we publish another portion of memories from the trip.