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Exit Ghosts

Agnieszka Gratza

This feature on Agnieszka Kurant appeared in frieze:  Emergency Exit, 2010, (collaboration with the architect Aleksandra Wasilkowska), fog machines, metal, fans, neons, dimensions variable. Courtesy: National Art Gallery Zacheta, Warsaw; photograph: Maciej Landsberg ‘How does it feel to write about a person of the same name?’ curator Raimundas Malašauskas asked me after I’d complimented him on his idio­syncratic contribution to Agnieszka Kurant’s monograph, Unknown Unknown (2008), which took the form of an interview with a fictional artist also called Agnieszka Kurant. (In fact, Malašauskas has been known to use the name ‘Agnieszka Kurant’ as a pseudonym on occasion.) I related … Continue reading Exit Ghosts

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Call of the Mall

Agnieszka Gratza

This review appeared in frieze: Matthew Darbyshire IP, 2013, mixed media, dimensions variable You wouldn’t normally expect to find ambitious contemporary art, least of all the kind that critically engages with consumer culture, in a shopping centre. But then, Hoog Catharijne is no ordinary mall. Built around a train station, the Netherlands’ busiest shopping centre (in terms of footfall) includes its own residential complex and office buildings. A late Modernist urban development animated by Utopian ideals, it was once an opulent place fitted with marble floors, chandeliers, exotic plants, aviaries, a bronze fountain and, yes, art works. This shopper’s paradise … Continue reading Call of the Mall