Matylda Krzykowski
Strategic Improvisation
18. – 30. 8. 25
When I curate, I design. This means that I orchestrate, plan or coordinate all elements in space to produce the desired scenery. Space has many meanings: we do not merely occupy space but rehearse how it functions. We also don’t simply accept what we know about space but inhabit it through fantasies.
The workshop is intuitive but guided. Together and in individual sessions, we’ll walk a wild line between artistic, spatial and curatorial practices. Throughout the process of designing, practicing, performing and reviewing, the group will aim to generate collective consciousness and confidence by ultimately producing a temporary environment that can be an exhibition, situation or an event visitors can participate in.
This environment is relational, based on our human and social contexts and otherworldly ideas, from soft utopia and collective adventure to wild relaxation and pure reverie. To me, an exhibition is not the end but the beginning of something that can be individually or collectively explored.
key data
- Venue
- Hohensalzburg Fortress
- Date
- 18. – 30. 8. 25
- Teaching language
- English (German, Polish, Dutch possible)
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
- Requirements
- Interest in working with your hands and body is necessary. A willingness to experiment in defining space and making installations. Openness to conversation, verbal and non-verbal.
- What to bring
- Working tools and material you use in your own artistic, spatial and/or curatorial practice(s). An object, a thing or a story.
- Maximum number of participants
- 20
Matylda Krzykowski
Matylda Krzykowski works with space: objects within space and ideas outside of space. She seeks to instigate conversations, works to maintain their energy, and thereby affects results. These results are almost always entirely born from intense and generous collaboration. Krzykowski is organically interdisciplinary. (It’s a way of doing, rather than a way of thinking.) Krzykowski travels widely to develop formats, engage with communities and urgent topics. Strategic Improvisation is her method of operation. Wherever she may be, she sees the visible and reformats the unseen.
Abstract of text written by James Tyler Foster
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matyldakrzykowski/?hl=en
Website
Exhibitions
2024 Eleonore Peduzzi Riva, Kunstraum Riehen, Riehen (CH).
2023 The (final) Group Show, together with Jorge Penades, Dropcity, Milan (IT).
2022 You Don’t Want Space, You Want To Fill It, Marsèll Paradise, Milan.
2022 The Energy Show – Sun, Solar and Human Power, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL).
2021 Institution Building, together with Nikolaus Hirsch, Cedric Libert, CIVA Brussels (BE).
Publications
Matylda Krzykowski and Felix Ganzer (in dialog), “ALL ALL WELCOME,” Les Nouveaux Riches, 2024. https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/all-all-welcome/
Matylda Krzykowski, “Step Out of Your Own World, Step into the World of the Other, CIVIC at Basel Academy of Art and Design,” e-flux, 2024. https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/612991/civic/
Angelica Cantu Rajnoldi, “Matylda Krzykowski – Topics, disciplines: Letting yourself be surprised is a form of courage,” Lampoon Magazine, 2023. https://lampoonmagazine.com/article/2023/01/06/matylda-krzykowski-topics-disciplines-letting-yourself-be-surprised-is-a-form-of-courage/
“You Don’t Want Space, You Want To Fill It,” Forma Marsell, 2022. https://forma.marsell.it/ydwsywtfi/
Matylda Krzykowski, “Opening the Digital Interior,” Techniques Journal. https://techniquesjournal.com/opening-the-digital-interior/
Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva, “Matylda Krzykowski – Hosting Exhibitions,” Curtain Magazine, 2022. https://curtain.artcuratorgrid.com/matylda-krzykowski/
