Karol Radziszewski
Sebastian Dreaming
17. 6. – 8. 7. 23
The exhibition Sebastian im Traum (Sebastian Dreaming) bears the title of a poem by Georg Trakl. Radziszewski speculates on possible histories and missing artefacts in the Austrian poet’s archive in the house where he was born (today a research and memorial site).
The artist recontextualises his film MS 101 (2012) about an imaginary encounter between the poet as well as the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and his lover David Pinsent. The philosopher came to Krakow as an Austrian soldier in 1914, where he wanted to meet Trakl, who was stationed there as a medical lieutenant. Since the latter died shortly before his arrival at the military hospital, all that remains is to imagine what attraction lay at the root of their encounter. The portraits of this invented ménage-à-trois and the icon of queer movements, Saint Sebastian, form an ancestral gallery of homoerotic stories and their potential omission in reading the archives.
The artist Karol Radziszewski (*1980, Białystok) dedicates his research and works to queer personalities to identify voids and ruptures in canonised histories, especially in Eastern Europe. He is also known as the editor of DIK Fagazine (since 2005) and the founder of the Queer Archives Institute in Warsaw (2015). The exhibition Sebastian im Traum at Galerie Kunst im Traklhaus presents his work for the first time in Austria.
For the International Summer Academy Karol Radziszewski teaches the course 'Portraits after Portrait' (31 July–12 August 2023)
key data
- Venue
- Galerie Kunst im Traklhaus
- Date
- 17. 6. – 8. 7. 23
- Opening hours
- Gallery Art in the Traklhaus Waagplatz 1a, 5020 Salzburg Tuesday-Friday: 2-6 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free admission
- Events
- 16 June 2023, 6 p.m. Artist talk with Karol Radziszewski in English, 7 p.m. opening
Karol Radziszewski
Karol Radziszewski challenges predominant historical narratives and their prevalent modes of representation; Radziszewski’s multidisciplinary and archive-based practice convenes a myriad of political, social, religious-cultural and art-historical references, probing their relation to the history of sexuality and the construction of gender.
Since 2005, Radziszewski has been publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine; he founded the Queer Archives Institute in 2015.
Since 2005, Radziszewski has been publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine; he founded the Queer Archives Institute in 2015.
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 Filo, Auto Italia, London. 2023 One Day These Kids…, Between Bridges, Berlin. 2020 QAI/CEE, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana. 2019 The Power of Secrets, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.
Selected group exhibitions
2023-2024 Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (US). 2022 Kisieland, Part of the Museum Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. 2021 AIDS, as part of the Museum Collection, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz (PL). 2021The Endless Frontier, 14th Baltic Triennial, Vilnius. 2019 Her Own Way, Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo. 2016 Acervo Videobrasil em Contexto #2, artist residency in Galpão VB, São Paulo (BR). 2012-2013 AMERICA IS NOT READY FOR THIS, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, artist residency in Unlimited, New York, NY (US). 2012 Screenings at PERFORMA 13 Biennal, artist residency in Unlimited, New York, NY. 2013PLAY! Recapturing The Radical Imagination, 7th Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg (SE).
