Krystyna Ziach
kunstinzicht.nlWorlds in a Box, Wchitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK. curated by Alexandre Noble, South Bank Centre London
09-12-1994 t/m 12-02-1995
tour in UK : 1994-1995:
City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London


Catalogue, text by Alexandra Noble, 96 pages, published by The South Bank Centre, 1994, London, UK

A Memory of Rain-box is a version of a large scale photo-sculpture made for an installation
A Garden of Illusion
Wooden box, mirror & photograph 41 x 48 cm each
Exhibition Worlds in a Box, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1995, London, UK
Solo exhibition A Chamber of Mirrors, The Netherlands Photography Museum, Sittard, NL
21-05-1994 t/m 26-06-1994
This installation is composed of photoworks and photo-sculptures from the series : The Garden of Illusion, Melancholy, Japan and Metamorphosis, made in the period between 1984-1994
/…/ A Chamber of Mirrors, the title of her exhibition at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Sittard, refers to the frequent use of mirrors in the work. Apart from being a vanitas symbol, the mirror is also a theatrical attribute. Mirrors are elements to structuralize space, they take possession of it. … The photographs are sculptures, which is not suprising considering her initial education as a sculptor. /…/
"Ziach makes photographs like sculptures", de Volkskrant, 1994, NL, by Paul Depondt, art critic.

The Netherlands Photography Museum, Sittard NL

The Netherlands Photography Museum, Sittard, NL
Curated by Reinhold Misselbeck, curator for photography and new media of the Ludwig Museum Cologne, DE

The Netherlands Photography Museum, Sittard NL

The Netherlands Photography Museum, Sittard NL

The Netherlands Photography Museum, Sittard NL

The Netherlands Photography Museum, Sittard NL

The Netherlands Photography Museum, Sittard NL

Book, text by T. Hendriks, published by Focus Publishing BV, 1995, Amsterdam, NL
Tradition and the Unpredictable, Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, US
18-05-1994 t/m 05-02-1995

Book, text by Anne W. Tucker, published by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, US, 1994

Triptych, toned gelatin silver prints
Metemorphosis 1983-1986
Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Ver=Hier, The Netherlands Photography Museum, Sittard, NL, curated by Coen Eggen
08-10-1993 t/m 02-01-1994

Het Nederlands Fotomuseum Sittard NL

Personal catalogue, text by M. Thijsen, 24 pages, published by Magazine FOTO, 1990, NL
This catalogue has been included in different libraries a.o. : Bibliothèque Kandinsky-Centre Pompidou Paris FR, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History The Hague NL, Leiden University Library NL, and others.

Catalogue, published by the Netherlands Photography Museum, 1993, Sittard, NL
Including work from the series Melancholy

Lambda-print, 150 x 140 cm
Melancholy 1989-1990
Collection Museum Het Domein, Sittard, NL
/.../ Painted expressionist elements return in Melancholy, but now in a more stylized form. Human figures seem confined by geometric and crystalline structures. The mirror turns up several times, referring to the tradition of the trompe-l’oeil, the illusion of space in art. Ziach’s inspiration for Melancholy came from the geniuses of art history, Albrecht Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci and Kasimir Malevich. Like Ziach herself, these artists were captivated by the ambivalent longing for the unity between mathematical order and absolute emotion. Malevich’s black cross for instance, is composed of five squares which are to symbolize pure emotion. Ziach’s Black Cross of Malevich is a lyrical adaptation of this painting. With the – expressively painted – cross as a frame, she photographed a naked woman in a variant of Da Vinci’s ‘homo universalis’/../
Krystyna Ziach/A Chamber of Mirrors 1984-1994, text by Iris Dik, 1994