Jaarkeuze

Selection from the collection of Rabobank NL, Oude Radhuis, Aalsmeer, NL

26-11-2015 t/m 17-01-2016

group exhibition with a.o. : Karel Appel, Maria Roosen, Henk Visch

Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam, curated by Irene Faber

24-07-2015 t/m 18-10-2015

With the edition Dark Street Revisited 1983-2013, which is included in the collection of:
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR,
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, PL,
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Krystyna Ziach Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam, curated by Irene Faber
Krystyna Ziach Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam, curated by Irene Faber
Dark Street Revisited IV
Giclée-print, 112 x 159 cm
Dark Street Revisited 1983-2013
Krystyna Ziach Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam, curated by Irene Faber
This series of giclee prints is based on a series of black-and-white photographs entitled Dark Street, which Krystyna Ziach made in Poland in the winter of 1983 in the Jewish neighbourhood Kazimierz of Cracow. The series Dark Street was made spontaneously, as a personal registration of this historic district which bore witness to a lost Jewish culture. Although the war had been over for almost forty years, the images captured generally made a desolate impression, as if it were only shortly after the war. A few years later the Berlin wall went down, changing the political climate, and nowadays Kazimierz has been largely renovated. Some thirty years later, her imaginary journey through time is based on this series of photographs which until now had not yet been printed. In 2013 Krystyna Ziach made a new series of works: Dark Street Revisited 1983-2013, which consists of ten giclee prints. For her these works constitute a confrontation with the past and a personal reflection on transcience. The name Dark Street is the authentic name of one of the streets in Kazimierz (Ulica Ciemna), where this series of photoworks was created.

Edition of 25 numbered and signed copies plus 5 artist’s proofs, printed on 350 g/m², Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper, 10 giclee prints format: 42 x 58 cm, image size 34 x 50 cm. Each copy is presented in a linen-covered cardboard box, which are numbered and signed as well.

*read more: Dark Street Revisited 1983-2013, on the website: www.krystynaziach.com/documents

Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL

31-10-2014 t/m 08-02-2015

Solo exhibition Space of Imagination 2014-2015, curated by Hans Rooseboom, curator of photography at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
Krystyna Ziach has been trained as a sculptress and as a photographer. In her work she combines both disciplines, but she continues to approach reality as a sculptress. In the exhibition organised in the fall of 2014 by the Beelden aan Zee museum, the emphasis is on a series of works from the early nineties. These so-called photo sculptures are monumental spatial constructions or installations, in which photos of the human body, culture and nature are incorporated.It is in this very series of works that Krystyna Ziach’s dual background becomes visible and the two disciplines, photography and sculpture, merge. The photo sculptures have geometrical shapes-squares, triangles and circles-which Ziach combines with materials such as sand, salt, mirror, glass and iron. In this way she creates captivating conceptual works in which the sculptress/photographer plays with optical illusions and the symbolic.
Krystyna Ziach lives in Amsterdam. Her photographs are included in various important collections of, among others: Centre Pompidou/Bibliothèque Kandinsky, the Biliothèque nationale de France, Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Hans Rooseboom, 2014, curator of photography at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and guest curator of solo exhibition Space of Imagination in 2014-2015 at the Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, NL

*read more: Space of Imagination, photographs and photo sculptures by Krystyna Ziach, text by Hans Rooseboom, 2014; Krystyna Ziach, Merged Disciplines, text by Hans Rooseboom, 2014, on the website: www.krystynaziach.com/documents
Krystyna Ziach Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL
Book Space of Imagination / Krystyna Ziach
Text by Hans Rooseboom & Jan Teeuwisse, 160 pages, bound, published by Waanders & De Kunst, NL, in 2014 at the occasion of the solo exhibition Space of Imagination at the Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, NL, 2014-2015
Krystyna Ziach Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL
Space of Imagination, installation
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, NL, 2014-2015
Krystyna Ziach Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL
Space of Imagination, installation
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, NL, 2014-2015
Krystyna Ziach Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL
Space of Imagination, installation
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, NL, 2014-2015
Krystyna Ziach Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL
Space of Imagination, installation
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, NL, 2014-2015
Krystyna Ziach Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL
Space of Imagination, installation
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, NL, 2014-2015
Krystyna Ziach Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL
Space of Imagination, installation
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, NL, 2014-2015
Krystyna Ziach Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL
Space of Imagination, installation
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, NL, 2014-2015
Krystyna Ziach Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL
Space of Imagination, installation
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, NL, 2014-2015
Krystyna Ziach Solo exhibition Space of Imagination, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, NL