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Familiar Strangers. The Eastern Europeans from a Polish Perspective.

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Familiar Strangers. The Eastern Europeans from a Polish Perspective.

14 Mar – 29 Jun 2025
BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
  • Zuzanna Hertzberg, Summoning Lilith, 2024, Pro Choice / Pro Abo artivist action in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland. Courtesy of the artist. Photo Aneta Wawrzoła
  • Natalia LL, Consumer Art, 1972-75, still from 35 mm film, Courtesy of ZW Foundation, Natalia LL Archive
  • Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Katarina Taikon, 1965 Protest, 2024, Photo Marek Gardulski

The exhibition 'Familiar Strangers' at the BOZAR in Brussels is an encounter of various voices: specifically of diasporas and minorities and their political struggles. It shows how fragile and complex those two-way negotiations are, between the transcultural and the local, the individual and the collective, the familiar and the uncanny in a post-communist society on its way to becoming a post-migrant one.

Curated by Joanna Warsza it show works by Oliwia Bosomtwe, Assaf Gruber, Zuzanna Hertzberg, Renata Rara Kamińska, Jasmina Metwaly, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Natalia LL, Ngo Van Tuong, Open Group, Janek Simon, Shadow Architecture, Jana Shostak et Mikołaj Sobczak. On loan from the Art Collection Telekom is Katarina Taikon, 1965 Protest, 2024, by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas.

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