Roundabout Baltic in Gdynia
ROUNDABOUT BALTIC
01.07-03.09.2017 – Museum of the City of Gdynia, Gdynia Design Days
Curator: Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka
The international exhibition “Roundabout Baltic” presents the achievements of Polish designers in the cultural context of the Baltic Sea area. Co-organized by the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the exhibition will be presented, among others, during Gdynia Design Days 2017. The exhibition, shown so far in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Iceland and Lithuania, is extremely popular; so far it has been seen by more than 50,000 visitors.
“Roundabout Baltic” is a visual narrative of similarities and differences, a kind of emotional landscape built from everyday objects. The objects selected by the curator, through their form or structure, are strongly rooted not only in the material traditions and crafts characteristic of the region, but visibly related to their surroundings, inscribed in the visual characteristics of the region.
The objects presented in the exhibition come from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Germany – however, they will not be presented by country, but mixed together, arranged according to the themes outlined by the curator, because of the similarities and common features they share. Sometimes it will be the form, sometimes the material or color scheme, sometimes a persistently recurring motif, as if the designers, each in their own way, were solving the same task. The Icelandic edition of the exhibition also includes local artists whose designs indicate similar inspirations with the sea, though not the Baltic.
This way of authorial presentation allows to discover, difficult to define, but nevertheless legible connectivity with the Baltic landscape, common formal borrowings and inspirations, which often were not a conscious effort of their creators. Through this deliberate display, design analogies present in the region will be shown, despite all the differences that divide us. Designers from Scandinavian, Nordic, Baltic, Slavic and Germanic countries look at the same Baltic Sea, which has become for them a kind of common language that makes less and more unfamiliar neighbors close to each other.
Read more at: http://www.roundaboutbaltic.pl/
Curator: Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka
Organizer: Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola
Co-organizer: Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Partners: Gdynia City Museum, Gdynia Design Center – Pomeranian Science and Technology Park
Coordination: Dr. Magdalena Bąk-Wołoszyn tel. 15 8448556 ext. 15, e-mail: mbakwoloszyn@muzeum.stalowawola.pl
The exhibition has been presented so far:
03.05.2017-15.06.2017 Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Lithuanian National Museum, Vilnius (Lithuania).
12.03.-31.03.2017 The Nordic House, Reykjavík (Iceland)
24.01-26.02.2017 Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Latvian National Museum, Riga (Latvia)
08.10.2016-28.12.2016 Estonian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Tallinn (Estonia)
22.06-11.09.2016 Form/Design Center, Malmö (Sweden)
