Roundabout Baltic w Wilnie
03.05-15.06.2017 – Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Vilnius (Lithuania)
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, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Vilnius, the exhibition will be presented during Design Week Lithuania 2017 in Vilnius. The exhibition, which has so far been shown in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Iceland, 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.
http://www.roundaboutbaltic.pl/
Curator: Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka
Organizer: Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola
Co-organizer: Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Partners: Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Vilnius, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Vilnius, Polish Institute in Vilnius, Museum of the City of Gdynia, Gdynia Design Center – Pomeranian Science and Technology Park
Contact: dr. Magdalena Bąk-Wołoszyn tel. 15 8448556 ext. 15, e-mail: mbakwoloszyn@muzeum.stalowawola.pl
The exhibition has been presented so far:
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)
Planned editions:
Gdynia Design Days, Gdynia City Museum, 01.07 – 03.09.2017
