Politica e arte al Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Cracovia (28.4.2022 – 26.2.2023)

Testi e contesti di una mostra multimediale

Abstract

This article presents the Mocak - Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, one of Poland’s most important cultural institutions, and its series of flagship exhibitions entitled The World through Art. It then dwells on the tenth edition, Politics in Art, and the debate sparked by the Mocak’s choice to propose an image of the Russian dissident artist Pyotr Pavlensky as the symbol of the exhibition. The discussion sheds specific light on the contradictions and possible ambiguities of an art that wants to be explicitly ‘political’ and on the problem of its reception.