House for Culture

The House for Culture project shows the formal similarities between the buildings of kibbutzim and kolkhozes, erected in places hundreds of kilometers apart.

The project is a continuation of the author’s – characteristic – visual language, which focuses on frontal documentation of the repetition of forms in modernism architecture.

Manifesto

Illusions lost. An ex post manifesto for modern architecture 

Photobook

The exhibition accompanies Nicolas Grospierre’s Photobook A House for Culture, published in 2022, which contains 139 photographs by Nicolas Grospierre taken in Israel, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It is enriched with critical essays by researchers Yuval Yaski, Marta Kalma and Pedro Gadanho, whose texts are illustrated by archival photographs and architectural plans.

Author

Nicolas Grospierre (born 1975) – architectural photographer and artist, grew up in France, has lived in Poland since 1999. Before taking up photography, he studied political science and sociology in Paris and London. In his work, he uses photography as a creative tool. He focuses on both documentary projects and conceptual issues. In works of a reportage nature, he often takes up the theme of collective memory and hopes associated with modernist architecture – he reaches for it at a time when the utopias accompanying this style have lost their power and importance. The conceptual part of his work is based on building a game played with the viewer, into which the viewer is invited through attractive – even sensual – images and installations.

Info

Opening

31.10.2024, 18:00

Date

31.10-17.11.2024

 

Opening hours

MON-SUN: 13:00-19:00

1st, 11th November closed

free entrance

 

Place

National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning

ul. Foksal 2

00-366 Warsaw

Colophon

Photographs and exhibition concept: Nicolas Grospierre 
Scientific curator: prof. dr hab. arch. Bolesław Stelmach 
Curator: Yuval Yasky 
Exhibition design: Yamit Cohen, Yuval Yasky 
Coordination: Kacper Kępiński, Kacper Tomaszewski, Mateusz Włodarek 
Communication: Dominik Witaszczyk, Ola Zaszewska 
Visual identity: Katarzyna Nestorowicz 
Exhibition production: Artpath 
Production of photographs: Banda Printshop 
Authors of accompanying essays: Nicolas Grospierre, Owen Hatherley, Yuval Yasky 
Translations: Natalia Raczkowska 
Editing and proofreading: Urszula Drabińska 
Co-organiser: Estonian Museum of Architecture 

The exhibition is co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. 

The research towards and publication of the album A House for Culture were made possible through two grants by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.