Galeria Akumulatory 2

Fluxus Festival, Galeria Akumulatory 2, 28 Nov - 1 Dec 1977. [1]

Galeria Akumulatory 2 was a gallery in Poznań. Between 1972 and 1990, it hosted numerous solo exhibitions of international conceptual artists and the Fluxus Festival in 1977. The founder and curator was Jarosław Kozłowski, a Polish conceptual artist. Between 1981 and 1990, it was co-curated by Hanna Łuczak, a Polish intermedia artist and drawing lecturer at the University of Arts in Poznań.

The gallery, which operated in the current building of DS "Jowita", was one of the most important venues for the presentation of alternative art in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. Developing outside of the official circuit, the gallery presented the works of such artists as John Blake, Victor Burgin, Yoko Ono, John Hilliard, Krzysztof Wodiczko or Tadeusz Kalinowski. The idea behind the initiative, formulated in 1971 by Jarosław Kozłowski and Andrzej Kostołowski, evolved into a quasi-institution which, thanks to the positive attitude of the Adam Mickiewicz University, also involved art history students of the time (Piotr Piotrowski, Andrzej Jur, Tadeusz Matuszczak).

The gallery took its name from the famous neon sign on the dormitory building at 7 Zwierzyniecka Street.

Literature

• Jarosław Kozłowski, Jacek Kasprzycki, "Alternatywna rzeczywistość. Akumulatory 2", Arteon 3 & 4, 2000. (Polish)

• "Conversation. Jarosław Kozłowski & Jerzy Ludwiński", in Jerzy Ludwiński, Notes from the Future of Art: Selected Writings, ed. Magdalena Ziółkowska, Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, and Rotterdam: Veenman Publishers, 2007, pp 199-221. (English)

• Luiza Nader, "Heterotopien. Das NETZ und die Galerie Akumulatory 2" / "Heterotopy. The NET and Galeria Akumulatory 2", in Fluxus East: Fluxus-Netzwerke in Mittelosteuropa / Fluxus East: Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe, ed. Petra Stegmann, Berlin: Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, 2007, pp 111-124. (German)/(English)

• Nieprzekupne oko: Galeria Akumulatory 2, 1972-1990, eds. Bożena Czubak and Jarosław Kozłowski, Warsaw: Zachęta - Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, 2012. Exh. catalogue. Artist groups: Fluxus, COUM Transmissions, Kenal 2, The Play, Galerie S:t Petri, Sudurgata 7. Artists: Joanna Adamczewska, Eric Andersen, Angelo de Aquino, Lone Arendal, Imre Bak, Eduard Bal, Philippa Beale, Andrzej Bereziański, Terry Berkowitz, Tomy Bevan, John Blake, Włodzimierz Borowski, Janos Brendel, Leszek Brogowski, Wojciech Bruszewski, Victor Burgin, Henri Chopin, Carlfriedrich Claus, Michael Craig-Martin, Maria (Mariola) Dąbrowska, Andrzej Dłużniewski, Andrew Dutkewych, Janusz Dziubak, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Joel Fisher, Ken Friedman, Wolfgang Fuchs, Adam Garnek, Mariusz Gill, Raimund Girke, Nat Godden, Trevor Gould, Tom J. Gramse, Izabella Gustowska, Gerard Hemsworth, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Susan Hiller, John Hillard, Douglas Huebler, Tatsuo Ikeda, Jeff Instone, Jacek Jagielski, Sven-Ake Johansson, Joan Konas, Kristen Justensen, Margrit Kahl, Tadeusz Kalinowski, Jerzy Kałucki, Koji Kamoji, Hiroschi Kawathu, Alicja Kępińska, Robin Klassnik, Akira Komoto, Jerzy Kopeć, Andrzej Kostołowski, Jarosław Kozłowski, Mariusz Kruk, Laszlo Lakner, Rolf Langebartles, Olafur Larusson, Richard Long, Jerzy Ludwiński, Hanna Łuczak, George Maciunas, Zbigniew Makarewicz, Peter Mandrup, Joan Mathews, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Danuta Mączak, Barry McCallion, Ian McKeever, Yukiyoshi Moriya, Ian Murray, Avis Newman, Helmut Nickels, Ann Noel, Wojciech Olejniczak, Susan Ormerod, Tomasz Osiński, Andrzej Partum, Sef Peeters, Bogdan Perzyński, Mikołaj Poliński, Ludmiła Popiel-Fedorowicz, Michael Porter, Piotr Postaremczak, Maria Anna Potocka, Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Jerzy Rosołowicz, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Toshinori Saito, Barbara Schmidt-Heinz, Gabriele Schmidt-Heinz, Peter-Yorg Splettstosser, Helmut Streich, Kishio Suga, Piotr Szyhalski, Feliks Szyszko, Petr Stembera, Amikam Toren, Francesc Torres, Endre Tot, David Troostwyk, Andrzej Turowski, Jacek Tylicki, Janos Urban, Jiri Valoch, Tadeusz Walter, Franz Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, Andrzej Wielgosz, Emmett Williams, Tomasz Wilmański, Richard Wilson, Dorothee von Windhein, Krzysztof Wodiczko. Exh. brochure. Publisher. Exhibition. Exh. reviews: Skolimowska (Dwutygodnik), Kuc (rp.pl). (Polish)
  • Beyond Corrupted Eye: Akumulatory 2 Gallery, 1972-1990, Warsaw: Zachęta, 2012, 629 pp. Publisher. (English)

• "‘NET,’ Jarosław Kozłowski in Conversation with Klara Kemp-Welch", ArtMargins 1:2–3, Jun-Oct 2012, pp 14-35. [2] (English)

• Sieć: sztuka dialogu / Net: Art of Dialogue, ed. Bożena Czubak, Warsaw: Fundacja Profile, 2012, 223 pp. Exh. catalogue. [3] (Polish)/(English)

• Nieprzekupne oko. Galeria Akumulatory 2, 1972–1990, Cracow: MOCAK Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej w Krakowi, 2013, 50 pp. Exh. catalogue. Publisher. Exhibition. (Polish)/(English)

• Klara Kemp-Welch, "NET: An Open Proposition", ch 4 in Kemp-Welch, Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981, MIT Press, 2018, pp 97-123; repr., abbr., e-flux 98, Feb 2019. (English)

• Marek S. Bochniarz, "Artysta przyjmuje postawę...", kulturapoznan.pl, Jan 2020. (Polish)

Links

• Entry on Fluxus East
• Akumulatory 2 in the archive of Włodzimierz Borowski
• Wikipedia