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Professor Wieslaw Karolak , born 1949, Poland, wkarolak@polbox.com , wkarolak@wshe.lodz.pl , http://www.karolak.wshe.lodz.pl/karolakwww/index_ang.html


Field of activity:

- Art studies broadened by studies in selected problems in development psychology of children and youth and studies in pedagogy define the kinds of activities-from pedagogical work through artistic activity carried out with children and young people to own artistic expression.

- expressions realized in the form of action, performance, happening, theatre, film, artistic workshops

- A number of happenings, actions, performances, workshops in several places in Poland and abroad; mainly in Germany, Finland, England, Austria

- Exhibitions of work presented in museums and galleries of: Lódz, Warsaw, Poznan, Berlin, Chicago, Duseldorf, Helsinki, Prague, Paris, Tokyo


More important realizations:

- 2003: "DIALOG", Lódz

- 2002: "Thing positively", Lódz, Weimar (Germany)

- 2001: "CARPE DIEM" Weimar (Germany)

- 2000: "FUTURE VESSEL", Haga, (Holand)

- 1999: "Pyramid" Weimar (Germany)

- 1998: "Future Vessel" and "United Water Ceremony", Stocholm (Sweden) international action for/with 3000 children from all over the world".
"The OPEN WINDOW of HISTORY", Kazimierz (Poland), International Summer Academy, , InSEA-LAG Kunst Schleswig-Holstein,
"PURE BEAUTY-PURE GOODNESS", Zalecze (Poland) International Spring Academy, InSEA - LAG Kunst Schleswig-Holstein,

- 1997- 2000: "PYRAMID 2000" - (2000pictures for year 2000), Weimar (Germany) international action for/with 2000 children from all over Europe

- 1997- 1998: "VADEMECUM", cycle of actions, Poznan (Poland)

- 1997: "AIR", International Summer Art Academ , (Poland) InSEA-LAG Kunst

- 1996: "WATER" International Summer Art Academy, founder and one of the leaders, (Poland) InSEA-LAG Kunst
"PENDULUM", workshop for/with children in Poznan (Poland)

- 1995: "TREES" workshop and art action, Chemnitz and Weimar (Germany)
"PENDULUM" workshop and art installation in Scheersberg (Germany)
"FIRE- International Summer Art Academy InSEA", workshop and performance, (Poland), PK InSEA-LAG Kunst

- 1994: "Kalewala in Black & White" workshop and performance, (Finland)
"MASKS" workshops and performances, Poland, Finland, Germamy
" I will sing about the EARTH", International Summer Art Academy, 8-days workshop and performance (Poland) PK InSEA-LAG Kunst,

- 1993: "ELEMENTS - about Earth, Water, Aird, Fire", 7-days action for/with 3000 children and young people, Poznan (Poland)
"TREES" workshop for/with children, Katowice Poland)
"LIGHT CARNIVAL", socjological-artistic action, Wolverchampton (England)

- 1992: "I am like I am", performance with young people, Weimar (Germany)
"The Expulsion of Rats from the City", workshop and performance for/with young people, Wolverhampton (England )

- 1991: "Water", painting action, Berlin (Germany)
" The Expulsion of Rats from the City", Prague (Tschehrepublic)

- 1990: "Freedom Square - The Expulsion of Rats from the City",
7-days action in town with 5000 children and adults, Lódz (Poland)

- 1989: An exhibition of works and actions, Munich and Munster (Germany)

- 1988: An exhibition of works and actions, InSEA Congress, Stocholm (Sweden)

- 1986: Workshop with young designers, Dessau, School of design Bauhaus, (Germany)
A series of workshops for/with children, Experimental School Santlerinc (Hungry)

- 1985: A series of didactic workshops, International Design Congres, Moscow (USSR)
pARTner`s realization " Art Action for/with Children", Lódz (Poland)

- 1984: work in Crea-Design Studio, designing childrens playground, Helsinki (Finland)

- 1983: Quadrennial of scenery, exhibition of works and theatrical performance, Prague,
"pARTner" an artistic program signed by Wieslaw Karolak and four other artists,

- 1982: "LEAVES" an artistic action, Lahti ( Finland )

- 1981: "Not only a Spider Web" action with thread, Dusseldorf (Germany)

- 1980: "COLOR" the workshop conducted with children, (20000 sq. meters of clothes), Kazimierz (Poland).

- 1979: "From Winter to Winter" an author's theater, Arlekin Theater, Lódz,

- 1978: "Forms Known - Forms Imagined" artistic action with natural objects, Museum of Art in Lódz (Poland)

- 1977: "Play with Fabric", 7-days action with young peolel, (the town park with 9000 sq meters feet of clothes and 300 children, Gross-Gerau (Germany)
"A Game with Boxes", an action with children, Poznan, Sopot (Poland)

- 1976: "Artistic Games", series of didactic actions, Museum of Art in Lódz (Poland)
"Artistic Games", a cycle of artistic actions, Biennale of Art for Children, Poznan

- 1975: "Playing with boxes", artistic action with children, the center of town, 300 children, 300 cardboard boxes, Gross-Gerau (Germany)

- 1974: "Construction of Colorful World", graduate thesis work, artistic action with children, the center of town, action devoted to the International Children's Day cooperated with "Initiative GG-74" Gross-Gerau (Germany)

Films:

- "Play" Semafor, Lódz 1978, "Hay" Semafor, Lódz 1979, "Color" Semafor, Lódz 1980,

- "School in other way" 10 Films about Art Education, TVP Warszawa 1992

- "TREES", "MASKS", "MY BOOK", "PAPER WORLD", "Actions for/with Children", Series of 6 documental Films TVP Warszawa, Katowice, Lódz 1994-1995

- "WATER"1996, "AIR" 1997, "PURE BEAUTY - PURE GOODNESS" 1998 TVP Lódz

- "The open WINDOW of HISTORY" (ocumentation from realizations of the Summer Academies) TVP Lódz 1998

 

Image 01 and 02 : “Dialog 2003”

 

 

Image 03 and 04 : “Piramida 2003 Graz”

 

 

Image 05 and 06 : “Think Positively 2001”