Agnieszka Polska exhibits new multi-channel video installation at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin. BMW is exclusive partner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie.

Berlin. From September 27, 2018 – March 3, 2019 the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin presents a new multi-channel video installation of the winner of the ninth Preis der Nationalgalerie Agnieszka Polska (born 1985 in Lublin, lives and works in Berlin). Under the title “The Demon’s Brain” the artist combines realistic film and animated sequences in her especially for her solo exhibition produced work.

The Preis der Nationalgalerie is enabled by the Freunde der Nationalgalerie and since twelve years supported by BMW to reward the winner with a solo exhibition as well as an accompanying publication.

“The Demon’s Brain”
Agnieszka Polska visually-rich universe of works addresses the state of the world today and our role and responsibility within it. For her latest project Polska takes as her starting point a historical correspondence from the fifteenth century between Mikołaj Serafin, the official who governed the Polish salt mines, his workers, and a web of creditors and debtors. In an unprecedented occurrence the mines were leased to Serafin by the king and functioned as an early form of capitalist entity within the feudal system.

Polska’s immersive sound and video installation presents the story of the illiterate messenger delivering Serafin’s letters, who one day becomes stranded in the forest. Here a sudden and unexpected encounter offers the protagonist a hallucinatory vision that merges the contemporary notions of unsustainable usage of raw materials and information-based capital with Christian apocalyptic theology.

For more information and press photographs to download, see the press area at our websites www.preisdernationalgalerie.de or www.smb.museum

The Preis der Nationalgalerie was enabled by the Freunde der Nationalgalerie eighteen years ago. Since twelve years BMW supports the Preis der Nationalgalerie as a long-term partner, as well as the Förderpreis für Filmkunst in cooperation with the Deutsche Filmakademie.

Press Conference
11:00 am Tuesday September 25, 2018
The artist will be present.
To attend the press conference, please send an email by Monday, September 24, 2018 to: presse@freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de

Opening
8:00 pm Wednesday September 26, 2018

Opening Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Thursday 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Saturday, Sunday 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Mondays closed

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