Opening
The Flanders Architecture Institute and the Red Star Line Museum are pleased to invite you for the vernissage and presentation of the exhibition and book Waiting Rooms for Architecture on 30 March at 8pm in the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp.
architect-artist
Olchowska trained as an architect and makes models, drawings and collages for a number of architectural firms, as representations of their designs. She also creates autonomous work in which she approaches architecture in perhaps its purest form, as a mental exercise for imagining the past and future of places. Mainly through printmaking, she demonstrates that architecture is a cultural practice that goes far beyond pure building.
exhibition
With her architectural interventions, Olchowska challenges the museum practice. At the same time, she interacts with the museum's collection. She seeks connections with places where the history of the Red Star Line buildings is most tangible. In the large warehouse, where passengers left their luggage for safekeeping, you will discover new and old work that conjures up forgotten stories, ruins and dreams.
Publication
Waiting Rooms for Architecture is an exhibition based on the publication Waiting Rooms of Architecture - Malgorzata Maria Olchowska. The book is built around a text by Vlad Ionescu (Faculty of Architecture and Art, PXL/UHasselt) in which he reflects on the work of Malgorzata Maria Olchowska, from 2009 to today. This is supplemented and illustrated by means of a visual essay in which Olchowska shows her work of the last five years. The design of the book is done by Ward Heirwegh.
30.03.2023
8pm
free, but registration is necessary
Red Star Line Museum
Montevideostraat 3
2000 Antwerp
Malgorzata Maria Olchowska
Vlaams Architectuurinstituut en Red Star Line Museum
de Vlaamse Gemeenschap
