MONIKA DROŻYŃSKA – Embroider yourself!

19 May 2012, MUSEUMS AT NIGHT,
20.00 – 24.00
Arsenal Gallery, 2 Mickiewicza St.

The project Embroider yourself! is aimed at all those who are angry.The embroidery will be a solution to express negative feelings, and an enormous fabric will be a space prepared by Monika Drozyńska. The artist will help all those who are unskilled in needlework. The accumulation of embroidery will make the negative words illegible.

Monika Drożyńska is a designer, performer, author of installations, cultural manager. Her works combine tradition with modernity; she is interested in dependencies and connections between private and public space. Participant of exhibitions, national and international projects (including Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk, National Museum in Kraków, Ethnographic Museum in Kraków, MuseumsQuartier in Vienna). She cooperates with the National Museum in Kraków, conducting a cycle of workshops about contemporary art for adults. Co-owner of “Punkt – epicentrum sztuki ubioru.” Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Visegrad Artist Residency Program. http://monika.drozynska.pl/ 

Educational project “Arsenal Playground 2012” is co-financed from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.