The event took place on the 14th of January 2023 in the Contemporary Art Gallery in Opole and was hosted by Hanna Wróblewska – curator and art historian, former director of the National Gallery Zachęta
The movement of Poland around the Sun exhibition, opened in early December 2022 in the Contemporary Art Gallery in Opole, presents a fragment of Andrzej Tobis’ larger photography project titled A–Z (Educational Cabinets), founded on its’ reference to the Bildwörterbuch Deutsch und Polnisch, an illustrated German-Polish dictionary released in 1954 in the German Democratic Republic. A–Z is a ‘reverse-translation’ of the visual German-Polish dictionary, with the Polish-language version always being the point of reference for the image/word relationship. By mid-2022, over 1500 entries had been found and redefined since the start of the work in November 2006.
The Opole edition is an annual report presenting entries found in 2021. It was conceived as a view, analyzing the cycle from the perspective of the changing seasons.
The movement of Poland around the Sun exhibition is open until the 29th of January 2023.