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Program:
Vitalina Louis Mahomedova: Dec 5-21, 2025
Bogumił Misala: Jan 15-22, 2026
Darsha Hewitt: Jan 23 – Feb 8, 2026
Aleksandra Chciuk: Feb 12-28, 2026
Final gig: Feb 26, 2026
Mikro Orchestra + Vitalina Louis Mahomedova
We are launching a series of musical and performative experiments with electromechanical sound installations at the Instrumentarium exhibition.
Throughout the changing exhibition, elements of Instrumentarium will inspire artistic activities, including new compositions, improvised concerts, collective events, performances, and workshops.
Composers will take on the challenge of giving new life to recovered musical devices. The piano, one of the most recognizable symbols of classical music, will be suspended above the heads of the audience and turned upside down, as if the world of music had been turned upside down for a moment. The instrument, which usually marks the center point of a musical performance, will become an object floating in the gallery space.
The piano, originally crafted by Jacek Kozłowski and brought to life by Paweł Janicki’s software in 2010 for Robert Cahen’s Chopinpiano exhibition, is once again in the hands of contemporary composers and sound artists.
The task of the artists participating in the project – Vitalina Mahomedova, Bogumił Misala, Darsha Hewitt, Mikro Orchestra, and Aleksandra Chciuk – is to rediscover the piano for us: as an object that can tell us not only about music, but also about the contemporary approach to art, technology, and history.
Separated and modified elements of a suspended and rotated piano, equipped with open source electronics and software, along with other fragments of devices, such as old consoles, which until recently were considered useless, will become tools for new forms of expression.
The project is a manifesto of an ecological approach to technology, showing that revitalization and creative use of existing resources can be more visionary than creating new products.
