NEWS2022
The 16th Lyon Biennale: manifesto of fragility positions fragility at the heart of a generative form of resistance that is emboldened by the past, responsive to the present and primed for the future. In acknowledging fragility as one of few universally felt truths in our divided world, the Biennale assembles a host of creative practices […]
CONSTITUTION FOR THE CHORUS OF POLES is presented in National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), at group exhibit STATECRAFT. SHAPING THE STATE. (16 Jun 2022- 30 October 2022). STATECRAFT is an international group exhibition that explores the underlying mechanisms at work in the engineering of the nation state as we know it today, and the challenges […]
07.06.2022 Marta Górnicka has been awarded The Bertolt Brecht Visiting Professorship at University Leipzig. Bertolt Brecht Professorship is awarded to the outstanding artists from the fields of theatre, dance, performance and media art. The visiting professors enrich teaching and research at The Institute of Theatre Studies with their international artistic expertise and their unique working […]
Jun 11 2022 STILL LIFE A CHORUS FOR ANIMALS, PEOPLE AND ALL OTHER LIVES will be played on the stage of Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Whose life counts as life? Whose life is still a life? Democratic societies are based on the segregation, digital control and exploitation of existences considered superfluous. Every day we are witness […]
Whose life counts as life?Whose life is still a life? Democratic societies are based on the segregation, digital control and exploitation of existences considered superfluous. Every day we are witness of the brutal denial of the status of living entities to successive groups of beings. STILL LIFE is a choral manifesto of re-invented society, a call for a […]
26.05.2022 STILL LIFE was presented during International Theatre Festival “Presente Indicativo” at STUDIO MELATO at Piccolo Teatro di Milano. It was Italian premiere of the performance. Whose life counts as life?Whose life is still a life? Democratic societies are based on the segregation, digital control and exploitation of existences considered superfluous. Every day we are witness of the […]
AT THE TIME WHEN UKRAINE CRIES OUT, we need theatre with its power of transformation. The power to remember what is most monstrous. We need practices brought by the CHORUS- community practices, healing. A theatre of new forms of solidarity. And new rituals. (Marta Górnicka for Theater der Zeit)
STILL LIFE from MAXIM GORKI THEATRE will be played during International Theatre Festival in Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Italy, 26, 27, 28 May. SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE!
The Political Voice Institute in Maxim Gorki Theatre is a workshop centre for the use of the collective voice/body and language. It is a social laboratory, which seeks to build open, diverse communities and strengthen strategies for resistance to and criticism of violence in social life. It researches and develops practices in the domain of […]
The Political Voice Institute was launched in September 2019 at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin as the continuation of an exploration of contemporary chorus theatre of Marta Górnicka. The institute is a workshop centre for the use of the collective voice/body and language. It is a social laboratory, which seeks to build open, diverse […]
March 13 2022 STILL LIFE A CHORUS FOR ANIMALS, PEOPLE AND ALL OTHER LIVES, newest project of Marta Górnicka will be presented on the stage of Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Whose life counts as life? Whose life is still a life? Democratic societies are based on the segregation, digital control and exploitation of existences considered superfluous. Every […]
January 12 2021 STILL LIFE A CHORUS FOR ANIMALS, PEOPLE AND ALL OTHER LIVES, newest project of Marta Górnicka will be presented on the stage of Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Whose life counts as life? Whose life is still a life? Democratic societies are based on the segregation, digital control and exploitation of existences considered superfluous. Every day […]