Curator: Tomasz Wendland

Mediators is the title of the exhibition which has been opened on the 20th of May 2010 in the National Museum in Warsaw. The exhibition take place in a specially-designed container building situated in the yard of the Museum where 21 artists from all over the world show their works. The works expose various areas of experience, sensitivity and reflection, for us often are hidden, ignored or diminished.

One of the important aspects of the exhibition is the multiculturalism through which we can experience a vast array of approaches toward often similar phenomena in the world such as the anonymity of the human being, addiction to the economical and cultural globalization, the search for own identity.

The works of artists such as Marie Jo Lafontaine from Belgium, Richard T Walter from United Kindgdom, Jaan Toomik from Estonia, Hye Rim Lee from Korea and New York, Jarosław Kozłowski from Poznań, Miao Xiaochun from China, Fred Wilson or Braco Dimitijevic will force us to give up our personal, thus, the only right viewpoint on the world. They will attempt to convince us to seek other ways of dialogue with the reality; to take into account different stances originated from the inner virtue, unintelligible because of different language, culture, look or skin color. The works will be also engaged in a reciprocal dialogue, extremely important because one work will be a critical review of another, its complement or questioning. The exhibition will be rich in various references to the recurrent questions concerning human identity, sovereignty, exclusiveness which are manifested in the fear of death, loneliness, the need for love, religiousness, the need for acceptance and tolerance. The works will often present people entangled in consumerism, indoctrination, standardization and constant surveillance. The exhibition is more than only the show of invited artists. It becomes the bridge between the present and the past encoded in the galleries and magazines of the National Museum. The idea of mediations has already been manifested by the decision to construct such an Although the exhibition communicates the fears and needs of the present time, it invites to the interiors of the National Museum in order to confront them with those that were encoded thousands and hundreds years ago in the works of art originated from many periods and cultures.