Paweł Kowalewski

TOP 10 Frieze – Polish artists at the best European exhibitions

On the list of the 10 best artistic events of 2020 selected by the recognized British magazine Frieze, there was the exhibition “Tell Me about Yesterday Tomorrow” organized by the history documentation center in Munich, NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, where Paweł Kowalewski’s famous work entitled “Europeans Only ” was exhibited.

Photograph taken by Kowalewski in 2010 at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and shows the Pretoria railway station from the apartheid era (1992). The slogan “Europeans Only” symbolizes a system that divides people based on race and skin color.

The Munich exhibition, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, was nominated for the top 10 in Europe together with projects such as the exhibition “Museum for Preventive Imagination: Editorial” organized by the Italian MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome or the individual presentation of Jeremy Shaw’s work at the Paris Center Pompidou.
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