- Intervention
- Public Art
Between
Piotr Kolanko
3 July 2026 19:00 – 5 July 2026 19:00
The work submitted to 48-Stunden-Neukölln combines the ideas of a screen and a passage, whose interpretation depends on the viewer’s perception and bodily presence. Installed in public space and accessible throughout the festival, the object can be observed from the outside, entered, circled, used as temporary shelter, or crossed. In this way, the work activates a dynamic relationship between inside, outside, and the in-between.
The surface of the object is covered with an intuitively created ornament drawing from primal art, folk traditions, and post-graffiti practices. The ornament functions not as decoration, but as an unstable visual language that destabilizes the very notion of boundary.
The surface of the object is covered with an intuitively created ornament drawing from primal art, folk traditions, and post-graffiti practices. The ornament functions not as decoration, but as an unstable visual language that destabilizes the very notion of boundary.
Biography
Piotr Kolanko
Peter was born in Jasło, a city with an immense historical charge, 97% destroyed during the war. Bombed and depopulated, the city was rebuilt by the hands of its inhabitants after the war’s end. This history, its emotional charge, and symbolic meaning remain very much alive within the city. The motif of return, reconstruction, and the search for identity is highly significant in the artist’s work. As a teenager, he became interested in symbols and the psychology of the depths; this was a natural consequence of seeking the foundations of consciousness structure and resulted from the desire to construct a new identity. His art is full of intuition, premonition, mysticism, archetypes, and symbols, deeply rooted in the aesthetics of decay, reconstruction, destruction.
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