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Mikołaj Sobczak, Gossips. Bar Tore Confidential
Extending his exploration of queer migration, exile, and underground networks, Sobczak weaves together personal and historical encounters, using gossip as a fleeting yet powerful means of community-building and rewriting the past.
Dates and times
April 10 to 21, all day
Address
Bar Tore, Port of Durrës
Gossips. Bar Tore Confidential is a large curtain created by artist Mikołaj Sobczak for Bar Tore, conceived as the backdrop for an ongoing theatrical performance. Extending his exploration of queer migration, exile and underground networks, Sobczak weaves together personal and historical encounters, using gossip as a fleeting but powerful means of building community and rewriting the past.
In Gossips. Bar Tore Confidential, the artist revisits, encounters and reimagines the stories of Andrei Korlialov, Suzette Robichon, Eva Kotchever, Hella Olstein, Józef Czapski, Mikołaj Nowak-Rogoziński, Sergey Nabokov, D Harding, Wojciech Karpiński and Colette Laumière as friends, artists and historical figures, living or deceased. Drawing on history and personal narratives, their stories unfold in fragmented recollections, shaping an erratic navigation of the world and embracing the ephemeral nature of everyday life.
Portrait of Joeri Bosma: Joeri Bosma
Mikołaj Sobczak
Mikołaj Sobczak is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, video, ceramics and performance. Sobczak's work explores themes of political memory and the narratives of marginalized communities, often incorporating figures from queer and transgender activism into his surreal, collaged compositions.
His works have been exhibited in institutions such as the Ludwig Forum in Aachen (2023), the Kunsthalle in Münster (2022-2023), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (2021), the MUDAM in Luxembourg (2021) and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020). Sobczak's works are included in collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf.
Mikołaj Sobczak studied at theAcadémie des beaux-arts in Warsaw, at Mirosław Bałka's Studio of Spatial Activities, and was a scholarship holder at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2019, he completed his master's studies at Kunstakademie Münster under the direction of Aernout Mik.
From 2021 to 2023, Sobczak is artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2021, he received Poland's prestigious Paszport Polityki Award .
