SOCIAL ECOLOGY

group exhibition
DUOS FESTIVAL

July 29 – September 26, 2023

The National Museum in Szczecin – the Museum of Contemporary Art
ul. Staromłyńska 1 Szczecin, PL

https://muzeum.szczecin.pl/en/exhibitions

THE LISTENING BIENNIAL

July 6 – August 8, 2023

Istanbul, Berlin, Bergen, Belgrade, Bangkok, Cyberyaya, Quezon City, Hong Kong, Beirut, Cairo, Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, Buenos Aires, Kurdystan, Glasgow, Lisbon, Madrid, Munich, Toronto, Quebec City, Colombo

https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/

ZORKA WOLLNY’ RETROSPECTIVE IN DRESDEN

RETROSPECTIVE IN DRESDEN

https://kunsthausdresden.de/

PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR

https://itinerantinterludes.com/

RETROSPECTIVE IN DRESDEN

https://kunsthausdresden.de/

DUOS FESTIVAL
01-04 March 2023
Alliance Francois Mombasa
Water Sport Grounds Kilifi

https://tpaae.eu/index.php/projects-social-ecology/

Psychedelic Choir
Museum of Animals
February 2, 2023, 21:00 Uhr
YELLOW SOLO in LUXOOM LAB HALL
Plantagenstraße 30, 13347 Berlin

https://yellowsolo.de/exhibition/museum-of-animals/

Psychedelic Choir
for SPIKR live
Lørdag 14. Januar kl 13-14.30
Karl Johansgate 37, Oslo

https://www.facebook.com/spikersuppalydgalleri

Award for artistic achievements
for Zorka Wollny
from Die Stiftung Kunst und Musik für Dresden

https://www.mdr.de/kultur/dresden-kunstpreis-zorka-wollny-100.html

Psychedelic Choir
Strategien der Spinne
5. November 2022
Robotron Kantine Dresden DE

https://kunsthausdresden.de/

Imperfect Choir: EAST-WEST
NORTHEAST SOUTHWEST FESTIVAL
Sa 01.10., 21:30
Hellerau Theater, Dresden DE

https://www.hellerau.org/de/

NORDOST SÜDWEST / NORTHEAST SOUTHWEST
in der Robotron-Kantine und an verschiedenen Orten im Dresdner Stadtraum

24. September – 6. November 2022
https://kunsthausdresden.de

ŚŚŚŚŚ – Psychedelic Choir 
10 September 2022
22.00 Uhr
Kutna Hora, CZK
https://www.divadlox10.cz/

BLACK LAND – Performing Memory.
21 and 23 July 2022
19.00 – 22.00 Uhr
Neuen Museum, Berlin, DE
https://www.smb.museum

RUINS OF EMPIRE
Psychedelic Choir and Anna Clementi
concert
01st July 2022
Apartment Project
Berlin Neukolln

http://berlin.apartmentproject.org/

THINGS I DON’T TELL YOU
concert
20th May 2022
Heart of Glass and Chrysalis Centre for Change
St Helens UK

https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/

WE ARE ALL EMOTIONAL!
Performance festival: 05-07 May 2022
DUP39 – Divadlo X10
110 00 Prague
Czech Republic

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements

FUTUR21: SINGING MACHINE
Live concert
16 March 2022
Zeche Hannover, Bochum

https://www.museumsfernsehen.de

SINGING MACHINE
11 Channels sound installation
will be running for the next five years
in Zeche Hannover, Bochum
as part of the festival FUTUR 21

premiere: 16 March 2022

The record
LULLABIES TO WAKE UP
is finally there thanks to Inexhaustible Editions.
http://inexhaustible-editions.com/ie-047/

Psychedelic Choir performing at
BORSING AMP FESTIVAL
23 October 2021
Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge
Herzbergstrasse 79
10365 Berlin

http:/PSYCHEDELIC-CHOIR/

LET’S MAKE NOISE, SISTERS!
Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
04 September/ 31 October
Oldenburg DE
https://www.e-flux.com/

DUOS FESTIVAL
curated by: Zorka Wollny & Ciro G.
03/04 September
Kilifi, Kenya

https://duos-festival-2/news

I LOVE YOU, GOODBYE
sound installation
Nowy Teatr, Warszawa
02/04/05 September

//nowyteatr.org/zorkawollny

KEINE WOHNUNGSNOTH MEHR!
new sound installation at
Skulpturenpark Berlin-Zentrum
17-26 September 2021

http://www.skulpturenpark.org/

WE INSTIST! 
NALEGAMY!
the solo show at the MOS, Gorzow Wielkopolski PL
26 June – 26 August 2021

WE INSTIST!
libretto magazine

http://www.zorkawollny.net

SECONDARY ARCHIVE
is here for you to explore

https://secondaryarchive.org/

LET”S MAKE NOISE, SISTERS!
radical mucical
30 & 31 Oktober 2020 | 18.00, 19.30 |
Komuna Warszawa, Emilii Plater 31, Warszawa
http://NOISE-SISTERS/

Psychedelic Choir at
TAG DER CLUBKULTUR :
CLUBCOMMISSION X CTM FESTIVAL
3. Oktober 2020 | 13.30 – 22.00 | HKW Terrasse
https://www.clubcommission.de/

Nach dem Beaufsichtigen der Maschinen
– Was bedeutet Artbeit heute?
with a new commissioned work – CLOCKWORK
26 – 29 September 2020, Engelskirchen DE
https://www.engels-maschinen.de

DIGITAL CULTURES FESTIVAL;
The Sound Intervention Service
presenting „Quiet Rush”
17-25 Octber 2020
https://digitalcultures.pl/en/audio-programme

NADUŻYCIA – CONCERT
Koncert na 28 poduszek i zachód słońca
Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław
Park Popowicki, 11 September 2020
https://muzeumwspolczesne.pl/

SURVIVAL 18/ WASTELAND
presents the new sound piece
by Zorka Wollny & Christine Schorkhuber
10-13 September 2020
Przepompownia Port Miejski
Kleczkowska 52B, Wrocław

Take the virtual tour of the exhibition!
ZORKA WOLLNY
ENVIRONMENT: A FUTURE RETROSPECTIVE
curated by Joanna Warsza
at TRAFO/Trafostacja Sztuki
https://trafo.art/en/wirtualny-spacer

The 12th Mercosul Biennial
Porto Allegre / online edition
presenting Impossible Opera (2017)
April-July 2020
https://www.biennialfoundation.org/biennials/mercosul-biennial/

LET”S MAKE NOISE SISTERS!
presentation at
Sound Scene Festival; UnSeen
Washington D.C/ online edition
Sunday 28.06.2020 at 10:30 AM ET
https://soundscenefest.org/

ZORKA WOLLNY
ENVIRONMENT: A FUTURE RETROSPECTIVE
curated by Joanna Warsza

opening:
Saturday, February 15th, 14.00-20.00
exhibition runs until March 29th

TRAFO/Trafostacja Sztuki
Świętego Ducha 4, 70-205 Szczecin, Poland

The environment is typically a system of interpenetrating animate and inanimate elements. Zorka Wollny’s environment is acoustic, anthropogenic, artistic, degraded and animated. It comprises artworks, performances, and interactive installations, such as acoustic birds’ nests, sensory cushions made from buoys, and carpets of broken glass. The exhibition is mostly constructed from objects removed from their daily functions in Szczecin and surroundings, for example in a shipyard, paper mill, or cable factory. Some of these objects will be repaired and then restored to operation after the show closes.

The works presented at the exhibition were created in collaboration with the following artists: Sebastian Buczek, Christine Schörkhuber, Kalle Enkellman, Jasmine Guffond, Małgorzata Mazur, Psychedelic Choir, N.U Unruh (Einstürzende Neubauten).

Commissioned by TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin in collaboration with CTM Festival 2020 Berlin, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the steirischer herbst festival, with support from Senat Berlin, Szczecin Shipyard and Habia Cable.

ZORKA WOLLNY
ENVIRONMENT: A FUTURE RETROSPECTIVE
TRAFO/Trafostacja Sztuki
Świętego Ducha 4, 70-205 Szczecin, Poland

OPENING SCHEDULE

Saturday / 15.02.2020

14.00-20.00 – Open Door

15.30 – Introduction Stanisław Ruksza, Joanna Warsza, Zorka Wollny and team

16.00 – Curatorial guided tour by Joanna Warsza (PL)

16.00-17.00 – Coffee table conversations with the team Ada Kusiak, Jędrzej Wijas, Andrzej Witczak about preapring the show

16.30-18.00 – Drum workshop/conversation with N.U. Unruh/Einstürzende Neubauten

16.30-18.00 – Coffee table conversations with Ewa Majewska about the planet, feminism and weak resistance

17.00-17.30 – Curatorial guided tour by Joanna Warsza (EN)

18.00 – Concert N.U. Unruh/Einstürzende Neubauten

19.00 – Concert Psychedelic Choir

CTM Festival 2020

THE CEREMONY
Loïc Koutana, NSDOS, Zorka Wollny
24.01.2020
Studio 1, Kunstraum Bethanien
Mariannenpl. 2, Berlin

NOVAS FREQENCIAS
Festival 2019

THE CEREMONY
Loïc Koutana, NSDOS, Zorka Wollny
08.12.2019
MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Av. Infante Dom Henrique, 85 – Flamengo

„The ceremony” team was formed by: Koffi Mawunam Donaldo Prosper Anthony, Yayyyyy of Vasconcelos of Saints, Eduardo Abraham, Marta Bonimond, Matthew of Saints Globosat, Leandra Duarte Lambert Soares, Luiza Mascarenhas, Sis Lobato, Mariama Bah, Amanda Lebeis, Yuri of the wedge Nunes, Victor of Oliveira Silva Ferreira, Hudyson Luiz da Silva, Rodrigo with Hey, good morning, Alan Rodrigues.

JEMP FESTIVAL / photos: Natalia Janula

JEMP FESTIVAL
Wojtek Blecharz, Konrad Smoleński, Zorka Wollny
Swiss Church, London, Covent Garden
12 – 19 December 2019

jempfestival.com
Arts Territory, London

from first reviews of Steirischer Herbst;

A central question for most humanism and activism today is how to come together beyond populism while not simply preaching to the choir. On September 19, Grand Hotel Abyss opened in the midst of this shattered commons with composer Zorka Wollny’s Voicers—Oratorio for Five and a Listening Crowd (2019) performing the vacuity of political speech. From balconies of the Renaissance palace Landhaushof Graz, five people sang drowned-out arguments for unity across the political spectrum.

http://moussemagazine.it/grand-hotel-abyss, Frida Sandström

Zorka Wollny’s amusing take on the melody of political speech inaugurated the festival’s opening. Smartly dressed performers appeared sequentially on the balconies of renaissance Grazer Landhaus, chanting trivial phrases to the steady beats and eventually outshouting one another with semantically empty slogans. Anti-establishment voices of past and present joined their musical-like debate, yet can they be trusted? In the rambling cacophony, their claims blend with insincere promises.

https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/steirischer-herbst-festival, Natalia Dorocka

photos: Clara Wildberger, Mathias Völzke

from first reviews;

Overton Elementary School on the city’s South Side, a stunning 1962 modernist design from architects Perkins + Will whose ghostly halls were filled with the eerie bumps and clangs of Zorka Wollny’s sound work ‘Overtone Hive’.

Beyond buildings: the expanded vision of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Ian Volner

But it’s what a visitor hears while walking the hallways and stairwells that conveys the impact the school closings had on students. Speakers are conspicuously positioned with thick, black cords extending from them, playing sounds of footsteps and children talking. The installation called Overtone Hive is the work of artist Zorka Wollny.

In one classroom, visitors can hear audio of students’ voices expressing how the closing of Overton made them feel pushed aside and ignored.

„Why is our education less important than yours?” one child asks.

„We are people as well as you are. Look at yourself. You have flesh. So do I,” another voice pleads.

Chicago Architecture Biennial Reaches Into Closed School, Carrie Shepherd

Steirischer Herbst Festival
I have the honor to open the festival
with the concert VOICERS
opening; 19 September
festival runs until 13 November 2019
https://www.steirischerherbst.at/en/

Chicago Architecture Biennial
with the new installation
OVERTONE HIVE
(collaboration: Jasmine Guffond)
opening; 18 September
exhibition runs until 05 January 2020
https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org

QUIET RUSH
composition for the gold mine
– exhibition in Jozef Kollar Gallery
Nam.Sv.Troice 8, Banska Stiavnica, SK
Exhibition runs until 25 October 2019

listen to the composition on soundcloud

Concert of Ewa Justka and Zorka Wollny
FESTIVAL INSTALAKCJE 8
24 August 2019
Teatr Nowy, Warszawa
ul. Madalińskiego 10/16

POLYPHONIC FUTURE MANIFESTO
with the choir of The Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN
BIENNALE WARSZAWA
23 June 18;00
Marszalkowska Street 34/50

https://biennalewarszawa.pl/en/chor-polin/

Publication:

OPHELIAS. ICONOGRAPHY OF MADNESS
Designed by Post-Noviki
Published by Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź and Art Academy of Szczecin

more about the book:
msl.org.pl/ophelias–iconography-of-madness

QUIET RUSH
– concert in a former gold mine.
04 May 2019, 18. 30 and 19.30
Štôlňa Bartolomej, Banská Štiavnica

‚ An underground concert in the realm of darkness, a world carved by human ambition and chiseled by greed, inhabited by fire lizards and protected by gnomes. A composition for bodies, minerals, insects and bacterias vibrating in the Earth ́s intestines, out of the reach of Sun, order and rationality.’  Lucia Tkacova

THE PALACE OF RITUAL
9-11 May
Palazzo Donà Brusa
Campo San Polo 2177 Venezia
artsterritory.org

WE ALL MEET AT THE SAME PLACE
12 April–2 June,
BWA Wrocław Główny Gallery
we-will-all-meet-at-the-same-place

Artist talk by Zorka Wollny; 10 May 18.00

concert in frame of From Breath to Matter
Friday, 11 January 2019, 20:00
Kunsthaus KuLe, Auguststr. 10, Berlin Mitte

RESEARCH RESIDENCY
Arts Territiry London/
Pejman Foundation, Tehran
19-29 November 2018

ARTIST TALK
22 November 2018, 5pm
New Media Society, Tehran

ZEITGAISTLOS
curated by Eszter Lázár und Edina Nagy
14.09.2018 – 03.11.2018
Knoll Galerie Wien
Gumpendorfer Straße 18, 1060 Wien

Opening: Donnerstag, 13. September 2018, 18h
Zorka Wollny and Christine Schörkhuber
LULLABIES TO WAKE UP – concert

sound mix from Viennese recordings by Christine: