to those exhibitions, we really need to see something which would make us, curators
and professionals, curious. Not yet everything has been done already or if so nobody
knew it, like in the cases of some artists from Eastern Europe or Latin America, let’s
say, because their old pieces are not yet discovered.
All of a sudden after half a year when I really didn’t want to do anything serious in
the profession, I got the proposal to do another biennial; because if Moscow can
have the biennial, why not Poland have a biennial. I was not really keen to do that
but – on the other hand - this is the only thing I can do as a professional. I’m not the
only curator; the city of Poznan proposed me to cooperate with two other people.
They didn’t say “yes” yet, me neither. The story is that I live in a country where we
don’t have the Ministry of Culture and Communication, we have the Ministry of
Culture and National Heritage which means it looks backward not forward. This is
the official policy of the whole country called historical policy, memory of the history.
In these circumstances, despite of the international global context, I have to bear in
mind also the local political context of the country which was fighting a very long
time for democracy and now is losing it. That historical background which makes
Poland close around its own painful history again makes me think about that local
context which is now totally different from the period when I made the “Europe
Unknown”. That exhibition was made in 1991, in the situation when Poland finally
opened up to the world. It was before the Soviet Union broke down into pieces.
Therefore I figured I would never mention the nationality of the artist but the city he
came from. The city gave another identity than the country and therefore, when we
invited the artist from Tallinn it didn’t mean it was a Soviet artist, but an Estonian
who, as a matter of fact, was just living in the very big country. I invited artists from
Edinborugh, Dublin and London, from Barcelona and Madrid. I understood that the
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çok önemli ama bizi esasen o sergilere çeken fley bu düflünce decurrency1il, bizim gerçekten
de bizi, yani küratörleri ve profesyonelleri merakland›racak bir fleyler görmeye
gereksinimimiz var. Henüz her fley yap›lm›fl decurrency1il, ya da yap›lm›flsa bile kimse
bilmiyor, sözgelimi Docurrency1u Avrupa ve Latin Amerikal› baz› sanatç›lar›n durumundaki
gibi, çünkü onlar›n henüz keflfedilmemifl eski parçalar› var.
Meslekte gerçekten de ciddi bir fley yapmay› düflünmedicurrency1im yar›m y›ldan sonra bir-
denbire, baflka bir bienal düzenlemek üzere teklif ald›m. Çünkü Moskova’n›n bienali
varsa, Polonya’n›n neden olmas›n? Bunu yapmaya asl›nda pek de istekli decurrency1ildim -
ama öte yandan- bir profesyonel olarak yapabildicurrency1im tek fley bu. Tek küratör ben
decurrency1ilim, Poznan kenti, iki baflka kifliyle iflbirlicurrency1i yapmam› önerdi. Onlar henüz “Ta-
mam” demediler, ben de. Hikaye flu ki, ben Kültür ve ‹letiflim Bakanl›currency1› decurrency1il, Kültür
ve Milli Miras Bakanl›currency1› olan bir ülkede yafl›yorum, bu da ileriye decurrency1il geriye bak›ld›currency1›
anlam›na geliyor. Bu, tüm ülkenin tarih politikas› olarak adland›r›lan resmi polti-
tikas›, tarihi bellecurrency1i. Bu flartlar alt›nda, uluslararas› küresel bacurrency1lama karfl›n, bir za-
manlar çok uzun süre demokrasi için savaflm›fl ama flimdilerde bunu yitirmekte olan
ülkemin, yerel siyasal bacurrency1lam›n› da dikkate almam gerekiyor. Polonya’n›n tekrar
kendi ac›l› geçmifline kapanmas›na yol açan tarihi geçmifli, beni “Bilinmeyen Avrupa”
sergisini yapt›currency1›m dönemdekinden tümüyle farkl› yerel bacurrency1lam hakk›nda düflünmeye
yönlendiriyor. O sergi, 1991’de Polonya’n›n en sonunda dünyaya aç›ld›currency1› günlerde
gerçeklefltirildi. Bu Sovyetler Birlicurrency1i’nin parçalar›na ayr›lmas›ndan önceydi. Dolay›-
s›yla kesinlikle sanatç›n›n ulusunu belirtmemeye, sadece geldicurrency1i flehrin ismini belirt-
meye karar verdim. fiehir, ülkeden farkl› bir kimlik veriyordu, dolay›s›yla Talin’den
bir sanatç› davet etticurrency1imizde, bu onun Sovyet bir sanatç› olducurrency1u anlam›na gelmiyor-
du, asl›nda sadece çok büyük bir ülkede yaflayan Estonyal› bir sanatç› olducurrency1u anla-
m›na geliyordu. Edinburg, Dublin ve Londra’dan, Barselona ve Madrid’den sanatç›lar
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