Wanda Czełkowska’s sculptures are currently on view at the Stavanger Museum of Fine Arts (@stavangerkunstmuseum) in Norway. The exhibition brings together Polish women artists who challenged traditional conceptions of sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s.
At a time when political, economic and patriarchal structures limited the lives of people in Poland, many artists created very radical and political works. Using experimental techniques and new materials that were often sourced from everyday life, they broke away from conventional ideas about the human body. They explored the body as a plastic material, a place for resistance, transformation and freedom.
The exhibition, titled The Plastic Body, features works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Wanda Czełkowska, Barbara Falender, Zofia Kulik, Teresa Murak, Ewa Pachucka, Ewa Partum, Maria Pinińska-Bereś, and Alina Szapocznikow.
