Love Me Or Leave Me
Multimedia exhibition dedicated to the history of emergence of the State School of Fine Arts in Sopot 1945, located in the original Villa (Willa Bergera) where all started. Love Me Or Leave Me exhibition celebrated the 70th anniversary of the State School of Fine Arts in Sopot, that became later the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. The project was based on - created for this occasion - music, video, animation, and archival photo projections combined with installation and performance. The idea was to bring back the crazy times of after the war, when artists with different background came to Sopot to start a new life and a new Art School.
Visualisation of the exhibition Love Me Or Leave Me at Willa Bergera, Sopot
Katarzyna Swinarska (curator) and Michał Jacaszek (musician) talking about the musical side of the project Love Me Or Leave Me at Willa Bergera. Phot. Jerzy Bartkowski
Archival photo projection on the wall of Willa Bergera
Cobweb - installation by Adrianna Sitkiewicz at Willa Bergera
Video & animation - installation by Tomasz Wlaźlak
Video by Elvin Flamingo
Video-animation installation by Tomasz Wlaźlak
Opening of the exhibition Love Me or Leave Me at Berger’s Villa, performance by Anna Steller, life music by Michal Jacaszek and Irek Wojtczak. Phot. by Jerzy Bartkowski.
Photographs from the archives of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, thanks to the courtesy of the rector of Academy of Fine Arts and Iwona Kowalska - the archivist.