Zorka Wollny

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Zorka Wollny is a composer and a theatre artist who creates site-specific works which respond to their architectural surroundings. She collaborates—in a director-like mode—with musicians, actors, and dancers and members of the local communities she works in.

Wollny’s collaborative production style often involves public rehearsals and workshops in which she creates structures of cooperation with individuals as well as groups and communities, such as composers, students, actors and activists. In one of her most recent works, “Unmögliche Oper” (2017), she involved several choirs and citizens of the German town Oldenburg in an exploration of the voice as a tool of expression and public debate. “Order” (2015) was composed for the Teutonic Castle in Swiecie, Poland, a 15-person volunteer choir, three percussionists and electronics. In "Ophelias. Iconography of Madness" (2012), presented at the Museum of Art in Łódź, Wollny staged a performance of eleven actresses, representing the figure of Ophelia as depicted in several historical theater productions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In "Oratorio for Orchestra and Warsaw Citizens Choir" (2011), developed for the Warsaw Autumn international festival of contemporary music, Wollny devised a concentrated, polyphonic manifestation in the city centre of Warsaw, that was produced in collaboration with NGO’s and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and is based on the political manifestos and agendas of the participating activists.

 

 

CTM 2020 Exhibition Opening: Interstitial Spaces

KQB Kunstraum, Fri 24.01.2020, 19:00

With works by Sophia Bulgakova; Pau Delgado Iglesias; Anke Eckardt; Richard Garet; Dana Gingras; Wesley Goatley; Loïc Koutana, NSDOS, Zorka Wollny; Nural Moser; Marcus Schmickler; Krista Belle Stewart; and Michael Wick.

CTM 2020 Kick-Off

KQB Studio 1, Fri 24.01.2020, 19:00

Mo Chan, Peter Kirn & Tad Ermitaño, Loïc Koutana, NSDOS, Zorka Wollny

Interstitial Spaces

KQB Kunstraum, Sat 25.01.2020, 10:00

CTM 2020 Exhibition

Interstitial Spaces

KQB Kunstraum, Sun 26.01.2020, 10:00

CTM 2020 Exhibition

Interstitial Spaces

KQB Kunstraum, Mon 27.01.2020, 10:00

CTM 2020 Exhibition

Interstitial Spaces

KQB Kunstraum, Tue 28.01.2020, 10:00

CTM 2020 Exhibition

Interstitial Spaces

KQB Kunstraum, Wed 29.01.2020, 10:00

CTM 2020 Exhibition

Interstitial Spaces

KQB Kunstraum, Thu 30.01.2020, 10:00

CTM 2020 Exhibition

Interstitial Spaces

KQB Kunstraum, Fri 31.01.2020, 10:00

CTM 2020 Exhibition

Interstitial Spaces

KQB Kunstraum, Sat 01.02.2020, 10:00

CTM 2020 Exhibition

Interstitial Spaces

KQB Kunstraum, Sun 02.02.2020, 10:00

CTM 2020 Exhibition

Uncanny Valleys of a Possible Future

Kunstraum, Fri 26.01.2018, 19:00

Opening of the CTM 2018 exhibition

CTM 2018 Opening Concert

HAU1, Sat 27.01.2018, 19:00

Zorka Wollny – Dissent, Jace Clayton presents Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner

CTM 2015 Exhibition Opening

Kunstraum, Fri 23.01.2015, 19:00

Works by Anita Ackermann, Anke Eckardt, Claire Tolan, Derek Holzer, Emptyset, Graw Böckler, Konrad Smoleński, Matthijs Munnik, Mario de Vega, Nik Nowak, Zimoun, Zorka Wollny