Private is an unorthodox large-format installation putting on display Tadeusz Kantor’s theatrical costumes from the Cricoteka Collection. This context-based show reveals the total creator Kantor was, developing theatrical situations by building up tension and an individual approach to characters, forms, and meanings.

The point of departure for the exhibition is a novel perspective on costumes as autonomous works of art, deserving to be given the status as sculptures, while being irrevocably connected with actors’ corporeality. Dynamically arranged, the costumes acquire a life of their own. They will narrate the story of Tadeusz Kantor’s theatre of ceaseless motion, of its functioning.                                                          

Curators: Justyna Droń, Bogdan Renczyński
Coordination: Justyna Droń
Design: Bogdan Renczyński
Editing: Magdalena Link-Lenczowska
Translations: Viktoriia Steblyk, Monika Ujma
Accompanying programme: Wiktor Bury, Justyna Droń, Barbara Pasterak, Anna Rejowska
Lighting and multimedia: Mariusz Gąsior, Maciej Jagoda
Assembly: Marcin Drzewiński F.h.u, Mariusz Gąsior, Paweł Panic, Bogdan Renczyński, Tomasz Stefaniak
Accessibility: Barbara Pasterak
Graphic design: Weird Gentleman
Promotion: Jakub Wydra, Natalia Żabińska

 The Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor Cricoteka |
2-4 Nadwiślańska Street, 30-527 Krakow | Poland