Łódź Kaliska (art group)
Łódź Kaliska is a Polish avant-garde art group; it was founded in 1979 in Łódź . She has been doing so-called staged photography since the mid-1980s. She also organizes provocative happenings. Members of the group are: Marek Janiak , Andrzej Kwietniewski , Adam Rzepecki , Andrzej Wielogórski and Andrzej Świetlik .
She created in a scandalous atmosphere. She wanted to study The Aspects of Vision and Photo Media Registration. It derives from the traditions of conceptualism. Between 1980 and 1981 she changed her program to more dadaist and anarchist. The assumption was to combine creativity with life. It attacked the Polish neo-avant-garde and ridiculed the socialist reality. Members of the group wrote a lot of manifestos during this time. In the 1980s, its activities were concentrated in independent galleries in Łódź. At the exhibition “Polish Intermedial Photography in the 1980s” in Poznań in 1988, she showed staged erotic photos and a film entitled “Freedom, no thanks”. The exhibition ended with a scandal and also an artistic success. It was then that the first “Muse” appeared (Zofia Łuczko-Fijałkowska and Małgorzata Kapczyńska-Dopierała). Actions have focused on the subject of photography. She has also made her own versions of famous films and pictures. Her style has been grotesque and satirical since the 1990s. Their goal was constant play. In a formal sense, her pictures are based on photos from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The group often touches on topics about the social and religious criticism of Polish reality. In the second half of the 1990s she got into mainstream culture through realizations for television. In 1998, after an illegal photo session, the group arrested a picture of Botticelli in the Uffizi Gallery. In 2004 she held a scandalous photo session for the Polish “ Playboy ” with the Polish national coat of arms.