Martin Kollar – After

Martin Kollar has gathered international recognition for his insightful observations of human relationship with the surroundings. 

On 31th August, 2019 the way Martin Kollar looked at the world changed. Everything has changed. Decision of his partner, Maria, to end her own life, was a distinct cut, a sharp delineation of the before and after.      

As part of the grieving process the artist came back to the archive and materials they did together for the film Letopis that was planned as their film. “I could do nothing other than continuously browse through the multitude of images, re-visiting the years, months and days spent together.”  

Hidden contexts and threads began to emerge, and the photos created “before” paradoxically became a language to tell the story of the unexpected After.

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Martin Kollar – one of the most awarded and established slovakian photographers, and a cameraman of the awarded arthouse documentaries such as VELVET TERRORISTS (2013), COOKING HISTORY (2009). His unique sense of seeing what passes unseen and at the same time highlighting what is universal for the humankind in the surroundings of Eastern Europe or Israel brought him grants and awards, including the Prix Elysee and Oskar Barnack Award. His work has been exhibited across the world, including Brooklyn Museum, the Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, Tel Aviv museum of art and Musee Elysee (Lausanne).

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Art_Inkubator, Tymienieckiego 3

DID YOU KNOW THAT Art_Inkubator is located in the former factory of Karol Scheibler II, son of the greatest factory owner in Łódź? 

Every firstborn son in the Scheibler family was named Karol. The factory is a part of Księży Młyn, also called a “town in town” or “Polish Manchester”. Scheibler Senior built the largest textile factory in this part of Europe, as well as an estate of workers’ houses, many palaces, hospitals, schools, and parks. Karol Scheibler’s legacy was later developed by Karol Scheibler II, who erected factories at Tymienieckiego and Milionowa Streets. The factory still has the original Russian gauge railway tracks! You will find them near the passage to the new “Fuzja” estate.