The project "Shout Sister, Shout!" tells the story of women and the exclusions they suffered in the past - during the National Socialist era - and which they face today. Together with invited artists, we focus on female representatives of the local community, recalling their stories and inviting them to join us.

Participating in the project are:

• Małgorzata Szandała - born 1977, PhD in art, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. She explores various narrative forms that are at the intersection between factual description of real events and fiction growing out of them, or reflects on reality through subjective experience. She creates site-specific installations, objects and visual essays. She is the author of the book “Atomic Shelters and Dictionaries".

• Dorota Hadrian – born 1984, PhD in art, visual artist. From 2004 to 2010, she studied at the Department of Sculpture and Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, and is currently a doctoral student at the Faculty of Art of the Pedagogical University in Cracow. In 2008, she was awarded the Jan Matejko Fellowship, and in 2010 and 2014 she was an MKiDN Fellow. In her artistic activity, she reaches for iconographic patterns developed by classical European art, and operates with cultural, multifaceted references, allusions and quotations. She makes the fight against stereotypes in culture and pop culture the subject of her research. The artist's main means of expression are sculpture, video and painting. She lives and works in Bytom. She is the winner of the President of Bytom MUZY 2019 Award for creative achievements.

• Barbara Gryka – born 1992, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Spatial Activities Studio by Professor Mirosław Bałka, Audiovisual Space Studio by Professor Grzegorz Kowalski, Painting Space Studio by Professor Leon Tarasewicz and Dr. Paweł Susid, Photographic Narration Studio by Dr. Proto Jarnuszkiewicz at the Media Art Department). The artist works in performance art, video and object art, as well as painting. In her work, she deals with identity and the image of man, as well as his entanglement in the socio-political sphere. A very important aspect of her works is to act with the viewer. She has participated in many exhibitions in Poland and abroad. She lives in Końskowola and Lublin.

• Lidija Mirković - Visual artist, director of Roma origin. Author of the works "Z-10889", "Gypsyflowers", "Dialogue with Carmen" in the international exhibition "HateFree?" presented in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland (2017-2018). He lives and works in Germany, where he runs a film label haymatfilm.

• Maciej Cholewa - born 1991, visual artist, creates installations, objects, video. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice with a master's degree. Based on original literary texts. Focuses on themes related to local community, periphery and interpretation of cultural texts. She uses conscious confabulation and processing of heard stories and contexts. He lives in a small town, which he treats as a laboratory and an important source of references and inspiration.

• Marta Romankiv - born in 1995 in Lviv, interdisciplinary artist, creator of installations, video works and social situations. She studied at the Faculty of Art of the Pedagogical University in Cracow. She received her master's degree from the Academy of Art in Szczecin. She is currently a student of Sociology at Jagiellonian University. She has repeatedly participated in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. In 2020, she was awarded the third prize in the international Allegro Prize competition, and in 2021, she was awarded a scholarship from the Gaude Polonia Scholarship Program of the Minister of Culture. She focuses her work mainly on the theme of social exclusion, especially the topics of nationality, citizenship and related social inequalities. Her projects are most often participatory in nature, on the borderline between the zones of activism, social science and art. The artist has been living and working in Poland since 2015.
  

The artists artists already working on residencies in Bytom, so in a moment you will learn more about themselves and their plans.

"Shout, Sister, Shout!" project was supported by the EVZ Foundation (Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft) as part of the “Local History" program.