Teresa Murak: “Third Crop” / “Silencing a Thunderstorm”

Teresa Murak, 'Silencing the storm', 1985/2016, photo by M. Musiał @abwwia

The artist is the most important representative of land art in Poland. She was born in 1949 in Kiełczewice. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1976) via culture pl

Teresa Murak, (PL, b. 1949)

Sowing, 1985 📍Abramowice, Poland

Teresa Murak is one of the principal pioneers of Performance, Land and Feminist Art in Poland. With her landscape pieces, Murak utilizes natural materials, especially cress, to create in her terms "organic architecture”. The concept and gesture of "sowing” – a spiritual and cosmic interpretation of the cultivation of seeds – defines Murak’s body of work and helped her in developing her own style of performative art that engaged with ritual processes. Her work anticipated Murak’s nearly fifty-year concern with the phenomenon of life and the process of growth. The artist emphatically acknowledged a religious dimension to some of her works, pointing at the sacredness of life, but avoided to draw direct analogies between different traditions and rites, such as combining the East with the West, or Polish Catholicism with Taoism. Murak seems to have striven to express universal truths, beyond national, religious or stylistic divisions, to find the universal in particular manifestations.

In the 1990s, by which time the artist had acquired the status of a classic representative of the neo-avant-garde, Murak gained recognition from members of the young generation, especially interested in the feminist and body-art elements of her art. via personsprojects | @abwwia

Teresa Murak, Procession (1974)

Teresa Murak

Teresa Murak, “Sculpture for the Earth”, Ubbeboda, Sweden 1974.

Today I changed phone and background, this one, a collage I made from photos of Teresa Murak's Rzezba dla ziemi (sculpture for the earth) and a frase I found on here, Tumblr. The both I love and want to remember together

A Look #1 : Forest Bitch

2018 Black Hustka Hood - ienki ienki

2014 Third Crop Dress - Teresa Murak

1950’s Snake Sunglasses - Paulette Guinet

1903 Snake Hangbag - René Lalique

2013 Sprouting Leaf Gloves - Ron Isaacs

Teresa Murak, Sculpture for the Earth, 1974

(The radius of the sphere is the height of the artist, 5ft 4)

Documentary images featured in Eva International Biennial, 2023

Teresa Murak: “Third Crop” / “Silencing a Thunderstorm”

‘Sculpture for the Earth’ (‘Rzeźba dla Ziemi’) by Teresa Murak, 1974, in Ubbaboda Sweden

Teresa Murak: 'Sculpture for the Earth' (1974)

Teresa Murak Ścierki Wizytek 1971

Teresa Murak.

Teresa Murak: “Third Crop” / “Silencing a Thunderstorm”

Polish artist Teresa Murak,“Sculpture for the Earth” (“Rzeźba dla Ziemi”) (Ubbaboda, Sweden 1974)