The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre would like to announce a competition on a graphic project of the art installation imitating stained-glass for St John s Church in Gdańsk.

The competition is a part of interdisciplinary festival “Świętojańskie Świętowanie”, organized by the Baltic Sea Cultural Center, the Artist s Priory and the Baltic Opera.
Like in previous years, the installation will be presented in St John s Church in Gdańsk.

St John’s Church in Gdańsk is a special place. After the World War II, burnt and devastated, it was left in ruins for about 50 years. In 1995 the building, which was in hands of Roman - Catholic Church, was given for use to the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre to be reconstructed and readapted for a cultural center. Since then the building has been a scene for many artistic events. The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre plans to use the building as an exhibition and concert hall.

The installation will be realized in June 2008. It will be presented in the window situated on the southern elevation of the church. The project of stained-glass will be printed on transparent plastic film cut into pieces fitting shapes of elements of the window and then fasten for at least one month. During the day it will function as a classical stained-glass window, while in the evening, during festival days, it will be lit from the inside and exposed outside the church.

In previous years the installation were made by Dominik Lejman, Jacek Staniszewski and Mirosław Filonik.

The competition is destined for students and graduates from Art Academies in Poland.
The competition works must be sent or delivered to the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre to the 15th of May 2008
The first prize is 3 000 zl.

For more information call Olga Miłogrodzka on 0 58 326 10 31 or 696 097 965