Bill Viola Exhibit at Zacheta National Gallery

Exhibit sponsors, curator Maria Brewińska and Zacheta Director Agnieszka Morawińska as Ambassador Ashe addresses the opening night crowd. (more photos)

U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Victor Ashe, spoke at the opening of a major solo exhibition of pioneer video artist Bill Viola at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art on May 11.  The U.S. Embassy is helping to support the exhibit, which runs May 11-July 1.  This is the first solo exhibition in Poland of Viola’s work and the only one on this scale in Central and Eastern Europe. Viola himself and his wife and creative partner Kira Perov attended the opening and a May 11 press conference, also attended by Cultural Attaché James Wolfe.