On Thursday, October 30, 2025, at 5 p.m., we invite you to MGBS for Anita Wach: 68 Toasts to a Flawed Heart.
50 min, 2025, universal language, free entry
68 Toasts to a Flawed Heart is dedicated to Barbara Kozłowska. The performance refers to her as an artist, poet and artistic subject - a personality set in a political and historical context and a person who lived 68 years, 272 seasons and approximately 816 months. Influenced by the poetic and conceptual purity of Kozlowska's art, Anita Wach decides to expose her body to the forces of gravity. She uses herself as a reference point for both human and universal nature. Like Kozlowska, Wach treats her body as an inseparable part of the surrounding world in terms of time, space and laws of nature. The performance is designed as a genetic fusion of the two women's biographies and artistic approaches. The audience is invited to a celebration of universal patterns of art (and life) as infinite and fragile processes. Placed on top of a ‘tower’ constructed from products of the human mind, a performer will try hard to avoid fall and maintain a precarious equilibrium between elation and instability. Guided by a desire to merge structured reason and the flawed heart, she will attempt to lead the celebration, standing at the point where the most mundane yet imminent matters meet those of cosmic magnitude.
Anita Wach (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and performer. From 1996 to 2003, she worked as a dancer at the Silesian Dance Theater in Bytom. Since 2005, she has been part of the Warsaw-based collective Teatr Bretoncaffe. She is a resident of Pact Zollwerein in Essen and a scholarship holder of the Pro Helvetia Foundation and the Ministry of Culture. She is a member of the international collective Via Negativa (Slovenia) and the experimental collective TukaWach. She is also a mentor in the international residency program of the PARL – Performing Art Research Ljubljana platform.
You can read more about the exhibition Places for Deliberation: Barbara Kozłowska here.