Attila Olasz, son of Sándor Olasz, painter

Attila Olasz was born in 1982 in Szeged. He completed his primary and secondary school studies in Szeged. After leaving the secondary school, he was admitted to the drawing teacher and program organizer department of the University of Szeged. In 2004, he graduated from the University of Szeged. He was then admitted to the painter program of the Art Department at the University of Pécs. He graduated as an artist in 2009. He regularly attends individual and group art exhibitions. His works have been published in various Hungarian magazines and periodicals.

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- Szeged Lövölde út 203, Hungary 6726

Olasz, Sándor

Sándor Olasz was born in Hódmezővásárhely on 19 July 1949. He graduated in 1967 from Gábor Bethlen High School in his birthplace. After high school, he graduated in 1973 from the University of Szeged as a Literature and French teacher. In 1973, he was made a member of the permanent editorial staff of the periodical Tiszatáj, and he served as the main editor between 1996 and 2011. Tiszatáj is a literary, artistic, social, and academic periodical which publishes a diverse range of writings and articles.

From 1979 until his death, Olasz worked as a professor at the University of Szeged in the Department of Modern Hungarian Literature. His main research areas included modern Hungarian novels, especially the works of László Németh. He was a member of several societies, for instance the Association of Hungarian Writers, the General Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Society of Hungarian Literary History, and the International Association of Hungarian Philology. Olasz received numerals national honors for his work. He died on 21 February 2011.

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- Szeged, Hungary

Onuch, Jerzy

Jerzy Onuch (born 1954) is a world-renowned artist, lecturer, curator, and diplomat. In 1976, together with Janusz Bałdyga and Łukasz Szajna, he created the Dziekanka Workshop group, in which he operated for the next few years. In 1979 he became the co-director of the Student Center for Artistic Communities, then the Dziekanka Workshop, and held it until 1986, when he went to the USA and then to Canada. In the 1990s, in addition to the presentation of his own work, he engaged in the study and promotion of young Ukrainian art. From 1997 to 2004 he was the director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Kiev, then - in the years 2005-2010 - the director of the Polish Institute in Kiev, and from 2010 to 2015 - the director of the Institute of Polish Culture in New York.
In the 1970s, Onuch studied painting and graphics at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. In 1976, together with Janusz Bałdyga and Łukasz Szajna, thanks to the offer of director of Dziekanka Wojciech Krukowski, they started to use a camera to carry out their own work. The show of Onuch, Bałdyga, and Szajna resulted in an invitation to permanent cooperation submitted by Krukowski. In such circumstances, the three young artists founded Dziekanka Workshop, a venture focused on an open creative process, experimentation and self-study work. From 1979, after Krukowski left, Onuch and Tomasz Sikorski took over the rudders of the Dziekanka Student Center of Artistic Communities, which in 1981 transformed into Dziekanka Workshop - an autonomous unit in the ASP structure (previously the SCŚA functioned under the umbrella of the SZSP).
In his own art pieces, as in the organizational work, Onuch was interested in the art of new media, installations, and performances. He also conducted theoretical investigations. In the 1980s, he organized over seventy exhibitions and other artistic events. In 1986 he was invited to a conference in Vancouver; he did not come back from this trip, choosing to stay in exile and settle in Toronto after a year in the USA. He continued his artistic, educational and curatorial activity.
In the mid-nineties, Onuch returned to Poland, where he regularly came with lectures and took part in exhibitions (for example at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw). At the same time, he began to deal with young Ukrainian art, acting as a curator of exhibitions and a juror in competitions. In 1997 he became the director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Kiev, bringing to the city the works of world-renowned avant-garde artists and promoting young Ukrainian artists engaged politically. Then, Onuch took the position of director of the Polish Institute in Kiev (2005-2010), and finally - from 2010 to 2015 - the director of the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.
In the time of state socialism in Poland, Onuch created and exhibited progressive, independent, experimental art that undoubtedly went beyond the framework defined in the official assumptions of cultural policy. However, the niche nature of this activity did not attract repressions, although it was associated with modest and uncertain means.

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- New York, United States

Onyszkiewicz, Tymoteusz

Tymoteusz Onyszkiewicz (1973) was one of the first anarchist activists in the capital of Polish People’s Republic. When he was 13 years old he had become a fan of the metal music, but after about a year he switched to punk rock. Polish and Western punk tapes brought to him for the first time the ideas of anarchism. He mocked communist organisations such as The Polish-Soviet Friendship Society, whose board bulletin he used to change, parodying official announcements. As a student of a Szkolny Ośrodek Socjoterapii (SOS, School Sociotherapy Centre) he met other youngsters fascinated by anarchism, among them Arkadiusz ‘Owca’ Zajączkowski. They started organising anarchist meetings and demonstrations and founded the A-Cyclists collective. Onyszkiewicz took part in demonstrations, happenings, and rallies organized by anarchists and other youth opposition groups, as well as street fights with the skinheads and police. He continued his anarchistic engagement after 1989 transition and participated in preparing the alter-globalist protests against European Economic Summit in Warsaw in 2004. Poet, writer, author of poems, novels, essays, articles published in journals as well as in popular papers. Philosopher interested in the gnosis, Buddhism, and ancient philosophy. He works as a trainer of yoga and martial arts.

As a participant of the anarchist movement under the late socialism and still an active member of Anarchist Federation Tymoteusz Onyszkiewicz was one of the initiators of the Fuck 89 exhibition in 2014 and author of the Fuck 89 manifesto. Although the cooperation of informal ‘steering committee’ was collective and anonymous, Onyszkiewicz played the main role in the production of the exhibition. After the original exposition in A.D.A. squat in Warsaw, he presented the Fuck 89 archive in anarchists' sites in Wrocław, Rzeszów, and Kraków. Onyszkiewicz drew the very conception of the Fuck 89 as a symbolic farewell of heroic past from the 1980s, with its legends and heroes, necessary to raise a new anarchistic movement, free from the old mistakes. Anarchists failed in 1989, he argued, the end of socialism turned out to be a beginning of a new, oppressing regime: neoliberal capitalism. So there should be no sentiments toward ineffective struggles when some new are on the horizon. Thus the Fuck 89 was an anti-sentimental gesture closure in the history of post-war anarchism in Poland.

Onyszkiewicz and other young anarchists were radically against the socialist government and militarized state regime. However, at the same time, they opposed ‘Solidarity’ movement as clerical, nationalist, and conservative. Onyszkiewicz remembered that also cultural divisions between the mainstream and the alternative were not strict because as a young punk rock fan he was able to buy cassettes in official, public stores.

Source:
Tymoteusz Onyszkiewicz, Fuck 89 Manifesto, 2014.

Місце знаходження:
- Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland

Opekar, Aleš

Aleš Opekar is a Czech musicologist, journalist and director of the Popmuseum in Prague. During his graduate and postgraduate studies, he focused on, among other things, the lyrics of Czech pop music. As a musicologist and music journalist, he published in Gramorevue, Melodie and Mladá fronta in the 1980s. He worked as a journalist in magazine Rock&Pop in the 1990s. He gives lectures on pop music at universities and he worked in Institute for Musicology on the Czech Academy of Sciences until 1998. He is active in Czech Radio, where he was the head of the Department of Jazz and Pop Music between 1999 and 2012; he has been a music editor since 2013. He collaborated on the filming of the documentary TV series Bigbít (1998, Czech Television). He initiated the founding of the museum and archive of pop music (the Popmuseum), where the archive materials were originally stored after they were collected for the filming of the TV series.

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- Praha, Prague, Czech Republic