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Zaytun Ensemble
The international ensemble Zaytun has been working on various short and long-term projects since 2019. It is dedicated to facilitating theater research and work on an international stage. It organizes workshops, develops performances and realizes projects. Together with artists and cooperation partners such as theaters, production houses and cultural institutions, the network on which Zaytun's work is currently based is being formed.
Artists on site
Seven artists from the circle of the ensemble were active as a team, as hosts and artists in the Market Groseria. Each of these artists took part in the happenings in different ways and made use of the space for their artistic activities.
Malik Meyer
In years of varied and intensive work and research, he explores and creates meeting points between the performing arts and forms of dialogue. As a theater maker, he works as a director of performative works and conceptualizes and leads original workshops and projects in collaboration with various partners and contributors. As an actor and performer, he has worked in the fields of film, text-based and physical theater, as well as political and alternative theater. Alongside this work, he writes and develops text fragments, some of which emerge from his projects while also serving as the foundation for new creations.
He collaborates with theaters, institutions, and international and local artists in Germany, Poland, Palestine, Latvia, and Estonia.
He is the founder and artistic leader of the Zaytun Ensemble.
Ola Supernak
Ola Supernak creates through a process emerging from unfinished thoughts and fleeting memories. Her work exists on the border between wakefulness and dreaming, exploring realities that resist clear definition. She draws inspiration from natural spaces and everyday objects – their presence and hidden narratives spread through her works, taking on various forms within the visual arts. Currently, she experiments with film, installation, and interdisciplinary practices, also creating objects that invite reflection on the sensation of touch and materiality. The experiences she has gained through various projects have sparked an interest in social art. She explores the boundaries between space, art, and the audience, engaging local communities in creative dialogue. She is currently studying experimental film at the Academy of Art in Szczecin.
Kolja Kraft
A little of this, a little of that, nothing whole, something half, almost everything, but actually nothing.
Kolja Kraft tests his skills in creating collages in digital and analogue form. By combining sound programmes, he imposes various effects on the image in audio form, which result in a striking change in the image structure and act like filters that give the images a certain touch. Apart from this, the artist also tries his hand at music design and transforms audio samples into tonal constructs. The artist also tries his luck in the theatre, which he experiences from time to time as an active actor.
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Jules Rodgers
Jules Rodgers is a musician and photographer dedicated to performance arts and theatre. He captures and documents stories from his long-term travels, sharing them through a range of visual, performative, and auditory storytelling that reflects his experiences and insights using analog techniques.
Katarzyna Kupiec
Katarzyna Kupiec is a dancer and performer by passion and soon a psychologist by profession. In her creative work, she listens to her body and watches how it reacts to new stories. She combines movement intuition with emotionality and works a lot with her imagination.
She is part of the international Zaytun Ensemble. In addition, she hones her craft at the Teatr Ósmego Dnia in Poznań in classes led by Marek Kościółek and is a performer at the SOMA Movement and Pantomime Studio. Currently, she is also performing in a site- specific performance ‘Little girls with matches’ directed by Natalia Klupp, with which the whole group had a week-long residency at the Jerzy Grotowski Institute in Wrocław. In January 2025, as part of the Alternative School of Theatre, a performance she co-authored entitled ‘In case you become foggy and invisible’, directed by Adrianna Ratajczak, was released.
Marcel Tadeusz Jarocki
Marcel Tadeusz Jarocki is an artist who approaches art as a field for experimentation, the search for new paths, and the fusion of those already discovered. His practice encompasses performance, theater, graphic design, and illustration. He explores the boundaries between media and then blurs them. A central theme of his work is the discovery of the inner child – the primal creativity and honesty often lost in adulthood. He also delves into ideas of self-development and metaphorical death, understood as an inevitable transformation and a moment between an ending and a new beginning.
Julla Kroner
Julla Kroner was born in Duisburg in 1996 and studied fine art at the Braunschweig University of Art and the Karlsruhe State Academy of Art until 2020. In her artistic work, she explores the question of how and why humanity engages in storytelling. Above all, a story is a unifying element of a society. People agree on a story, which is why they become a community. It goes from religion to goddess myths to Hollywood to Game of Thrones. All time levels are included. She is particularly interested in the points at which the stories change, come back or repeat themselves. A society shapes the way we tell stories, but a story also shapes a society. At the forefront of the research is always a thought experiment that attempts to create a community through a story that is not exclusive. The resulting proposals are developed in immersive performance pieces and installations.
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Partner
Luiza Supernak
Luiza Supernak, who is responsible for the culture house in Stolec, has be a collaborator and supported the Zaytun Ensemble from the very beginning. In exchange with her, the happenings could be realized and a constant dialogue between the artists and the local audience could be created through art and culture.
Thanks to her important long-term contribution to culture, the artists were able to work and create in this place. With awareness and patience, the Cultural House under her management is an important meeting place for the people of Stolec.
Beata Bauer
Beata Bauer is living in Stolec and thanks to her help, already during the preparation phrase, important steps for the Market Groseria could be realised. Her contribution to the place was not only an important element of the inner life of the store, but also to the stories that were linked to the encounter and collaboration with her and her collection of objects, materials, ideas and furniture.
Culture House Stolec / Community of Stolec
As the Culture House was already an existing meeting place, it was the starting point for the artists to make contact with the people of Stolec. In the past, some of the artists had already carried out workshops in the Culture House and were able to start processes with the people.
Without the people from Stolec, who form the main core of the audience, Market Groseria could not take place. Even in the preparation phase, the collaboration already showed an interest, hospitality and sense of curiosity in exploring the barter and market space and process together with the artists.
Kana Theater Center
The Kana Theater Center marked the beginning of activities in Stolec ten years ago. Already in previous projects they were able to create a space of meeting and exchange as artists through the medium of art. For this reason, artists of the Zaytun Ensemble, as part of the projects at that time, were able to continue the processes and relationships with the people of Stolec. For Market Groseria, the Kana Theater was the key collaborator, supporting it with the organization and production of the project.
Former Projects: Miejsca I Granice and ÜBER Orte und Grenzen
RSSCH
Thanks to the trust of Mrs. Oraczyńska from RSSCH, the owners of the store, it was possible to rent the store and turn it into a Market Groseria for a month.
The Project Market Groseria has received support from the Goleniow Cultural Center and the National Cultural Center
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