As part of Let’s hear it! — the presentation of Alexandra Grant’s video suite A.D.D.G., 2008, on view at the Chopin Museum until December 31 — composer Żaneta Rydzewska, director Stephen Reedy, and Grant are holding a live concert performance and video installation, exploring the intersection of sound, voice, and image.
WHEN
November 6, 2025 at 6pm
WHERE
Concert Hall of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum
Pałac Gnińskich, Okólnik 1, 00-368 Warsaw, Poland
https://muzeum.nifc.pl/pl/muzeum/aktualnosci/1715
RSVP is required; please email: biuro.muzeum@nifc.pl.
Please join us for an immersive evening where sound and image resonate, dialogue, and transform – an experience that blurs the boundaries between listening and seeing.
“Composer Żaneta Rydzewska transforms layers of sound into a new sonic landscape, entering a self-created musical world and continuously reshaping it through improvisation. Director Stephen Reedy completes the interpretive circle, generating new visuals from Grant’s existing videos, inspired by Rydzewska’s performance.”
Performance curator – Maria Kominek-Karolak
Curator of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum – Dr. Seweryn Kuter
Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles– and Berlin–based visual artist whose work explores issues around communication across languages, literary traditions, and cultures in painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and other media. Her work has been exhibited and collected by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), among others. Recent solo exhibitions include Everything Belongs to the Cosmos at carlier | gebauer in Berlin (2024-5) and Alexandra Grant. Word. Image. Space the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature, Warsaw, Poland (2024-5). She is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery in New York and carlier | gebauer in Berlin and Madrid. Awards include the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship, the California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Grant is a Lundner Fellow at Colby College in Maine (beginning in 2025) and has been recognized by Phaidon Press in Vitamin Txt as a global text-based artist of note. Grant is the creator of the grantLOVE Project, which has raised funds for arts-based nonprofits, and is also co-founder of independent publisher X Artists’ Books. Grant received her Master of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts and her Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College.
Żaneta Rydzewska is a composer, clarinetist, improviser and sound designer. In her music, she often refers to nature, contemporary social problems, literature, philosophy and physics. She employs the latest technologies, builds sound installations, and intertwines music with movement, scent, light, and video. Rydzewska collaborated with i.a. WDR Sinfonieorchester, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Musikfabrik, NOSPR, Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Trio Catch, Mivos Quartet, hand werk, Ensemble Garage, electronic ID, Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, Kwartet Śląski, AUKSO, Spółdzielna Muzyczna, Hashtag Ensemble, Kwartludium, airborne extended, Ensemble Schwerpunkt, United Instruments of Lucilin, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Broken Frames Syndycate, Kollektiv3:6Koeln, Chopin University Modern Ensemble, Ko-MAT Ensemble, Delirium Ensemble, Lüneburger Philharmoniker, Molot Ensemble, AKOM Ensemble. She teaches composition, electronic music and orchestration at the Frederic Chopin University of Music. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on her orchestral work “Symphony”, including an analysis of compositional techniques and philosophical reflections that inform her artistic output.
Stephen Reedy is a Vietnamese director based in Los Angeles who loves creating fun and beautiful things that make emotions happen. His work is known for a style that accentuates human emotion and vibrant energy. He has worked with Blumhouse, Universal, Bad Robot, Warner Brothers, Troublemaker Films, Sony, Alex Pardee/Zerofriend, and YouTube. Reedy’s projects have been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine and Shoot! Magazine’s “Next Generation of Commercial Directors” showcase. He’s also been nominated for an MTV Movie Award and has won several film tests. Before directing, Reedy edited trailers and produced movie marketing campaigns for films, The Academy Awards, and educational projects with MasterClass. For fun, he lectures on esoteric symbolism and comparative mythology.
