Beyond the Past and the Present; Jarosław Exhibition at the Market Square in Jarosław, within the arcades of the townhouse at 14 Rynek Street. The series of large-format collages was created using archival Jarosław postcards from the early 20th century. Silhouettes of former residents of the town were juxtaposed with characters from films shot in… Continue reading Beyond the Past and the Present; Jarosław
Category: site-specific
Camera obscura at The Generals Villa
Camera obscura at The General’s Villa A site-specific realization in a villa designed by Ludwik Wojtyczko and built in 1936–1937 for the industrialist Czesław Śmiechowski. The house completed the development of Salwator towards Kościuszko Mound and formed part of a residential villa colony initiated by the Society for the Construction of Affordable Housing. During World… Continue reading Camera obscura at The Generals Villa
Camera obscura in the Vauxhall Palace
Camera obscura in the Vauxhall Palace A camera obscura installation realized in the staircase of the Vauxhall Palace in Krzeszowice (Vauxhall Gallery). The classical camera obscura mechanism was enhanced with a lens, allowing for a sharper and more saturated image. The inverted projection of the street, trees, and surrounding architecture appeared on the walls and… Continue reading Camera obscura in the Vauxhall Palace
Yeast Factory
Yeast Factory Location: Pracownia Drożdżownia – the former Yeast and Spirit Factory founded by Stanisław Porębski and Jan Czecz in Bieżanów. Collages and installations were created in the historic Yeast Factory in Bieżanów, Kraków, which was founded beginning of the 20th century on Drożdżowa Street in Bieżanów. For nearly a century, the site functioned as… Continue reading Yeast Factory
Camera obscura on a desrted island
Camera obscura on a deserted island Camera obscura was installed on a deserted island on the Vistula River as part of an land art exhibition organized within the residency program of Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Wiewiórka. At the center of a sandy riverbank, a tent was erected and its interior transformed into a projection chamber. At… Continue reading Camera obscura on a desrted island
Camera Obscura at the Salt Storage
Camera Obscura at the Salt Storage Camera obscura was created within the spaces where I have been co-running the Wiewiórka Centre for Contemporary Art for the past several years – in the former Salt Storage in Krakow. A building with over two hundred years of history, it has served as a salt depot, stables, military… Continue reading Camera Obscura at the Salt Storage
This is a fantastic hole
This Is a Fantastic Hole Optical site-specific installation at Baszta Gallery, Kraków This Is a Fantastic Hole is an optical, site-specific intervention based on the principles of camera obscura and a system of mirrors, penetrating the walls of Dworek Białoprądnicki and Baszta Gallery in Kraków. By reintroducing external daylight—absent from the ruins of the sixteenth-century… Continue reading This is a fantastic hole
Beyond the Past and the Present; Zizkov, Prague
Beyond the Past and the Present; Zizkov, Prague These photographic collages has been presented since 2017 in the hallway in front of Nevan Contempo gallery in Zizkov, Prague. The images you are looking at are based on an overlap of two photographs, one originating in an unspecified past and another taken within the last two… Continue reading Beyond the Past and the Present; Zizkov, Prague
Beyond the Past and the Present; Szpitalna street, Kraków
Beyond the Past and the Present;Szpitalna street, Kraków The exhibition was realized in cooperation with the Małopolska Institute of Culture and presented as part of the 21st Małopolska Cultural Heritage Days. The project comprised 13 works installed on the façades of eight tenement houses along Szpitalna Street. The elevations featured large-format photographic collages created by… Continue reading Beyond the Past and the Present; Szpitalna street, Kraków
I Suddenly Woke Up in Barcelona
I Suddenly Woke Up in BarcelonaExhibition at Piękny Pies The former glory of Kraków’s bars and cafés is constantly fading. Sometimes nothing remains of these places but words and memories. Some, wrapped in legend, still exist today—occasionally owing their survival to the fact that nothing there has really changed. I am fascinated by places where… Continue reading I Suddenly Woke Up in Barcelona
House in Detail
House in DetailKraków Art House / Cracow Gallery Weekend KRAKERS Artist: Bartolomeo KoczenaszCurator: Piotr SikoraFeatured murals: Kuzko / Koczenasz / Noude / Malik / Rejs / Rudzki / Jurecki / Wvojt …and the house stood there, looking at itself in the Vistula.It leaned its head along the long perspective of the Prague tractand listened as… Continue reading House in Detail
Three Perspectives, The Kraków Ghetto.
Three Perspectives; The Kraków Ghetto Installation Three Perspectives is based on two juxtaposed images of entrance into Limanowskiego street from Podgórski Market Square. It was exactly where in 1941 the gate of the ghetto wall was raised marking the borderline of humanity. The photos of exactly the same spot were taken at an interval of… Continue reading Three Perspectives, The Kraków Ghetto.
Barcelona
Barcelona The project began with a simple but precise intention: to return Adam Ziemianin’s poem Barcelona to the place where the legendary bar once stood. When the building was demolished, the imprint of its structure remained visible on the neighboring walls. On this exposed scar of the city — the final material trace of the… Continue reading Barcelona