FLASH

Flash

Exhibition of students from the studios and laboratories of the Faculty of Image and Interdisciplinary Activities as part of the Image Festival 2025

Gallery Duża Scena UAP, 24 Wodna Str.
Opening: 29.04.2025, 18:00
Duration of exhibition: 29.04 – 11.05.2025

Curators: dr hab. Natalia Wegner, prof. UAP,  dr Jakub Malinowski, ad.

Students: 

Kornelia Piwońska (VI Painting Studio)
Mikołaj Kurasiński  (VII Painting Studio)
Celina Sosińska (IX Painting Studio)
Maksymilian Kowalik (XI Painting Studio)
Kinga Grossmann (XII Painting Studio)
Cezary Stachura (I Drawing Studio)
Anna Marek (II Drawing Studio)
Konstancja Rawecka (III Drawing Studio)
Przemysław Kruszyna (VIII Drawing Studio)
Julian Czurko (XII Drawing Studio)
Natalia Olimpia Jakubska (Artistic Fabric Laboratory)
Aleksandra Zwolankiewicz (Narrative language in drawing/contemporary comics)
Anna Mandziak (Paper Laboratory)
Antanina Levashkevich  (Laboratory of Painting and Drawing Techniques)
Group of students (3D Drawing):
Daniel Hermela
Przemysław Kruszyna
Karolina Molenda
Julia Zagórska  
Adam Tomaszewski (Interdisciplinary Studio on Documentation and Conservation of Modern Art)

Curators:
dr hab. Natalia Wegner, prof. UAP
dr Jakub Malinowski, ad.

Graphic design:
dr Jakub Malinowski, ad.

Text:
dr hab. Natalia Wegner, prof. UAP

Flash, red light. Rays running through, others spreading in space in single streams.
Flash, the title that first comes to mind.
A moment when you can see something, in this configuration, not another.

University. People gathering in studios, walking through corridors. Talking, passing each other without a word. Lectures, meetings, exhibitions. Faculty presentations, competitions, student exhibitions.

Creating a flickering image of the environment of young people, their aspirations, priorities, dreams. In such an important period for them, a time of trials, searching for their own identity, artistic path.

The “Flash” exhibition, held under the patronage of the Image Festival 2025, will present the works of eighteen students associated with various fields of study at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan. Recommended by the teaching staff of the Faculty of Image and Interdisciplinary Activities, they will show individual examples of their activities, the effects of tasks carried out in individual studios and laboratories. The criteria for selecting people were different, so we can expect a heterogeneous exhibition in terms of content and aesthetics. And the Participants themselves? Perhaps they do not even know each other.

A review of a cross-sectional nature will probably leave one unsatisfied. However, the exhibition considered as a whole, being a confrontation of various attitudes, consisting of matching and incompatible elements, can trigger interesting reflections, point to unexpected leads of interpretation.

The moment in which it happens is important, the moment in which its meaning is fulfilled. Here and now, at the junction of the past and the unknown tomorrow, of which, perhaps, it is a prefiguration. In a time in which one would like to look more closely, to see oneself in it, oneself among others. As in a joint photograph, triggered by light, a flash that will so quickly become history.