Art Week UAP

Art Week UAP

Pop Culture Gallery @Stary Browar
Courtyard of Stary Browar, 42 Półwiejska Str.
Duration of exhibition: 14.05 – 1.06.2025
Opening: 16.05, 19:00
Open hours: 12:00-22:00 (Tue-Sun)

Oxygenator | Joanna Rajkowska
Pop Culture Gallery @Stary Browar, ground floor
Curator: Mateusz Bieczyński

As part of this year’s edition of Poznan Art Week 2025 under the slogan “Territories”, we cordially invite you to a unique event dedicated to the project “Oxygenator” by Polish visual artist Joanna Rajkowska. The exhibition will include a screening of photographic documentation and a film made as part of the project, enriched with a specially prepared audio commentary by the artist, who will reveal the backstage of the work, motivations and meanings accompanying the creation of the work.

“Oxygenator” is an artistic intervention in public space, set at the intersection of ecology, architecture and performance, exploring the boundaries between nature and urban area. The event will be an opportunity to jointly look at the creative process and reflect on how art redefines our understanding of place, body and community.

The night tales 
Pop Culture Gallery @Stary Browar, 1st floor
Participants: Anna Goebel, Magdalena Kleszyńska, Kamila Kobierzyńska, Martyna Pająk, Maksymilian Radawski, Marcin Salwin, Joanna Sobesto, Dorota Tarnowska-Urbanik

The exhibition explores the moment of transition – that fleeting moment of suspension between wakefulness and sleep, when the control of consciousness weakens and the subtle forces of the unconscious begin to take over. It is a liminal space where reason gives way to intuition, and internal imagery gains an unsettling clarity.

Carl Gustav Jung described the unconscious as a territory inhabited by archetypes, instincts, and figures of the collective psyche—forms that defy logic but speak the language of symbol, shadow, and dream. It is in this realm—between wakefulness and oblivion—that entities begin to manifest that both attract and arouse fear: structures without names, creatures on the border between reality and dream, superhuman figures inscribed in the rhythms of desires and drives. We enter a dark interior where light reveals fragmentary images—as if reality itself were splitting. That which is hidden suddenly becomes visible. The forms emerging from the darkness are ambiguous, yet strangely familiar—like echoes of memories we never had, which return from the depths of collective memory.

Through this mystery, we are guided by a female voice – as if a forgotten bedtime story were returning. We invite you to the territory of the unconscious – a place of encounter with what is primal, untamed and true.

Uncertain Territories
Uncertain Territories
Pop Culture Gallery @Stary Browar, 1^st floor
Participants: Maess Anand, Barbara Kozłowska, Sonia Rammer, Paul McGee, Włodzimierz Jan Zakrzewski; / jak również: Karolina Bielawska, Norbert Delman, Michał Frydrych, Zuzanna Hercberg, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, Enricomaria De Napoli, Jérémie Paul, Łukasz Ratz, Lapo Simeoni, Saku Soukka, Alex Urban, Alex Urso, Yael Wisznicki Levi
Curators: Mateusz Maria Bieczyński, Piotr Łukasz Grzywacz
Coordination and production: Yulia Zalozna and Jarek Jasik

The exhibition Uncertain territory is dedicated to the relationship of artists with external and imaginary space. Most of the works presented in the exhibition explore specific places, often geographically distant from the place of residence of the artists.

We will bow to the wind blowing in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest place on Earth. We will visit Lake Baikal and the much closer Lazy. A familiar place, like Manhattan in New York, will be unrecognizable. We will have the opportunity to explore the deserted island of Ilet La Biche in the Caribbean through art. Finally, we will look at the sky, which, thanks to the work of Planet Elsewhere, will be entirely within our sight, at any time of day or night.

That is why the project is aimed at all those who are ready to venture into the unknown. Everyone will return from this journey changed.

The abundance of more or less known place names does not, however, constitute the uniqueness of this exhibition. The intensity of the images will of course evoke both a sense of beauty and a sense of fear, but it is the artistic interventions, which encompass a wide range of creative strategies – from familiarization, through transformation, to distanced observation – that constitute a significant element for the viewers.

The multitude and poetic transformations will allow for the experience of travel, but “somewhere else”, because individual fragments of this map tower on the horizon like peaks. We will not manage to conquer every one, we will not climb every one. However, we are left with space and what is in between. Let us pay special attention to the cracks, because as Roland Barthes wrote, “the work consists of what is beyond it”.

POZNAN ART WEEK AT MGUAP (POZNAN MUNICIPAL GALLERIES)

Interspaces | Katarzyna Koczyńska-KielanNowa Scena UAP Gallery, 28 Marcinkowskiego Ave.
Opening: 15.05.2025, 19:00
On display till: 1.06.2025
Guided tour by the author within the Night of the Museums: 17.05.2025, 17:00

Individual exhibition of ceramic art by Katarzyna Koczyńska-Kielan; the exhibition will present works created by the artist during her residency in China (Jingdezhen and Longquan). A large part of them is the result of experimental application of the technique of producing traditional Chinese celadon porcelain to works of a non-utility, artistic, sculptural nature.

14:00 – 21:00
Life after Comfort-Centeredness. Happiness Research Laboratory
Curators’LAB Gallery, 12 Nowowiejskiego Str.
Opening: 15.05.2025, 18:00
On display till: 1.06.2025
Curator: Bogna Świątkowska
Object designers: Maciej Siuda, Ada Gruszka.

The conceptual traveling exhibition presents 8 specially designed objects in the pink space of the gallery. The starting point for this project is the need to move away from comfort based on the exploitation of fossil fuels and high-emission technologies. According to the curator’s idea, the new situation means that we must prepare for changes in our reality – for life “after the departure of comfort”. The objects are therefore only a pretext to start a discussion, and the main task of the project is to network the environments of science, art, design, technology, ecology and entrepreneurship in order to create a leaven for a network of so-called knowledge co-producers who should indicate the most important challenges of the near future.

14:00 – 21:00
Periphery
Duża Scena UAP Gallery, 24 Wodna Str.
Opening: 17.05.2025, 18:00
On display till: 1.06.2025
Participants: Barbara Stańko-Jurczyńska, Rafał Jakubowicz, Jerzy Norkowski, Marta Zgierska, Arek Pasożyt, Rafał Górczyński, Wojciech Dada, Radosław Włodarski, Aleksandra Kosior, Dorota Jonkajtis, Sebastian Trzoska, Krzysztof Balcerowiak
Opening: 17.05.2025, 18:00

The world is a family of relationships – a whole that we experience as a special phenomenon – the tenderness of objects towards other objects. We often demand an answer to the question about the nature of objects themselves; what does the possible fullness of their being consist of without man? In reality, they are the only available thing that only builds our idea of ​​the world.

Objects live next to us. On the margins, on the edges of our daily functioning. They fill these spaces and do not even a little bit seek our attention. We are the ones who provoke these situations where specific objects, at the expense of others, have called out to us and built a relationship with us. We impose our will on them so that they become part of our established and named reality.

What we are dealing with is, in fact, an active projection of reality – regardless of whether we call it the shadow of Plato’s cave, Buddhist maya (Skt. illusion, delusion) or a biological-evolutionary deepfake produced by our senses, which balances on the border of what we recognize and what we do not know.

Let’s assume a thought experiment: if something catches our attention (or we catch something’s attention) and we assign it a certain meaning and a specific value because of it, is this thing more true than others?

Objects look at us from hiding. They do not judge the spirit of our times, the ubiquitous zeitgeist, the weight of which we gradually build day after day by casually throwing our own pebble into its (our) garden. We do not feel their gaze on our backs, but they patiently and calmly observe how we try to navigate our everyday lives.

We are not able to see the whole picture. We only have fragments – sensitive particles of meaning – and although we can lump them together into a set called “the whole”, the whole is more than the individual elements that make up the set.