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INSTALLATION IN PUBLIC SPACE

WARSAW
2016
THE BĘC ZMIANA FOUNDATION | SYNCHRONICITY

The istallation ‘Weeds’ can be seen in Warsaw Powiśle from May 2016. The meadow that has been transferred from the resettled villages has been permanently placed in Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie, close to Lipowa Street.

Bogna Świątkowska: “Migrations connected with a conflict are one of the biggest problems that is being faced by Europe nowadays. The installation by Karolina Grzywnowicz evokes the events related to the change of Polish borders. During this process over half a million of population inhabiting south-eastern part of Poland was resettled. This installation provokes deeper reflections on a topic of migration, the situation of displaced people, refugees and emigrants – all these who have to find a new place so that they can find the balance and a safe place to live.”

Fot: Michał Matejko
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ZACHĘTA NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

WARSAW
2015
SOLO EXHIBITION

The exhibition in Zachęta Project Room featured a plant installation – a fragment of a meadow transferred from two depopulated villages in the Beskid Niski and Bieszczady mountain ranges. This was accompanied by a map of the area whose population was forcibly resettled after Second World War, marking non-existent villages.

Paweł Mościcki: “The poeticalness of this project begins with listening to the silent protest of the earth that makes abandoned plants endure and grow in defiance of political decisions. The artistic gesture – the extraction of a piece of meadow and its transfer to the gallery – is preceded by research work determining the rationale of a simple and singular gesture.”

Fot: Michał Matejko, Michał Ramus
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BWA SOKÓŁ

NOWY SĄCZ
2015
'THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN' EXHIBITION

The instalation made of periwinkle was created within the collective ‘The Magic Mountain’ exhibition that took place in BWA Nowy Sącz.

Magdalena Ujma, curator: “The work is a part of the cycle that recently has been consequently developed by the artist. It is not only dedicated to the plants, their cultural meaning, but also the green as such, which is treated in the project as a trace of human presence. Some of the plants grow in the places where used to be houses, farm buildings and so on. While examining the plants, the artist has been tracing the abandoned villages in the mountains. She will transfer to the BWA Gallery a mountain of periwinkle, an evergreen plant, commonly cultivated in home gardens that is often used in both wedding and funeral ceremonies, and during Easter as well.”

Fot: Kuba Rudziński