Karolina Wojtas
FUNreal
Opening: 13.06.2026, at 6.00 pm
The exhibition runs until June 30, 2026
The exhibition is open on 18–19 June from 5 pm to 7 pm
and on 20–21 June and 27–28 June from 12 noon to 6 pm
On other days, it is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 5 pm to 7 pm
or by phone: Adam Klimczak, 793 434 420
What will she do for the exhibition? Nobody knows. Not even her.
She’s got a couple of ideas — so extreme and different, yet perhaps, by some strange miracle, they’ll merge into a single coherent work? Will it be about love, dying for it, or will something else come along the way?
Unless it’s high time for my resurrection!
Well, we’ll see.
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Karolina Wojtas (b. 1996, Poland) She graduated from the The Polish National School of Film, Television, and Theater in Łódź, Poland and the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic. Her work draws from the imagination of children and transforms photographic material into objects and installations.
For Wojtas, art is an ongoing game and experiment in which viewers become active participants. The photographer playfully challenges form. She draws the audience into immersive exhibitions which feature playful elements from the children’s world such as glitter, school lockers, toys, and building blocks. At times her work unsettles and surprises; at others, it invites viewers into a carefree space of play and rediscovery. She draws inspiration from everyday observations, childhood memories, and the absurdities of puberty. Her work becomes a journey through education, family relationships, and love — shaped by nostalgia, humor, and self-irony.
Wojtas has received received numerous awards and nominations, including: Image Vevey Book Award – honorable mention 2025/2026,nomination for the EMoP Arendt Award 2023, participation in the project reGeneration 4: The Challenges of Photography and Its Museum for Tomorrow at Musée de l’Elysée, s the C/O Berlin Talent Award (2022), ING Unseen Talent Award (2019) in Amsterdam. Wojtas has presented her works in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including: ASAMA International Photo Festival (Japan, 2025), FOTO ARSENAL WIEN (2023), Foam Amsterdam (2021), MNAC – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea in Lisbon (2023), the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2022), Zachęta – National Gallery of Art (2022), Capa Center in Budapest and Beijing 1+1 Art Center (2017). In 2019 she opened her own museum in her hometown in Podkarpacie, Poland.
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The book 'Galeria Wschodnia. Documents 1984-2017 / Documents 1984-2017', edited by Daniel Muzyczuk and Tomasz Załuski, is a monumental study of the history of one of the longest-established authorial art spaces in Poland. The Wschodnia Gallery is an important example of artists' self-organisation and a centre whose history is symptomatic of transformations in the independent gallery movement. This nodal place on the map of Polish art also reveals how many shades the concept of independence can have.
Galeria Wschodnia was founded in 1984 on the initiative of, among others, Jerzy Grzegorski and Adam Klimczak, who took over the flat at 29 Wschodnia Street from the troupe Arlekin i Pantalon, run by Jarosław Orłowski, Piotr Bikont and Wojciech Czajkowski. The place, where various forms of creativity originally intersected and theatre rehearsals, free jazz sessions and political activity were the order of the day, became an important spot for independent art from the mid-1980s onwards. The gallery and its creators were also involved in important artistic initiatives taking place in Lodz, such as the subsequent Constructions in Process and the Artists' Museum. The leading artistic forms within its programme were installations and performances, clearly indicating a strategy of expanding the autonomy of the artist. Author's galleries were, after all, founded precisely in order to give all the power over the conditions for the presentation of art to its creators.
The main part of the book is a detailed study by Tomasz Załuski focused on the activities of the gallery in the broad context of the situation of other, related centres and organisations. It also contains a set of archival texts related to the East, written by Jerzy Busza, Jolanta Ciesielska, Maciej Cholewiński, Adam Klimczak, Maria Morzuch and Józef Robakowski. The content is complemented by materials related to the gallery's anniversary exhibition held at the Museum of Art in 2014, including texts by Daniel Muzyczuk and Mikołaj Iwański, as well as a calendar and an extensive photographic archive that gives an idea of the diversity of artistic forms hosted at Eastern over the years.
The publisher of the book is the Wschodnia Gallery / In Search Of... Foundation, and the co-publisher is the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. The publication was co-financed by the City of Lodz Office as part of the Publishing Programme.
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