About
"Øleg&Kaśka, a Polish duo who identify themselves as an individual and singular superorganism, was founded in the summer of 2018, at a time, when Greta Thunberg organized her first protest under the Swedish parliament, and the ecological disaster was ignorantly referred to in the mainstream as a mere “crisis.” (...) is nothing more than a pleading cry from Millennial artists who are being slowly killed by the present. The collapsing colonnades of ancient buildings, the heat of the Earth, the smell of burning plastic – the apocalyptic imagination engages all the senses, seizing our thinking completely. The artists turned their fears into imagining their escape from what is coming. And what is coming is war, more social protests and revolts; as a result of global warming, water will reach people’s throats. But, importantly, Øleg&Kaśka do not play artistic activism. (...) They do not moralize the viewer nor do they call for a change in our behavior and conversion of our beliefs. The reason is that they do not put their hope in a global (or, better, planetary) change, but in what is beyond the decaying planet. The Earth is now only a cemetery of ideas as well as civilizational and cultural achievements.”
Daria Grabowska
Upcoming solo exhibitions:
2021
Gdansk City Gallery, in duo with Zofia Pałucha, Poland, TBA
Berlinskej Model, Prague, Czech Republic, TBA
Selected solo exhibitions:
2020
Ashes to Ashes, both in :SKALA Gallery, Poznan, Poland, and online
Come Out and Play, together with Jan Możdżyński, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland
2019
Z FILES, offsite exhibition at an undetermined time & location
Is it too late now to say sorry? Hotel Polonez, Poznan, Poland. In frames of Poznań Art Week 2019
Selected group exhibitions
2020
Warsaw under Construction, MoMA, Warsaw, Poland (02.10.2020 - 17.01.2021)
Pandemic consequences: dreams, Serce Człowiek Gallery, Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2020 (01-17.10.2020)
SURVIVAL 18. Art Review, The City Pumping Station, Wrocław, Poland
Warsaw Preview, Jazdów, Warsaw
A Dream Within a Dream, offsite exhibition curated by DZIDY DUO, Warsaw, Poland
Art now in #quarantine, instagram group show, SPACE NOUVELLE
2019
Valentine’s Rendez-Vous vol.2, as an artist and curator, Minus1.artspace, Katowice, Poland
Poland of Our Dreams, Aleje Ujazdowskie 8, Warsaw, Poland
We Are Enough, Already, durning Museum Night, Former Meet Factory, Poznan, Poland
SURVIVAL 17. Art Review, Under Pressure, Aleja Wisniowa 36, Wrocław, Poland
Ewa Partum. My Gallery is an idea, exhibition after Open Call Film as Idea, Film as Film, Film as Art, Galeria Studio, Warsaw, Poland
2018
Interes, together with Potencja Gallery and other guests, during Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2018, Warsaw, Poland
It’s all water over the dam, Wolne Pokoje at Chaos w Domu Polskim Gallery, Gdynia, Poland
Festival Neuer Kunst, Labirynt, Frankfurt [O]/ Słubice, Germany, Poland
The Island, Performatic action in frames of art fairs Nówka Sztuka, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
Residences
2020
Brno Artist in Residence, Czech Republic (11-12.2020)
Self-House Residency, residency program for artist and curators in self-isolation (03.2020)
Education
University of the Arts Poznan, Poland, graduate of the Intermedia faculty (led by Daniel Koniusz) and Painting faculty (Dominik Lejman studio), MFA 2020
University of West Attica, Athens, Greece, 2019 (visiting student)
competitions, grants and publications:
Finalists of the international competition for intermedia art work ICIA, Karków, Poland, 2018
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Scholarship for the best students, awarded by the Head of the University of Arts in Poznan 2018-19 (annual), Poznan, Poland
Scholarship for the best students, awarded by the Head of the University of Arts in Poznan 2019-20 (annual), Poznan, Poland
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Artists in pandemic times #1, online group publication, published by SZUM Magazine, 02.04.2020
Łałok 4, group publication, published by Potencja Gallery, 2020
Young Alphabet, article published in SZUM Magazine, issue 27/2019, p.43
Artists page, Øleg&Kaśka, SZUM Magazine, issue 26/2019, p. 143
Łałok 3, group publication, published by Potencja Gallery. Premiere in Artist Run Space Groszowe Sprawy, Warsaw, Poland, 2019
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