Group Exhibition
ANDRZEJ TOBIS, MARCIN MOKRY, MARIA BITKA, MICHALINA KOSTECKA, TOMASZ STRUK, ZAWA & WORPUS, GYYETHY
Exhibition open from 14.08.2025 to 12.09.2025
Finissage: 05.09.2025, 7:00 PM
Confluence is not only the physical joining of water streams. It is a point of tension: where different energies, chemical compositions, rhythms, and directions meet, without the necessity of immediate blending. For a long stretch, they may flow side by side—together, yet separate. In nature, a confluence is a place of change, new dynamics, and reshuffling—just like in human relations, communication, and art.
The exhibition Confluences treats this phenomenon as a metaphor for contemporary coexistence. The artists present different visual, poetic, performative, social, and sensory strategies. Their statements are not unified—but juxtaposed. They are parallel currents that share a common space without losing distinctiveness.
In the context of today’s world—full of stimuli, channels of communication, and constant notifications—the project asks about meaningful connections: not instant transmissions, but situations in which we can be together without the need for homogenization.
An integral part of the exhibition are workshops: activities in the fields of performance, culinary arts, and self-publishing, which expand the practice of communication. Here, conversation may begin with the body, taste, or word—and unfold differently than in the digital world.
Confluences is a space of co-presence. Without imposed rhythm, without domination of a single narrative. It is an attempt to be together—not through similarity, but through attentiveness.
Workshops
23.08.2025, 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Hello Echo — Zine-making workshop led by gyyethy, Karolina Maria Wiśniewska
Maximum number of participants: 10
Registration: galeria@galeriabrama.pl
The ZIN ZIN workshop is an informal meeting focused on unleashing the creative process. It is a fully analog experience, conducted in the DIY spirit and open to creation. In this space, participants learn to work with different illustrative techniques and explore working with text in the form of collage and blackout poetry.
gyyethy, Karolina Maria Wiśniewska – graphic designer, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP), and cultural animator. Professionally connected with graphic design and visual education. She works as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, specializing in the artist’s book and narrative design. She has extensive curatorial and workshop experience—working with children, youth, and adults to create space for creativity and visual expression. Her work has been recognized multiple times in the design community—twice awarded in the Polish Graphic Design Awards. She designs the experimental Cegła Literary Materials Magazine and co-creates the DINGS project, where she is responsible for the artistic part: memory visualization, collage, work with form and image.
www.instagram.com/love_gyyethy/
https://atlasdings.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mmlcegla/
31.08.2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Connections — Performance workshop led by Maria Bitka
Maximum number of participants: 12
Registration: galeria@galeriabrama.pl
Maria Bitka (b. 1986, Opole) – artist, defended her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław in 2021. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, with a master’s degree from the Faculty of Intermedia (2013), and of the Institute of Art at the University of Opole (2010). During her studies, she held scholarships in the Czech Republic, USA, and Argentina. She works with various media, paying great attention to the process of creating works without neglecting their visual/sensory appeal. Her projects explore themes of intimacy, the relationship with nature, and questions of identity. She sings recreationally in the traditional singing group Niezłe Ziółka. Co-founder of the art collective Kuratorki. Professionally, she teaches art subjects at the Fine Arts High School in Opole and works as an assistant at the Department of Art Mediation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław.
www.mariabitka.pl
05.09.2025, 2:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Common Language — Food art workshop led by Michalina Kostecka
Maximum number of participants: 10
Registration: galeria@galeriabrama.pl
Common Language is a culinary workshop during which participants will create an edible art installation together. The process of cooking becomes a space of exchange, dialogue, and collaboration. It is an invitation to build relationships through the senses, taste, and creative activity.
Michalina Kostecka – visual artist whose practice transcends the traditional boundaries of art. She uses diverse media, combining and intertwining plant and floral motifs with broadly understood themes of food and cooking. Her artistic explorations are rooted in the currents of magical realism and symbolism.
www.instagram.com/michalina_kostecka/
www.instagram.com/plantera.pl/
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FREE ENTRY
The event is supported under the Victoria Cultural Center “Cultural Start-up” program.