May 16 – June 19
artists: Beata Długosz, Maria Wasilewska
The exhibition is the result of a polar expedition to Spitsbergen in the Petuniabukta region in the summer (June/July) of 2024. The resulting records in the form of photographs, sounds, videos and spatial installations are the artist’s response to the disappearing world of glaciers and Arctic permafrost. The exposition will have the character of their personal reflections, feelings of sorrow for the disappearing, at an alarming rate, almost before our eyes – Beautiful. It is there that the rapid warming of the climate can be observed in the most poignant way. The aim of the artistic project is to draw attention to the disappearing glaciers.
The subject is in line with the year 2025 declared by the UN in August 2024 as the International Year for the Protection of Glaciers.
Beata Długosz
visual artist, photographer
Her work centres on such phenomena as emanation of light, the passage of time, and photochemical processes. She works, mainly in traditional black-and-white photography techniques, makes experiments in camera-less photography, as well as site-specific art installations. In recent years, her works have become critical of the current reality.
Her works are part of the collection of Kraków’s Museum of Photography (MUFO) and the MOCAK Library collection. In 2014-15, she worked as the coordinator of the Main Program of the Krakow Photomonth Festival (MFK).
Maria Wasilewska
visual artist
She mainly works with installation, site-specific and environmental projects, creating spatial objects, videos. In art, she is interested in the possibilities of knowing, feeling and naming reality.
Her works have been presented in Poland and abroad, in individual and collective exhibitions, including in Krakow, Warsaw, Poznan, Lublin, Lodz, Milan, Venice, Hamburg, Berlin, Leiden, Stockholm, Japan.