Magdalena Franczak, Pełnia
opening on 20^th of June at 18.00

The balloons are gone. It is not known what happened to them, did they manage to sneak out of the Kiosk at night? In any case, another object appeared that should remain in the wild, but is locked in a kind of quarantine. The mysterious satellite glows with internal light, luring moths and people. At the same time, the artist encourages interaction with the help of touch - a sense that is lacking at the moment probably the most. The Kiosk will contain protective gloves and gray paint, which you can, using your own fingers, give the three-dimensional sculpture an additional, personal character flowing straight from the district.

Magdalena Franczak - an interdisciplinary artist, using various media during her works: painting, drawing, photography, performance. She creates objects and works with site specific space. Member of the Polish-German group AOUA (Academy of Ugly Arts). Creator of the Nomadic Workshop - a space of activities on the border of disciplines. She collaborates with artists from Poland and the world: Michael Ackerman, Marcin Dymiter, Ludomir Franczak, Yael Frank, Sara Kurzinger as well as Jasmine Wójcik and Weronika Lewandowska, with whom they form the collective "Łodygi". Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, nominated for the title of Kulturystka Roku by journalists of the Third Program of Polish Radio. Exhibits in galleries in Poland and abroad (including Zachęta Project Room in Warsaw, Arsenal in Poznań, BWA Zielona Góra, BWA Katowice, Galeria Biała in Lublin, Labirynt in Lublin, CCA in Toruń, Art Cube Artists Studios Jerusalem, Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz and many others). As Karolina Sikorska writes: "Magdalena Franczak talks about work and the creative process as a natural growth. Behind this metaphor lies a meticulously built collection of found, acquired, materiality-gaining objects that produce intricate structures of interrelationship, inducing the initiator and creator of the collection to constantly effort to master and classify the collected material. Work for Franczak is a continuous process, dealing with the volatility of matter, conservation, recovery, placing things in the visible area. "

Artist's website:
mfranczak.blogspot.com

Jarosław Koziara, Balloons
Finishage on 20^th of June at 18:30

Throughout the entire duration of the Jaroslaw Koziara exhibition, a Kiosk was placed on the kiosk asking for throwing letters into the world of the future - messages for ourselves and our neighbors from the world of quarantine, which we will symbolically release into the air on Kupała Night, attached to biodegradable helium balloons. We don't know who this "message in the bottle" will reach, but we hope for an answer hoping that we were not alone in this world.

FLYING OBJECTS

This is a double edition of exhibitions at the Kiosk ze Sztuką that shares a common narrative. In the era of restrictions associated with COVID-19, the world of art has actually moved entirely to the Internet, depriving the audience of contact with the physical object of the work. At the same time, our closure is not conducive to physical contact, on the contrary - it creates a kind of resentment related to the potential threat that this kind of relationship brings with it. In this context, the Kiosk building - completely isolated from the public, and at the same time allowing contact with art through the glass, seems to be the ideal architectural model for presentations. Therefore we propose two exhibitions of the artist and artist associated with Lublin: Magdalena Franczak and Jarosław Koziara, which perversely comment on the current situation, introducing into the whole almost a fairy-tale narrative.