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Polana Institute

The Polana Institute combines the functions of an art institution, gallery and educational and resea

The Polana Institute combines the functions of an art institution, gallery and educational and research faculty.

19/09/2026

🐀 This time, we chat with Adam Kozicki following the opening of his latest exhibition, „Everyone at War With Everyone Else,” at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, curated by Natalia Sielewicz. 🎮

🐁 We talk about the beginnings of his painting practice, what led him to the airbrush, and what this particular tool offers him that other mediums don’t. We also discuss his latest series and some of the themes surrounding the exhibition at MSN — the internet, live streams, online communities, and the ways they shape our understanding of identity, belonging, and pleasure. 💥

Swipe left to read the whole story ⬅️

Interviewee: Adam Kozicki
Interviewer: Sebastian Kańczurzewski

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📸 Images 1, 17, 20: Portraits of Adam Kozicki, Photo. Anna Zegar
🎨 Image 4: Adam Kozicki, Those Tears Are Unatoned For, 2025, acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas, 100 x 70 cm
🎨 Image 7: Adam Kozicki, That’s It (Frans Masereel — Mon livre d’heures), 2022, acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas, 200 x 150 cm
🎨 Image 8: Adam Kozicki, You’re Not a Child Anymore. Time to Steal, 2025, oil and acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas, 70 x 50 cm
🎨 Image 11: Adam Kozicki, He Was Homeless in His Own Body, 2025, oil and acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas, 70 x 50 cm
🎨 Image 14: Adam Kozicki, One Night in Long-Bygone Times, Man Awoke and Saw Himself, 2025, oil and acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas, 70 x 50 cm
🎨 Image 16: Adam Kozicki, There Is Beauty in That, Is There Not?, 2025, oil and acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas, 170 x 130 cm

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Adam Kozicki seebst anna maria zegar

18/09/2026

🔴 Warsaw Gallery Weekend Starts Today!

Still wondering what to do this weekend? This year, Poland Institute invites you to encounter our artists’ work both within and beyond the gallery walls — across different spaces and contexts throughout Warsaw.

⬅️ Swipe left to discover our programme and plan your walk for the weekend✨

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🧩 Arriving, Leaving 🧩
Julia Platt’s solo show at Polana Institute
Opens during Warsaw Gallery Weekend
🪲 September 18–20, 2026, 11 am — 7 pm 🪲

On view till October 31, 2026
Tuesday-Friday, 4–7 pm
Saturday, 12–7 pm

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🪀 The Play 🪀
performance accompanying Julia Platt’s “Arriving, Leaving” exhibition
written and directed by Ewa Platt
performed by Janka Komorowska-Majkowska

🛝 Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2026 🛝
September 18. 19. 20.
(Friday, Saturday, Sunday) at 6.00 pm
Polana Institute, Noakowskiego 16/35, 4 staircase, 4 floor
Warsaw, PL

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🎨 Julia Platt, Spring Awakening, 2025, oil on canvas, 120 x 160 cm

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Julia Platt Ewa Platt jankakomorowska Polana Institute Warsaw Gallery Weekend

🪟 Look Me in the Window 🪟
group show featuring Mikołaj Sobczak
at Elektrownia Powiśle, Loft +3, Warsaw, PL
Kotarski Collection, WGW+
👁️ September 18–20, 2026 👁️

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🎨 Mikołaj Sobczak, Lilith, 2024, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm © Kotarski Collection

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Polana Institute Kotarski Collection Radek Kotarski

Irini Karayannopoulou’s animated collages appear in Paulina Ołowska’s “Szał” (2023), an audiovisual interpretation of the painting by Władysław Podkowiński (1894). The film is part of Ołowska’s “Three Colours” solo show at Foksal Gallery Foundation.

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🐎 Three Colours 🐎
Paulina Ołowska’s solo show at
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
🎬 September 18 — November 7, 2026 🎬

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🎨 Irini Karayannopoulou, Szal I, 2025, acrylic, charcoal, offset and collage on guclée printed paper, 35 x 29 cm

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Irini Karayannopoulou Polana Institute Foksal Gallery Foundation

16/09/2026

🔌 On view: Patryk Różycki 🔌
~ Transformation ~
artistic intervention curated by Łukasz Ronduda at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL
🦺 July 31 — October 11, 2026 🦺

A display of works by Patryk Różycki accompanies the “Edward Dwurnik. Shame and Pride” exhibition. Titled “Transformation,” it showcases a selection of paintings created between 2021 and 2024, dealing with the artist’s childhood and adolescence in the countryside—marked by socio-economic exclusion amid Poland’s transition of the 1990s.

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📸 Images 1–6: Exhibition view, Patryk Różycki: Transformation, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, photo. Robert Głowacki, Courtesy of Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

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Patryk Różycki Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie

10/09/2026

🧸 As part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2026, Julia Platt’s solo show “Arriving, Leaving” at Polana Institute will be accompanied by “Play,” a solo performance written and directed by Ewa Platt and performed by Janka Komorowska-Majkowska.

🪁 “Play” /pl. „Zabawa”/ is an autobiographical monodramatic performance in which director Ewa Platt, together with her twin sister, Julia Platt, returns to selected memories from their childhood. This return is not an attempt to reconstruct the past, but rather to evoke an experience that, for years, remained closely associated with a sense of safety.

The performance takes as its starting point the simple forms of childhood play—hide-and-seek, tag. They are revisited as though they had never truly ended. At the same time, one sentence keeps resurfacing in the background: “Don’t cry, don’t cry, it’s only a game.” Repeated like a mantra, it gradually reveals the ambiguity of memory and the tension between the experience of childhood and the way it is understood in retrospect.

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🪀 The Play 🪀
performance accompanying Julia Platt’s “Arriving, Leaving” exhibition
written and directed by Ewa Platt
performed by Janka Komorowska-Majkowska

🛝 Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2026 🛝
September 18. 19. and 20.
(Friday, Saturday, Sunday) at 6.00 pm
Polana Institute, Noakowskiego 16/35, 4 staircase, 4 floor
Warsaw, PL

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📸 Images 1-2: Julia & Ewa Platt, photo. Mateusz Aftanas
👶 Image 3: Julia & Ewa Platt

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Julia Platt Ewa Platt jankakomorowska Polana Institute Warsaw Gallery Weekend Mateusz

08/09/2026

💥Soon on view: Adam Kozicki x 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁

CRASH CLUB 2026

Since 2023, CRASH CLUB has been creating temporary spaces for artistic exchange, bringing together galleries, artists, performances, and moving-image practices beyond the traditional white cube.

This year’s edition takes place at Bracka 5A, a site where Warsaw’s layered history becomes part of the exhibition itself. A nineteenth-century courtyard building hidden behind a post-war facade, the location bears traces of a city constantly being transformed—through preservation, reconstruction, adaptation, and disappearance.

Against this backdrop, CRASH CLUB 2026 looks at the ways cities are shaped, reshaped, and contested, asking what—and whose—histories are allowed to remain visible.

The 2026 edition is curated by ARCC (Artist-Run Collaborative Curation), an international collective exploring curating as a collaborative, artist-led practice. Organized by: Mikołaj Beczek, Philip Ortelli, Marta Lityńska-Beczek.

CRASH CLUB WARSAW 2026
September 16–20, 2026
Bracka 5A, 00–501 Warsaw, PL

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🎨 Adam Kozicki, A Year Has Passed. That’s Quite a Lot, Yet Nothing has Changed for Me / from the ‘Friend’ [pl. ‘Kolega’] series, 2024, acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas, 150 x 100 cm

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Adam Kozicki Polana Institute 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁

06/09/2026

Polana Institute
on view at Hotel Warszawa

05/09/2026

🚬 Opening next week: Adam Kozicki x Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie

In his latest exhibition, Adam Kozicki turns his attention to the ever-shifting landscape of the contemporary internet—a space defined by the incessant circulation of information, where competing worldviews, values, and identities converge and collide. The fragmented nature of online discourse, and its deeply affective dimension, increasingly blur the boundaries between fact, opinion, and individual experience.

The internet emerges here not merely as a site of conflict and cultural tension, but as a space in which broader social expectations, desires, and fantasies are articulated—revealing the shifting boundaries of what is deemed permissible, acceptable, or even imaginable.

🐈‍⬛ Adam Kozicki 🐈‍⬛
~ Everyone at War With Everyone Else ~
solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw curated by Natalia Sielewicz
🔥September 12, 2026 — January 10, 2027 🔥

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🎨 Image 1: Adam Kozicki, You’re Not a Child Anymore. Time to Steal, 2025, oil and acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas, 70 x 50 cm
🎨 Image 2: Adam Kozicki, He Was Homeless in His Own Body, 2025, oil and acrylic ink airbrushed on canvas, 70 x 50 cm

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Adam Kozicki Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie

03/09/2026

🎨 Julia Platt, Arriving, Leaving, 2026, oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm

In her latest painting series, Julia Platt confronts her past and the difficult passage into adulthood, shaped by her mother’s long, incurable illness. Being caught in loops of time, attached to the same objects from the past and returning to them again and again, no longer brings comfort; instead, it gives rise to anxiety and exhaustion. The artist tries to break free from the trap of memory through formal devices borrowed from the old masters and through a poignant exploration of different textures.

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🧩 ~ Arriving, Leaving ~ 🧩
Julia Platt’s solo show at Polana Institute
Opens during Warsaw Gallery Weekend:
🪲 September 18–20, 2026, 11 am — 7 pm 🪲

On view till October 31, 2026
Tuesday-Friday, 4–7 pm
Saturday, 12–7 pm

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Julia Platt Polana Institute Warsaw Gallery Weekend

01/09/2026

🧚🏻‍♀️ Soon on view: Joanna Fluder at Hotel Warszawa Art Fair 🧚🏼‍♂️

Room 216

Polana Institute presents selection of sculptures by Joanna Fluder from the “Goddesses for Bruises” series.

🪵 Joanna Fluder, Goddess Casting Charms, 2026, papier-mâché, wood, 136 x 41 x 25 cm

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📸 Images 1-5: Olga Tuz

5th Edition of Hotel Warszawa Art Fair
September 5–6, 2026
Preview: September 4, 2026
Hotel Warszawa, Powstańców Warszawy Sq. 9
Warsaw, Poland

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Joanna Fluder Polana Institute Hotel Warszawa Art Fair

🪵 Joanna Fluder, Goddess Casting Charms, 2026, papier-mâché, wood, 136 x 41 x 25 cm

🪵 Joanna Fluder, She Crawled Out of the Garden and Looked at Her Body, 2026, papier-mâché, wood, gouache, 46 x 144 x 54 cm

🪵 Joanna Fluder, She Crawled Out of the Garden and Looked at Her Body, 2026, papier-mâché, wood, gouache, 46 x 144 x 54 cm (detail)

🪵 Joanna Fluder, Goddess Resemlbing a Money Tree, 2026, papier-mâché, wood, 96 x 48 x 55 cm

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