Øleg&Kaśka (PL)

Artist-in-Residence for August and September is an art duo Øleg&Kaśka from Poland. We are looking forward to their solo exhibition in the second half of September.

Øleg&Kaśka is a collective superorganism founded in the summer of 2018. We graduated from The University of The Arts in Poznań (Poland) in 2020 (MFA). Our artistic practice is mainly about creating multi-layered installations in which we place the viewers. We work with different mediums like painting, sculpture, video or fragrance to create immerse environments in wich viewers can attend.

Our practice is rooted in the dilemmas of the Z generation, contain the responsibility to deal with world coming crisis raised from climate crisis. The language we use is a hybrid of mythology and pop culture, which is our way to talk about escapism and fatality but also about condition of the world societies and environment in general.

We try to deal with classic understanding of the art and the figure of the artist as an individual, by creating the figure of the quasi artist, androgynous Øleg&Kaśka.

We have exhibited our works in many institutions and galleries in Poland and abroad like Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL), MoMA, Warsaw (PL), :SKALA Gallery, Poznan (PL), Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk (PL), Belinskej Model, Prague (CZ), Spread Museum, Entrevaux (FR), Sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf (DE), and others.

Upcoming
The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (16.07-16.10.2022, group show)
PRÁM Studio, Prague, Czechia, TBA (September 2022, solo)

Selected solo and duo exhibitions
2022
Everything i Knew Has Become Yesterday’s Dream, Sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021
The Sleep of Reason, Berlinskej Model, Prague, Czechia
The Flutter of the Wings in the Treetops, in duo with Zofia Pałucha, curated by Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises- Chapter 6, with Lea Tissot-Laura & Anna Sougy, curated by Edita Štrajtová & Linda Vondrová, Jedna Dva Tri Gallery, Prague, Czechia
From Among the Grasses, off-site exhibition, Yellow Orchard
2020
Ashes to Ashes, :SKALA Gallery, Poznan, Poland
Come out and play, together with Jan Możdżyński, curated by Adrian Chorebala, 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.

Group exhibitions
2022
Sugar and Salt, curated by Marcelina Grześkiewicz and Franiu Smoręda, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Refugees Welcome, curated by Magda Lipska, MoMa, Warsaw, Poland
2021
Les Danses Nocturnes, curated by east contemporary, Entrevaux, France
In these days of tumult, heat and dazzle I retreat in my mind, curated by Michalina Sablik and Kamil Pierwszy, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises- Chapter 5, curated by Edita Štrajtová & Linda Vondrová, Jedna Dva Tri Gallery, Prague, Czechia
Forward Tarot, curated by Ewa Mrozikiewicz and Maria Ancukiewicz, FWD:, Poznan, Poland
ExFrut- Video Art from Poland, curated by Kunszt Grupa, Leipzig, Germany
2020
Warsaw under Construction 12- Something in Common, curated by Tomasz Fudala and Natalia Sielewicz,
MoMA, Warsaw, Poland
Pandemic consequences: dreams, curated by Kamil Pierwszy, Serce Człowiek Gallery, Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2020
Outdoor Campaign, Artists on Zachęta’s Billboards, Zachęta National Gallery of Arts, Warsaw, Poland
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
That Summer vol.II, CK ZAMEK, Poznan, 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, during Museum Night, Former Meet Factory, Poznan, Poland
SURVIVAL 17. Art Review, Under Pressure, Aleja Wiśniowa 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
PRÁM Studio, Prague, Czechia, TBA (2022)
AiR 2021, Petrohradská kolektiv, Prague, Czechia (07-08.2021)
Self-House Residency, residency program for artist and curators in self-isolation (03.2020)
Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czechia, (11-12.2020)

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)
Scholarship for the best students, awarded by the Head of the University of Arts in Poznań (annual), Poznań, 2018-19.
Scholarship for the best students, awarded by the Head of the University of Arts in Poznań (annual), Poznań, 2019-20.

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