LISTE 2025
ARTISTS
Wiktoria Kieniksman, Mikołaj Sobotka
SCENOGRAPHY
Turnus
The booth concept embodies our spirit of excess and exaggeration. It is rooted in the idea of a junk room: a messy space that accumulates both useful and useless objects. A clearly oversized shelf runs the full length of the booth’s main wall.
It’s occupied by a mix of clutter and artworks. Put on display with an intent – in a symbolic nod to the act of collecting; yet crowded in disarray, living a life of their own – on the verge of hoarding.
Kieniksman’s paintings depict sauna and steam room settings filled with blurred
figures in a foul shade of pink. In some, the quiver of brushstrokes unveils swirling beads of sweat, in others, it softens back into a translucent mist that conceals body details.
Wiktoria Kieniksman
The slap, 2025
oil on canvas
150×60 cm
Wiktoria Kieniksman
Plastic inhalation, 2025
oil on canvas
90×70 cm
Wiktoria Kieniksman
Random Chick, 2025
oil on canvas
120×70 cm
Wiktoria Kieniksman
The book, 2025
pencil on canvas
30×40 cm
Mikołaj Sobotka’s playful sculptural objects have a certain visceral waxiness to them. They incorporate a mixture of found objects (e.g. candles, plastic bags) and organic materials (dirt, clay) that went through an accelerated corrosion process. Sobotka, mainly working with sculpture and graphic art, deconstructs the concept of still life, addressing the haunting unpleasantness of transience, decay, and exhaustion.
Mikołaj Sobotka
Lantern, banner of sin, 2025
mixed media
260×60×60 cm
Mikołaj Sobotka
smeared, 2025
mixed media
55×95×48 cm
Mikołaj Sobotka
Amputee Magic Key, 2025
mixed media
110×25×10 cm
His visual language emerges from the belief that meaning is validated by time, and is influenced by various cultural phenomena including manga, baroque art, industrial labels, and product descriptions from AliExpress.
*graciarnia (in polish) means a place with too much things, a mess
Reproductions by Bartek Zalewski, installation views by Grayscale
