“Old Little” is the fifteenth edition of the exhibition organised as part of the informal exhibition initiative NOWY ZŁOTY (NEW GOLDEN), which is temporarily hosted at OSA (Open Antifascist Studio). Maria Kniaginin-Ciszewska was selected by PlanetA according to the formula functioning since 2019: an artist taking part in the project at a given moment nominates three names, then from among the selected creators the curatorial duo – Magdalena Kreis and Yuriy Biley – selects one person.

Designed by Saša J. Mächtig, Kiosk K67, which houses OSA, regains its “shop” character thanks to Maria Kniaginin-Ciszewska. The artist arranges a tights point there. This intervention is a peculiar attempt to return to childhood times, as well as a path from wearing tights in early adolescence to getting older and having holes in tights. Tights seem to be a symbol of chic, elegance, beauty, and a neat girl – does the perception of this garment change over the years and in the course of becoming a woman?

“When I was little, my mother taught me how to put on tights so as not to tear them. They were only worn on special occasions. With my little fingers I stretched piece by piece, bound to a positive result – as befits a lady. I put on ‘second skin’ all my life and I am an old little one. A little one in a world that has demands on how to present and what is expected of us,” claims the artist.

The displayed tights feature photos – archival ones, taken by the artist’s parents, as well as those made by her in the form of portraits-postcards. The artist’s photographs reveal patterns of beauty, they present people ready to go out and enter adulthood. “Old Little” looks at society insightfully – she checks how women are raised by the masses. She looks at the stereotypes in which we sometimes feel best.

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When: 29/09–14.11.2021 (Tue-Sun, 12:00-7:00 p.m.)
Where: Open Antifascism Studio, square in front of Galeria Labirynt
Accessibility: The exhibition is located in the OSA kiosk in front of Galeria Labirynt building – a space inaccessible to people with motor disabilities. Description of works in PJM – after scanning the QR code.
Admission: PLN 1

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NOWY ZŁOTY (formerly ZŁOTY KIOSK – GOLDEN KIOSK) – an independent exhibition initiative operating since 2019. For almost two years, it used the architectural facility created by Rewizja Grupa Projektowa in Wrocław – the Golden Kiosk located in one of the yards in the Ołbin estate. Twelve views-exhibitions were realised there. In May 2021, the programme, under a changed name, moved to OSA (Open Antifascist Studio), which is part of Galeria Labirynt. NOWY ZŁOTY is going to stay here until it is going to find another place in Wrocław.

Curatorial team: Magdalena Kreis and Yuriy Biley

The exhibition was co-financed by donations to: patronite.pl/nowyzloty

CEREMONIAL is a series of presentations of works in the form of flags carried out by the informal exhibition initiative NOWY ZŁOTY (NEW GOLDEN). Until now, works by such artists as Monika Drożyńska, Julia Krivich, Alex Urso, and Nikolay Karabinovich have flown on a pole mounted on a kiosk. Another work displayed on the roof of the OSA Open Antifascist Studio, which is part of Galeria Labirynt, is the work by Jolanta Nowaczyk.

When: 17–29/09/2021
Where: Kiosk in front of Galeria Labirynt (ul. Popiełuszki 5)
Accessibility: The work is on the roof of the OSA kiosk in front of Galeria Labirynt building. The work is visible from the pavement. Description of works in PJM – after scanning the QR code.
Admission: 1 zł

For the NOWY ZŁOTY curatorial team – Magdalena Kreis and Yuriy Biley – this is the second meeting with the artist. In 2020, while still in Wrocław (then called the ZŁOTY KIOSK – GOLDEN KIOSK), Jolanta Nowaczyk worked on the “Sink or Swim” project, which was part of the programme of the Wrocław 70/20 Symposium. This time, we present Jolanta’s work in Lublin and it becomes part of the CEREMONIAL exhibition cycle.

The flag “Blazing World” was sewn by hand from fabrics found. It takes its title from a 17th-century novel by Margaret Cavendish, described as a pioneering work of feminist science fiction. The book tells the story of a world in which society works harmoniously thanks to the abolition of social divisions. In the context of Jolanta Nowaczyk’s work, this thread can be read – by manifesting it with a flag – as a demand for “another world”. The word “blazing” suggests that the world as we know it will explode or burn down.