Janusz Bałdyga “Certificate of Employment”

Does an artist’s work ever end? Can one ever stop being an artist if they dedicated their whole life to art? And even if the artist’s work is fleeing, are not its marks eternal?

opening of the exhibition: 6.12.2025 (Saturday), 6 PM
Galeria Labirynt, 5 ks. J. Popiełuszki Street, Lublin
language: event in Polish; no English translation
the exhibition is open until: 8.02.2026 (Tue-Sun, 12 PM – 7 PM)
admission: full price ticket – 8 zł, reduced ticket – 4 zł (free admission for the vernissage)
curator: Jacek Sosnowski

Practicing art is a constant act of pushing boundaries, finishing your artwork, but also pushing your own abilities. It is especially meaningful for a performer, who is Janusz Bałdyga. His practice, focused on a generally ephemeral act, combines both the fleetingness of the artistic performance itself, as well as the durability of its legacy.

In the Galeria Labirynt’s exhibition we present a series of new works in addition with a few older ones that we can collectively call performance objects, therefore those which’s existence is always written into the performer’s body and actions. Whether it is Bałdyga or us, it does not matter as much, because those objects dictate what takes place in the gallery, and the audience is only witnessing its presence and potential.

Cooperation: Propaganda / PRPGND

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund