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15/11/2025

Tomorrow — Sunday — is the Last Day of Julia Woronowicz’s Exhibition “Princess of the Three Hills”.

Julia Woronowicz
The Push-Out-the-Window Game, 2025
Oil on canvas, 140 × 120 cm



Exceptionally, the gallery will be open tomorrow, Sunday, from 13:00 to 18:00.

Join us at 14:30 for a special guided tour with the artist, accompanied by psychoanalyst Pola Czunikin-Krasowicka and Dorota “Doda” Rabczewska as special guests.

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12/11/2025

Julia Woronowicz: Princess of the Three Hills | Guided Tour with the artist, Pola Czunikin-Krasowicka and Dorota “Doda” Rabczewska

Nov 16, Sunday, 14.30
📍 Londyńska 13, Warsaw

Program:

Pola Czunikin-Krasowicka is a psychologist and psychotraumatologist. She works with children, adolescents, and families using a systemic approach.

At the exhibition, she takes on the role of the descendant of Lucy Moravski, a 20th-century neo-psychoanalytic theorist, passionate explorer of the archaeology of the psyche, and author of texts known, among others, for the psychobiographies of The Princess of Three Hills and Queen Aqualitea, Polish Mazonian sovereigns.

The co-creator of the historical narrative and psychological portraits of the characters is Dorota “Doda” Rabczewska, descendant of a 14th-century lineage of Polish Amazons.

Together with the artist, they reconstruct the stories of a forgotten kingdom through the lens of the mother–daughter relationship.

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01/11/2025

The gallery is closed today (Nov 1) We invite you to Julia Woronowicz’s exhibition starting Tuesday.

Princess of the Three Hills

Lady Hypnagogia (my friend Aniela), 2025
Oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm



Opening as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend

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22/10/2025

Paulina Pawłowska

Living in a Fantasy World (2024)
Pigment print on cotton paper, 50 x 40 cm

The Living in a Fantasy World series is an attempt to look at oneself within an unfamiliar, foreign landscape — urban, relational, and rooted in questions of identity.
It is a performative exploration of the gaze that both reveals and distorts, exposing its truth and illusion while uncovering its potential to create intimacy.

Pawłowska explores what intimacy means when it is formed in front of the camera and in front of the viewer.
Her photographs move between reality and fantasy, between document and staging.
The body becomes a space where boundaries blur, and intimacy becomes a gesture, a reinterpretation of reality, a play between what is visible and what remains hidden.



📷Bartosz Górka

17/10/2025

17/10/2025

16/10/2025

Paulina Pawłowska WINK (2025)

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WINK – Photographs

The photographs from the Wink series serve as a prelude to a choreographic performance of the same title – a summation of Pawłowska’s artistic practice to date. The series continues her exploration of the politics of looking and the power dynamics between the viewer and the performing body.
“Who casts the first glance? Do we know in which direction the gaze falls? And if not – who is actually performing?”

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WINK – Performance
dir. Paulina Pawłowska

Can you turn your gaze away from something that both frightens and attracts?
Paulina Pawłowska’s WINK is a choreographic landscape of pleasure and nightmare, exploring the intersections of looking, sexuality, and power. Blending autofiction with queer-feminist theory, the performance creates a space where the body becomes a tool of storytelling and resistance.

Emerging at the crossroads of dance and eroticism, WINK reveals alternative strategies of performing sexuality—beyond the reach of the normative gaze. Within stroboscopic colonnades, fleeting scenes echo strip clubs, ballroom S*x Siren categories, and B**M spaces, only to transform into Pawłowska’s own shifting landscape.

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Created by
Concept, choreography, performance: Paulina Pawłowska
Performers: Jessyca R. Hauser, Katarzyna Salinger
Dramaturgy, intimacy coordination: Frida Giulia Franceschini
Directorial collaboration: Klaudia Szott
Music: digital data
Lighting design: FE
Visual identity: Gedvile Tamosiunaite
Curatorial text: Stefa Gosiewsk
Poster: Mateusz Otulak
Nails: Camilla Inge Volbert
Production: KAFE – Collective of Experimental Art Forms
Support: WHOISPOLA, Centrum w Ruchu, Burdgąg Foundation, Callie’s Berlin

Premiered with support from the National Institute of Music and Dance, as part of the Choreographic Commissions 2025 program funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

14/10/2025

Princess of the Three Hills

Guided Tour with Julia Woronowicz, Pola Czunikin-Krasowicka & Dorota “Doda” Rabczewska

Saturday, October 18, 18:00
📍 Londyńska 13, Warsaw

Psychologist and psychotraumatologist Pola Czunikin-Krasowicka embodies Lucy Moravski – a neo-psychoanalytic theorist and explorer of the archaeology of the psyche, known for her psychobiographies of Polish Amazons: The Princess of the Three Hills and Queen Aqualitea.
The co-creator of the narrative and psychological portraits is Dorota “Doda” Rabczewska, a descendant of a 14th-century lineage of Polish Amazons.

Together with the artist, they reconstruct a forgotten kingdom through the lens of the mother–daughter relationship.

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09/10/2025

Sebastian Winkler
Prometheus, 2022
own technique, paper, gouache on canvas
180 × 150 cm

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“Let Me Tell You About Halfdreams”
The next part of the exhibition drawn from the mBank Collection at the National Museum in Gdańsk.
Opening: October 10, 18.00
📍 National Museum in Gdańsk

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ᴀ ᴡᴀᴋɪɴɢ ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ ɪꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛ ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ʜᴀꜱ ɴᴏᴛ ʏᴇᴛ ꜰᴜʟʟʏ ᴀᴡᴀᴋᴇɴᴇᴅ ʙᴜᴛ ɪꜱ ɴᴏ ʟᴏɴɢᴇʀ ꜱʟᴇᴇᴘ. ɪᴛ ɪꜱ ᴀ ꜱᴛᴀᴛᴇ ᴏꜰ ꜱᴜꜱᴘᴇɴꜱɪᴏɴ, ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟɪᴀʀ ᴛᴀᴋᴇꜱ ᴏɴ ɴᴇᴡ ꜰᴏʀᴍꜱ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴍᴇᴍᴏʀʏ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴍᴀɢɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɪɴᴛᴇʀᴛᴡɪɴᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴅᴀʏ ʟɪꜰᴇ.

07/10/2025

Jan Baszak “Ram Biting Its Own Horn” (2025)

Recycled Cotton, Acrylic and Polyester, Pine Wood, Oak Wood, Marble, 195 cm x 53 cm x 52 cm, 2025



from the exhibition “Play”, curated by at ,
presented as part of 2025

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06/10/2025

Princess of the Three Hills
Julia Woronowicz

Until November 8
Opening hours: Tuesday–Saturday 13:00–18:00
Londyńska 13

Opening as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend
warsawgalleryweekend.pl

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The story of our princess and her world of Three Hills is an imaginary one — peppered with facts and historical accounts — by ethnofictionist Julia Woronowicz. It is a confluence of myth, memory, and neurobiology, where time and place are situated somewhere between constructed fantasy and unvarnished emotional realism. Technically, the works are built from a balance of pastels and earth tones, and their surfaces are textile-like, gently suggesting greater proximity to body and land than to painting or object. At times, her faces dissolve into their compositions, offering a dreamlike and disquieting inability to be grasped — perhaps it is a refusal to be “fixed” during the process of becoming?

Woronowicz uses collected diary fragments — from both friends and strangers — as conceptual prompts and eventual titles for her paintings. These texts, always partial, serve as whispers from that interstitial age — private, hyper-emotional, marked by longing and confusion. They are interior monologues of individuals, mostly girls, who, despite the hypernormalized performance of innocence through beauty, harbor complexity, rage, cruelty, and power.

Woronowicz confronts the toxic myth of the “good girl” with clarity: beauty does not equal kindness. In fact, in many of her works, the beauty that emerges during teenagehood becomes a dangerous tool — to be envied, traded, and controlled.

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Text by Kathy Zazenski

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29/09/2025

Julia Woronowicz

„Beautiful unnatural times. There is nothing mystical in them. Only a movement, interrupted, deep, hard to repeat”, 2025

Oil on canvas, 180 x 220 cm

(The title of the work is taken from the diary of Kazia Strojnowska, a friend of Julia Woronowicz, written when she was a teenager)

ᴡᴏʀᴏɴᴏᴡɪᴄᴢ ᴜsᴇs ᴄᴏʟʟᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴅɪᴀʀʏ ғʀᴀɢᴍᴇɴᴛs ғʀᴏᴍ ʙᴏᴛʜ ғʀɪᴇɴᴅs ᴀɴᴅ sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇʀs, ᴀs ᴄᴏɴᴄᴇᴘᴛᴜᴀʟ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛs ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴇɴᴛᴜᴀʟ ᴛɪᴛʟᴇs ᴏғ ᴡᴏʀᴋs. ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴛᴇxᴛs, ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ᴘᴀʀᴛɪᴀʟ, sᴇʀᴠᴇ ᴀs ᴡʜɪsᴘᴇʀs ғʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪɴᴛᴇʀsᴛɪᴛɪᴀʟ ᴀɢᴇ—ᴘʀɪᴠᴀᴛᴇ, ʜʏᴘᴇʀ-ᴇᴍᴏᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ, ᴍᴀʀᴋᴇᴅ ʙʏ ʟᴏɴɢɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴄᴏɴғᴜsɪᴏɴ. ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴛᴇʀɪᴏʀ ᴍᴏɴᴏʟᴏɢᴜᴇs ᴏғ ɪɴᴅɪᴠɪᴅᴜᴀʟs, ᴍᴏsᴛʟʏ ɢɪʀʟs, ᴡʜᴏ, ᴅᴇsᴘɪᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʜʏᴘᴇʀɴᴏʀᴍᴀʟɪᴢᴇᴅ ᴘᴇʀғᴏʀᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴏғ ɪɴɴᴏᴄᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛʏ, ʜᴀʀʙᴏʀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇxɪᴛʏ, ʀᴀɢᴇ, ᴄʀᴜᴇʟᴛʏ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ. ᴡᴏʀᴏɴᴏᴡɪᴄᴢ ᴄᴏɴғʀᴏɴᴛs ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴏxɪᴄ ᴍʏᴛʜ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ “ɢᴏᴏᴅ ɢɪʀʟ” ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴄʟᴀʀɪᴛʏ: ᴀs ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛʏ ᴅᴏᴇs ɴᴏᴛ ᴇǫᴜᴀʟ ᴋɪɴᴅɴᴇss. ɪɴ ғᴀᴄᴛ, ɪɴ ᴍᴀɴʏ ᴏғ ʜᴇʀ ᴡᴏʀᴋs, ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴇᴍᴇʀɢᴇs ᴅᴜʀɪɴɢ ᴛᴇᴇɴᴀɢᴇʜᴏᴏᴅ ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇs ᴀ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀᴏᴜs ᴛᴏᴏʟ—ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴇɴᴠɪᴇᴅ, ᴛʀᴀᴅᴇᴅ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟʟᴇᴅ. ᴀɴᴅ ᴀs ᴡᴏʀᴏɴᴏᴡɪᴄᴢ ɴᴏᴛᴇs ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴅᴇᴇᴘ ᴇᴍᴘᴀᴛʜʏ, ᴛʜɪs ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴏғ ᴛᴇᴇɴᴀɢᴇʜᴏᴏᴅ ɪs ɴᴏᴛ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴀ ᴄᴜʟᴛᴜʀᴀʟ ᴛʀᴏᴘᴇ ʙᴜᴛ ᴀ ʙɪᴏʟᴏɢɪᴄᴀʟ ᴄᴏɴᴅɪᴛɪᴏɴ. ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀɢᴇs ᴏғ 𝟷𝟸 ᴀɴᴅ 𝟷𝟽, ᴛʜᴇ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀɢᴏᴇs ᴍᴀssɪᴠᴇ ʀᴇᴡɪʀɪɴɢ—sʏɴᴀᴘᴛɪᴄ ᴘʀᴜɴɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴘʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴇs ᴠᴏʟᴀᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ, ᴍᴏᴏᴅ sᴡɪɴɢs, ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴍᴏᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ᴅɪsᴏʀɪᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ. ɪᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴇs ᴀs ɴᴏ sᴜʀᴘʀɪsᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ɢɪʀʟs ʀᴇғᴜsᴇ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇᴅ, ᴏʀ ᴛʀᴜʟʏ sᴇᴇɴ.

Text: Katie Zazenski

Opening as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend
warsawgalleryweekend.pl

Tuesday to Saturday, 13.00 - 18.00
Londyńska 13, Saska Kępa

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